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- 0:00Speaker 1: Jedediah Morse were the pioneer American educator, clergyman, and father
- 0:04Speaker 1: of Samuel Morse, the inventor of the Morse Code. Elohim
- 0:08Speaker 1: ron Edwards on the Day's page from the Edward's Notebook.
- 0:11Speaker 1: Jedediah studied for the ministry at Yale, and in seventeen
- 0:15Speaker 1: eighty nine accepted a call to the First Church of Charlestown, Massachusetts.
- 0:19Speaker 1: He was alarmed by how father clerks he had moved
- 0:21Speaker 1: from doctrinal orthodoxy. In seventeen ninety nine, Jedediah more stated,
- 0:26Speaker 1: our dangers are of two kinds, those which affect our
- 0:29Speaker 1: religion and those which affect our government. They are, however,
- 0:32Speaker 1: so closely allied that they cannot, with propriety be separated.
- 0:37Speaker 1: To the kindly influence of Christianity. We owe the degree
- 0:40Speaker 1: of civic freedoms and political and social happiness mankind now
- 0:44Speaker 1: enjoys in proportion as the genuine effects of Christianity are
- 0:49Speaker 1: diminished in any nation, and the same proportion will the
- 0:52Speaker 1: people of that nation recede from the blessings of genuine freedom.
- 0:56Speaker 1: It follows that all efforts made to destroy the foundation
- 0:59Speaker 1: of our holy rege religion ultimately tend to this aversion
- 1:02Speaker 1: also of our political freedom and happiness. Wherever the pillars
- 1:06Speaker 1: of Christianity shall be overthrown our present republican form of government,
- 1:10Speaker 1: and all the blessings which flow from them must fall
- 1:13Speaker 1: with them. May we the people remember that without God,
- 1:17Speaker 1: the United States shall simply be gone under I'm run Edwards.
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