Let us Remember…
John Adams Inspiring Sentiments on the Declaration of Independence
The following excerpt from the booklet The Constitution Heavenly Banner by Ezra Taft Benson relates the inspiring words of John Adams encouraging others to adopt the Declaration of Independence. We should share these words with our families and friends during this Independence Day Celebration:
I reverence the Constitution of the United States as a sacred document. To me its words are akin to the revelations of God, for God has placed His stamp of approval on the Constitution of this land. I testify that the God of heaven sent some of His choicest spirits to lay the foundation of this government, and He has sent other choice spirits—even you who read my words—to preserve it.
Our feeling for this marvelous document should be the same as those attributed to John Adams by Daniel Webster. When others were vacillating on whether to adopt the Declaration of Independence, the sentiments of John Adams were these:
“Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote. It is true, indeed, that in the beginning we aimed not at independence. But there’s a Divinity that shapes our ends…Why, then should we defer the Declaration? …You and I, indeed, may rue it. We may not live to see the time when this Declaration shall be made good. We may die; die Colonists, die slaves, die, it may be, ignominiously and on the scaffold.
“Be it so. Be it so.
“If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready…But while I do live, let me have a country, or at least the hope of a country, and that a free country.
“But whatever may be our fate, be assured…that this Declaration will stand. It may cost treasure, and it may cost blood, but it will stand and it will richly compensate for both.
“Through the thick gloom of the present, I see the brightness of the future as the sun in heaven. We shall make this a glorious, an immortal day. When we are in our graves, our children will honor it. They will celebrate it with thanksgiving, with festivity, with bonfires, and illuminations….
“Before God, I believe the hour is come. My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and all that I am and all that I hope, in this life, I am now ready here to stake upon it; and I leave off as I began, that live or die, survive or perish, I am for the Declaration. It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment. Independence now, and Independence forever.”
We, the blessed beneficiaries, likewise face difficult days in this beloved land, “a land which is choice above all other lands.”
It may also cost us blood before we are through it is my conviction, however, that when the Lord comes, the Stars and Stripes will be floating on the breeze over this people. May it be so, and may God give us the faith and the courage exhibited by those patriots who pledged their lives and fortunes that we might be free.
From: The Constitution A Heavenly Banner by Ezra Taft Benson
A shortened version given as a speech is available for free:
http://speeches.byu.edu/reader/reader.php?id=6985
The 32 page book is available to buy from: http://www.amazon.com/Constitution-Heavenly-Ezra-Taft-Benson/dp/0875790674
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