"As there were Fathers in our Republic so there were Mothers"

 

Read entire American Minute here  ‌  ‌  ‌ American Minute with Bill Federer Women of the Revolutionary War: "As there were Fathers in our Republic so there were Mothers" -Coolidge Courageous women have always played a vital role in American history. Addressing the Daughters of the American Revolution, April 19, 1926, President Calvin Coolidge stated: "The importance of women in the working out the destiny of mankind ... As there were fathers in our Republic so there were mothers ... By their abiding faith they inspired and encouraged the men; by their sacrifice they performed their part in the struggle out of which came our country ..." Download as PDF ... Miracles in American History-Vol. TWO: Amazing Faith that Shaped the Nation Coolidge continued: "We read of the flaming plea of Hanna Arnett, which she made on a dreary day in December, 1776, when Lord Cornwallis, victorious at Fort Lee, held a strategic position in New Jersey. A group of Revolutionists, weary and discouraged, were discussing the advisability of giving up the struggle ... ... Casting aside the proprieties which forbade a woman to interfere in the counsels of men, Hannah Arnett proclaimed her faith. In eloquent words, which at once shamed and stung to action, she convinced her husband and his companions that righteousness must win." Women followed the American army to Valley Forge, enduring the freezing 1777. Over 2,500 soldiers perished from hunger, typhoid, jaundice, dysentery, and pneumonia, but also an estimated 500 women died there. Coolidge continued: “We have been told of the unselfish devotion of the women who gave their own warm garments to fashion clothing for the suffering Continental Army during that bitter winter at Valley Forge. The burdens of the war were not all borne by the men." Referred to as "camp followers," these women were organized by Martha Washington, Lucy Knox, wife of Colonel Henry Knox, and Caty Greene, wife of General Nathanael Greene. To help the Continental Army, they scavenged for supplies, cooked food, washed clothes, formed sewing circles to knit and mended ragged uniforms and blankets, and cared for sick and dying soldiers. One of the ladies, Mrs. Westlake, described Martha Washington: "I never in my life knew a woman so busy from early morning until late at night as was Lady Washington, providing comforts for the sick soldiers." Esther DeBerdt Reed, wife of officer Joseph Reed, and Sarah Franklin Bache, daughter of Benjamin Franklin, organized "The Ladies of Philadelphia" and raised $300,000 for General Washington to buy warm clothes for American troops. During the Revolution, many, like Lucy Knox, left their Loyalist British families who sailed for England, never to see them again, in order to join their patriotic American husbands on military assignments in shifting encampments. Lucy and Colonel Henry Knox did not have a permanent home till they were married 20 years. President Calvin Coolidge continued: "Who has not heard of Molly Pitcher, whose heroic services at the Battle of Monmouth helped the sorely tried army of George Washington!” Molly Pitcher is generally believed to be Mary Ludwig Hays. When her husband enlisted, she became one of the “camp followers.” During the intense heat of the battles, these women would go from trench to trench, carrying pitchers of water to the parched soldiers. Women also carried a continuous supply of water to those loading the cannons. Water was needed to cool and clean the hot barrels of the cannons between shots, using a soaked end of a long ramrod. If this was not done, the cannons would soon overheat and become useless. At the Battle of Monmouth, June 28, 1778, Molly Pitcher was bringing water to soldiers, while her husband manned one of the cannons. When her husband collapsed from heat stroke, Molly took his place swabbing and loading the cannon for the rest of the battle. A British cannonball flew between her legs, tearing off part of her skirt. Molly straightened up and uttered, "Well, that could have been worse," and resumed loading the cannon. Soldier Joseph Plumb Martin described: "A woman whose husband belonged to the artillery and who was then attached to a piece in the engagement, attended with her husband at the piece the whole time. While in the act of reaching a cartridge and having one of her feet as far before the other as she could step, a cannon shot from the enemy passed directly between her legs without doing any other damage than carrying away all the lower part of her petticoat. Looking at it with apparent unconcern, she observed that it was lucky it did not pass a little higher, for in that case it might have carried away something else, and continued her occupation." Hearing of her courage, General George Washington commended "Molly Pitcher" - Mary Ludwig Hays - issuing her a warrant as a non-commissioned officer. She was known as "Sergeant Molly." Great American Holiday Cookbook - Their History and Wonderful Recipes to Celebrate - by Susie Federer A similar story is that of Margaret Cochran Corbin, wife of artilleryman John Corbin. On November 16, 1776, John Corbin, along with 2,800 Continental soldiers, defended Manhattan's Fort Washington, which was being attacked by 9,000 Hessian mercenary troops. Margaret Corbin was bringing water to swab the cannon, when her husband was killed. She immediately took his place at the cannon, and helped return fire. Seriously wounded in her arm, Margaret Corbin, or "Captain Molly," was the first woman in U.S. history to be awarded a military pension. When the men of Pepperell, Massachusetts, went off to war, Prudence Cummings Wright and Sarah Shattuck formed their own militia of women to protect the remaining townspeople - "Mrs. David Wright's Guard." Their weapons were everything from muskets to farm tools. Women managed homesteads while their husbands fought. They worked the farms, raised families, and defended against Indians stirred up by the British to attack. Women raised money for suffering soldiers, organized resistance protests, boycotted British-made products, which meant going back to using their old spinning wheels. Miracles in American History-Vol. TWO: Amazing Faith that Shaped the Nation Women engaged in the riskier roles as messengers, scouts, saboteurs, or spies, the punishment for which, if caught, was hanging. In addition to well-known names, such as Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Dolley Madison, and Deborah Read Franklin, there were: Catherine "Kate" Moore Barry, the "Heroine of the Battle of Cowpens," rode through the back trails of South Carolina to warn of approaching British troops and round up militia, including her husband, to join General Daniel Morgan for the Battle of Cowpens, January 17, 1781. 16-year-old Sybil Ludington, on night of April 26, 1777, rode 40 miles through Putnam and Dutchess Counties waking up patriots to join the militia, led by her father, Colonel Henry Ludington. Sybil delivered the urgent warning that the British had burned Danbury, Connecticut, and were fast approaching. Lydia Darragh, a Quaker, had her home commandeered by British officers for weeks. During their meetings, Lydia would hide in a closet under the stairs and listened through the walls. Hearing their plans, Lydia made notes on small pieces of paper and sewed them into button covers on her son's coat, instructing him to go to General Washington's camp at Whitemarsh. Her intelligence saved the Americans from a surprise British attack. 22-year-old Deborah Champion, in September 1775, disguised as an old woman wearing a silk hood and an oversized bonnet, and risked her life to ride from New London, Connecticut, to Boston, passing several British checkpoints. Deborah was delivering an urgent message from her father, Henry Champion - the Continental Army's commissary general, to General George Washington, hiding the important papers under the bodice of her linsey-woolsey dress. Anna Smith Strong was an integral part of the Culper Spy Ring, which gathered information for General Washington, 1778-1781. Robert Townsend, pretending to be a loyalist, learned of British troops movements around New York and told tavern owner Austin Roe, who got it to Abraham Woodhull. Woodhull was signaled by Anna Smith Strong, when she hung her laundry outside to dry on a clothesline in pre-arranged configurations, that Caleb Brewster was waiting in a cove to take the information across Long Island Sound to Major Ben Tallmadge and General Washington. Hot tempered Nancy Hart had her cabin searched by six British soldiers. They shot her prized turkey and ordered her to cook it. While serving the soldiers wine, she discreetly passed their stacked muskets through a crack in the wall to her daughter outside. When the soldiers finally noticed what she was doing, she pointed one of the guns at them saying that she would shoot the first one who moved, which she promptly did. Nancy held the rest at gun point till her husband arrived. She insisted they be hung. In 1912, railroad construction worker grading land near the old Hart cabin found a neat row of six skeletons. Deborah Samson (or Sampson) Gannett, after being freed from being an indentured servant on a farm, bound her chest, dressed as a man, and enlisted in the Continental Army under the name Robert Shurtliff. Deborah served three years, being injured several times, but refused medical attention for fear of being found out. It was not until she became deathly ill of fever that the doctor discovered her identity. She was honorably discharged. In 1792, Deborah received back pay, and in 1805, Congress granted her a pension as a war veteran. Martha Bratton, wife of Colonel William Bratton, blew up a cache of gunpowder to keep it from the British. When questioned, she proclaimed, "It was I who did it!" A British officer held a reaping hook to her throat, demanding she confess where her husband was, but Martha refused to tell. When a battle was taking place right outside her home, Martha extinguished the fire in the fireplace and put her little son up the chimney to keep him from being hit by stray gunfire. Nancy "Nanyehi" Ward was a Cherokee in eastern Tennessee. Cherokee had sided with the British during the French and Indian War, and again during the Revolution. Nanye'hi learned that the British had incited her tribe to attack a nearby American settlement. She took the risk of freeing American prisoners so they could warn their village, one of whom, Lydia Bean, was expecting to be burned to death the next day. While a captive, Lydia Bean and Nanye'hi reportedly traded cooking advice, such as making butter. The Ladies of Havana, Cuba, donated their own gold and jewelry, estimated at several million dollars, and sent it to help General Washington defeat the British at Yorktown. The message that the “Ladies of Havana” sent with their contribution was: “So the American mothers’ sons are not born as slaves.” Washington reportedly threw his hat in the air when he heard news of their gift. General Jean Baptiste de Rochambeau wrote in his "Daily Memoirs" (Library of Congress): "The joy was enormous when it was received, the money from Havana: The contribution of 800,000 silver pounds which helped stop the financial bankruptcy (of the Revolutionary Army) and raised up the moral spirit of the Army that had began to dissolve." Historian Stephen Bonsal wrote in When the French Were Here (Doubleday, Doran & Co.,1945: "The million that was supplied ... by the ladies of Havana, may, with truth, be regarded as the 'bottom dollars' upon which the edifice of American independence was erected." Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John, from their home in Braintree, Massachusetts, October 16, 1774, regarding increased tensions with Great Britain: “I dare not express to you, at three hundred miles distance, how ardently I long for your return ... And whether the end will be tragical, Heaven only knows. You cannot be, I know, nor do I wish to see you, an inactive spectator; but if the sword be drawn, I bid adieu to all domestic felicity, and look forward to that country where there are neither wars nor rumors of war, in a firm belief that through the mercy of its King we shall both rejoice there together ... Your most affectionate, Abigail Adams.” In a letter dated June 25, 1775, Abigail Adams wrote again to her husband regarding the battle at Charlestown, Massachusetts: “We live in continual Expectation of Hostilities. Scarcely a day that does not produce some, but like Good Nehemiah having made our prayer with God, and set the people with their Swords, their Spears and their bows we will say unto them, Be not afraid of them. Remember the Lord who is great and terrible, and fight for your Brethren, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your houses ... They (British) delight on molesting us on the Sabbath. Two Sabbaths we have been in such Alarms that we have had no meetings. This day we have set under our own vine in quietness, have heard Mr. Taft, from Psalms. The Lord is good to all and his tender mercies are over all his works.” DVD Collection - Miracles in American History - Amazing Stories of Answered Prayer in Times of Past Crises On January 2, 1952, the U.S. Postal Service issued a 3-cent stamp in Philadelphia to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Betsy Ross. Born a day earlier, January 1, 1752, to a Quaker family in Philadelphia, Betsy was the 8th of 17 children. Betsy apprenticed as a seamstress and fell in love with upholsterer John Ross, son of an Episcopal rector at Christ Church and nephew of Declaration signer, George Ross. George Ross, the son of an Anglican clergyman, was a delegate from Pennsylvania to the Constitutional Convention, being elected its first vice-president. George Ross was a colonel in the Continental Army and later an admiralty judge in Pennsylvania where he refused to acknowledge the authority of the Federal court over State decisions. George Ross' sister married George Read, another signer of the Declaration. John and Betsy eloped, as Quakers forbade interdenominational marriage. They were married by the last colonial Governor of New Jersey William Franklin, the son of Ben Franklin. John and Betsy Ross attended Christ's Church with: George Washington, Robert Morris, Francis Hopkins, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin. The Ross' pew, number 12, was next to a column adjoining George Washington's pew number 56 and not far from Ben Franklin's pew number 70. During the Revolution, John Ross died when a munitions depot he was guarding blew up. Shortly after, in June 1776, General Washington reportedly asked Betsy Ross to sew an American Flag. She most likely used a design created by the Chairman of the Navy Board, Francis Hopkinson of New Jersey, who as a Signer of the Declaration of Independence. The design looked similar to the flag of the British East India Company. Hopkinson also helped design The Great Seal of the United States. With the Continental Congress meeting in Pennsylvania, Betsy Ross also made a flag for the Pennsylvania navy ensign, which had 7 red stripes and 6 white stripes, as well as a commissioning pennant with 13 red-and-white stripes. Betsy Ross and her family continued to make U.S. flags for 50 years. Another woman who made the Grand Union Flag of 1775 was Rebecca Flower Young, whose daughter Mary Young Pickersgill made the famous "Star Spangled Banner" which flew over Fort McHenry during the War of 1812. A widow, Betsy Ross married sea captain Joseph Ashburn at the Old Swedes Church in 1777. That winter the British forcibly quartered in the home of Betsy and Joseph Ashburn. Joseph Ashburn later sailed to the West Indies for war supplies, but was captured and sent to Old Mill Prison, where he died in 1782. Fellow prisoner John Claypoole later brought the news of Joseph's death to Betsy, only to fall in love with her himself. Betsy married John Claypoole at Christ Church, May 8, 1783, and together they had 5 children. The Betsy Ross Bridge across the Delaware River connecting Philadelphia with Pennsauken, New Jersey, is named in her honor. To continue the heroic legacy, the Daughters of the American Revolution was founded in 1890, and incorporated by an Act of Congress in 1896. Its motto is: "God, Home, and Country." Voicing the sentiment of the courageous, patriotic women of the Revolution, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, September 16, 1775: “And unto Him who mounts the whirlwind and directs the storm, I will cheerfully leave the ordering of my lot and whether adverse or prosperous days should be my future portion, I will trust in His right Hand to lead me safely through, and after a short rotation of events, fix me in a state immutable and happy ... Adieu! I need not say how sincerely I am your affectionate, Abigail Adams.” -- Download as PDF ... Women of the Revolution: "As there were Fathers in our Republic so there were Mothers"-Coolidge Read as American Minute blog post Follow on: TruthSocial Telegram CloutHub USA.Life Linkedin Twitter MeWe Parler Gettr GAB FOF FB IG William J. 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“The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” —John 10:10

If you were to sum up your life right now, your purpose on this earth, what truths would you want to emphasize to your friends and family? What regrets would you have? In Acts 20 the apostle Paul gave his final words to the elders of the church he had started in Ephesus. He essentially was summing up what really mattered to him in life. Among them was this statement:  “But none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God” (verse 24 NKJV). There’s an important word in Paul’s statement: “joy.” Paul was saying, “I’m looking back on my life and on what I have done here, and one word seems to sum it up well: joy.” This word could be translated “exceedingly happy.” Joy is an operative word in the life of the Christian. Maybe you’re thinking that things must have been going reasonably well for Paul. But look at the preceding verses, where Paul said,  “And see, now I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will happen to me there, except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that chains and tribulations await me” (verses 22–23 NKJV). Paul knew what adversity was. He knew what suffering and hardship were. But in the midst of it all, he was saying there is joy. Sometimes people think Christians live the most boring lives conceivable. But the fact is that the happy life is the holy life, the life lived for God. Jesus not only promised us life beyond the grave, but He also promised us a dimension of life on earth that is worth living.

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Report: More than 27,000 killed by euthanasia in just ONE nation

That's only the number of deaths RECORDED

By WND News Services
Published January 1, 2023 at 1:02pm

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[Editor's note: This story originally was published by Live Action News.]

By Marianne Brown
Live Action News

A recent report reveals that the number of people killed by euthanasia has dramatically increased since it was legalized in Belgium in 2002. Since then, euthanasia has killed more than 27,000 people in the nation.

Euthanasia became legal in 2002 due to the introduction of an exception to the law prohibiting the killing of others. The exception offered a “solution” to adult patients who had a “serious and incurable” disease that was causing them great suffering. It was hoped that this exception would put an end to the covert euthanasia that was being practiced.

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Since its legalization, euthanasia has killed over 27,000 Belgian people — but that is only the number of deaths being recorded. The actual number of euthanized deaths is assumed to be much higher. According to the report:

[T]he Commission does not have the possibility of evaluating the proportion of the number of euthanasia’s declared in relation to the number of euthanasia’s actually performed. In other words, these figures only reflect part of the reality of euthanasia in Belgium.

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It has come as no surprise that euthanasia is rapidly increasing. According to a 2021 article in The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, safeguards were put in place regarding the legality of euthanasia, but it appears no monitoring is being done to make sure the safeguards are actually being followed.

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Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, summarizes three main glaring issues with Belgium’s euthanasia acceptance:

• The number and reasons for killing by euthanasia continue to rise
• The law lacks oversight because the Commission includes several euthanasia doctors, including the Chair of the Commission, Dr. Wim Distelmans, who operates the LEIF-EOL euthanasia clinic
• The Commission admits that there are unreported euthanasia deaths, but the Belgian government has not done anything to rectify this problem

The legalization of euthanasia was controversial in Belgium in 2002, and even though it’s increasing, it remains controversial today. In 2014, the nation began allowing euthanasia for children, igniting further debate on physician-assisted death.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD, the Director of Education at the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia, explained why he believes euthanasia is not the solution to suffering:

Individuals struggling with grave ailments, even though they may be very compromised and unable to act as their own decision makers, remain persons of great moral worth. They contribute to the common good simply by being, rather than by doing or choosing. Moreover, they continually call each of us to a higher and more beautiful standard of full acceptance, loving support and authentic care, even and especially in the midst of very challenging medical circumstances. They raise the bar for us and we should respond by elevating their quality of life.

Studies have shown that people who ask for assisted death do so, not because they are seeking an escape from their pain, but because they are depressed, hopeless, have no support, and are afraid of being a burden. When someone is suffering in this way, offering them death as a solution isn’t compassionate. Instead, they should be offered support, assistance, and care. Studies have shown that this can be highly effective, with one report revealing that 72% of older people who expressed a wish to die changed their minds within two years once their feelings of loneliness and depression were properly addressed and had improved.

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL – JANUARY 2, 2023  Finding Well-Being in Community By Gary Wilkerson

What is well-being? Can it be achieved by simply taking care of oneself? Not entirely. True well-being includes relational love, intimacy and connection with people. You cannot have well-being on your own. There are more than fifty Bible verses that talk about loving and cherishing and caring for one another. Give to one another. Put others above yourself. The wounded soul that hasn’t torn down its barriers can’t effectively do that. Larry Crabb said that two unhealthy people in a marriage are like two ticks with no dog. They are sucking the life out of each other; there's no source of life. They desperately need one another, but neither has anything to give.  Well-being begins with us saying, "Holy Spirit, this drive in me for approval from others isn’t love. It's the opposite of love. Nourish me from within and dissolve the barriers that I’ve put up. Enlarge my heart.” In America, we have an individualistic mentality that says, "I'll fix myself, spirit, soul and body! I’ll go to the gym, eat well, read inspirational books and will myself to success.” There's good in that, but it isn’t sufficient. We have a God-shaped hole in our hearts, but there is also a people-shaped hole in our hearts. There is a classic book written in the 1600s titled The Practice of the Presence of God. I would like to write a book called “Practicing the Presence of People.” Both the soul and the body need people around them. You have to change to have well-being in community, but you need community to change. The prophet Jonah was a loner, and there’s an important lesson in his story that is often overlooked. He spent a lot of time running from God and distancing himself from other people, and the impact of his ministry was sorely affected by all that isolation. Just like Jonah, when we keep people at arm’s length, our ministry can be sorely affected as well. Our faith is lived out in community; people are not impacted unless they're loved. Matthew 6:33 says, “But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”  Do you want true well-being? Seek him first. Practice the presence of God, then seek out good relationships with other people. This is good, healthy soul-care.

WHAT AWAITS EVERY CITY IN AMERICA

 SOON, every city in America will be an El Paso.

 

Border crisis? For Biden, silence is the solution

Exclusive: Barbara Simpson whacks president for vacationing in Caribbean while El Paso suffers

By Barbara Simpson
Published December 30, 2022 at 7:34pm

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The end of the year already – and yet our problems don't seem to change.

One problem this country faces is the situation at our border with Mexico. If one were to hear what President Biden has to say about it – well, crickets. You would think there is nothing unusual about what goes on there, day after day, week after week, month after month. There is no end to the crisis, nor his silence.

Talk about a man ignoring the demands of his job. He is the president, after all, and one would hope he would be concerned about this very real attack on his country by illegal aliens from around the world, who swarm the border, get into this country, and become a financial and social burden on American citizens.

But no. Joseph Biden shuts his eyes and ears to the situation, and Americans bear the burden.

The towns and cities along the border are the first places to feel the impact of the thousands – no, millions – of illegal aliens who continue to invade our country.

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I saw a newspaper headline from the Wall Street Journal – "Migrant Surge Overwhelms El Paso."

The situation there is described as being near the breaking point. More than 5,000 migrants were at the border on that one day, ready to cross, yet the city is at a loss of how to handle the situation. The five shelters for the homeless in the city are already full of migrants, not American homeless.

Title 42, a Trump administration pandemic-era plan to handle illegal arrivals, has stayed in effect during the Biden administration despite efforts to end it. This week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Title 42's expiration be delayed until a hearing is held in February. Meanwhile, federal estimates were that the number of illegal crossings could exceed 5,000 per day.

According to El Paso's deputy city manager for Public Safety, Mario D'Agostino, the city needs help from the federal and state governments. He said the city has spent $9.5 million on the problem since July, and the feds have reimbursed them $2 million. Another $3.5 million is expected from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, but there is no firm date as to when that will happen.

For the citizens of El Paso, it can't happen soon enough because they are financially handling the costs of this invasion. While the promises from Washington are there, nothing visible is being done to alleviate the problem.

It's too easy to just consider that the city has to deal with the mass of humanity – but there is also the problem of what happens to those people once they are in this country. Not only where do they live, but where do they work, and what does that do to the local employment situation? And what about the children? There are thousands of them – some with family, some not. Who cares for them? Are they schooled? What about their health? And what happens if they have no relatives here?

I, for one, would like to hear President Biden address some of those questions and so many others. At this point, we have no idea what he thinks about this and what he plans to do about it. Quite frankly, the feds just giving money to El Paso and other cities like it does nothing to solve the basic problems those areas face.

But if you are Joseph Biden, silence is the solution. He just ignores the problem that faces El Paso and the hundreds of towns and cities both on the border and elsewhere.

Those illegals continue to cross into Texas and other states and are being released by immigration authorities by the thousands. Eventually, they are spread across the country. Where and how many? Who knows? We'll never get a response from Biden, who is, lest we forget, the president of this country. The border is his responsibility. He ignores it and instead vacations in the Caribbean.

Thanks, Joe.

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