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for his beautiful handwriting. I would like to share with you the heart of this man, who a year earlier had signed his name to the following declaration of the Provincial Congress of Massachussets:
In circumstances dark as these, it becomes us, as Men and Christians, to reflect that ....All confidence must be withheld from the Means we use; and reposed only on that God who rules in the Armies of Heaven, and without whose Blessing the best human Counsels are but Foolishness — and all created Power Vanity;
It is the Happiness of his Church that, when the Powers of Earth and Hell combine against it...that the Throne of Grace is of the easiest access — and its Appeal thither is graciously invited by the Father of Mercies, who has assured it, that when his Children ask Bread he will not give them a Stone....
Resolved,... that Thursday ... next be set apart as a Day of... Prayer ... that the union of the American Colonies in Defense of their Rights (for hitherto we desire to thank Almighty God) may be preserved and confirmed... And that America may soon behold a gracious Interposition of Heaven.
As expressed above, America’s trust could not be in military might. War had been declared against the most powerful nation on earth. Such men had to trust in a higher authority. God forbid that the descendants of Hancock should be given a Stone for bread: “a wall of separation” of government from the Creator to whom these men looked in pledging their “Lives, (their) Fortunes and (their) sacred Honor.”
Jim Oyster, Castleton
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