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By Coach Collins, on October 1st, 2012%
By Bill Federer, staff writer
“In the language of the Holy Writ, there is a time for all things. There is a time to preach and a time to fight.”
Thus ended the sermon of 30-year-old pastor John Peter Muhlenberg as he removed his clerical robes to reveal a uniform in the Continental Army.
After church, 300 men of his congregation rode off with him to join General Washington’s 8th Virginia regiment.
Born OCTOBER 1, 1746, John Peter Muhlenberg died the same day in 1807.
After hearing Patrick Henry speak the famous words, “give me liberty or give me death,” John Peter Muhlenberg approached General Washington and enlisted.
Promoted to Major-General, he endured the freezing winter of Valley Forge and fought at Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, Stonypoint and Yorktown.
John Peter Muhlenberg was elected Congressman and Senator.
John’s father, Henry Muhlenberg, was a founder of the Lutheran Church in America.
John’s … Continue Reading:American Minute October 1:
By Coach Collins, on September 30th, 2012%
By Bill Federer, staff writer
Seven times he preached in America to crowds of 25,000, spreading the Great Awakening Revival, which helped unite the Colonies prior to the Revolution.
Ben Franklin wrote in his Autobiography:
“He preached one evening from the top of the Court-house steps…Streets were filled with his hearers…
I had the curiosity to learn how far he could be heard by retiring backwards down the street…and found his voice distinct till I came near Front-street.”
Franklin was describing George Whitefield, who died SEPTEMBER 30, 1770.
Franklin wrote of George Whitefield:
“Multitudes of all denominations attended his sermons…It was wonderful to see.”
Ben Franklin printed George Whitefield’s sermons and financed construction of the largest building in Philadelphia for his meetings, which later became the first building of the University of Pennsylvania.
Franklin wrote to George Whitefield:
“I sometimes wish you and I were jointly employed by the Crown to settle … Continue Reading:American Minute September 30:
By Coach Collins, on September 14th, 2012%
By Bill Federer, staff writer
Son of a butcher, his family died when a plague swept England, leaving him an estate.
He attended Emmanuel College, was ordained, married and sailed for Massachusetts where he pastored the First Church of Charlestown.
At age 31, he died of tuberculosis on SEPTEMBER 14, 1638.
His name was Rev. John Harvard.
The College at Cambridge was renamed for Rev. Harvard.
Ten of the twelve presidents of Harvard prior to the Revolutionary War were ministers, as were fifty percent of the 17th-century Harvard graduates.
On the wall by the old iron gate at Harvard University’s main campus entrance, and noted in Harvard Divinity School’s catalog, is the statement of Harvard’s founders:
“After God had carried us safe to New-England, and wee had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, rear’d convenient places for God’s worship, and settled the Civill Government:
One of the next things … Continue Reading:American Minute September 14:
By Coach Collins, on September 13th, 2012%
By Bill Federer, staff writer
Just weeks after the British burned the U.S. Capitol, they set out for Baltimore. On the way they caught an elderly physician of Upper Marlboro, Dr. William Beanes.
The town feared Dr. Beanes would be hanged so they asked a young lawyer, Francis Scott Key, to sail with Colonel John Skinner under a flag of truce to the British flagship TONNANT and arrange a prisoner exchange.
Concerned their plans of attacking Baltimore would be revealed, the British placed Francis Scott Key and Colonel Skinner under armed guard aboard the H.M.S. SURPRISE, then on a sloop where they watched the night of SEPTEMBER 13, 1814, as Fort McHenry was bombarded.
The next morning, “through the dawn’s early light,” Key saw the flag still flying. Elated, Key penned The Star-Spangled Banner.
On March 22, 1814, Francis Scott Key told the Washington Society of Alexandria:
… Continue Reading:American Minute September 13th
By Coach Collins, on September 12th, 2012%
By Bill Federer, staff writer
The dean of the University of Michigan Law School was Thomas Cooley, who died SEPTEMBER 12, 1898.
Thomas Cooley was Chief Justice of Michigan’s Supreme Court, President of the American Bar Association and the first Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission
His commentaries were influential in shaping American law.
He declined offers to teach at Hastings College of Law, University of Texas, Johns Hopkins University, Boston Law School, University of Pennsylvania and Cornell Law School.
In Constitutional Limitations, Eighth Edition, Volume Two, p. 966, 974, Thomas Cooley stated:
“While thus careful to establish, protect, and defend religious freedom and equality, the American constitutions contain no provisions which prohibit the authorities from such solemn recognition of a superintending Providence in public transactions and exercises as the general religious sentiment of mankind inspires, and as seems meet and proper in finite and dependent beings.”
Cooley … Continue Reading:American Minute: September 12th
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