How our USA Constitution could be a Supernatural Document...
By DR. BRENDA MACMENAMIN, DCE High School American History American GOV & Economy online TeachingHisStory.com
Did you know that the Constitutional Convention almost did not happen? In fact, there were over 50 different attempts to call the colonies together after they had won the American Revolution! There were differences in what the large versus small states wanted. There were differences in what the colonies along the coast wanted versus what the states that had to trade with the coastline states wanted. There were issues of slavery, where 3 states wanted to keep slavery and the other ten had set the slaves free or were in the process of setting them free. In five states, the freed slaves were able to vote. The Southern three states did not want the slaves to vote at all.
So, when it looked like they would never be able to come into unity with all this division, Benjamin Franklin, then 81 years old, stood up to say: I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings that “except the Lord build they labor in vain that build it.” I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall be become a reproach and a bye word down to future age. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing Governments by Human Wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and conquest. I therefore beg leave to move -- that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business… They then broke for three days to pray. When they returned, Mr. Dayton, a delegate from New Jersey said that “every unfriendly feeling has been dispelled” and they were able to work together to craft in peace a Constitutional Republic that has lasted for 234 years. That, my friends, is Supernatural! For His Glory!
THIS ARTICLE IS AN OFFICIAL CALL TO OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS TO GET TOGETHER AND PRAY. And for all Christians to humble ourselves, Pray and repent, if we love America!