Dear Jessica,
Now I want to tell you the story of a little girl named
Laura. She grew up in America about a hundred years ago, when many
grownups believed that God truly ruled as king, not humbugs. You can read
the story yourself in the book, Little Town on The Prairie, by
Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Laura was born in a log cabin in the year 1867. The
story takes place in the summer of 1881 when she was fourteen. It is the
Fourth of July. That is the day Americans celebrate the beginning of
wizards called United States of America. Back then, it wasn't nearly
so powerful a wizard in grownups' minds as it is now. They knew
their grandparents had made it up out of thin air.
In Laura's true story, a man had just read the
Declaration of Independence to the crowd. The Declaration is the
letter that Americans sent to King George in 1776 telling him he was a
humbug. They told him they didn't believe in wizards called kings anymore.
They said God does not want us to be ruled by humbugs, no matter what they
are called, whether king, Caesar, parliament, judge, or whatever. They
said the Law of Nature, and of Nature's God made them free, no
matter what people in England may think.
Right after that, the crowd sang a song called,
America. This song was written by Samuel Smith in 1832 to honor God as
our real king. This is the hymn or anthem of our country. The last verse
goes like this:
Our fathers' God, to Thee,
Author of Liberty,
To Thee we sing.
Long may our land be bright
With freedom's holy light;
Protect us by thy might,
Great God, our King!
Today, even Christians are unaware of it, but once it
was commonly believed that God Himself was America's ruler, not men. Here
is what Laura thought to herself those many years ago:
The crowd was scattering away then, but Laura stood
stock still. Suddenly she had a completely new thought. The Declaration
and the song came together in her mind, and she thought: God is America's
king. She thought: Americans won't obey any king on earth. Americans are
free. That means they have to obey their own conscience. No king bosses
Pa; he has to boss himself. Why (she thought), when I am a little older,
Pa and Ma will stop telling me what to do, and there isn't anyone else who
has a right to give me orders. I will have to make myself be good.
Her whole mind seemed to be lighted up by that thought. This is what it
means to be free. It means, you have to be good. 'Our fathers' God, author
of liberty - 'The laws of Nature and of Nature's God endow you with a
right to life and liberty. Then you have to keep the laws of God, for
God's law is the only thing that gives you a right to be free.'
This is a true story with a very important lesson. You
see, today grownups don't believe as Laura did a hundred years ago. They
have stopped believing that God is America's ruler. They have stopped
believing that we should keep God's laws. That is why we do not have
liberty and justice for all. That is why the Pledge of Allegiance is a
trick and a lie. Grownups have been tricked into obeying the laws of
humbugs rather than the laws of God. When Americans stopped believing
that God rules them and the world, Americans stopped being free. That
means they are slaves to the humbugs and ruled by wizards.
I think Laura was a very smart girl. I think it is time
grownups and children in America stopped playing make-believe games about
wizards and started to obey God's law again.
Many grownups think they can obey God's law and still
play Wizards of America. The truth is that God's first law tells them they
cannot do both. But they would rather believe a lie. They may ask you to
believe the same lie. But remember what Laura said and don't believe them.
You are free to choose a man to rule you. You are also free to choose God
to rule you. But don't forget, when you choose one, you have rejected the
other.
Can you find where Laura and her Pa were on the
spectrum of government? How about Samuel Smith?
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Man's Rule
(Humbugs) |
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God's Rule
(God) |
I hope you are enjoying these letters. It is good that
you read them now, even though you may not understand them for several
years yet. In the next letter, I will tell you a story about the men who
wrote the Declaration of Independence and called King George a humbug. Bye for now!
