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In Honor of Two Patriots of the Revolutionary War
Reuben Ford and William Webber, were both great, great, great, great, grandfathers of the editor of Freedom Times, J. David Ford.
Little did the Ford family
know when Reuben was born on August 19th, 1742, that this little baby lying in the cradle, would spearhead a movement that would bring a separation of church and state in the colonies that we are experiencing to this day.
The turning point in Ford’s life took place as he listened
to Charles Whitefield minister during the Great Awakening in Virginia.
At the age of 26, in 1769, he stepped into the ministry.
After fighting the “good fight of faith,” Rev. Reuben Ford, at the age of 82, died on October 19, 1823 in Hanover, Virginia.
(See page 4.)
Erected in 1939 at the intersection of Broad Street Road (U.S. 250) and Shallow Well Road (Virginia Rt 654)
Erected in 1948 near Goochland, Vir- ginia. Marker is at the intersection of Virginia Route 6 and Manakin Road.
William Webber was born in 1735 .
After entering into the ministry, Webber’s uncompromising stand, for preaching the Gospel without a license from the Anglican Church, landed him in jail several times.
As a result of his calling to pio- neer the Gospel into areas of Virginia where the most intense persecution of ministers was taking place, he continually faced great opposition. No matter how severe the persecution was, he would not compromise, even if it meant being jailed for his stand.
After fighting the “good fight
of faith,” Rev. William Webber, at the age of 62, died on February 29, 1808.
(See page 6.)
George Washington’s Prayer
“I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have the United States in his holy protection... and... that he would most gra- ciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to love mercy... Charity, humility... which were the Characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed Religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation. Amen”
(George Washington... continued from front)
undermine what cannot be directly overthrown...
“Let me now... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally. This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the stron- gest passions of the human mind. It exists under dif- ferent shapes in all govern- ments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.
“The alternate domi- nation of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more for- mal and permanent despo- tism... turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.
“Without looking for- ward to an extremity of this kind... the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it... It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasion- ally riot and insurrection.
It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government
itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.
“There is an opinion that parties in free countries
are useful checks upon the administration of the gov- ernment and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is probably true;... in govern- ments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit
for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the ef-
fort ought to be by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it... A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume.
“It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government... facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cas-
es where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of
the other, betrays the for- mer into a participation in the quarrels and wars of
the latter without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions... by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained, and by ex- citing jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate,
in the parties from whom equal privileges are with- held. And it gives to ambi- tious, corrupted, or deluded
citizens... facility to betray
or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with
the appearances of a virtu- ous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation.
“As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and inde- pendent patriot. How many opportunities do they afford to tamper with domestic fac- tions, to practice the arts of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to influence or awe the public councils? Such
an attachment of a small or weak towards a great and powerful nation dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter...
“Though, in reviewing the incidents of my adminis- tration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nev- ertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it prob- able that I may have com- mitted many errors. What- ever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend. I shall also carry with me the hope that my country will never cease to view them with indulgence; and that, after forty five years of my life dedicated to its service with an upright zeal, the faults
of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest.”
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