The Eternal Document, 1776

Where God is there is Liberty!

The following is a condensation of an article which appeared in the February, 1943, issue of Horizon, a Manly P. Hall publication:

An old book of Colonial Speeches states that on July 4, 1776, as the leaders were debating the question of signing the Eternal Document, a voice was suddenly heard in their midst. A stranger stood among them, a slender man with deep-set eyes and a strange look on his face. The doors were all locked and no one had seen him enter.

As the debating continued, the unknown man was heard to say: “They may stretch our necks on all the gibbets in the land, they may turn every rock into a scaffold, every tree into a gallows, every home into a grave, yet the words of that Parchment can never die. They may pour our blood on a thousand scaffolds and yet from every drop that dyes the axe, a new champion of freedom will spring into birth. That Declaration will live long after our bones are dust. To the mechanic in his workshop they will speak hope, to the slave in the mines, freedom. Methings I see the Recording Angel come trembling to the Throne to speak his dread message: ‘Father, the old world is baptized in blood, man trodden beneath the oppressors feet, nations lost in blood, murder and superstition walking hand in hand over graves of the victims’. Then the voice of God speaks: ‘Tell my people, the poor and oppressed, to go out from the Old World and build my altar in the New’. My friends I believe that to be His Voice. Were my soul trembling on the brink of Eternity, I would with the last impulse of that soul implore you to remember this Truth, God has given America to be free. I would beg you with my last faint whisper, to sign that Parchment for the sake of those millions who look to you for the words: ‘You are Free’.”

• That was the speech that signed the Declaration of Independence.

• Thus it was that this Immortal Document came into being.

• Thus it was that under divine guidance the new America nation was born, and a new light set upon a hill, a light that will shine ever brighter and brighter until the dawning of the Perfect Day.

As the Journal of the Continental Congress reports that in the late afternoon of July 4^th, 1776, John Hancock, he of the bold signature, was seated before his plain mahogany desk, in the room in which were arranged in a semi-circle the Congressional delegates. The time had arrived for final action. The Congress recognized that the life and perpetuity of their country depended upon Union. Thus simply was the Declaration adoption of the famed document was first proclaimed publicly.

“Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” These words uttered by the Supreme Emancipator may well be applied to these fifty-six noble and self-sacrificing men who jeopardized their all, even life itself, that America might have the opportunity to become in very truth, the “land of the free and the home of the brave.”

Life, reputation, worldly estate were all cast upon the waters of chance in this heroic gamble with apparently almost undefeatable odds. Infuriated and hostile mobs pillaged and burned the homes of some of the signers. The families of others were driven into exile. England had a price upon the head of every man assembled in that momentous gathering. There was no glory awaiting the placing of a signature upon that now celebrated parchment. Fame, honor and recognition were to come later. Theirs was the portion of the always unappreciated pioneer-persecution, enmity and loss of life in case the Revolution failed.

In the Eternal Scrolls these fifty-six names will always remain indelibly imprinted and will grow increasingly luminous with the passing generations, as evidence of the immortal and unquenchable flame of liberty which was the birthright of a nation and which still shines in attestation to the ideals upon which this country was conceived and founded and upon which it will endure unto the end of time.

Reference: Pages 69 and 70, America’s Invisible Guidance by Corinne Heline

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