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We often forget the life-and-death struggle our nation engaged in to reach Independence
from Great Britain. In August 1776, Dr. Benjamin Rush wrote a letter to his friend, John
Adams, about America's newly formed nation. Dr. Rush was one of the signers and an
early social reformer. He wrote:
The 4th of July has been celebrated in Philadelphia in the manner I expected. The military men, and particularly one of them, ran away with all the glory of the day. Scarcely a word was said of the solitude and labors and fears and sorrows and sleepless nights of the men who projected, proposed, defended, and subscribed the Declaration of Independence. Do you recollect your memorable speech upon the day on which the vote was taken? Do you recollect the pensive and awful silence which pervaded the house when we were called up, one after another, to the table of the President of Congress to subscribe what we believed by many at that time to be our own death warrants?
There was a great risk and danger to take the radical step toward independence.
The apostle Paul was sharing his personal struggles. "For I do not do the good I want," Paul admits, "but the evil I do not want is what I do." Paul wrote to the Romans to encourage and inspire greater faith. Paul knew the risks of faith but also the benefits.
The 4th of July has been celebrated in Philadelphia in the manner I expected. The military men, and particularly one of them, ran away with all the glory of the day. Scarcely a word was said of the solitude and labors and fears and sorrows and sleepless nights of the men who projected, proposed, defended, and subscribed the Declaration of Independence. Do you recollect your memorable speech upon the day on which the vote was taken? Do you recollect the pensive and awful silence which pervaded the house when we were called up, one after another, to the table of the President of Congress to subscribe what we believed by many at that time to be our own death warrants?
There was a great risk and danger to take the radical step toward independence.
The apostle Paul was sharing his personal struggles. "For I do not do the good I want," Paul admits, "but the evil I do not want is what I do." Paul wrote to the Romans to encourage and inspire greater faith. Paul knew the risks of faith but also the benefits.
