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OUR FOREFATHERS\u2019\r\nCOVENANTS <\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n

\r\nPart 25<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\r\nMay 29, 2020<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Let\u2019s take a different\r\ncourse in today\u2019s Coffee Break talking about the author of our national anthem,\r\nlawyer Francis Scott Key, and a brief picture of what he saw and experienced as\r\nhe wrote The Star Spangled Banner<\/i>.<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n

We all know the name,\r\nFrancis Scott Key, but few know much else about him other than his famous\r\nanthem.\u00a0 Born August 1, 1779 at the family plantation -- Terra Rubra --\r\nnear Keymar, Maryland, Francis Scott Key was both an American lawyer and an\r\namateur poet.<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n

A\r\nhistorian, writing for Wikipedia, notes that <\/span>\"During\r\nthe War of 1812, Key, accompanied by the American Prisoner Exchange Agent Col.\r\nJohn Stuart Skinner, dined with Vice Admiral Cochrane, Rear Admiral Sir George\r\nCockburn and Major General Robert Ross, aboard the HMS Tonnant where they\r\nnegotiated the release of a prisoner, Dr. William Beanes<\/span><\/i><\/b>(<\/span><\/i>a resident of Upper Marlboro, Maryland captured by\r\nthe British after he placed rowdy stragglers under citizen's arrest, and a\r\nfriend of Key\u2019s). <\/o:p><\/i><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

After the release of Dr. Beanes, Skinner, Key and Beanes were\r\nallowed to return to their own sloop, but were not allowed to return to\r\nBaltimore because they had become familiar with the strength and position of\r\nthe British units and of the British intention to attack Baltimore. As a result\r\nof this, Key witnessed the bombarding of Ft. McHenry during the Battle of\r\nBaltimore and was inspired to write a poem entitled \"The Defence of Fort\r\nMcHenry.\"<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n

The\r\nSongwriters Hall of Fame says of him:<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

In\r\n1814, Key joined the army in the War of 1812 against Great Britain. While in\r\nbattle in Baltimore, Key and two soldiers were taken prisoner by the British.\r\nLocked in the cabin of their boat, Key would look out the porthole for the\r\nAmerican flag flying over Fort McHenry. Seeing the flag there meant the\r\nAmericans were still in control. While on the boat, Key began to write a poem\r\nabout the impact of that vision. The next day the British surrendered and that\r\nnight, Key finished the poem and set it to the melody of an English drinking\r\nsong called \u201cTo Anacreon in Heaven\u201d, by John Stafford Smith. The Baltimore American<\/span><\/em>\r\nprinted the poem right away calling it \u201cThe Defence of Fort McHenry\u201d. Soon the\r\nsong was known as \u201cThe Star Spangled Banner and was adopted by the US Army and\r\nNavy as their official song.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Those\r\nare the circumstances that surrounded him the night he wrote his\r\npoem.\u00a0\u00a0 Francis Scott Key, himself, later wrote, <\/span>\"Then,\r\nin that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such\r\ndefenders of their country, deserve a song?...\"<\/span><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Kenneth\r\nCopeland describes the event far more meticulously than the numerous epitaphs\r\nwritten by historians in the years since.\u00a0 Here's what he writes:<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

That\r\nnight, detained by the British on a ship in the harbor, he witnessed the\r\nbombardment of Fort McHenry. As the battle raged and the sky filled with smoke\r\nfrom the shelling, Francis Key kept his eyes on the Stars and Stripes until the\r\nsun went down and it was no longer visible.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly\r\nwe hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?<\/span><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n

All night,\r\nthrough this critical battle, he had his eyes fastened on the place where that\r\nstandard flew. The question in his mind, as important as the battle itself,\r\nwas: <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Is the flag still there?<\/span><\/b><\/em><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous\r\nfight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? And the\r\nrockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night\r\nthat our flag was still there.<\/span><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n

The flash\r\nand glow of the rockets interrupted the black of night to reveal welcome\r\nglimpses of the Stars and Stripes.
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\r\nThen in an instant, everything went quiet. Smoke hung in the air. The sun had\r\nnot yet come up. Francis Scott Key didn't know if the flag was still there or\r\nnot. He ends the first verse by asking God:<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Oh say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of\r\nthe free and the home of the brave?<\/span><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Are we still a nation? Are we still a free people?<\/span><\/i><\/b>
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\r\nThere was not another free nation on the face of the earth. Some people even\r\nconsidered the establishment of this country to be an experiment that would\r\nfail. I imagine that throughout the night, these kinds of thoughts were rolling\r\naround in this lonely man's spirit and in his mind: <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Oh God, if that flag is not still there when the sun comes up,\r\nthis thing is all over. There won't be a free nation anywhere. But it has to\r\nbe, Lord...it must stand as the home of the free and the brave.<\/span><\/b><\/em>
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\r\nSurely God would help this nation to stand strong as the ragtag army of courageous\r\nfarmers and churchgoers dared to go up against the most powerful, best-equipped\r\nexpeditionary force on the face of the earth.
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\r\nThese were people of faith who were not moved by the odds. They were not moved\r\nby what they could see. They were moved by what they believed\u2014and they believed\r\nthey were already free as of the day the Declaration of Independence of 1776\r\nwas signed.
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\r\nThey fought the fight of faith and praise as well as the fight of war.\r\nThroughout the war with Great Britain, Congress declared days of fasting and\r\nprayer and encouraged Americans to seek God's help in the battle for freedom.\r\nThey were careful to declare days of thanksgiving and praise when God\r\nintervened and blessed them with victories.
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\r\nOnce more during the battle at Fort McHenry, God honored their faith and the\r\ncolonists stood strong against the enemy. As the smoke cleared at dawn, Francis\r\nKey was thrilled to find the beloved American flag still flying high,\r\nproclaiming victory for all to see. Historians report that the sight of that\r\nmajestic flag inspired the words which became \"The Star-Spangled\r\nBanner.\"
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\r\nFrancis Scott Key was a man of faith, and I believe he learned something as he\r\nwitnessed the fierce battle that was ultimately between freedom and oppression.\r\nI'm certain he meditated throughout the night about what the outcome of that\r\nfight would mean to our infant country. The words of the song give us insight\r\ninto what was going through his mind. I believe Mr. Key began formulating these\r\nwords during the night and that the last verse was the answer of his faith. He\r\ncould not see the flag\u2014except by faith. Spirit-inspired prophetic utterance\r\ncame out of his mouth:<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their\r\nloved homes and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the\r\nheaven-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.<\/span><\/strong><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

As\r\nrelevant as Francis Scott Key's words were then, they are even more so today.\r\nWe must not forget to praise the One who has given us our nation. We must not forget\r\nto praise the One who has given us peace. We must not forget to praise the One\r\nwho has given us the victory during wars to keep America free, to keep the\r\nglory alive, to keep the Word alive, to keep the Name of Jesus on the lips of\r\nits citizens throughout this whole North American continent!<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our\r\nmotto: \"In God is our trust.\" And the star-spangled banner in triumph\r\nshall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!<\/span><\/strong><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Thank God,\r\nwe're free and our trust is in God. He has preserved us as a nation and will\r\ncontinue to do so. If our cause is just, we will always triumph. And our most\r\npowerful symbol of freedom, the Star-Spangled Banner, will continue to wave\r\nover the land of the free and the home of the brave...forever!<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Couldn't\r\nhave said it better myself!<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Let\r\nme get back, now, to take a look at the life of another of our founding fathers:\r\nGeorge Mason.<\/o:p><\/span><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

On our last trip to Washington, DC, Della and I took a\r\nfair amount of time to walk through the National Mall which includes monuments\r\nand memorials to our nation's history.\u00a0 One of the places we stopped to\r\nlook at was a bronze memorial of George Mason, dedicated as recently as April\r\n2, 2002 by President George W. Bush.\u00a0 With that statue was a series of\r\nreferences to our Bill of Rights and George Mason's authorship and\r\ncraftsmanship of some of the most important wording we have enshrined in our\r\nConstitution.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/span>\r\n\r\n

Seeing\r\nthat memorial made me really aware of George Mason for the first time, and provoked\r\nmy research into his life.\u00a0 Reading the Virginia Bill of Rights, which are\r\nposted at the memorial, made me realize just how much input he provided into\r\nthe wording and shaping of our Constitution.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Most of us\r\nknow of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and their efforts to craft the Bill\r\nof Rights as an addendum to our Constitution.\u00a0 (The Bill of Rights\r\nactually consists of the first ten amendments to our U.S. Constitution).\u00a0\r\nWhat is far less known is that the principal architect of the Bill of Rights\r\nwas George Mason.\u00a0 All three of these founders were not coincidentally\r\nVirginians.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Gunston\r\nHall Plantation's introduction to the history of George Mason (Gunston Hall\r\nPlantation was George Mason's home) notes that \"George\r\nMason (1725-1792), by contrast, has received neither the credit nor the\r\nattention given his more famous contemporaries for his unwavering devotion to\r\nthe cause of religious rights. He was the principal draftsman of Article XVI of\r\nthe Virginia Declaration of Rights, a seminal, post-colonial statement on the\r\nrights of conscience.<\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

\u201cIn legislative chambers and behind the scenes, Mason was a\r\ndeft, untiring strategist in the bitter contests to guarantee religious freedom\r\nand to end the legal favors enjoyed by the established church in Virginia.\u00a0\r\nFew among the founding generation have had such an enduring impact on the\r\nrights of conscience and yet, received so little public recognition as George\r\nMason.\u00a0 He was a towering figure in the struggle to craft a distinctively\r\nAmerican doctrine of religious liberty and church-state relations for both the\r\nCommonwealth and the nation.\"<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n

George\r\nMason was born on the Mason family plantation in Fairfax County, Virginia on\r\nDecember 11, 1725.\u00a0 Mason's father died when he was only ten years old,\r\nand his upbringing was delegated to his uncle, John Mercer.\u00a0 Mercer had a\r\nrather voluminous library with some 1500-plus books, more than one-third of\r\nwhich were law books.\u00a0 Young George had become an avid reader and\r\nliterally devoured his uncle's library -- in the process gaining both a respect\r\nfor the law and a desire to practice law, as well as developing a deep interest\r\nin politics.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

The Mason\r\nfamily was already among the richest families in Virginia, but by the time\r\nGeorge Mason became a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention in 1786\r\n(he had already served with Virginia's state Constitutional Convention ten\r\nyears earlier) he was easily the richest man in Virginia and among the richest\r\nin America.\u00a0 With 15,000 acres in Virginia alone -- not counting another\r\n80,000 acres in Ohio -- and more than 300 slaves working Gunston Hall\r\nPlantation (which he had completed in 1753), he wielded more than a little\r\ninfluence.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

At age 25,\r\nhe married 16-year old Ann Eilbeck, whose parents also owned a plantation in\r\nCharles County, Maryland.\u00a0 They had 12 children together, the last two\r\nbeing twins who only survived for about six weeks.\u00a0 Complications set in\r\nwith the birth of the twins and Ann died three months later on March 9,\r\n1773.\u00a0 The third of their twelve children, William Mason, died in infancy,\r\nbarely reaching his first birthday.\u00a0 The nine remaining children all\r\nreached maturity, married, and gave their father some 56 grandchildren, many of\r\nwhom became major contributors to the growth and development of America's\r\nestablishment as a prosperous nation.\u00a0 During the 23 years George Mason\r\nand Ann Eilbeck were married, his practice of law and interest in politics\r\nbrought him to the bench in Fairfax County as a justice.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

It was in\r\n1752 that he acquired a large interest in the Ohio Land Company, an\r\norganization that speculated in western lands.\u00a0 In 1773, the British Crown\r\nrevoked the company's rights; and Mason, the company's treasurer at the time,\r\npenned his first major state paper, Extracts from the Virginia Charters, with Some Remarks upon Them<\/span><\/b><\/em>.\u00a0\r\nHis writings and legal arguments had already brought him to the attention of\r\nhis fellow-Virginians, and in 1774, he was called upon to assist in drawing up\r\nthe Halifax Resolves<\/span><\/i>,<\/span><\/b>a document that outlined the colonists'\r\nconstitutional grounds for their objections to the Boston Port Act.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

In\r\nJeroen Daanen's biography of George Mason in the National Archives, he writes\r\nthat, \"The years between 1776 and 1780 were filled with great\r\nlegislative activity. The establishment of a government independent of Great\r\nBritain required the abilities of persons such as George Mason. He supported\r\nthe disestablishment of the Church of England as the church of state, and was\r\nactive in the organization of military affairs, especially in the West. The\r\ninfluence of his early work, <\/i><\/b><\/span>Extracts\r\nfrom the Virginia Charters<\/span><\/b><\/em>, is seen in the 1783 peace\r\ntreaty with Great Britain, which fixed the Anglo-American boundary at the Great\r\nLakes instead of the Ohio River.\u00a0 <\/span>After\r\nindependence, Mason drew up the plan for Virginia's cession of its western\r\nlands to the United States.\"<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Let\r\nme finish up with George Mason next week. <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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