The First Continental Congress P7

Last week I ended with Daniel Webster, often referred to as the “Defender of the Constitution” reminding the US Supreme Court of the Christian unity manifested on that morning when the first prayer was made in the First Continental Congress.

He stated: “At the meeting of the First Congress, there was a doubt in the minds of many about the propriety of opening the session with prayer; and the reason assigned was, as here, the great diversity of opinion and religious belief. Until at last Mr. Samuel Adams…rose in that assembly, and with the air of a perfect Puritan said, ‘it did not become men professing to be Christian men who had come together for solemn deliberation in the hour of their extremity to say that there was so wide a difference in their religious belief that they could not, as one man, bow the knee in prayer to the Almighty, Whose advice and assistance they hoped to obtain….And depend upon it, that where there is a spirit of Christianity, there is a spirit which rises above form, above ceremonies, independent of sect or creed, and the controversies of clashing doctrines.’”

More on this next week for another American Moment.

Sourced From The American Story: The Beginnings by David Barton and Tim Barton.