Vigilance and Zeal
We need to return our native land to her first love, and save New England.
In my previous piece for American Mantle, I explained how the Christian virtues of New England have been inverted, so as to turn values that were once a great source of strength into tools of our own destruction. The courage that led Colonel Chamberlain and his boys of Maine to charge down the slopes of Little Roundtop, now motivates the youth of New England to don balaclavas and assault federal agents. These agitated youth of the modern left now place their lives in harm’s way, not out of a sense of duty to their nation, but on behalf of foreign invaders. Conservatives often mock leftist activists and demonstrators, and point out how they are always protected by the judicial system from the consequences of their actions. Nevertheless, as a man who has had many interactions with law enforcement during political demonstrations, I can confirm that it takes a certain courage to stand one’s ground against them. Only utter foolhardiness or the zeal of true conviction can stand firm and even be the aggressor against armed men. Perhaps in those agitated youth there is a combination of both of these things. While it is generally commendable to see passion and dedication from young people, treason is certainly no virtue. Here we shall delve back in time to the origin period of this moral malaise that toppled godly New England, how that same path is being tread by Christians across America, even in the Bible Belt, and contrast the malaise with the quiet rising courage of New England nationalism. Some of us Yankees remember who we are, and where we come from. Vigilance and action are the call we put out.
To reach the origin point of New England’s corrupted values, we must first journey through The South. The “Bible Belt” is modern America’s bedrock of the Christian faith, and all across Southern society Jesus Christ is still recognized as Lord. It is my belief that fallen man is doomed to the perpetual cycle of ruin and prosperity within his civilizations, and the Southern United States was essentially “reset” in that cycle by the calamity of the Civil War. What this means is that the South has stayed closer to her Christian foundations, because she was forced to return back to the fundamentals of human civilization building after first being ravaged by total war, and then the lengthy occupation of the reconstruction period. Nothing brings men to their knees before their maker quite like starvation, misery, and hopelessness, and this was exactly what the old Confederacy experienced for over a decade after the war. We know that God is able to direct even the worst intentions of men into achieving his glory, and in this instance of history, the cataclysmic defeat that the South suffered in the Civil War made fertile ground for the deep Christian faith and culture that Southerners enjoy the fruits of today.
The commendations end here though my Southern brethren, as there is still a notable decline in faithfulness even among Southern churches, which would have been unimaginable to many a mere generation ago. The agents of the woke mind virus are already in place within renowned bulwarks of the faith such as the SBC, and even the PCA is being forced to fend off a recent overture endorsing the ordination of female deacons. Does the church have the perception to find these agents of the enemy in their midst? Or are they too busy battling phantoms, and rooting out imaginary sins against egalitarianism? Southern Christians, look northward towards New England to see your future if you are not steadfast and unmovable in the faith.
Christians do not need to know what to think to protect their churches and denominations from infiltration, but rather how to think. This is a skill that has been entirely lost to the broader masses of modern America, but due to the prevalence of toxic individualism in our society, most are blissfully unaware of their own personal inadequacy at defending their minds from malicious influence. Never be prideful over the faithfulness of your own particular church or denomination, for it is always the seemingly impregnable fortress that is guarded with the least vigilance.
Now the spoils of the Civil War for New Englanders were vastly different from what our Southern brethren inherited. While hardship planted the seeds of renewed faith in the people of the South, the unassailable dominance gained by the North opened the door to that deadly slayer of empires: comfort. Despite many of her sons being laid to rest in Southern soil during the conflict, the war left New England spiritually and economically intact as the oldest part of America, and cemented the abolitionist mindset that was born here into position as the leading moral presupposition of the country. This was in essence, a second founding of the United States, and it confirmed a path of evolution for the American worldview that would have far reaching consequences. This was of much more lasting importance than even the tangible changes, or the legal precedents set by the forcible unification of the once sovereign states.
Had our ancestors been in possession of a proper collective understanding of how the New England mind operates, then perhaps our leaders could have protected us from the inevitable corruption that comfort was the father of. When the struggle of survival is absent, the New England morality attaches itself to theoretical matters, with which our people have often had little real-world experience. Thus, otherwise noble ideals such as liberty and equality lead to the horrors of reconstruction, where integration was accomplished at the point of the bayonet. We imposed our own morality upon our Southern brethren, with very little understanding of the reality they faced in their daily lives. The theoretical moral high ground is worth any price, when it is being purchased thousands of miles away, by the blood of another. Does the reader now see any correlation to this Yankee methodology and the modern twenty first century egalitarian liberalism that dominates American culture? Pardon me while I unfurl my Ukraine flag.
We understand now how the Civil War laid the groundwork for New England’s steady moral decline into the abominable state we find her in today, and we understand the cautionary example this can be to the rest of America, and the South in particular. This essay, however, is not intended to be a Eulogy for New England. The mettle of a soldier is always discovered where the battle is hottest, and the churches that remain faithful to Christ’s kingdom in New England can very rarely be accused of being lukewarm. It takes a conscious and dedicated effort for us to maintain the Christian faith now within this hostile land, in stark contrast to our Southern countrymen, who are often required by their civil society to go through motions of Christian faith they may not even believe. Virtually every Republican Senator immediately comes to mind. What was rebuked more sharply by our Lord: the open idolaters, or the hypocrites who prayed loudly in their synagogues?
Following the tragedy of the Charlie Kirk murder in 2025, many Christian churches across New England gathered for public worship, a rare occurrence now in our secular region. Even the solidly Democrat town of Concord, Massachusetts welcomed Christians to assemble, with The Massachusetts Family Institute and The Shepherd’s Church of Chelmsford, hosting a public worship vigil at the Historic Old North Bridge. There was no lukewarm Christianity preached by Pastor Kendall Lankford and his colleagues at that microphone. What was most notable after attending a number of such vigils, was that all the tepid calls for peace and unity came from Republican politicians, while the Christian events delivered fiery calls for repentance, and action.
Numerous figures have emerged from the Christian faith across New England, quietly putting in the work that is necessary to restore our once shining city on a hill. Many of these are mere laymen, volunteers of the recently organized New England National Project, who advocate for a return to the traditional Christian virtue of our Puritan forefathers. It may seem like a small thing to distribute scripture leaflets and historical pamphlets, but our adversary the devil can tolerate absolutely no opposition of any kind, for every Christian man that stands for truth delivers burning coals upon the heads of his followers. These followers are easily agitated, for they know that any challenge can inflict a mortal wound upon their ideology, due to its feeble foundations. Even at the most radical leftist “churches” of the UCC, our activists have found Christian men who wish to resist the blasphemy that is being spread from the leadership of our captured institutions.
Still other more notable figures have emerged, such as Pastor Jake Dell of the 1st Congregational Church of Woodbury, Connecticut. His unashamed delivery of the Gospel and God’s perfect law from the pulpit has earned the ire of many, most notably the attorney general of the State of Connecticut. AG William Tong dispatched state police officers to attempt to frighten the Reverend into watering down his strong rhetoric. Like John the Baptist in his rebuke of King Herod though, the Reverend Dell has refused to compromise on his faith. How fortunate we are to still have some semblance of the Christian religious liberty our prudent forefathers enshrined in our state and federal Constitutions.
While grand crusades are impressive to men, all throughout history the Lord uses the faith of but a few to shake nations. Gideon’s army was reduced to a mere three hundred, so that none might say it was strength of arms that had won the day. So too in New England, we need not play the political game of democracy, which places value in the will of the godless majority. Our hope is in the will of Almighty God, and we know that we need only find the seven thousand men that have not bent the knee to Baal, in order to return our native land to her first love, and save New England. With the growing example of godly action and Christian leadership, it is our hope that the petulant spirit of the New England youth, which drifts about devoid of purpose in our modern age, and attaches itself to all manner of wicked and destructive causes masquerading as morality, can finally glimpse a beacon that can guide them away from destruction. We must overcome the immense propaganda machine that poisons our culture, and stand steadfast in the faith. This word is now being spread a few drops at a time, but the waters are rising; The word is, that Jesus Christ is Lord in New England.
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