It is fitting and proper at this time of national crisis to remember America’s Liberty Bell. Despite strenuous efforts by the Left, the Liberty Bell remains an icon of American freedom and independence. The inscription on the bell is a quotation from Leviticus 25:10 “Proclaim Liberty throughout all the land unto the inhabitants thereof.”
Bells are rung for a variety of reasons: to warn the community of imminent danger, to celebrate a joyful event or mourn a sad one, and to commemorate venerated historical figures and events. It was abolitionists who gave the Liberty Bell its name as a frontispiece to an 1837 edition of Liberty, published by the New York Anti-Slavery Society. It was actually melted down and recast three times before it had the “Right” ring to it.
Apocryphal accounts associate the ringing of the Liberty Bell with the announcement of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In 1847, George Lippard wrote a fictional story for The Saturday Courier which told of an elderly bellman, waiting in the State House steeple for the word that Congress had declared Independence. The story goes that privately he began to doubt Congress’s resolve. Suddenly the bellman’s grandson, who was eavesdropping on the door of Congress, yelled to him, “Ring! Grandfather! Ring!”
One rarely hears the phrase “ring of Truth” these days. The phrase alludes to the practice of judging a genuine coin by its “ring” or sound, which dates from the days when coins had intrinsic value because they were made of precious metals, Frederick W. Robin used it in a sermon in 1850: “Truth, so to speak, has a certain ring by which it may be known.”
Hearing Truth in the political arena is so rare that upon hearing it one is compelled to shout aloud and dance for joy. Kari has that certain ring. She’s the genuine coin. Her intrinsic value is speaking Truth from her soul not from a script. She recognized Truth and chose to follow it. She clasps Truth and chooses to fight for it. She offers her all to be the “[Wo]man in the Arena – who is actually in the arena, …who strives valiantly, … who strives to do the deeds; …who knows great enthusiasms, …the great devotions, …who spends [her]self in a worthy cause; so that [her] place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” (“The Man in the Arena”, Teddy Roosevelt).
Kari Lake for Arizona governor. Ring! Kari! Ring!
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