HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED ?

Christianity can be condensed into four words: Admit, Submit, Commit and Transmit. 
-Samuel Wilberforce

HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHAT HAPPENED TO THE 56 MEN WHO SIGNED THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE?

Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died.

Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.

Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army; another had two sons captured.

Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War.

They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

What kind of men were they? Men of FAITH. 29 held Seminary, or Bible School degrees. Dr. Benjamin Rush was the founder of the modern Sunday School movement, in America, and founded the first Bible society. Rev. John Witherspoon was president of Princeton University. (Their motto was: “Cursed be all learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.”)

Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners: men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.

These were not wild-eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more. Standing tall and straight, and unwavering, they pledged: “For the support of the declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.”