Monthly Archives: July 2021

“The pen is mightier than the sword,” wrote Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839. Two crucial works in American history buttress his point. The pamphlet “Common Sense,” penned by Thomas Paine in January, 1776 helped galvanize the original thirteen colonies to throw off British rule. The second came from a woman named Harriet Beecher Stowe. Harriet Beecher was born in Litchfield, Connecticut on June 14, 1811, the sixth of seven children of Calvinist preacher Lyman Beecher and his wife Roxana. Roxana died…..

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Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it…  Psalm 127:1a (NASB) On September 3, 1783, after eight long years of “times that try men’s souls,” Great Britain finally recognized America’s independence with the signing of the “Treaty of Paris.” In the aftermath, to keep our fledgling nation together, the “Articles of Confederation” were adopted. But the “Articles” proved inadequate to bring sufficient cohesion to the original thirteen colonies if America was to become a great…..

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