Second Continental Congress
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Oct 29, 2026
speaker_9NARRATOR
We are standing in front of the State House in Philadelphia.
speaker_9NARRATOR
That bell you hear tolling above you is calling the delegates of the 13 United Colonies to a meeting of the Second Continental Congress.
speaker_9NARRATOR
They have a tremendous decision to make today on a problem which is being bitterly argued in every town, village, and crossroads store from Massachusetts to Georgia.
speaker_9NARRATOR
As the delegates approach, their faces are grim and serious.
Victor JoecksHOST
We have appointed a continental fast, John Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail Adams, on June 17th, 1777.
Victor JoecksHOST
This was during the Second Continental Congress.
Victor JoecksHOST
Millions will be upon their knees at once before their great creator, imploring his forgiveness and blessing, his smiles upon American councils and arms.
Victor JoecksHOST
Government officials calling for God's help happened repeatedly during the American Revolution.
Michael TroyHOST
left dead on the field of battle.
Salina BakerGUEST
And he had been writing about, he'd been writing to Samuel Adams, who was at the Second Continental Congress, begging them, begging them literally to take command of the Provincial Army in Massachusetts and to appoint what he called a Generalissimo, someone to take command of that Provincial Army.
Salina BakerGUEST
He wanted both things.
Salina BakerGUEST
And they knew about George Washington then and Charles Lee.
Mark LevinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Christians.
Mark LevinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's the Christians, the Christian majority that was at the Second Continental Congress that wrote the Declaration and declared it.
Mark LevinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Christians who made up all the delegates, all of them, at the Constitutional Convention and wrote that magnificent document.
Mark LevinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The Christians carried this forward in the United States of America, or we wouldn't have a United States of America.
Phil ChenevereNARRATOR
The First Continental Congress exercised a powerful influence on the destinies of America.
Phil ChenevereNARRATOR
Without it, the work of the Second Continental Congress would never have been accomplished.
Phil ChenevereNARRATOR
It prepared the way for the crowning act of that body, the protest of an entire nation, that it would no longer submit to tyranny.
Phil ChenevereNARRATOR
The nation has seen no more stirring times than those in which these great events were taking place.
Andrew O’ShaughnessyGUEST
North realized when it was too late that it was not just Massachusetts and Boston The entire country supported this.
Andrew O’ShaughnessyGUEST
The revelation to him was when he discovered the outcome of the meeting of the Second Continental Congress, and he realized the colonies were united.
Andrew O’ShaughnessyGUEST
He started to have misgivings about the chances Britain might win this war.
Andrew O’ShaughnessyGUEST
And so you have a conflict in the government between Lord George Germain, who was the American Secretary of State, who was very pro-war, and the king, who supported Germain and felt that only war now could decide war.
Daniele BolelliHOST
Right.
Mike DuncanGUEST
So, and there was a lot of, of conflict inside of the continental army, um, and inside of the civilian population, like, "Why are we calling for the French, our ancient enemy, to come help us?" Now, people like Ben Franklin, George Washington, other leaders in the Second Continental Congress, they knew that there was no winning this war without French money, without French arms, without French supplies, and most especially without the French Navy.
Mike DuncanGUEST
And so they're gonna go ahead and make this deal.
Mike DuncanGUEST
Um, for the French, it's mostly about sticking...
MattHOST
The United States Postal Service, USPS, also known as the Post Office, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States.
MattHOST
Founded by the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia on July 26, 1775, Benjamin Franklin was appointed the first postmaster general at the beginning of the American Revolution.
MattHOST
What? Yeah,
speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I like these guys.
ColinHOST
He was also a signatory to the Declaration of Independence.
ColinHOST
John Witherspoon signed the Declaration of Independence with the Second Continental Congress.
ColinHOST
He was the only active pastor to sign, and he was the only college president to sign the Declaration.
ColinHOST
John Witherspoon saw a nation born and advocated for, pardon me, born and he advocated for New Jersey to sign the Constitution.
Mark LevinHOST
But Christians...
Mark LevinHOST
It's the Christians, the Christian majority that was at the Second Continental Congress that wrote the declaration and declared it.
Mark LevinHOST
Christians who made up all the delegates, all of them, at the Constitutional Convention and wrote that magnificent document.
Mark LevinHOST
The Christians carried this forward in the United States of America, or we wouldn't have a United States of America.
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