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[00:00:00] Jedediah Morse was a pioneer American educator, clergyman and father of Samuel Morse, the inventor of the Morse code. Hello, I'm Ron Edwards. On today's page from The Edwards Notebook, Jedediah studied for the ministry at Yale and in 1789 accepted a call to the First Church of Charleston, Massachusetts. He was alarmed by how Father Clergy had moved from doctrinal orthodoxy. In 1799,
[00:00:24] Jedediah Morse stated, Our dangers are of two kinds, those which affect our religion and those which affect our government. They are, however, so closely allied that they cannot with propriety be separated. To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe the degree of civic freedoms and political and social happiness mankind now enjoys. In proportion as the genuine effects of Christianity are diminished in any nation, in the same proportion will the people of that nation recede from the blessings
[00:00:54] of genuine freedom. It follows that all efforts made to destroy the foundation of our holy religion ultimately tend to the subversion also of our political freedom and happiness. Wherever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican form of government and all the blessings which flow from them must fall with them. May we the people remember that without God, the United States
[00:01:18] shall simply be gone under. I'm Ron Edwards. Check out the ronedwards.com