Praise God—Sunday is almost here! We certainly need this coming Lord’s Day, to regroup and re-focus.
I am going to quote a paragraph from a book I just finished reading, entitled, “Samuel Adams, a Life,” by Ira Stoll. It is quite good. I do recommend it.Samuel Adams (not his cousin John), was perhaps the greatest, and the *most* “radical” of all the Founding Fathers. He was a passionate Christian churchman, and a true Puritan. His life and legacy is worthy of our emulation and admiration.
On p. 248, these words are found:
“In [Samuel Adams’] final term as governor [of Massachusetts], [he] set a day of public fasting and prayer for Thursday, May 4, 1797, ‘beseeching' God ‘to endue us with all the Christian spirit of piety.’ The declaration went on to ask God ‘that the rod of tyrants may be broken into pieces, and the oppressed made free,’ and to express hope of ‘speedily bringing on that holy and happy period, when the Kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ may be every-where established, and all the people willingly bow to the scepter of Him who is The Prince of Peace.’ "
