The Forgotten Holiday

On April 19, 1775, an event took place that marked the beginning of the American Revolution. It has come to be known as “The Shot Heard ‘Round the World.” Yet no holiday commemorates this momentous moment in our nation’s history. I think I know why. Paul Revere made his famous midnight ride on the night of April 18, 1775, warning all in his path, “The redcoats are coming!”

The “redcoats”, British regular soldiers, were coming to the tiny village of Lexington, Massachusetts, because they hoped to find and capture or kill two of America’s greatest patriots, Samuel Adams and John Hancock. Adams and Hancock were staying at the home of Rev. Jonas Clark, pastor of the town’s church. This was the first battle of the American Revolution. This was the first time shots were fired in the conflict that would determine whether America would be free or forever be enslaved to the British Empire. All this is well known to students of history. What is not known to most is the crucial role that churches and Christians played in defending and founding what was to become the United States of America. Pastor Clark, like many other pastors of that time, was a member of the Black Regiment, so named because of the color of the robes the clergy wore. This was not an actual regiment of soldiers, but was instead a collection of ministers who believed that God was on the side of freedom. In 1760, royalist colonial Governor Pownall of Massachusetts warned that once the ministers of the colonies joined in the resistance against the power politics of Great Britain there would be no stopping the colonial movement. "The spirit of their religion...will, like Moses' serpent, devour every other passion and affection," he said. So influential were the pulpits that it was said by Prime Minister Horace Walpole in Parliament, "Cousin America has run off with a Presbyterian parson." (See LINK below, “The Black Regiment Led the Fight in Our War for Independence.”)-- More...

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