Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land
Friday, July 3, 2026
“Would to God we had in contemporary Christianity a more potent infusion of heroic faith in God. If we would venture more upon the naked promise of God, we would enter a world of wonders to which as yet we are strangers.” - C.H. Spurgeon
Tomorrow, Americans will celebrate our country’s 250th birthday, the day that the Declaration of Independence was formally adopted on July 4, 1776. The resolution was approved two days earlier, on July 2nd, and 50 delegates begin signing the document at the Pennsylvania State House (now called Independence Hall) on August 2nd. The final name wasn’t added until January 1777 when Thomas McKean, a delegate from Delaware who was delayed due to his duties in the Continental Army, affixed his signature.
These 56 men risked everything by adding their names to this historic document. They did not take the closing lines of the Declaration for granted… “And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.”
“We must all hang together, or most assuredly we will all hang separately,” Benjamin Franklin reportedly said, voicing the sentiments of everyone in the room who realized full well that they had just signed their own death warrants. If captured by the British, these patriots would most certainly have been hung as traitors.
Contrary to what the revisionist historians would have us believe, many – if not most – of the signers were motivated by their religious faith. In fact, the vast majority of them attended colleges that served as seminaries.
George Washington, John and Samuel Adams, John Hancock, John Jay, John Marshall, Patrick Henry, Paul Revere, and Benjamin Rush… these are just a few of our Founding Fathers whose strong Christian faith was the defining characteristic of their lives. May we honor them today – and every day – by following in their footsteps.
“…proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants…” Leviticus 25:10 (NKJV)
- Rev. Dale M. Glading, President
