There are two good reasons for freedom-lovers to celebrate July 4 annually.
First, the US Declaration of Independence—published in 1776—set in motion a course of events greatly beneficial to our global concept of freedom. It birthed a nation that set the example of enshrining into a Bill of Rights religious freedom, freedom of speech, press freedom, and the right to peaceably assemble.
Fast-forward exactly 100 years, to July 4, 1876. A revolutionary religious leader in the US and six of her students launched an organization committed to forwarding two other practical aspects of liberty—freedom from sickness and freedom from the attitudes and actions that stifle our sense of God, which we call sin.
