‘Serve God or be destroyed’
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Editor,
I am only one man. But I am an American man — a man who is very concerned about his country and its future hanging on the precipice of utter destruction. How much difference can one man make? “How often has public calamity been arrested on the very brink of ruin, by the seasonable energy of a single man? Have we no such man among us? I am as sure as I am of my being, that one vigorous mind without office, without situation, public functions of any kind, (at a time when the want of such a thing is felt, as I am sure it is) I say one such man, confiding in the aid of God, and full of just reliance in his own fortitude, vigor, enterprise and perseverance, would first draw to him some few like himself, and then that multitudes, hardly thought to be in existence, would appear and troop about him.” (Edmund Burke “Works” 5:124)
I say, “Let the naysayers say what they will. We’ve always had them, always will.”
We are in need of more men and women of God and with the spirit of ’76 in their patriotic blood to fear God more than man. To have the courage in the face of adversity and scorn to stand up boldly and declare, “We will not comply.” To call evil, evil, and stand for truth no matter whom it flies in the face of and exposes them for who they really are.
“Doctrine leads the church into problems of man’s physical, mental, moral, economic, social and political wellbeing, into his every need. It does not hesitate, because of individual prejudices or the danger of making enemies, to speak frankly and fully about any and every phase of human life. To cower in some one corner of human need is held in contempt by the church, and certainly such a church should be held in contempt.”
I say serve God or be destroyed. William Penn said, “Men will either be governed by God or ruled by tyrants.” The Bible says, “When the wicked rule, the people mourn.”
Thank you to all you good people who have called and encouraged. When we win, we all win.
Jim Pettit
Ronan
