Celebrating Independence P2

Last week I ended on America’s Founders reflecting the belief that Independence Day festivities across the generations keep a time of thankfulness to God and a remembrance of Him at the forefront. For example, on July 4 1793, Founding Father Elias Boudinot, the president of Congress who signed the peace treaty to end the War with Great Britain and a founder of the American Bible Society reminded citizens:

Let us then, my friend and fellow citizens, unite all our endeavors this day to remember with reverential gratitude to our Supreme Benefactor all the wonderful things He has done for us in a miraculous deliverance from a second Egypt (that is, God delivered America from Britain in the same way He delivered His people Israel from the Egyptians thousands of years earlier)——another house of bondage.

“And thou shalt show thy son on this day, saying, this day is kept as a day of joy and gladness because of the great things the Lord has done for us when we were delivered from the threatening power of an invading foe” (Exodus 13:8)

More on this next week for another American Moment.

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