Christian liberty party
First I would stir up your pure minds to reflect upon the
greatness of the heritage of our people and our land. It will now be to our
edification to examine how we became a people and &nation. Standing on the
western shores of Europe 500 years ago, you could not see nor visualize a great
continent that lays to the west; only what seemed to be an endless stretch of
the Atlantic Ocean. Yet there was a great continent out there to the west. Now
may I ask you, "Did Jesus Christ know of this North American
Continent?" Your only answer could be, "Yes, of course He did."
Let me ask another question, "Did Jesus Christ know that a great nation
would be established here?" "Of course He did!" Still another
please — "Did Jesus know this great nation (yet to be born) would be
Christian from its beginning?" Of course He knew that, for He Himself is
the author of that true walk with God which we call "Christian."
From the inception of this nation, the peoples who colonized
America had a burning conviction that they had a special mission to fulfill in
life. The early American colonists sincerely believed they had a "divinely
appointed destiny!' and thought of themselves as "being chosen for a
special mission in the world." In 1630, John Winthrop, governor of
Massachusetts Bay Colony, wrote: "We shall find that the God of Israel is
among us... The eyes of all people are upon us." When the Pilgrims waded
ashore at Plymouth, Mass., in 1620, according to their first governor, William
Bradford, "they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven who
had brought them from all the perils and miseries." I would like to have
heard the prayers and expressions of thanksgiving offered by those inspired
mariners as they landed on this shore: they who founded a nation which
inscribes on the coin of the realm, "In God we trust."
Let your mind picture, if it will, a little shallop tossing
on the Atlantic Ocean near the tip of Cape Cod. There, encompassed by the
waters, before a single foot was pressed on Plymouth Rock, our fathers called a
solemn convocation in the stuffy cabin of the Mayflower and drew up what is
known as the Mayflower Compact:
"In the
Name of God, Amen. We whose names are underwritten,
having undertaken for the glory of God and the
advancement of
the Christian faith, a voyage to plant the
first colony... do by
these Presents, solemnly and mutually, in the
presence of God,
combine ourselves into a civil body
politic."
Pray tell me, what other nation was ever founded "for
the glory of God, and the advancement of the Christian faith"? This much
is certain: recorded history of that day contains such statements as,
"Nonconformists (to the established religious systems of the day) who were
determined to' seek new habitations and to found another Canaan on the western
side of the Atlantic." We also read of such men as Mr. Winthrop, who gave
as his foremost motive for founding a settlement in America as, "the
carrying of the Gospel into America and erecting a ‘bulwark against the kingdom
of Antichrist" (See Channing's History of the United States, Vol. 1, chap.
12).
That was the beginning of our politics — "In the Name
of God, Amen." With increasing accessions from the godly people of the old
lands, the number of colonies grew from one to four and federation became
desirable. A man of God drew up the Articles of Federation:
"Whereas,'
we all came into these parts of America with one
and the same end; namely, to advance the
Kingdom of our Lord
Jesus Christ and to enjoy the liberties of the
Gospel in purity,
we therefore conceive it our bounden duty...
that, as in
nation and religion, so in other respects, we
be and continue one."
That declaration made us a people. It was the forerunner of
our government. It is interesting and important to note that when our Christian
Pilgrim Fathers departed from Europe, when the force of persecution could no
longer be evaded, they were not like frightened, scattered sheep, but a strong
federation of Christian families gathered in a CHURCH. We must never forget
that the real beginning of America was a little believing Church. America was,
in fact, A CHURCH BEFORE IT WAS A NATION! We should marvel at the guiding and
defending hand of Almighty God that, in spite of kings and prelates, in spite
of all the power of the ruling babylonian church system, caused that little
Church to be gathered. Let us always remember that the planting of the United
States of America, the hereditary strain that determined our country’s
character, was a SPIRITUAL PLANTING. The fathers who planted this nation were
spiritual men — Christians. They came on a specifically Christian venture. Get
it fixed in your mind, beyond the power of any false history to erase, that the
planting that determined the genius of this nation was a CHURCH — not a town,
not a colony, not a trading or exploring venture, not a gold rush, but a
CHURCH. Indeed, a little Pilgrim Church crossed the sea for the sake of its
spiritual life — that is the true origin of our United States.
Sometimes we become aware of an agitation to "put God
in the Constitution" and it is implied that we have been a godless nation
because Deity is not mentioned in our Constitution. However, the Constitution
is not our greatest national document. The Mayflower Compact made us a civil
body politic. The Articles of Federation made us a people. The Declaration of
Independence made us a nation. All of them are based on the people's commitment
to God. Not one of them ever has been or ever can be amended.
I dare say that not one in 100,000 of our people know that
Hebrew almost became the official language of the United States. When the
Pilgrims landed here in 1620, aboard the Mayflower, they drew up a set of laws
by which to govern themselves in the new colony. Many of these laws were based
on the teachings of the Hebrew Bible, which they knew so well. They also
discussed adopting Hebrew as the official language because some wanted to make
a complete break with England and its language.... There were no Hebrew
scholars aboard the Mayflower, however, so they abandoned the plan. Had they
adopted Hebrew we all would be speaking this language in America today. The
conditions under which the Pilgrims lived for the first seven years were
similar to those of a kibbutz in modern Israel. All work was shared alike for
the gains of the new colony. The Pilgrims studied the Bible in the evenings.
The first harvest was celebrated by the Pilgrims after the model of Succoth,
and it became America's first Thanksgiving Day. Children were given biblical or
Hebrew names. Our forebears compared themselves with the ancient Hebrews who
escaped Egypt and the Pharaoh to seek freedom to serve and worship God. Join us
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