Resurrecting the Black Regiment

tna ^ | 09.04.09 | Chuck Baldwin

[Coleus]

Most Americans today would probably still recognize the stirring words from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Concord Hymn”: “By the rude bridge that arched the flood,/ Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,/ Here once the embattled farmers stood,/ And fired the shot heard round the world.” Most of us are still aware that those embattled farmers won for us the freedoms we too often take for granted today.  But how many of us are aware of the extent to which faith motivated those farmers to leave their families and homes and risk their lives for a cause that most would have considered hopeless at the time? How many are aware of the extent to which preachers actively participated in our War for Independence — and not just rhetorically from the pulpit, though the great sermons on behalf of the freedom fight provoked many parishioners to action? How many are familiar with the phrase “Black Regiment”?

[Coleus]

Not an easy path: Presbyterian minister James Caldwell, who gained fame during the battle of Springfield, New Jersey, when he gathered Watts hymnals from a church for use as rifle wadding and shouted to the troops as he handed them out, “put Watts into them" was killed in the war, as was his wife.

Moral underpinnings: Baptist minister David Barrow gave his whole being to causes he joined. He was nearly drowned by vigilantes for preaching as a Baptist in areas dominated by the Church of England, and he took up a gun to fight in the Revolutionary War.

[When do we get liberated?]

There’s a small church up the street from me. Not a church anymore, but a historical marker and an outline of where the building was before Union sharpshooters occupied it and Confederate artillery razed it. Pole Green Church was one of these places.

[knarf]

I’ve waited for this kind of affirmation a long time

[patriot preacher]

As a Patriot Preacher, I indeed consider myself a member of any resurrected Black Regiment! Amen! :-)

[Coleus]

what state?

[BamaAndy]

If and when it comes to it, I’ll follow you. Serious I am, in prayer I stay.

[When do we get liberated?]

VA, Pole Green church where Patrick Henry spoke.

[patriot preacher]

If and when it comes to it, I’ll follow you. Serious I am, in prayer I stay.
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Like Yoda you sound! :-) Blessings...

[patriot preacher]

If and when it comes to it, I’ll follow you. Serious I am, in prayer I stay.
___________________

Like Yoda you sound! :-) Blessings...

[patriot preacher]

If and when it comes to it, I’ll follow you. Serious I am, in prayer I stay.
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Like Yoda you sound! :-) Blessings...