Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States by Morris Benjamin F

Author:Morris, Benjamin F [Morris, Benjamin F]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Patriot Bookshelf
ISBN: 9780915815708
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Amazon: 0915815702
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Publisher: American Vision
Published: 2012-11-06T06:00:00+00:00

Its Early Action in the Revolution

The first General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church met in 1789, in Philadelphia, the same year, and the same month but one, in which the Constitution went into operation; and both forms of government had a contemporaneous origin. George Washington was President of the civil government, and Rev. John Rodgers, a distinguished patriot, and an intimate friend and adviser of Washington, was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. At the close of the war, there were one hundred and forty ministers and three hundred Presbyterian churches in the United States. The history of that grand era of freedom bears ample testimony to the patriotism of the Presbyterian Church and the distinguished part which it took in the cause of liberty and in achieving the independence of the nation.

“The first public voice in America,” says Bancroft, “for dissolving all connection with Great Britain, came not from the Puritans of New England, the Dutch of New York, nor from the planters of Virginia, but from the Scotch-Irish Presbyterians.” The Convention of Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, met in Charlotteville, May, 1775, and was composed mainly of Presbyterian ministers, elders, and members. A committee was appointed to draft a declaration of independence for North Carolina, which was prepared and adopted on the 31st of May, 1775, more than a year before that declared by the united colonies. The two following were the main resolutions of that convention of Christian patriots—

Resolved, That we do hereby declare ourselves a free and independent people—are, and of right ought to be, a sovereign and self-governing association, under the control of no power other than that of our God and the General Government of the Congress, to the maintenance of which independence we solemnly pledge to each other our mutual co-operation, our lives, our fortunes, and our most sacred honor.

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