On Sunday morning, Jan. 21, 1776, at a church in Woodstock, Va., Rev. Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg brought his sermon to a dramatic and unexpected crescendo. His text was taken from the book of Ecclesiastes. "The Bible tells us 'there is a time for all things,' and there is a time to preach and a time to pray," said Muhlenberg. "But the time for me to preach has passed away; and there is a time to fight, and that time has now come."
Stepping down from the pulpit, the minister took off his clerical robes to reveal the uniform of a colonel in the 8th Virginia Regiment of the Continental Army. He had been personally recruited by George Washington. Outside the church door, drums sounded as men kissed their wives goodbye and strode down the aisle to enlist. In less than an hour, 162 men from Muhlenberg's congregation joined the patriot cause.
TONY DIGIROLAMO- THE MOVIE 'THE PATRIOT' DEPICTS THAT MOMENT IN THE CHURCH SO WELL.
We live in a great country but here again our religious freedom is being yanked out of our arms and destroyed by a man who acts like a king.
Jesus is Lord and the government is still upon his shoulders! That's how it began and will continue.
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