The Intolerable Acts 3

Last week I ended in talking about the British Intolerable Acts: cutting off all supplies to America’s busiest seaports leaving no food supplies for the people, Virginia joining Massachusetts in calling a day of fasting and prayer, and the preachers selected text from Deuteronomy 31:6 arousing every man and placing him erect and solidly in center after being so filled with anxiety.

The Intolerable Acts united the colonists and encouraged them to work together to protect their rights. John Adams spoke of the miraculous nature of this new unity, explaining: “Thirteen clocks were made to strike together, a perfection of mechanism which no artist had ever before effected.” (An old clock shop filled with various wind-up clocks never sounds all the bells and chimes in unison; but this time it was different.

This external union of the colonies came about because of the internal unity of ideas and core Biblical principles sown into the hearts of the American people by its leaders, families, schools and churches. The Latin phrase on our National Seal reflects this Christian union: E Pluribus Unum —-“out of many, one.”

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