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The_Edwards_Notebook-Great_American_History040825 · The Ron Edwards American Experience V2

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  Speaker 1: American statesman Elias Budanot Junior, who lived from seventeen forty
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  Speaker 1: to eighteen twenty one, hailed from Elizabeth, New Jersey. Budanaut
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  Speaker 1: was an energetic patriot and an elected delegate to the
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  Speaker 1: Continental Congress from seventeen seventy seven to seventeen eighty four,
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  Speaker 1: serving as its president from seventeen eighty two to seventeen
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  Speaker 1: eighty three. Helim run Edwards on Today's page from the
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  Speaker 1: Edwards Notebook. Budanat also served three terms in Congress and
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  Speaker 1: ten years as Director of the Ment. He was also
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  Speaker 1: elected president of the American Bible Society at its founding
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  Speaker 1: in eighteen sixteen, and accepting the office, he wrote, quote,
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  Speaker 1: this was the greatest honor that could have been conferred
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  Speaker 1: upon him this side of the grave. Budunat had an
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  Speaker 1: unwavering faith that God had called the men of society
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  Speaker 1: to the work of making Bibles available in America. His
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  Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars gift, at a time when annual salaries
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  Speaker 1: of four hundred dollars was considered good, essentially enabled the
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  Speaker 1: formation of the organization of the American Bible Society, which
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  Speaker 1: still sponsors the work of Bible translation and distribution around
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  Speaker 1: the world. Hopefully, Bible reading and study will once again
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  Speaker 1: be commonplace around America, which was founded upon biblical principles.
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