History: “How Many of You Will Fight for Our Independence?”
America was founded on the knees of our framers.
“…whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government…” The Declaration of Independence.
How could a rag tag bunch of people take on the greatest army of its time? With faith and courage independence was won. Was it easy? No.
On Sunday morning, Jan 21, 1776, pastor John Muhlenberg climbed into his pulpit in Woodstock, VA to preach. In his black clerical robe, the traditional dress of 18th century preachers, Muhlenberg preached from the third chapter of Ecclesiastes. He read how there is a time for all things. There’s a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to harvest. Then his voice began to rise as he said: “There’s a time of war, and a time of peace. There is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray. But there is also a time to fight, and that time has now come!”
Then he did something his congregation did not expect. He removed his clerical robe revealing a colonial officer’s uniform beneath. Muhlenberg then stepped down from his pulpit and challenged the men of his congregation to join him in the fight for liberty.
Just a few days before, he had been commissioned by General George Washington to raise a regiment from the Woodstock area. As Muhlenberg walked down the aisle and out the door of his church, a drum began to roll outside. One by one, the men of Muhlenberg’s congregation filed out of the auditorium and volunteered to follow their courageous pastor.” History of the Black Robed Regiment
Peter John Gabriel Muhlenberg eventually became the youngest Brigadier General in the Continental Army and founded the 8th Continental Regiment. He served in Congress after the war.
There was a time in the Independence process that the colonists were at each other’s throats. After all, most of them considered themselves British. Rebellion wasn’t in their plans. But little by little, incident by incident, they came to realize that liberty was their right and only option. In April of 1775, the Battles at Lexington and Concord served to begin the fighting of the American Revolution. By 1776, it was a full blown war.
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Of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, 29 had seminary degrees in ministry. One, John Witherspoon, was an active Pastor. From the signers to the rest, brothers in arms and brothers and sisters in faith, they stood up to an enemy far superior to themselves.
Faith and courage to face overwhelming odds were the foundations of America. The Colonial Army didn’t win many battles at first, and Britain believed their army could crush the upstarts. But there’s something about belief in God that brings courage. It may look and even feel impossible from the beginning. It took many battles and deaths to forge ahead into history. But in the end, a new nation was born.
We have an enemy that has worked hard to take away our faith, and our courage. But we have an obligation to save our Republic. As our ancestors knelt to pray, let us do the same. And in the Mercy of our Lord and Savior, America will live to once again be the home of the free and the brave.
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