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Order!

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Yes! But at what cost?

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I refuse that you--

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I would rather submit
to a monarch

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than to such a fate.

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You cannot admit
to the doctrine, Mr. Martin,

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that when these colonies
became independent from Britain,

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that they became independent
from each other.

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And when this country
declared independence,

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we did so not individually,
but unitedly!

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I agree.

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And I would hope to appease

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the interests
of the small states

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by assuring them

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they would be safer
within the union

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than they would to be separated
from it.

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Is it to be thought,

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Mr. Hamilton,
that the people of America,

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so watchful
over their interests,

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so jealous of their liberties,

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would surrender both their sword
and their purse

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to one body of government?

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They never will.

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They never ought.

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So, Mason moves for anarchy.

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Better than your
federal tyranny, Hamilton.

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Hear, hear.

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Order.

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The survival of this country

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- must be our chief concern.
- Yes!

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Yes.

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If the British
were to attack again,

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and I remind you,
they have six armed forts

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west and north of us,

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we have no authority to raise
an army to fight.

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And even if we did,

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we don't have money
to pay the soldiers.

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The paper money
commissioned by Congress

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and printed by Dr. Franklin
and others

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is essentially worthless.

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Its best function
is accomplished in the privy.

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And why does
the convention's patriarch

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remain so tight-lipped?

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Hmm?

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Ah, yes. Well...

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I believe, Mr. Hamilton, that...

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he that speaks much

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is much mistaken.

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Order.

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Order.

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Benjamin, wait for me!

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Benjamin, wait for me!

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Papa is gonna be angry.

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Papa doesn't need to know.

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So don't tell him.

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Thank you, my little friend.

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Late again.

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Wet again.

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Sorry, Father.

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So, did you make it
across the lake?

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Who told you?

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One tiny candle
illuminates a thousand.

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Janey!

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I realize candle making

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does not stir
your imagination, Benjamin,

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but its service brings light
to darkened households

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and warmth to cold souls.

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5, 10, 15,

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16, 17 candles,

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one for each of my children.

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You are my tenth son.

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Do you know why
that makes you special?

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You are my tithe,

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separated from your brothers
and sisters

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as an offering to the Lord.

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This is why I nearly went broke

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- sending you to that school.
- I hated it.

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Yet you were first
in your class.

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God's hand is upon you,
and...

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I believe he has called you,

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Benjamin Franklin,
to be a preacher.

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I don't wanna be a preacher, Pa.

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- Preachers are boring.
- Preachers are not boring.

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Then why do you fall asleep
at every Sunday meeting?

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They give conclusions
with no evidence.

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No evidence?

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They're halfwits.

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Benjamin!

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I just don't want to be stuck
behind a pulpit

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reading what other people wrote.

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I know.

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You want to be the one
who does the writing.

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Yes.

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Your brother James
paid me a visit this morning.

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He said he could use your help
at his print shop.

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He did?

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I'd miss you.

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But you have my blessing.

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I'm gonna do good things, Pa.
Great things.

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I know you will, son.

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But in all of your doing good,

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don't allow the sun
to set on your faith.

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Oh, and you're still my tithe.

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My offering to God.

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Can't change that.

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Order.

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Order.

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- If I may.
- The chair recognizes

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Mr. James Madison
as today's final remarks.

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I affirm the sentiments
made earlier,

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that if we do not soon
find stability

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within this convention,

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all our efforts
will be disgraced,

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and the liberty
we fought so hard to gain

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lost among ourselves
and posterity forever.

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Now, I've scoured ancient
governments to exhaustion,

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and I find it probable that
we right now are erecting a plan

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which will forever decide
the fate

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of democratic government
for mankind.

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Hear, hear. Hear, hear.

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This convention cannot fail,
gentlemen.

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Although we have not been
agreeable on much,

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I think we can at least agree
on that.

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Hear, hear. Hear, hear.

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I motion to adjourn.

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Second.

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Adjourned.

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General, I'm curious
of something.

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That sun at the top
of your chair,

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is it rising or setting?

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When my uncle Peyton
presided over

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the First Continental Congress,

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he used to tell stories
of how they'd gather to pray

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as an assembly.

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But that was a different time.

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Hey, hey,
your money's no good here.

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I can't buy bread. Fix it.

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Grandfather.

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Thank you for your kind service,
gentlemen.

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Have I told you
who this young man is?

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This is Benjamin Franklin Bache,
Lightning Rod Junior.

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- Junior.
- Ah.

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Lightning Rod Junior.

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Come now, father.

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You can be proud of Benny.

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He hasn't stopped all day,
even to eat.

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Well, I'd rather go to bed
without dinner...

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Than to rise in debt.

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Says the man who claims
a home is not a home

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unless it has food.

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Come, Eliza.

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I was hoping you'd see
my progress before going home.

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Benny,

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the print shop is my home.

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Well, you made more progress
in one week

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than we have in five.

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Another fruitful day?

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Ah, if one judges a tree
by its fruit,

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the convention is a thorn bush
and more painful than my gout.

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Your press and typesets
arrived this morning.

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Oh.

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Well...

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I think I've told every story
I could possibly tell with them.

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They're yours.

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You've already given me so much.

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Uh, y-you built me a print shop

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in front of your house.

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I needed a first line of defense
against unwanted visitors.

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Guests, like fish,
begin to smell after a few days.

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How long will
this convention last?

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However long it takes
13 architects

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to build a structure
that stands.

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Rhode Island,

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whom I shall forever now refer
to as Rogue Island,

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is not even present,

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but I suppose they're at liberty
not to be.

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Everyone seems to be at liberty
to do whatever they want.

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A word that once bound us
together

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is now being used to divide us.

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What happens if it fails?

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Then we have failed them.

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Another storm rolling in.

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Ever since
the Great Boston Fire,

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every thunderclap
and distant flash

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ignites an inferno of fear.

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Soothe or stoke?

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I'm sorry?

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Well, you sound like a printer

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who's just found
his first headline.

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Really?

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Now, you can soothe them
with something like,

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"A supernatural providence
shall rain down from heaven,

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quenching the flames and saving
the City of Brotherly Love."

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- Or?
- Or...

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you can strike fear into them.

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"Judgment has come.

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Philadelphia is one
lightning strike away

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from a pile of ash."

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With those letters,
you can do either one.

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Both sell papers, Benny.

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And which would you choose?

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Ah,

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fetch me my chest over there.

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Of all your pen names,

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which ones were soothers
and which ones were stokers?

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That depends on who you ask.

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Oh, we have Martha Careful,

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- uh, Harry Meanwell.
- Mm.

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Oh, of course, Poor Richard.

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Ah, my old friends.

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Ah.

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Hmm.

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More true now than ever.

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Whose are these?

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"November 8th, 1739,

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The Reverend George Whitefield
has arrived from England

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to awaken the colonies."

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George Whitefield?

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Whitefield.

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It's George Whitefield.

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Was he soothe or stoke?

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Yes.

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"From my infancy
'til my being for a time

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at the University of Oxford,"
section one.

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Why do you have his journals?

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He was an old friend.

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You were friends
with a preacher?

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Is he still alive?

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Was he part of the revolution?

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Grandfather?

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Benny...

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George Whitefield
was the revolution.

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Oh, what a rogue
and peasant slave am I!

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Is it not monstrous
that this player here

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but in a fiction,
in a dream of passion...

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Leavin' others
to do all the work again.

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But this is where Hamlet wishes
he were an actor.

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Like you,

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hiding behind masks.

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I'm a better actor
than all of 'em.

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Got your mom convinced anyway.

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Smile, Georgie.

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Clean it up.

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Use your hands!

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An actor's gotta use his hands!

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Someday,
you'll be up there, son.

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He would drown
the stage with tears.

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- The play is the thing...
- Someday.

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...wherein I'll catch
the conscience of the king!

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Oh, what a rogue
and peasant slave am I!

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00:19:10,751 --> 00:19:14,156
Oh, what a rogue
and peasant slave am I!

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00:19:14,256 --> 00:19:17,059
Oh, what a rogue
and peasant slave am I!

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From here, Georgie.

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The power is not here, but here.

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Again.

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Oh!

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No, again.

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Oh!

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00:19:27,269 --> 00:19:29,404
Yes, yes! That's it, Georgie!

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Did you feel that?

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Yes, I did.

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Now, the whole line,
just like that.

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Oh, what a rogue
and peasant slave am I!

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Tears in his eyes.

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Distraction in's aspect.

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A broken voice.

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His whole function suiting
with forms to his own conceit.

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And all for nothing.

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Oh, what would he do,

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had he the motive and the cue
for passion that I have!

271
00:20:04,272 --> 00:20:06,740
He would drown the stage
with tears.

272
00:20:07,442 --> 00:20:10,744
He would cleave the general ear
with horrid speech.

273
00:20:10,845 --> 00:20:14,049
Make mad the guilty
and appall the free.

274
00:20:14,149 --> 00:20:18,053
Confound the ignorant
and amaze indeed.

275
00:20:18,153 --> 00:20:19,753
The play's the thing

276
00:20:19,854 --> 00:20:22,491
wherein I'll catch
the conscience of the king.

277
00:20:27,596 --> 00:20:28,896
Bravo.

278
00:20:34,603 --> 00:20:39,574
Catch the conscience of the king
and the heart of his mum.

279
00:20:39,673 --> 00:20:43,411
You are good enough
to be on any stage in London.

280
00:20:43,512 --> 00:20:46,548
Uh, not with this eye
and a poor man's accent.

281
00:20:46,647 --> 00:20:49,750
Well, if not the stage,
perhaps the pulpit then.

282
00:20:49,850 --> 00:20:50,784
Mum.

283
00:20:51,785 --> 00:20:53,288
But your voice.

284
00:20:53,388 --> 00:20:56,324
Trapped behind a dusty pulpit
wearing an itchy wig?

285
00:20:56,424 --> 00:20:57,758
- Oh, uh.
- Never.

286
00:20:58,527 --> 00:21:01,363
Actors make people
feel something.

287
00:21:01,463 --> 00:21:03,331
Preachers just put 'em to sleep.

288
00:21:03,431 --> 00:21:05,433
"Oh, God.

289
00:21:05,534 --> 00:21:07,868
Make speed to save us."

290
00:21:07,969 --> 00:21:11,506
"Oh, Lord.
Make haste to help us."

291
00:21:14,109 --> 00:21:16,710
A character actor too, I see.

292
00:21:16,810 --> 00:21:18,613
That's all I'll ever be,
Mr. Burton.

293
00:21:19,347 --> 00:21:20,348
Use it.

294
00:21:21,116 --> 00:21:22,783
Act the truth.

295
00:21:22,883 --> 00:21:24,885
Use everything life
throws at you.

296
00:21:27,322 --> 00:21:28,256
There.

297
00:21:29,024 --> 00:21:31,960
Now I've given you
all my secrets.

298
00:21:32,060 --> 00:21:33,295
This is...

299
00:21:33,395 --> 00:21:35,363
You've written notes
on every page. I...

300
00:21:35,463 --> 00:21:37,698
- I can't take this.
- Consider it mandatory reading

301
00:21:37,798 --> 00:21:40,035
before attending Oxford
this fall.

302
00:21:41,303 --> 00:21:42,204
Elizabeth,

303
00:21:43,405 --> 00:21:45,640
I would give 100 guineas

304
00:21:45,739 --> 00:21:47,409
if I could only say, "O",

305
00:21:47,509 --> 00:21:50,278
as effectively as your son
says, "O".

306
00:21:51,580 --> 00:21:52,581
He is...

307
00:21:54,416 --> 00:21:55,517
extraordinary,

308
00:21:56,484 --> 00:21:58,119
and he needs further training

309
00:21:58,220 --> 00:22:00,721
in diction, interpretation,
rhetoric.

310
00:22:00,821 --> 00:22:04,492
Oxford will provide him
all this and more.

311
00:22:04,593 --> 00:22:07,295
His stepfather ran away
and took everything.

312
00:22:07,929 --> 00:22:09,730
Uh, we could never afford it.

313
00:22:09,830 --> 00:22:11,466
He would go as a servitor

314
00:22:11,566 --> 00:22:14,768
to serve the more, shall I say,
privileged students.

315
00:22:15,570 --> 00:22:18,006
You would receive the same level
of education

316
00:22:18,106 --> 00:22:20,342
provided you look after
their affairs,

317
00:22:20,442 --> 00:22:23,011
carrying their books,
serving them meals.

318
00:22:23,111 --> 00:22:25,480
Clearly, you're no stranger
to such tasks.

319
00:22:26,248 --> 00:22:29,918
All you need is a recommendation
from an Oxford alumnus.

320
00:22:31,353 --> 00:22:33,754
Well, we don't know
an Oxford alumnus.

321
00:22:38,226 --> 00:22:40,428
They're expecting you
for the fall term.

322
00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:48,036
Remember the source
of your power.

323
00:22:50,905 --> 00:22:52,140
When the moment comes,

324
00:22:53,975 --> 00:22:55,243
let 'em have it, George.

325
00:23:08,957 --> 00:23:13,461
O, what a rogue
and peasant slave am I!

326
00:23:13,561 --> 00:23:15,730
What would he do
had he the motive

327
00:23:15,829 --> 00:23:18,266
and the cue for passion
that I have?

328
00:23:26,775 --> 00:23:28,476
How will you get along
without me?

329
00:23:30,945 --> 00:23:35,784
You... were always meant
for bigger stages.

330
00:23:37,686 --> 00:23:38,687
I love you, Mum.

331
00:23:39,354 --> 00:23:40,854
I love you, son.

332
00:24:04,479 --> 00:24:06,948
Already served me, poor chap.

333
00:24:07,048 --> 00:24:08,917
Why don't you move
your good eyeball

334
00:24:09,017 --> 00:24:10,618
to the other side of your face?

335
00:24:12,921 --> 00:24:15,924
Idgit, where's my cake?

336
00:24:19,127 --> 00:24:21,262
All right, lads. That's enough.

337
00:24:21,363 --> 00:24:22,764
No, Seward.

338
00:24:22,863 --> 00:24:24,766
I don't think it is.

339
00:24:24,865 --> 00:24:28,303
Excuse me, Dr. Squintum.

340
00:24:31,639 --> 00:24:33,808
I say, Dr. Squintum!

341
00:24:33,908 --> 00:24:36,244
Now that is perfect.

342
00:24:36,344 --> 00:24:38,913
Gentlemen of the assembly,

343
00:24:39,013 --> 00:24:43,318
I would like to introduce
to you, Dr. Squintum!

344
00:24:44,753 --> 00:24:46,788
Squintum! Squintum!

345
00:24:46,887 --> 00:24:48,456
Squintum! Squintum!

346
00:24:48,556 --> 00:24:50,792
Enough! That's enough!

347
00:24:50,891 --> 00:24:53,228
- Squintum...
- Oh, look, lads.

348
00:24:53,328 --> 00:24:55,463
William fancies himself a hero.

349
00:24:55,563 --> 00:24:59,734
- Oh.
- So, go on, hero, stand up.

350
00:25:01,069 --> 00:25:03,638
Oh, that's right,
you already are.

351
00:25:03,738 --> 00:25:05,907
Oi, Silver Spoon!

352
00:25:06,007 --> 00:25:09,043
Go ahead. Have a go
at the one-eyed servant.

353
00:25:09,144 --> 00:25:12,914
I can take it, but you turn
and eat one of your own?

354
00:25:13,014 --> 00:25:15,183
You lot are nothing
but a nest of spiders.

355
00:25:15,884 --> 00:25:18,420
You got nothing of worth,
except your daddy's money.

356
00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:20,088
He at least has some heart!

357
00:25:24,592 --> 00:25:27,429
Thank you, Dr. Squintum

358
00:25:27,529 --> 00:25:31,199
for that scholarly
and erudite diagnosis.

359
00:25:32,066 --> 00:25:33,268
Are you finished?

360
00:25:35,470 --> 00:25:37,038
I am.

361
00:25:37,972 --> 00:25:41,276
I think me stomach is full.

362
00:25:44,245 --> 00:25:45,547
Oh!

363
00:25:48,950 --> 00:25:50,185
Clean it up.

364
00:25:53,721 --> 00:25:54,622
Oh.

365
00:25:58,960 --> 00:25:59,894
Enjoy.

366
00:26:01,463 --> 00:26:03,498
Oops.

367
00:26:18,580 --> 00:26:21,082
Uh, uh, I've got it.

368
00:26:21,182 --> 00:26:23,251
Don't mess up
your gentleman's clothes.

369
00:26:26,788 --> 00:26:28,523
Silver Spoon.

370
00:26:29,457 --> 00:26:31,292
Nest of spiders.

371
00:26:31,392 --> 00:26:33,428
Fools dressed like princes.

372
00:26:33,528 --> 00:26:35,363
Hmm.

373
00:26:35,463 --> 00:26:37,832
I'm sorry for how they've been
treating you.

374
00:26:37,933 --> 00:26:40,134
Huh, I can't say
I'm not used to it.

375
00:26:42,270 --> 00:26:43,271
Name's William.

376
00:26:44,472 --> 00:26:45,473
Seward.

377
00:26:47,442 --> 00:26:49,544
Dr. Squintum.

378
00:26:52,514 --> 00:26:53,515
Who are they?

379
00:26:55,817 --> 00:26:57,218
The Holy Club.

380
00:26:58,019 --> 00:26:59,053
Bible moths,

381
00:27:00,188 --> 00:27:01,589
but they seem harmless enough.

382
00:27:02,958 --> 00:27:05,226
Just be obliging.
They'll leave soon enough.

383
00:27:05,326 --> 00:27:06,861
- Excuse me.
- Afternoon, gentlemen.

384
00:27:06,962 --> 00:27:08,296
Uh, nothing here for you to do.

385
00:27:08,396 --> 00:27:11,633
Uh, are you the one who polished
our shoes yesterday?

386
00:27:11,733 --> 00:27:13,301
Uh, likely. Yeah.

387
00:27:14,335 --> 00:27:15,905
We wish to return the favor.

388
00:27:20,875 --> 00:27:22,443
My name is John Wesley.

389
00:27:22,544 --> 00:27:24,013
This is my brother, Charles.

390
00:27:25,547 --> 00:27:26,614
God be with you.

391
00:27:27,582 --> 00:27:29,817
You're, uh, a bunch of radicals?

392
00:27:31,853 --> 00:27:33,288
We're Christians.

393
00:27:33,388 --> 00:27:35,890
And if we're radical,
it's in our love for God

394
00:27:35,991 --> 00:27:36,992
and for people.

395
00:27:38,693 --> 00:27:40,261
Oh, uh, what's this?

396
00:27:41,396 --> 00:27:43,898
The Lord whom we serve sees you

397
00:27:44,666 --> 00:27:46,334
and has prompted us
to serve you.

398
00:27:48,102 --> 00:27:49,038
Please sit.

399
00:28:59,674 --> 00:29:01,576
We're all equal in God's eyes,

400
00:29:03,177 --> 00:29:05,047
whether you're a--
a gentleman commoner

401
00:29:05,146 --> 00:29:08,216
or a servitor with cake
on his shoes.

402
00:29:26,935 --> 00:29:30,538
Liberty, all men created equal,

403
00:29:30,638 --> 00:29:34,308
sounds like the cry
of the revolution.

404
00:29:37,679 --> 00:29:38,680
Section one.

405
00:29:45,988 --> 00:29:47,022
Section two.

406
00:29:48,589 --> 00:29:51,859
Dear Mum,
my studies are going well.

407
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,328
My elocution is much improved.

408
00:29:54,429 --> 00:29:55,630
More importantly,

409
00:29:55,730 --> 00:29:58,266
there has been a shift
in my misfortunes.

410
00:29:58,366 --> 00:30:00,301
The kindest group of men
I've ever met

411
00:30:00,401 --> 00:30:05,040
invited me into their society
called, "The Holy Club".

412
00:30:05,140 --> 00:30:09,044
We study the holy scriptures,
pray, meet for worship,

413
00:30:09,144 --> 00:30:12,147
and bring food
and clothing to the poor.

414
00:30:12,246 --> 00:30:15,117
Yesterday,
while visiting with prisoners,

415
00:30:15,216 --> 00:30:17,052
I was strangely warmed.

416
00:30:23,324 --> 00:30:25,060
- Hallelujah. Praise God.
- John...

417
00:30:26,260 --> 00:30:29,164
shouldn't we read
the Bible to them?

418
00:30:30,231 --> 00:30:33,601
We're being the hands
and feet of Christ.

419
00:30:33,701 --> 00:30:35,269
Merciful Jesus...

420
00:30:35,369 --> 00:30:36,504
The hands and feet?

421
00:30:36,604 --> 00:30:38,239
Blessed be His name...

422
00:30:40,075 --> 00:30:41,242
What about his voice?

423
00:30:42,211 --> 00:30:43,578
The Word of God.

424
00:30:43,678 --> 00:30:45,780
I admire your zeal,

425
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:48,016
but there are hundreds
of prisoners here.

426
00:30:48,917 --> 00:30:51,652
Reading Scripture to each one
would take hours.

427
00:30:51,753 --> 00:30:54,555
Not one at a time, all at once.

428
00:30:55,757 --> 00:30:56,891
All at once?

429
00:30:57,592 --> 00:30:59,293
And how do you suggest
we do that?

430
00:31:00,195 --> 00:31:01,196
From here.

431
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:08,703
Bless the Lord.

432
00:31:08,803 --> 00:31:10,973
A reading from the Word of God,

433
00:31:11,974 --> 00:31:14,042
the Book of John, naturally.

434
00:31:16,744 --> 00:31:20,015
"Nicodemus, the Pharisee,
came to Jesus at night

435
00:31:20,115 --> 00:31:21,616
and said unto him,

436
00:31:22,416 --> 00:31:25,853
'We know you are a teacher
who comes from God,

437
00:31:25,954 --> 00:31:28,489
but no one could perform
the signs you are doing

438
00:31:28,589 --> 00:31:30,225
unless God was with him.'

439
00:31:31,659 --> 00:31:35,563
Jesus replied,
'Truly I tell you,

440
00:31:35,663 --> 00:31:37,799
no one can see
the Kingdom of God

441
00:31:37,899 --> 00:31:40,002
unless they are born again.'

442
00:31:42,603 --> 00:31:45,673
Nicodemus asked,
"How can this be?

443
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:48,776
How can someone enter
a second time

444
00:31:48,876 --> 00:31:51,280
into their mother's womb
to be born?'

445
00:31:52,047 --> 00:31:55,516
And Jesus answered,
'Very truly I tell you,

446
00:31:55,616 --> 00:31:57,986
flesh gives birth to flesh,

447
00:31:58,086 --> 00:32:00,956
but the spirit gives birth
to spirit.'"

448
00:32:05,994 --> 00:32:08,329
"You should not be surprised
at my saying,

449
00:32:08,429 --> 00:32:09,831
'You must be born again.'

450
00:32:13,801 --> 00:32:18,307
The wind blows
wherever it pleases.

451
00:32:19,208 --> 00:32:21,442
You hear its sound,

452
00:32:21,542 --> 00:32:24,213
but you cannot tell
where it comes from

453
00:32:24,313 --> 00:32:25,646
or where it is going.

454
00:32:27,115 --> 00:32:30,451
So it is with everyone
born of the Spirit...

455
00:32:36,791 --> 00:32:40,528
For God so loved the world..."

456
00:32:44,532 --> 00:32:47,535
God so loved each of you.

457
00:32:49,304 --> 00:32:50,305
He loved.

458
00:32:54,475 --> 00:32:56,178
"He gave His only Son...

459
00:32:57,346 --> 00:32:59,780
that whosoever
should believe in Him

460
00:32:59,881 --> 00:33:01,649
and call upon His name

461
00:33:03,318 --> 00:33:05,320
should not perish
in their sins...

462
00:33:06,654 --> 00:33:08,056
but have eternal life."

463
00:33:13,394 --> 00:33:15,063
He did not come to condemn us.

464
00:33:18,267 --> 00:33:19,334
He loves us.

465
00:33:23,272 --> 00:33:24,438
He loves us.

466
00:33:34,715 --> 00:33:35,883
Is there any water?

467
00:33:38,020 --> 00:33:40,454
Please, get him some water.

468
00:33:40,554 --> 00:33:41,756
What are you doing, George?

469
00:33:42,790 --> 00:33:44,393
The same thing you did for me.

470
00:34:41,249 --> 00:34:43,318
Do you believe
the words I just read?

471
00:34:48,023 --> 00:34:48,957
Yes.

472
00:34:49,925 --> 00:34:51,026
So do I.

473
00:34:53,261 --> 00:34:55,496
Do you want to know this Jesus?

474
00:34:55,596 --> 00:34:56,497
Yes.

475
00:34:58,000 --> 00:34:59,201
So do I.

476
00:35:08,642 --> 00:35:10,078
I'm not leaving
until all the feet

477
00:35:10,178 --> 00:35:12,513
of every prisoner
have been washed.

478
00:35:12,613 --> 00:35:14,182
G-George, that-that will take--

479
00:35:14,282 --> 00:35:18,619
All day and all night, I know.

480
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:21,957
You did it for me,
I will do it for them,

481
00:35:22,057 --> 00:35:23,191
alone if I must.

482
00:35:25,127 --> 00:35:26,794
You won't be alone in this work.

483
00:35:28,397 --> 00:35:30,798
It's all right.
Lean into the light.

484
00:35:41,476 --> 00:35:44,413
Mum, can you believe it?

485
00:35:44,513 --> 00:35:45,914
Me.

486
00:35:46,014 --> 00:35:48,783
I don't know whether to laugh
at myself or weep

487
00:35:48,883 --> 00:35:52,387
when I confess that I no longer
wish to be an actor,

488
00:35:52,487 --> 00:35:53,587
but a preacher.

489
00:35:55,390 --> 00:35:57,392
The pulpit will be my stage.

490
00:35:58,427 --> 00:36:01,562
If, as an actor,
I can make fiction believable,

491
00:36:01,662 --> 00:36:03,065
imagine what could happen

492
00:36:03,165 --> 00:36:06,501
if I speak the truth
from my heart.

493
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:11,106
I have been meditating
upon Psalm 139 every day,

494
00:36:11,206 --> 00:36:13,607
"Lord, search my heart.

495
00:36:13,707 --> 00:36:17,012
See if there is
any offensive way in me

496
00:36:17,112 --> 00:36:19,214
and lead me
in the way everlasting."

497
00:36:20,848 --> 00:36:23,452
I will pray
more than any other.

498
00:36:23,552 --> 00:36:26,154
I will fast
more than any other.

499
00:36:26,254 --> 00:36:29,024
I will make
my Heavenly Father proud.

500
00:36:31,592 --> 00:36:33,428
You will not hear from me
for a while,

501
00:36:33,528 --> 00:36:35,997
as I am entering
into a time of fasting,

502
00:36:36,098 --> 00:36:38,599
a rejection
of all earthly pleasures.

503
00:36:39,767 --> 00:36:41,369
I love you, Mum.

504
00:36:41,470 --> 00:36:44,573
Your God-fearing son, Georgie.

505
00:36:55,984 --> 00:36:57,385
George!

506
00:36:57,486 --> 00:37:00,388
George, you must leave your room
and get some fresh air!

507
00:37:00,489 --> 00:37:01,423
Bathe!

508
00:37:02,324 --> 00:37:05,826
George! You haven't eaten
for nearly a month.

509
00:37:07,262 --> 00:37:10,332
Hm. So much for my first line
of defense.

510
00:37:14,802 --> 00:37:17,405
Uh, General Washington, sir.

511
00:37:17,506 --> 00:37:19,740
Dr. Franklin,
do not stand for my sake.

512
00:37:20,942 --> 00:37:23,478
General, please come inside.

513
00:37:23,578 --> 00:37:25,580
Eliza, gather the dishes.

514
00:37:28,183 --> 00:37:30,051
The storm will arrive
at any moment.

515
00:37:30,152 --> 00:37:31,353
It's already here.

516
00:37:31,453 --> 00:37:33,687
Oh. May I get you
tea or coffee, sir?

517
00:37:33,787 --> 00:37:35,656
No, you are very kind,
but I will not be long.

518
00:37:37,192 --> 00:37:38,360
Good night then.

519
00:37:41,329 --> 00:37:42,230
Young man,

520
00:37:44,199 --> 00:37:46,201
if you wouldn't mind,
I wish for you to stay.

521
00:37:47,435 --> 00:37:48,736
This concerns you.

522
00:37:50,205 --> 00:37:51,339
Yes, sir.

523
00:37:54,609 --> 00:37:55,944
Thank you
for accommodating

524
00:37:56,044 --> 00:37:57,245
my sudden intrusion.

525
00:37:58,446 --> 00:38:01,216
I've just returned
from a brief trip

526
00:38:01,316 --> 00:38:03,018
to an old familiar valley

527
00:38:04,019 --> 00:38:05,554
18 miles from here.

528
00:38:06,854 --> 00:38:08,123
Valley Forge.

529
00:38:12,893 --> 00:38:15,696
It's beautiful
and thriving now.

530
00:38:18,732 --> 00:38:19,968
Ten years ago,

531
00:38:21,236 --> 00:38:23,071
it was our Gethsemane.

532
00:38:28,910 --> 00:38:32,113
Men marching through ice
and snow without shoes,

533
00:38:32,214 --> 00:38:35,849
their path traced by the blood
from their feet.

534
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:40,021
Without clothes to cover
their nakedness,

535
00:38:40,121 --> 00:38:41,656
without blankets to lie on.

536
00:38:43,757 --> 00:38:46,894
Enduring endless nights,

537
00:38:48,862 --> 00:38:53,401
desperate for the sun to break
over the horizon.

538
00:38:56,071 --> 00:38:59,274
I was certain Valley Forge
would be the darkest valley

539
00:38:59,374 --> 00:39:01,076
we ever walked
through as a nation.

540
00:39:03,211 --> 00:39:04,412
And I was wrong.

541
00:39:07,616 --> 00:39:12,886
Today, we stand
in an even darker valley, Ben.

542
00:39:19,427 --> 00:39:22,664
We planted a tree
that has been watered

543
00:39:22,763 --> 00:39:24,299
by the blood of patriots.

544
00:39:26,968 --> 00:39:29,004
We did not plant it
for ourselves.

545
00:39:29,104 --> 00:39:30,939
We planted it for him,

546
00:39:33,475 --> 00:39:37,445
and his children,
and their children

547
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:43,251
that they may have shelter
under its branches.

548
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:48,023
The tree we planted
has hardly grown,

549
00:39:48,822 --> 00:39:51,726
and already each state has taken
an ax to its trunk.

550
00:39:54,329 --> 00:39:56,897
If the disunity
within the states continues,

551
00:39:57,966 --> 00:39:59,734
if this convention fails,

552
00:40:01,269 --> 00:40:03,471
the sacrifice of those men
at Valley Forge,

553
00:40:03,571 --> 00:40:05,607
and so many others,
will be in vain.

554
00:40:08,109 --> 00:40:09,144
Now, Ben,

555
00:40:12,681 --> 00:40:14,916
I greatly admire that
you have been quick to listen

556
00:40:15,016 --> 00:40:16,151
and slow to speak,

557
00:40:17,919 --> 00:40:20,488
but that tree we planted
is about to fall.

558
00:40:23,792 --> 00:40:25,794
This great experiment
needs you, Ben.

559
00:40:28,096 --> 00:40:29,097
I need you.

560
00:40:31,032 --> 00:40:34,369
We cannot let the sun set
on this nation.

561
00:41:02,330 --> 00:41:03,231
Grandfather?

562
00:41:05,033 --> 00:41:06,101
Keep reading.

563
00:41:15,377 --> 00:41:18,879
George! You haven't eaten
for nearly a month!

564
00:41:23,184 --> 00:41:26,254
Lord, search my heart.

565
00:41:26,354 --> 00:41:28,656
See if there is
any offensive way in me.

566
00:41:33,428 --> 00:41:35,130
What has happened to you?

567
00:41:35,230 --> 00:41:37,399
I must crucify my flesh, John.

568
00:41:44,339 --> 00:41:45,340
George!

569
00:41:48,410 --> 00:41:49,744
This is not holiness.

570
00:41:49,844 --> 00:41:51,112
This is madness!

571
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:53,181
George!

572
00:42:00,688 --> 00:42:01,723
Search me.

573
00:42:02,757 --> 00:42:04,025
Search my heart.

574
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:14,302
Why isn't this working?

575
00:42:27,549 --> 00:42:28,450
George!

576
00:42:29,217 --> 00:42:30,118
George!

577
00:42:30,819 --> 00:42:31,753
George!

578
00:42:38,660 --> 00:42:39,828
Keep him fed.

579
00:42:41,329 --> 00:42:44,132
He cannot afford to lose
another pound.

580
00:42:46,634 --> 00:42:47,836
Had you not intervened,

581
00:42:47,937 --> 00:42:50,305
he would most certainly
have died.

582
00:42:52,974 --> 00:42:54,142
Thank you, Doctor.

583
00:43:12,093 --> 00:43:13,628
Why did you get in the way?

584
00:43:16,164 --> 00:43:17,765
Because you're killing yourself.

585
00:43:19,969 --> 00:43:21,302
I would rather die

586
00:43:22,403 --> 00:43:25,106
and be in His Holy Presence

587
00:43:25,206 --> 00:43:28,476
than go on living
in this unholy body.

588
00:43:30,845 --> 00:43:32,547
You have been deceived by Satan.

589
00:43:33,681 --> 00:43:35,183
You are feasting on a lie.

590
00:43:35,283 --> 00:43:36,584
I am focusing on God.

591
00:43:36,684 --> 00:43:38,019
You are focusing on yourself.

592
00:43:38,119 --> 00:43:40,923
- How dare you, John.
- How dare you, George!

593
00:43:41,022 --> 00:43:43,324
Insulting the Heavenly Father
in this way!

594
00:43:43,424 --> 00:43:45,727
I am making Him proud of me.

595
00:43:45,827 --> 00:43:47,495
Making Him proud of you?

596
00:43:52,001 --> 00:43:54,937
When Jesus emerged from
the water after He was baptized,

597
00:43:55,036 --> 00:43:56,906
what did His Heavenly Father
say to Him?

598
00:43:58,206 --> 00:44:00,141
Well, go on, you know
the scripture.

599
00:44:02,076 --> 00:44:03,745
"This is my beloved Son."

600
00:44:06,581 --> 00:44:07,582
What else?

601
00:44:08,816 --> 00:44:10,552
"In whom I am well pleased."

602
00:44:14,422 --> 00:44:19,394
"In whom I am well pleased."

603
00:44:21,062 --> 00:44:22,730
Did Jesus perform
any mighty works

604
00:44:22,830 --> 00:44:24,033
before that moment?

605
00:44:27,669 --> 00:44:29,004
Not a single one.

606
00:44:30,005 --> 00:44:32,373
So, why then was His Father
so proud?

607
00:44:35,410 --> 00:44:36,946
Because He was His Son.

608
00:44:41,482 --> 00:44:44,118
Because He loved His child.

609
00:44:45,219 --> 00:44:46,287
Don't you see?

610
00:44:47,056 --> 00:44:49,891
It's not you, it's--
it's Christ in you!

611
00:44:53,028 --> 00:44:55,196
You must either receive it
as a gift

612
00:44:56,631 --> 00:44:58,433
or reject it altogether.

613
00:44:59,467 --> 00:45:01,803
So choose, George.

614
00:45:19,554 --> 00:45:22,190
You are George Whitefield,

615
00:45:22,290 --> 00:45:25,226
in whom the Lord
is well pleased.

616
00:45:39,607 --> 00:45:41,709
Speak from the Word

617
00:45:42,577 --> 00:45:44,445
In lightning speak.

618
00:45:45,813 --> 00:45:48,316
Cry out and thunder
from the Word.

619
00:46:07,136 --> 00:46:11,106
Your great-grandfather owned
a candle shop.

620
00:46:12,273 --> 00:46:13,942
I worked there as a boy.

621
00:46:14,676 --> 00:46:16,344
He used to say...

622
00:46:16,444 --> 00:46:20,983
"One tiny candle
illuminates a thousand."

623
00:46:22,151 --> 00:46:24,385
Hmm. What do you mean?

624
00:46:26,287 --> 00:46:28,090
I mean,

625
00:46:28,189 --> 00:46:31,160
the Church of England
was not ready

626
00:46:31,259 --> 00:46:34,295
for an awakened
Reverend George Whitefield.

627
00:46:38,967 --> 00:46:40,735
Spare thou them, O God,

628
00:46:40,835 --> 00:46:43,271
restore thou those
that are penitent,

629
00:46:43,371 --> 00:46:46,607
that we may live hereafter
a godly and sober life

630
00:46:46,708 --> 00:46:48,776
to the glory of Thy holy name.

631
00:46:50,179 --> 00:46:53,614
O God, make speed to save us.

632
00:46:53,715 --> 00:46:57,585
O Lord, make haste to help us.

633
00:47:04,392 --> 00:47:05,359
Amen.

634
00:47:07,996 --> 00:47:11,066
The congregation has grown
quite large,

635
00:47:11,166 --> 00:47:16,105
presumably in anticipation
of our guest speaker

636
00:47:16,205 --> 00:47:17,906
who has excited many of late

637
00:47:18,006 --> 00:47:21,944
and created not a little
following for himself.

638
00:47:23,544 --> 00:47:27,348
I'm very sorry to see you here,
Mr. Whitefield.

639
00:47:27,448 --> 00:47:29,851
So, without further ado...

640
00:47:29,952 --> 00:47:31,686
So is the devil.

641
00:47:31,786 --> 00:47:35,389
...the Reverend
George Whitefield.

642
00:47:37,391 --> 00:47:40,195
Adjust your wig, Mr. Whitefield.

643
00:48:07,956 --> 00:48:12,261
In 1675,
the Archbishop of Canterbury

644
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:15,230
became acquainted with
a certain actor of some renown,

645
00:48:15,964 --> 00:48:17,598
Mr. Betterton.

646
00:48:17,698 --> 00:48:23,138
One day, the archbishop said,
"Mr. Betterton, pray, tell me,

647
00:48:23,238 --> 00:48:26,307
how is it that you actors
on the stage

648
00:48:26,407 --> 00:48:28,709
can so move your audiences

649
00:48:28,810 --> 00:48:31,345
whilst speaking of things
imaginary,

650
00:48:31,445 --> 00:48:35,250
while we, in the pulpit,
speak of things real,

651
00:48:35,349 --> 00:48:37,219
which our congregations receive

652
00:48:37,318 --> 00:48:40,888
as if they were
but imaginary things?"

653
00:48:40,989 --> 00:48:44,392
"Why, my lord,"
Mr. Betterton replied,

654
00:48:44,492 --> 00:48:46,228
"The answer is quite plain.

655
00:48:47,296 --> 00:48:52,167
We actors speak of things
imaginary as if they were real,

656
00:48:52,267 --> 00:48:54,802
while you, in the pulpit,

657
00:48:55,670 --> 00:49:00,541
speak of things real
as if they were imaginary."

658
00:49:00,641 --> 00:49:03,711
- [crowd murmurs
- Therefore...

659
00:49:03,811 --> 00:49:07,182
I will not be
a velvet-mouthed preacher.

660
00:49:10,118 --> 00:49:11,920
Do not be deceived!

661
00:49:12,020 --> 00:49:13,588
You may have a religious head

662
00:49:13,688 --> 00:49:15,456
and yet have the devil
in your heart!

663
00:49:15,556 --> 00:49:17,792
Our Lord speaks
the same words to you

664
00:49:17,892 --> 00:49:20,561
as surely as He spoke them
to Nicodemus of old,

665
00:49:20,661 --> 00:49:22,463
"You must be born again!"

666
00:49:23,999 --> 00:49:27,135
Nicodemus, respected, religious,

667
00:49:27,236 --> 00:49:30,605
renowned as righteous,
and still the Master commanded,

668
00:49:30,705 --> 00:49:32,341
"You must be born again!"

669
00:49:33,041 --> 00:49:34,375
Like the church at Sardis,

670
00:49:34,475 --> 00:49:36,544
he had a reputation
for being alive,

671
00:49:36,644 --> 00:49:38,247
and yet was dead inside.

672
00:49:38,347 --> 00:49:39,982
How many of our congregations
are dead,

673
00:49:40,082 --> 00:49:42,550
because they have dead men
preaching to them?

674
00:49:42,650 --> 00:49:45,153
How can dead men beget
living children?

675
00:49:45,254 --> 00:49:48,489
Therefore, Christ says to you,
"Because you are lukewarm,

676
00:49:48,589 --> 00:49:49,925
neither hot nor cold,

677
00:49:50,025 --> 00:49:52,493
I'm about to spit you out
of my mouth!"

678
00:49:53,594 --> 00:49:56,965
Do not trust in your good works
for salvation,

679
00:49:57,065 --> 00:49:59,334
or that your name is written
in the church registry.

680
00:49:59,433 --> 00:50:00,936
I tell you,
there is only one book

681
00:50:01,036 --> 00:50:02,403
where your name must be written,

682
00:50:02,503 --> 00:50:04,672
and that is the Lamb's Book
of Life!

683
00:50:04,772 --> 00:50:06,474
Is your name written there?

684
00:50:06,574 --> 00:50:07,842
- Is it there?
- Yes!

685
00:50:07,943 --> 00:50:09,177
- Do you know?
- Yes!

686
00:50:09,278 --> 00:50:10,511
Stop this!

687
00:50:11,712 --> 00:50:13,348
Come! Come!

688
00:50:13,447 --> 00:50:15,683
Come just as you are to Christ!

689
00:50:15,783 --> 00:50:17,185
For in Him,

690
00:50:17,286 --> 00:50:19,254
there is neither religious
nor irreligious,

691
00:50:19,354 --> 00:50:21,822
slave nor free, male nor female!

692
00:50:21,924 --> 00:50:23,959
All are one in Christ Jesus!

693
00:50:24,059 --> 00:50:26,627
Rebuke
this riotous crowd immediately!

694
00:50:26,727 --> 00:50:27,828
Stop this!

695
00:50:27,930 --> 00:50:29,463
I know not what sorcery

696
00:50:29,563 --> 00:50:31,099
or witchcraft you invoked today,

697
00:50:31,199 --> 00:50:33,868
but it will not be tolerated
in my house of God!

698
00:50:33,969 --> 00:50:35,436
Your house of God?

699
00:50:35,536 --> 00:50:36,939
You are banned from preaching

700
00:50:37,039 --> 00:50:39,440
in His Majesty King George's
church again!

701
00:50:39,540 --> 00:50:41,109
If I cannot preach inside,

702
00:50:41,209 --> 00:50:43,611
then I will go outside
into the streets

703
00:50:43,711 --> 00:50:46,982
and the fields to the orphans,
the slaves, the widows--

704
00:50:47,082 --> 00:50:48,984
And compel them to come
into the house

705
00:50:49,084 --> 00:50:51,852
of the one true king,
Jesus Christ!

706
00:50:51,954 --> 00:50:54,356
It is prohibited
for an Anglican minister

707
00:50:54,455 --> 00:50:57,625
to-- to preach outside
to the ignorant masses!

708
00:50:57,725 --> 00:51:01,263
I will see you defrocked
as an Anglican minister!

709
00:51:02,563 --> 00:51:03,798
Blind guides!

710
00:51:03,898 --> 00:51:05,400
Let the dead preach to the dead.

711
00:51:05,499 --> 00:51:08,103
But I will proclaim freedom
in Christ to all who believe,

712
00:51:08,203 --> 00:51:10,138
and the gates of Hell
will not prevail!

713
00:51:10,238 --> 00:51:11,206
Get out!

714
00:51:18,512 --> 00:51:21,049
Amen. Amen.

715
00:51:22,184 --> 00:51:23,751
Amen.

716
00:51:30,192 --> 00:51:31,126
Yah!

717
00:52:15,904 --> 00:52:17,838
Fastest pulpit on four legs.

718
00:52:19,975 --> 00:52:21,243
Let's try something new.

719
00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:14,563
Hey, now go.

720
00:53:15,430 --> 00:53:16,764
Stop starin', you rat!

721
00:53:24,306 --> 00:53:25,706
What's this?

722
00:53:25,806 --> 00:53:27,875
A priest with a pulpit
but no church?

723
00:53:30,545 --> 00:53:32,547
You come to look down on us,
Priest?

724
00:53:33,381 --> 00:53:34,416
It's for the crowd.

725
00:53:35,317 --> 00:53:36,717
The crowd?

726
00:53:36,817 --> 00:53:38,286
It's for the crowd, he says!

727
00:53:38,386 --> 00:53:40,989
Did you know that Jesus said,

728
00:53:41,089 --> 00:53:42,823
"Let the children come to me,

729
00:53:43,525 --> 00:53:46,161
for theirs is the kingdom
of heaven"?

730
00:53:48,163 --> 00:53:50,031
You're not wanted here.

731
00:53:50,132 --> 00:53:52,134
No, but needed.

732
00:53:55,170 --> 00:53:56,605
I told you to go!

733
00:53:57,738 --> 00:53:59,640
Now, go!

734
00:54:13,421 --> 00:54:17,025
Must I tell you
of the bitter fruit

735
00:54:17,125 --> 00:54:18,692
of the deeds of darkness?

736
00:54:21,129 --> 00:54:24,032
Nay, I think not...

737
00:54:25,634 --> 00:54:27,768
For I see you to be as I was

738
00:54:29,004 --> 00:54:33,341
acquainted with grief,
with lack,

739
00:54:33,441 --> 00:54:36,344
with unrelenting sorrow
in your soul,

740
00:54:37,913 --> 00:54:41,715
ever anxious and fearful
of what may happen.

741
00:54:43,618 --> 00:54:46,254
Longing to be pure...

742
00:54:47,688 --> 00:54:49,658
but hopelessly defiled...

743
00:54:51,226 --> 00:54:52,961
then fly!

744
00:54:53,061 --> 00:54:54,895
Fly, my brothers!

745
00:54:54,996 --> 00:54:57,966
Fly for your lives
to Jesus Christ!

746
00:54:58,066 --> 00:55:00,168
Fly to the bleeding god!

747
00:55:01,702 --> 00:55:03,972
Fly to the throne of mercy

748
00:55:04,673 --> 00:55:06,575
and beg Him,

749
00:55:06,675 --> 00:55:08,876
beg Him to break your heart!

750
00:55:09,911 --> 00:55:13,448
Beg Him to show you your sin!

751
00:55:13,548 --> 00:55:17,652
Beg Him to give you faith
to close with Christ!

752
00:55:19,521 --> 00:55:22,023
For He too,
was a man of sorrows,

753
00:55:23,325 --> 00:55:24,993
acquainted with grief.

754
00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:34,569
Awake, oh sleeper!

755
00:55:34,669 --> 00:55:36,737
Arise from the dead!

756
00:55:38,607 --> 00:55:42,410
Can you hear him calling
as Lazarus did?

757
00:55:43,445 --> 00:55:45,313
Buried deep in the earth!

758
00:55:46,281 --> 00:55:48,016
Darkness all around!

759
00:55:49,117 --> 00:55:50,751
Arise!

760
00:55:54,256 --> 00:55:56,157
Arise!

761
00:55:56,258 --> 00:55:57,626
Come forth!

762
00:55:59,928 --> 00:56:01,429
- What was that?
- Shh.

763
00:56:01,529 --> 00:56:02,597
Listen.

764
00:56:02,697 --> 00:56:03,999
In the beginning,

765
00:56:04,099 --> 00:56:06,134
darkness covered the face
of the deep.

766
00:56:08,136 --> 00:56:12,240
And the voice of the ancient
of days called forth,

767
00:56:13,275 --> 00:56:15,243
"Let there be light!"

768
00:56:17,045 --> 00:56:18,613
And in the fullness of time...

769
00:56:20,448 --> 00:56:23,118
Christ proclaimed
for all the world to know...

770
00:56:24,419 --> 00:56:26,054
"I am the light of life.

771
00:56:27,489 --> 00:56:29,257
If anyone follows me,

772
00:56:30,191 --> 00:56:32,360
he will never walk
in darkness...

773
00:56:33,928 --> 00:56:35,796
but will have
the light of life."

774
00:56:54,616 --> 00:56:57,485
Though your sins
are black as coal...

775
00:56:59,154 --> 00:57:02,590
His blood will wash you
white as snow.

776
00:57:03,792 --> 00:57:04,858
He knows you.

777
00:57:06,094 --> 00:57:07,295
And He loves you.

778
00:57:12,600 --> 00:57:13,935
He won't have me.

779
00:57:18,039 --> 00:57:19,174
He created you.

780
00:57:33,688 --> 00:57:35,357
My-- my children.

781
00:57:37,792 --> 00:57:39,361
My children, forgive me.

782
00:57:46,334 --> 00:57:48,503
Forgive me.

783
00:58:02,350 --> 00:58:05,820
Will you surrender your life
to Christ

784
00:58:06,821 --> 00:58:08,156
as this man has done?

785
00:58:08,256 --> 00:58:10,658
Yes.

786
00:58:10,759 --> 00:58:12,127
Will you trust him?

787
00:58:12,227 --> 00:58:13,995
Yes.

788
00:58:14,095 --> 00:58:17,265
Will you let His blood
seep into your hardened heart

789
00:58:17,365 --> 00:58:20,235
and transform you
from the inside out?

790
00:58:20,335 --> 00:58:22,470
- Yes.
- Will you trust Him?

791
00:58:22,570 --> 00:58:25,573
Yes. Yes. Yes.

792
00:58:25,673 --> 00:58:28,109
- Thank you, Father.
- Thank you, Jesus.

793
00:59:00,108 --> 00:59:02,777
The people embraced him.

794
00:59:02,877 --> 00:59:04,946
The Church of England did not.

795
00:59:05,814 --> 00:59:09,684
And not only did they kick him
out of their parishes,

796
00:59:09,784 --> 00:59:11,719
they kicked him out
of their country.

797
00:59:12,620 --> 00:59:13,788
Well, where did he go?

798
00:59:40,448 --> 00:59:44,352
Arriving from England,
the Reverend George Whitefield

799
00:59:44,452 --> 00:59:47,856
to preach repentance
in New York,

800
00:59:47,957 --> 00:59:49,290
Pennsylvania,

801
00:59:50,391 --> 00:59:54,362
Massachusetts, Rhode Island.

802
00:59:54,462 --> 00:59:58,066
Arriving from England,
the Reverend George Whitefield.

803
01:00:18,786 --> 01:00:20,421
- Sir!
- Not even a good morning,

804
01:00:20,522 --> 01:00:21,489
young lady?

805
01:00:22,123 --> 01:00:25,026
Father, Mr. Franklin,
a reverend named George--

806
01:00:25,126 --> 01:00:27,295
Whitefield, yes,
I am aware of him

807
01:00:27,395 --> 01:00:29,531
and his departure from England
for our colonies.

808
01:00:29,631 --> 01:00:31,065
He's been drawing
tremendous crowds.

809
01:00:31,165 --> 01:00:33,601
- Crowds as large as--
- 25,000.

810
01:00:33,701 --> 01:00:36,104
You know, since my youth,

811
01:00:36,204 --> 01:00:38,406
I have struggled to believe
that a single voice,

812
01:00:38,506 --> 01:00:40,108
say that of an army general,

813
01:00:40,208 --> 01:00:42,277
could be heard by thousands
of his soldiers

814
01:00:42,377 --> 01:00:45,346
without significant aid
in volume amplification.

815
01:00:47,048 --> 01:00:49,117
Yes, sir. Anyway, he--

816
01:00:49,217 --> 01:00:50,485
Now, I am not doubting

817
01:00:50,585 --> 01:00:52,687
Whitefield's skill
as a powerful orator.

818
01:00:52,787 --> 01:00:55,323
I am doubting, however,
the unfounded claim

819
01:00:55,423 --> 01:00:58,027
that he can be heard
and understood by so many.

820
01:00:58,126 --> 01:01:00,328
There's simply not enough data
to support such a claim.

821
01:01:00,428 --> 01:01:02,397
And without evidence,
I won't believe it.

822
01:01:03,164 --> 01:01:05,366
You don't believe the stories
from London are true?

823
01:01:06,067 --> 01:01:10,138
I believe that fish grow larger
as they cross the Atlantic.

824
01:01:10,238 --> 01:01:13,174
Hmm.
But fish tale or not,

825
01:01:13,274 --> 01:01:14,842
religion sells papers.

826
01:01:14,944 --> 01:01:18,146
And printers all over
the colonies, myself included,

827
01:01:18,246 --> 01:01:21,516
have already made a profit
from this English preacher.

828
01:01:21,616 --> 01:01:25,020
So we shall see how long
the Pennsylvania Gazette

829
01:01:25,119 --> 01:01:28,556
can ride the Whitefield wave.

830
01:01:32,827 --> 01:01:34,729
What is the matter
with the three of you?

831
01:01:36,397 --> 01:01:38,934
Reverend Whitefield is...
is here.

832
01:01:39,034 --> 01:01:40,268
Here? As in?

833
01:01:40,368 --> 01:01:42,203
- Philadelphia, sir.
- When?

834
01:01:42,938 --> 01:01:43,973
Now.

835
01:01:44,073 --> 01:01:46,207
Well, why didn't you say so,
girl?

836
01:01:49,877 --> 01:01:50,812
Make way!

837
01:01:51,446 --> 01:01:52,680
Excuse me.

838
01:01:53,414 --> 01:01:54,549
Please, sir.

839
01:01:54,649 --> 01:01:56,818
What is that balcony
right there?

840
01:01:56,919 --> 01:01:59,253
Uh, the courthouse.

841
01:01:59,821 --> 01:02:01,889
That's the place.
Thank you, sir.

842
01:02:01,991 --> 01:02:04,692
God be with you.

843
01:02:22,844 --> 01:02:25,179
I guess we're about to find out
how big this fish really is.

844
01:02:38,493 --> 01:02:40,528
The spirit of the Lord is here,
George.

845
01:02:41,629 --> 01:02:43,132
Their hearts are ready.

846
01:02:44,866 --> 01:02:45,900
Are you?

847
01:02:50,338 --> 01:02:54,208
Father, tear down the name
of Whitefield

848
01:02:54,308 --> 01:02:56,477
if it means Your name remains.

849
01:02:57,645 --> 01:02:58,546
Amen.

850
01:02:59,647 --> 01:03:00,548
Amen.

851
01:03:12,193 --> 01:03:13,261
That's him!

852
01:03:13,361 --> 01:03:14,762
Welcome to Philadelphia,
Reverend!

853
01:03:14,862 --> 01:03:16,131
Bless you, Reverend!

854
01:03:18,033 --> 01:03:20,635
The spirit of the Lord
is upon me!

855
01:03:20,735 --> 01:03:24,605
For He has anointed me to preach
the gospel to the poor!

856
01:03:24,706 --> 01:03:27,275
To proclaim freedom
to the captives!

857
01:03:27,375 --> 01:03:30,545
And to set at liberty
those who are oppressed!

858
01:03:32,181 --> 01:03:36,051
City of brotherly love,
the words of Christ, our Savior,

859
01:03:36,151 --> 01:03:37,719
ring out to you this day!

860
01:03:38,419 --> 01:03:42,457
Whom the Son sets free
is free indeed.

861
01:03:42,557 --> 01:03:44,592
Dear God.

862
01:03:44,692 --> 01:03:46,461
Why does Christ set free?

863
01:03:46,561 --> 01:03:48,130
Why does He bring new life?

864
01:03:48,229 --> 01:03:49,630
Because without Him,

865
01:03:49,731 --> 01:03:51,967
you're a condemned prisoner
of your sin.

866
01:03:52,067 --> 01:03:54,235
Market Street.

867
01:03:54,335 --> 01:03:57,605
100 feet by 260 per block.

868
01:03:58,207 --> 01:03:59,841
Plus, 40 feet
on the side streets

869
01:03:59,942 --> 01:04:01,043
around to the wharf.

870
01:04:02,877 --> 01:04:03,946
Let's see.

871
01:04:04,046 --> 01:04:06,982
Agh! A printer
without paper and ink.

872
01:04:07,082 --> 01:04:09,350
Excuse me. Pardon me.

873
01:04:09,450 --> 01:04:11,352
Pardon me. Excuse me.

874
01:04:16,591 --> 01:04:18,726
Where's my graphite stick?

875
01:04:24,899 --> 01:04:27,468
Blast it, Joseph, have you seen
my graphite stick?

876
01:04:27,568 --> 01:04:30,105
...the old has come, behold!

877
01:04:30,205 --> 01:04:31,940
Old things have become new.

878
01:04:33,075 --> 01:04:34,609
Have you ever heard
a voice like that?

879
01:04:34,709 --> 01:04:36,511
How many souls
are kept from Christ

880
01:04:36,611 --> 01:04:39,148
for fear of reproach?
Of being marked with...

881
01:04:39,248 --> 01:04:41,216
Like a trumpet blast
from Heaven.

882
01:04:41,315 --> 01:04:44,119
We have a living hope within us.

883
01:04:44,219 --> 01:04:47,256
And yet we fear to proclaim
that which we know is true!

884
01:04:48,422 --> 01:04:51,059
Are we in truth
ashamed of Christ?

885
01:04:51,160 --> 01:04:54,729
This is it, Mr. Franklin. Yes.

886
01:04:55,630 --> 01:04:57,099
A real experiment.

887
01:05:00,434 --> 01:05:01,502
Discredit...

888
01:05:04,839 --> 01:05:05,974
Either a rumor...

889
01:05:07,242 --> 01:05:08,643
or fact.

890
01:05:09,310 --> 01:05:10,745
Yes.

891
01:05:10,845 --> 01:05:13,648
I ask you, ye men of letters,

892
01:05:14,348 --> 01:05:17,186
whether your great Lycurgus
or Solon,

893
01:05:17,286 --> 01:05:20,421
Pythagoras or Plato,
Aristotle, Seneca, Cicero,

894
01:05:20,521 --> 01:05:22,690
all the heathen moralists
combined

895
01:05:22,790 --> 01:05:25,860
ever produced a system of ethics
any way comparable

896
01:05:25,961 --> 01:05:29,363
with so long-lasting,
so widespread in effect

897
01:05:29,463 --> 01:05:32,733
as the shining wisdom
given by the one they call

898
01:05:32,834 --> 01:05:34,069
Jesus of Nazareth.

899
01:05:34,169 --> 01:05:37,672
Divided by four,
plus another five...

900
01:05:39,874 --> 01:05:42,211
Yeah, 6,000.

901
01:05:42,311 --> 01:05:43,611
How many, Mr. Franklin?

902
01:05:45,948 --> 01:05:48,549
According to my calculations,

903
01:05:48,649 --> 01:05:52,221
his voice can be heard
by 30,000.

904
01:05:52,321 --> 01:05:53,621
You say 30,000?

905
01:05:54,889 --> 01:05:55,890
Philadelphia only has--

906
01:05:55,991 --> 01:05:57,792
20,000 residents.

907
01:06:00,394 --> 01:06:02,931
What if there be mysteries
in His religion?

908
01:06:03,031 --> 01:06:05,267
Are they not mysteries
of godliness?

909
01:06:05,366 --> 01:06:07,970
Are they not worthy of the God
who reveals them?

910
01:06:08,669 --> 01:06:13,242
Is it not the greatest mystery
that men who pretend to reason

911
01:06:13,342 --> 01:06:16,278
and search into the very science
of nature itself,

912
01:06:16,377 --> 01:06:19,747
and consequently find a mystery
in every blade of grass,

913
01:06:19,847 --> 01:06:21,917
should then be so irrational
as to decry

914
01:06:22,017 --> 01:06:23,484
all mysteries in religion?

915
01:06:24,219 --> 01:06:25,820
Where is the scribe?

916
01:06:25,921 --> 01:06:27,388
Where is the wise?

917
01:06:27,488 --> 01:06:28,924
Where among you is the disputer

918
01:06:29,024 --> 01:06:30,725
against
the Christian revelation?

919
01:06:30,825 --> 01:06:31,859
I ask you.

920
01:06:32,593 --> 01:06:35,897
Does not everything without
and within us conspire to prove

921
01:06:35,998 --> 01:06:37,765
their divine origin?

922
01:06:37,865 --> 01:06:41,036
Was Christ Himself not styled
the Word of God?

923
01:06:42,104 --> 01:06:45,207
The fear of Him is the beginning
of knowledge.

924
01:06:46,440 --> 01:06:48,442
It's not a fish tale,
Mr. Franklin.

925
01:06:50,078 --> 01:06:54,950
Do not let the flat, lifeless,
stained-glass reverence you see

926
01:06:55,050 --> 01:06:57,852
keep you a cool distance
from His fiery heart!

927
01:06:57,953 --> 01:06:59,654
For it is the kindness
of the Lord

928
01:06:59,754 --> 01:07:01,689
that leads us to repentance.

929
01:07:01,789 --> 01:07:05,426
And what does it mean to repent,
but to turn another way?

930
01:07:06,295 --> 01:07:09,998
What way shall we turn in naught
but darkness?

931
01:07:10,098 --> 01:07:11,199
What way shall we turn

932
01:07:11,300 --> 01:07:13,035
if not toward
the inextinguishable light

933
01:07:13,135 --> 01:07:14,802
of the risen Son?

934
01:07:14,902 --> 01:07:18,806
Who, though we reject Him,
still pursues us all our days.

935
01:07:18,907 --> 01:07:22,978
Oh! Does not your dead heart
quicken to life at the thought

936
01:07:23,078 --> 01:07:25,213
that you were fashioned
for such purpose,

937
01:07:25,314 --> 01:07:29,151
and have yet a part to play
in the unfolding kingdom of God?

938
01:07:29,251 --> 01:07:30,986
Stand therefore, brethren,

939
01:07:31,086 --> 01:07:34,289
in the liberty wherewith Christ
hath made you free.

940
01:07:34,389 --> 01:07:37,491
Be not entangled under the yoke
of the bondage of sin.

941
01:07:38,226 --> 01:07:42,998
I commend you now all to Christ
in His infinite mercy,

942
01:07:43,098 --> 01:07:45,900
to whom, with the Father
and the Spirit,

943
01:07:46,001 --> 01:07:49,603
be all glory, all honor,
all power,

944
01:07:49,704 --> 01:07:52,174
now and forevermore!

945
01:07:52,274 --> 01:07:53,408
Amen!

946
01:07:53,507 --> 01:07:55,911
- Amen!
- Amen!

947
01:07:56,011 --> 01:07:57,346
Amen!

948
01:07:57,446 --> 01:07:58,579
Amen!

949
01:07:58,679 --> 01:08:00,382
Amen!

950
01:08:00,481 --> 01:08:02,483
Awake, oh sleeper!

951
01:08:03,352 --> 01:08:04,719
The sun has risen.

952
01:08:12,827 --> 01:08:15,663
- Please, Reverend.
- Excuse me.
Pardon me.

953
01:08:15,763 --> 01:08:17,032
Please, excuse me.

954
01:08:17,132 --> 01:08:18,499
Please, excuse me. Pardon me.

955
01:08:18,599 --> 01:08:20,969
Thank you.

956
01:08:21,069 --> 01:08:24,705
- Excuse me, sir! It's me!
- Thank you for the help

957
01:08:24,805 --> 01:08:26,874
but as you can see,
I have no time to speak.

958
01:08:26,975 --> 01:08:29,543
Is it possible to have a word
with the Reverend?

959
01:08:29,643 --> 01:08:32,247
- Not now.
- Uh, perhaps tonight?

960
01:08:32,347 --> 01:08:33,748
Mr. Whitefield is engaged

961
01:08:33,848 --> 01:08:35,683
to minister and preach
well into the evening.

962
01:08:35,783 --> 01:08:38,186
- I'm sorry.
- Oh, Mr. Franklin.

963
01:08:38,286 --> 01:08:41,722
Looks like Whitefield gave you
tomorrow's headline.

964
01:08:41,822 --> 01:08:44,393
- Are you... Benjamin Franklin?
- I am.

965
01:08:44,493 --> 01:08:46,028
Proprietor of
the Pennsylvania Gazette?

966
01:08:46,128 --> 01:08:47,695
- Yes.
- William Seward.

967
01:08:47,795 --> 01:08:49,197
- Oh.
- Mr. Whitefield was hoping

968
01:08:49,297 --> 01:08:50,932
to meet with you.
This must be providence.

969
01:08:51,033 --> 01:08:53,235
- Ah. Or coincidence.
- It'll be late,

970
01:08:53,335 --> 01:08:55,736
but we could visit you
at your shop when he's through.

971
01:08:55,836 --> 01:08:57,272
Uh, yes. Very good.

972
01:08:57,372 --> 01:08:59,107
- Thank you.
- Thank you.

973
01:08:59,207 --> 01:09:00,409
God bless you, Mr. Franklin.

974
01:09:00,509 --> 01:09:01,709
Please, Reverend, please.

975
01:09:01,809 --> 01:09:03,912
All right.

976
01:10:50,018 --> 01:10:52,187
The whole world has gone
religious, Joseph.

977
01:10:53,989 --> 01:10:54,923
Yes, sir.

978
01:11:02,130 --> 01:11:06,468
Well... tomorrow's Gazette
shall read...

979
01:11:07,369 --> 01:11:10,605
"November 8th, 1739."

980
01:11:11,373 --> 01:11:14,476
"The Reverend George Whitefield
has arrived from England...

981
01:11:15,676 --> 01:11:17,445
to awaken the Colonies."

982
01:11:41,503 --> 01:11:43,871
You both may retire
for the night.

983
01:11:43,972 --> 01:11:46,174
Thank you for your endurance.

984
01:11:47,309 --> 01:11:48,410
And what about you, sir?

985
01:11:49,211 --> 01:11:53,548
Oh, I will plow deep
while sluggards sleep,

986
01:11:54,249 --> 01:11:57,352
so I will have corn to sell
and to keep.

987
01:11:59,087 --> 01:12:00,021
Of course.

988
01:12:02,357 --> 01:12:04,392
Sweet pea, wake up.

989
01:12:05,893 --> 01:12:06,995
We must get going.

990
01:12:16,737 --> 01:12:17,805
Mr. Franklin?

991
01:12:17,906 --> 01:12:18,839
Hmm?

992
01:12:20,175 --> 01:12:22,444
What did you make of Reverend
Whitefield's message today?

993
01:12:22,944 --> 01:12:24,679
Oh.

994
01:12:24,778 --> 01:12:26,747
I plan to make a lot from it.

995
01:12:31,386 --> 01:12:32,387
Good night, sir.

996
01:12:33,555 --> 01:12:34,556
Good night.

997
01:12:36,091 --> 01:12:37,959
Good night, Joseph.

998
01:12:43,864 --> 01:12:47,002
Good evening. I'm looking for
a Mr. Benjamin Franklin.

999
01:12:47,102 --> 01:12:50,871
Uh... y-yes, please.

1000
01:12:54,075 --> 01:12:55,843
What is your name?

1001
01:12:55,944 --> 01:12:57,712
- I'm Samuel.
- Samuel?

1002
01:12:57,811 --> 01:12:59,147
That's a strong name.

1003
01:12:59,247 --> 01:13:00,515
Who is this?

1004
01:13:00,615 --> 01:13:01,950
Samantha, sir.

1005
01:13:02,050 --> 01:13:05,287
Samantha, you are a great
blessing to your father.

1006
01:13:05,387 --> 01:13:06,321
God bless you both.

1007
01:13:07,289 --> 01:13:08,957
- Night.
- Good evening.

1008
01:13:10,125 --> 01:13:13,461
Excuse me, sir,
what is your name?

1009
01:13:14,996 --> 01:13:15,964
Me?

1010
01:13:18,667 --> 01:13:19,833
Joseph.

1011
01:13:19,934 --> 01:13:21,569
Joseph.

1012
01:13:21,670 --> 01:13:23,471
That too, is a strong name.

1013
01:13:24,139 --> 01:13:25,140
Suits you.

1014
01:13:28,009 --> 01:13:30,779
The Lord whom I serve sees you.

1015
01:13:44,793 --> 01:13:45,927
Mr. Franklin.

1016
01:13:47,462 --> 01:13:49,497
Reverend Whitefield.

1017
01:13:49,597 --> 01:13:51,433
Please, call me, "George".

1018
01:13:52,133 --> 01:13:53,968
It is an honor
to finally meet you.

1019
01:13:54,703 --> 01:13:57,339
Your reputation precedes you
in England.

1020
01:13:57,439 --> 01:13:58,540
Oh?

1021
01:13:59,974 --> 01:14:01,042
Which one?

1022
01:14:03,545 --> 01:14:06,181
Many there regard
your Poor Richard's Almanack

1023
01:14:06,281 --> 01:14:08,183
as one of the lost books
of the Bible.

1024
01:14:08,283 --> 01:14:09,951
Ah, you flatter me.

1025
01:14:10,752 --> 01:14:14,222
But a man wrapped up in himself
makes a very small bundle.

1026
01:14:14,823 --> 01:14:15,724
Indeed.

1027
01:14:16,524 --> 01:14:18,493
Do you belong to a local parish?

1028
01:14:18,593 --> 01:14:21,963
I am a friend to every church,
but a member of none.

1029
01:14:23,465 --> 01:14:24,366
I see.

1030
01:14:25,233 --> 01:14:26,601
Yes.

1031
01:14:26,701 --> 01:14:28,370
- Hmm.
- Hmm.

1032
01:14:30,338 --> 01:14:32,774
You will have to wait
until morning.

1033
01:14:32,873 --> 01:14:34,209
Hmm.

1034
01:14:36,911 --> 01:14:38,580
Do you mind if I...

1035
01:14:38,680 --> 01:14:39,914
- Mm.
- Ah. Ah!

1036
01:14:41,882 --> 01:14:43,485
Thank you.

1037
01:14:44,419 --> 01:14:46,421
I am interested
in working with you.

1038
01:14:46,521 --> 01:14:48,490
Oh, please, proceed.

1039
01:14:49,924 --> 01:14:52,927
The Pennsylvania Gazette
is the leading newspaper

1040
01:14:53,027 --> 01:14:55,230
in His Majesty's 13 colonies.

1041
01:14:55,330 --> 01:14:56,897
It would be extremely effective

1042
01:14:56,998 --> 01:14:58,733
in communicating
your whereabouts

1043
01:14:58,833 --> 01:15:01,169
to ensure the largest crowds
possible.

1044
01:15:01,269 --> 01:15:05,340
And with it,
the largest possible offerings.

1045
01:15:05,440 --> 01:15:07,242
Well, that is
very thoughtful of you.

1046
01:15:07,342 --> 01:15:10,779
I am endeavoring to raise funds
for an orphanage in Georgia.

1047
01:15:10,879 --> 01:15:13,081
I'm sure you are.

1048
01:15:13,181 --> 01:15:16,151
Partnering with me would
guarantee the maximum benefit

1049
01:15:16,251 --> 01:15:17,552
to your cause,

1050
01:15:19,587 --> 01:15:21,022
and mine.

1051
01:15:22,624 --> 01:15:24,025
A match made in Heaven.

1052
01:15:25,026 --> 01:15:27,295
Or just a deal made
in a print shop.

1053
01:15:31,099 --> 01:15:32,534
Now, as business partners,

1054
01:15:32,634 --> 01:15:35,637
whenever you're in my city
and you need lodging,

1055
01:15:35,737 --> 01:15:37,705
my home will be made
available to you.

1056
01:15:37,806 --> 01:15:40,041
That is a very kind offer
for the sake of Christ.

1057
01:15:40,141 --> 01:15:42,310
Well, it's not for
Christ's sake, it's for yours.

1058
01:15:42,410 --> 01:15:45,013
Shall we dunk the papers then?

1059
01:15:45,113 --> 01:15:46,214
Tonight?

1060
01:15:46,314 --> 01:15:47,649
Wasn't it Poor Richard who said

1061
01:15:47,749 --> 01:15:49,317
"One today is worth
two tomorrows"?

1062
01:15:49,417 --> 01:15:51,553
Yes, I know
what Poor Richard said.

1063
01:15:51,653 --> 01:15:52,987
All right, let's get on with it.

1064
01:15:53,087 --> 01:15:54,823
I want to start
by publishing this.

1065
01:15:57,659 --> 01:16:00,528
Hmm. "To the inhabitants
of Maryland, Virginia,

1066
01:16:00,628 --> 01:16:02,497
North and South Carolina,

1067
01:16:02,597 --> 01:16:04,499
God has a quarrel
to pick with you

1068
01:16:04,599 --> 01:16:08,603
for your abuse of
and cruelty to slaves...

1069
01:16:09,637 --> 01:16:12,006
and for keeping the Gospel
from them."

1070
01:16:13,441 --> 01:16:15,777
You are lighting a powder keg,
my friend.

1071
01:16:16,711 --> 01:16:20,014
I did not cross the Atlantic
to tickle ears, Mr. Franklin.

1072
01:16:20,114 --> 01:16:22,083
Hmm, huh...

1073
01:16:22,183 --> 01:16:24,085
- Soothe or stoke.
- I'm sorry?

1074
01:16:24,185 --> 01:16:26,488
Soothe or stoke the hearts
of the people.

1075
01:16:27,355 --> 01:16:31,659
Both sell papers
and save souls apparently.

1076
01:16:31,759 --> 01:16:33,495
Well, let's get started.

1077
01:16:35,363 --> 01:16:37,198
You were business partners.

1078
01:16:37,298 --> 01:16:39,734
And I sold a lot of these.

1079
01:16:39,834 --> 01:16:42,103
"Whitefield preaches to 17,000

1080
01:16:42,203 --> 01:16:43,538
in Providence, Rhode Island--"

1081
01:16:43,638 --> 01:16:44,606
Rogue Island.

1082
01:16:44,706 --> 01:16:47,208
"And 30,000 in Boston."

1083
01:16:47,308 --> 01:16:48,576
Look at the date.

1084
01:16:49,544 --> 01:16:51,279
These were on the same day.

1085
01:16:51,379 --> 01:16:55,250
But Pro-- Providence
and Boston are 50 miles apart.

1086
01:16:55,350 --> 01:16:58,921
He spent more time on a horse
than on the ground...

1087
01:16:59,721 --> 01:17:02,223
and he preached and prayed
more than he slept.

1088
01:17:03,491 --> 01:17:05,995
Ah... I have to admit,
in the beginning,

1089
01:17:06,127 --> 01:17:09,130
I did not believe that level
of response could be maintained.

1090
01:17:09,230 --> 01:17:10,598
Well, was it?

1091
01:17:10,698 --> 01:17:11,599
No.

1092
01:17:13,568 --> 01:17:14,903
It increased.

1093
01:17:24,712 --> 01:17:26,548
Reverend George Whitefield
to preach repentance

1094
01:17:26,648 --> 01:17:28,416
in Rhode Island, Massachusetts.

1095
01:17:30,351 --> 01:17:32,554
Let there be
no divisions in the church.

1096
01:17:32,654 --> 01:17:36,558
But rather be of one mind,
united in thought and purpose.

1097
01:17:36,658 --> 01:17:38,126
Yes.

1098
01:17:38,226 --> 01:17:42,163
Therefore, let us not be asleep,
but awake.

1099
01:17:42,263 --> 01:17:43,933
- Yes.
- And sober minded,

1100
01:17:44,033 --> 01:17:46,267
because we belong to the day.

1101
01:17:46,367 --> 01:17:48,570
Let us be dressed
in the raiment of light.

1102
01:17:48,670 --> 01:17:50,872
Yes! Amen.

1103
01:18:11,392 --> 01:18:14,495
Nathan! Nathan!

1104
01:18:14,596 --> 01:18:16,664
Reverend Whitefield preached
at Hartford yesterday.

1105
01:18:16,764 --> 01:18:19,233
And he's to preach at Middletown
this morning at 10:00.

1106
01:18:28,743 --> 01:18:30,178
Molly.

1107
01:18:30,278 --> 01:18:31,813
- Nathan?
- Molly.

1108
01:18:33,414 --> 01:18:36,384
Molly, Reverend Whitefield.

1109
01:18:36,484 --> 01:18:39,088
And on his head are many crowns.

1110
01:18:40,154 --> 01:18:42,757
On his head are many crowns.

1111
01:18:45,827 --> 01:18:48,329
Lord, speak through me.

1112
01:18:49,098 --> 01:18:50,698
Draw them with Your Word.

1113
01:18:52,101 --> 01:18:55,070
Let them hear Your voice.

1114
01:18:55,169 --> 01:18:58,339
Set them on a path from which
they will never depart.

1115
01:18:59,607 --> 01:19:01,709
Though You are a God
of justice,

1116
01:19:02,443 --> 01:19:05,480
show them that Your heart
resounds with mercy.

1117
01:19:06,848 --> 01:19:11,386
Show them the kindness
that You have always shown me.

1118
01:19:11,486 --> 01:19:14,756
As I speak from the word
like lightning speak,

1119
01:19:15,456 --> 01:19:18,027
cry out in thunder
from the word.

1120
01:19:19,193 --> 01:19:21,030
He has a name written on Him

1121
01:19:21,130 --> 01:19:23,665
that no one knows
but He Himself,

1122
01:19:23,765 --> 01:19:26,601
and His name is the word of God!

1123
01:19:28,003 --> 01:19:29,437
Use me, Lord,

1124
01:19:30,872 --> 01:19:32,107
whatever the cost.

1125
01:19:34,275 --> 01:19:37,445
Let them receive
your gift of salvation,

1126
01:19:39,647 --> 01:19:41,616
and set us free.

1127
01:19:44,318 --> 01:19:46,354
"And I saw that my righteousness

1128
01:19:46,454 --> 01:19:48,057
would not save me.

1129
01:19:48,157 --> 01:19:52,127
Nathan Cole.
October 23rd, 1740."

1130
01:19:53,327 --> 01:19:57,265
Nearly 13 years ago,
and the reports remain the same.

1131
01:19:58,000 --> 01:20:01,569
Mr. Nathan Cole would never have
experienced the new birth

1132
01:20:01,669 --> 01:20:03,671
if you had not published
my whereabouts.

1133
01:20:03,771 --> 01:20:06,909
Well, poor Richard
would still be poor

1134
01:20:07,009 --> 01:20:09,078
had I not published
your whereabouts.

1135
01:20:11,813 --> 01:20:15,349
I see the church has, uh,
greeted you warmly today.

1136
01:20:17,485 --> 01:20:20,555
My dear friend, John Wesley,
once said,

1137
01:20:21,255 --> 01:20:25,727
"You must be willing to preach,
pray or die at any moment."

1138
01:20:25,827 --> 01:20:29,330
He forgot to tell you
to also duck and dodge.

1139
01:20:34,736 --> 01:20:36,004
We lost Seward.

1140
01:20:40,241 --> 01:20:41,342
I'm sorry.

1141
01:20:42,510 --> 01:20:45,114
He was preaching
in South Wales...

1142
01:20:46,581 --> 01:20:49,250
when an angry mob
began to throw stones.

1143
01:20:52,187 --> 01:20:53,721
He died three days later.

1144
01:20:55,857 --> 01:20:57,825
In his final letter to me,
he said...

1145
01:20:58,793 --> 01:21:00,062
"Fear not, George...

1146
01:21:01,295 --> 01:21:05,800
we are immortal until our work
on earth is done."

1147
01:21:07,401 --> 01:21:10,973
What compels one back
into angry mobs?

1148
01:21:12,306 --> 01:21:15,777
The same thing that compelled
Christ onto a cross of wood.

1149
01:21:17,779 --> 01:21:19,114
When you follow Him,

1150
01:21:20,615 --> 01:21:22,283
you are led by love...

1151
01:21:23,417 --> 01:21:24,719
no matter the cost.

1152
01:21:27,588 --> 01:21:32,627
Those who follow dead religion
are led by a desire to be right.

1153
01:21:34,896 --> 01:21:36,497
Eventually, they will
throw stones

1154
01:21:36,597 --> 01:21:38,267
at those they believe are wrong.

1155
01:21:41,903 --> 01:21:46,141
I grow weary in the work, Ben,
but never of the work.

1156
01:21:47,976 --> 01:21:50,545
And like you...

1157
01:21:50,645 --> 01:21:53,414
I would rather wear out
than rust out.

1158
01:21:58,719 --> 01:22:02,690
Seward also said that
I should give you these...

1159
01:22:05,194 --> 01:22:07,428
my personal journals.

1160
01:22:07,528 --> 01:22:09,831
He said you should publish them,

1161
01:22:09,932 --> 01:22:13,534
that many would see
the goodness of God.

1162
01:22:13,634 --> 01:22:17,405
I needed a new press
just to publish your sermons.

1163
01:22:17,505 --> 01:22:19,707
Well, I suppose
you'd better get a third.

1164
01:22:26,949 --> 01:22:28,649
My...

1165
01:22:29,985 --> 01:22:33,121
Your print shop has become
a rather strange laboratory

1166
01:22:33,222 --> 01:22:35,623
since my last visit.

1167
01:22:35,723 --> 01:22:38,927
Yes, His Majesty's Royal Society

1168
01:22:39,027 --> 01:22:42,130
has taken special interest
in my research

1169
01:22:42,231 --> 01:22:44,599
on the mysteries
of electric fire.

1170
01:22:46,701 --> 01:22:48,803
- And what about you, Ben?
- Hmm?

1171
01:22:48,903 --> 01:22:50,538
What is your source?

1172
01:22:50,638 --> 01:22:51,907
My source?

1173
01:22:52,007 --> 01:22:53,976
What compels you?

1174
01:22:54,076 --> 01:22:56,979
Aha, I thought you'd never ask.

1175
01:23:02,516 --> 01:23:04,652
Follow me.

1176
01:23:08,389 --> 01:23:10,926
I fail to see what is
so humorous.

1177
01:23:11,026 --> 01:23:13,061
Uh, it's a virtue chart.

1178
01:23:13,161 --> 01:23:14,662
- You actually use this?
- Oh, dear.

1179
01:23:14,762 --> 01:23:16,497
He's showing him the chart.

1180
01:23:16,597 --> 01:23:18,066
Good evening, Mrs. Franklin.

1181
01:23:18,166 --> 01:23:20,068
Allow me to expound.

1182
01:23:20,168 --> 01:23:22,170
First, on a small card,
I write the virtue

1183
01:23:22,271 --> 01:23:24,072
I am to focus on for the week.

1184
01:23:24,172 --> 01:23:26,507
- Currently, it's humility.
- Which he just added,

1185
01:23:26,607 --> 01:23:28,409
because he bragged about
the first 12.

1186
01:23:28,509 --> 01:23:30,946
"Imitate Jesus and Socrates."

1187
01:23:31,046 --> 01:23:32,680
I refer to it frequently,

1188
01:23:32,780 --> 01:23:35,350
and then I replace it
with a new virtue every week

1189
01:23:35,449 --> 01:23:36,784
for 13 weeks,

1190
01:23:36,884 --> 01:23:39,453
so that the series is repeated
four times a year.

1191
01:23:39,553 --> 01:23:41,522
Then I assess how I'm doing
on the chart.

1192
01:23:41,622 --> 01:23:43,758
Our assessments
do not always align.

1193
01:23:43,858 --> 01:23:46,727
Well, whatever achievements
I have made,

1194
01:23:46,827 --> 01:23:49,298
I credit to the ethical,
intellectual,

1195
01:23:49,398 --> 01:23:51,699
and physical discipline
of these virtues.

1196
01:23:51,799 --> 01:23:54,869
Upon them, I founded
the most successful newspaper

1197
01:23:54,970 --> 01:23:56,138
in the colonies,

1198
01:23:56,238 --> 01:23:58,773
the first public library,
firehouse,

1199
01:23:58,873 --> 01:24:01,310
and Philadelphia's
first hospital.

1200
01:24:01,410 --> 01:24:04,313
Says the man who states, "He
who falls in love with himself

1201
01:24:04,413 --> 01:24:05,981
will have no rivals."

1202
01:24:06,081 --> 01:24:08,183
I say this
not to boast, Deborah,

1203
01:24:08,283 --> 01:24:10,451
but to prove the merit
of my system.

1204
01:24:10,551 --> 01:24:12,220
Had someone else taken up
this discipline,

1205
01:24:12,321 --> 01:24:14,289
it might be their name
on the Franklin stove.

1206
01:24:14,389 --> 01:24:16,557
- Hmm.
- Lightning rod, swim fins,

1207
01:24:16,657 --> 01:24:19,061
- and the flexible catheter.
- Benjamin Franklin.

1208
01:24:19,161 --> 01:24:20,329
I think the flexible catheter

1209
01:24:20,429 --> 01:24:21,562
will be
your highest achievement.

1210
01:24:21,662 --> 01:24:23,664
- Ah.
- What's a catheter?

1211
01:24:23,764 --> 01:24:26,034
Never mind.

1212
01:24:26,134 --> 01:24:28,836
It is the zeal
for improvement in self,

1213
01:24:28,937 --> 01:24:31,572
society, and science
that drove me to prove

1214
01:24:31,672 --> 01:24:34,142
that storms can move
in an opposite direction

1215
01:24:34,242 --> 01:24:35,710
than the direction
from the wind.

1216
01:24:35,810 --> 01:24:37,645
And of course,
you invented the wind.

1217
01:24:37,745 --> 01:24:40,048
Absolutely, I did.
I needed to fly my kites.

1218
01:24:40,148 --> 01:24:41,917
Oh!

1219
01:24:42,017 --> 01:24:44,052
Oh, well, he is certainly
responsible

1220
01:24:44,152 --> 01:24:45,988
for all of the hot air
blowing through here.

1221
01:24:46,088 --> 01:24:47,255
Hear, hear.

1222
01:24:47,356 --> 01:24:49,391
Good night, George.

1223
01:24:49,490 --> 01:24:50,524
Good night, Mr. Whitefield.

1224
01:24:50,624 --> 01:24:52,327
Good night, Sally,
Mrs. Franklin.

1225
01:24:52,427 --> 01:24:53,428
Good night, Father.

1226
01:24:54,062 --> 01:24:56,031
Good night.

1227
01:25:03,771 --> 01:25:05,573
Oh, no. You're doing it again.

1228
01:25:05,673 --> 01:25:07,376
- What?
- There, stop that.

1229
01:25:07,476 --> 01:25:09,510
Are you mocking my bad eye, Ben?

1230
01:25:09,610 --> 01:25:11,879
No, not the blasted eye.

1231
01:25:11,980 --> 01:25:13,015
That look.

1232
01:25:13,647 --> 01:25:16,385
You got some pseudo spiritual
gaze upon me.

1233
01:25:18,053 --> 01:25:21,256
I tried this, Ben,
and it nearly killed me.

1234
01:25:22,391 --> 01:25:25,961
It's the same religious spirit
that leads men to throw stones.

1235
01:25:26,995 --> 01:25:30,032
You must be born again.

1236
01:25:30,132 --> 01:25:32,401
I trust my good works
from a good heart

1237
01:25:32,501 --> 01:25:34,069
will go before me.

1238
01:25:34,169 --> 01:25:36,271
Getting to heaven
on your own strength.

1239
01:25:36,371 --> 01:25:39,307
You might as well climb
to the moon on a rope of sand.

1240
01:25:39,408 --> 01:25:43,211
I have too much to do on earth
to worry about the moon.

1241
01:25:43,311 --> 01:25:45,546
Even if I were to experience
this new birth

1242
01:25:45,646 --> 01:25:46,915
you so often speak of,

1243
01:25:47,015 --> 01:25:48,883
I would never give you
or anyone else

1244
01:25:48,984 --> 01:25:50,485
the satisfaction of knowing it.

1245
01:25:56,992 --> 01:25:57,993
Let's go.

1246
01:25:59,827 --> 01:26:02,397
- I'm sorry?
- Grab your coat.

1247
01:26:02,497 --> 01:26:03,999
I want to show you something.

1248
01:26:04,099 --> 01:26:05,733
Now?
You can't be serious.

1249
01:26:06,268 --> 01:26:08,636
Do not squander time,
Georgie.

1250
01:26:08,736 --> 01:26:10,704
It's the stuff life is made of.

1251
01:26:10,805 --> 01:26:14,443
- All right.
- I'm going to need this, and...

1252
01:26:15,776 --> 01:26:17,079
- What is that?
- Huh?

1253
01:26:17,179 --> 01:26:18,246
Okay.

1254
01:26:26,221 --> 01:26:27,989
Why are they ringing
church bells?

1255
01:26:28,090 --> 01:26:29,458
Superstition.

1256
01:26:29,558 --> 01:26:31,026
They believe it will appease God

1257
01:26:31,126 --> 01:26:33,828
so his wrath won't strike
and burn their homes.

1258
01:26:33,929 --> 01:26:35,830
That's not scriptural.

1259
01:26:35,931 --> 01:26:39,367
Finally, somebody who agrees
with me.

1260
01:26:40,601 --> 01:26:42,571
These are perfect conditions.

1261
01:26:44,139 --> 01:26:46,074
Is madness one of your virtues?

1262
01:26:51,745 --> 01:26:54,382
When the thunder clouds
come over the kite,

1263
01:26:55,083 --> 01:26:58,286
this pointed wire will draw
the electric fire from them.

1264
01:26:58,386 --> 01:27:00,322
The kite, and all of the twine,

1265
01:27:00,422 --> 01:27:01,789
will become electrified.

1266
01:27:01,889 --> 01:27:03,824
Then the loose filaments
of the twine

1267
01:27:03,925 --> 01:27:05,494
will stand up every way

1268
01:27:05,594 --> 01:27:08,096
and be attracted
by an approaching finger.

1269
01:27:10,298 --> 01:27:12,800
Oh, thank you, my little friend.

1270
01:27:19,673 --> 01:27:20,808
Haha!

1271
01:27:21,742 --> 01:27:24,146
When the moisture has wet
the kite and twine,

1272
01:27:24,246 --> 01:27:26,915
so that it conducts
the electric fire freely,

1273
01:27:27,015 --> 01:27:29,251
you will find it stream out
plentifully from the key

1274
01:27:29,351 --> 01:27:30,385
on the approach of your knuckle.

1275
01:27:30,485 --> 01:27:31,920
Here, try it.

1276
01:27:32,020 --> 01:27:33,421
No, I'd-I'd rather not.

1277
01:27:33,522 --> 01:27:35,323
I've done this
many times before.

1278
01:27:35,423 --> 01:27:36,424
It works.

1279
01:27:36,525 --> 01:27:38,759
It-- Precisely.

1280
01:27:38,859 --> 01:27:41,930
First time, I had my son William
hold the line.

1281
01:27:42,030 --> 01:27:46,201
Boom! The lightning struck
and surged through his hands.

1282
01:27:47,169 --> 01:27:48,503
He shook like a leaf.

1283
01:27:48,603 --> 01:27:50,539
It was incredible.

1284
01:27:50,639 --> 01:27:51,940
He's never helped me since.

1285
01:27:52,040 --> 01:27:53,275
I should think not.

1286
01:27:53,375 --> 01:27:55,843
That's when I learned,

1287
01:27:57,112 --> 01:28:00,982
I needed to ground the line
to disperse the power.

1288
01:28:02,384 --> 01:28:05,686
So... I invented
my lightning rod.

1289
01:28:05,786 --> 01:28:08,123
You're an amazing man, Ben.

1290
01:28:08,223 --> 01:28:09,925
Wait, do you feel that?

1291
01:28:10,025 --> 01:28:11,126
Feel what?

1292
01:28:12,360 --> 01:28:13,962
Ah!

1293
01:28:14,062 --> 01:28:15,796
Touch the Leyden jar to the key.

1294
01:28:15,896 --> 01:28:17,098
No, I don't think so.

1295
01:28:17,199 --> 01:28:18,200
Ah, here.

1296
01:28:26,908 --> 01:28:28,009
Yes.

1297
01:28:28,977 --> 01:28:30,312
Fire from heaven.

1298
01:28:43,325 --> 01:28:45,527
You are the lightning bolt,
George.

1299
01:28:47,162 --> 01:28:49,497
I am just the lightning rod.

1300
01:28:49,598 --> 01:28:51,299
And who is the source, Ben?

1301
01:28:55,403 --> 01:28:57,572
I see what you did there.

1302
01:28:57,672 --> 01:28:59,474
Very clever, Reverend.

1303
01:28:59,574 --> 01:29:00,874
Very clever.

1304
01:29:05,380 --> 01:29:06,648
Confirmation!

1305
01:29:06,747 --> 01:29:08,183
Evacuation!

1306
01:29:08,283 --> 01:29:10,018
We need to leave now!

1307
01:29:23,732 --> 01:29:26,701
April 21st, 1770.

1308
01:29:27,402 --> 01:29:30,672
My dear friend,
Dr. Benjamin Franklin,

1309
01:29:31,573 --> 01:29:35,710
I have embarked upon my seventh
pilgrimage to the colonies.

1310
01:29:35,809 --> 01:29:37,279
And although difficult,

1311
01:29:37,379 --> 01:29:40,781
Christ's presence allows me
to smile through pain,

1312
01:29:41,516 --> 01:29:45,620
and the fire of His love
burns up all fevers whatsoever.

1313
01:29:47,088 --> 01:29:48,822
I was sorry to have missed

1314
01:29:48,923 --> 01:29:50,992
the christening
of your city bell,

1315
01:29:51,092 --> 01:29:54,329
proclaiming God's liberty
throughout all the land.

1316
01:29:55,196 --> 01:29:59,100
The people of America seem more
eager after the Word than ever.

1317
01:30:00,035 --> 01:30:03,004
May their voices ring
in harmony with that bell.

1318
01:30:04,506 --> 01:30:06,708
I find you grow more
and more famous

1319
01:30:06,807 --> 01:30:08,510
in the learned world.

1320
01:30:08,610 --> 01:30:10,844
As you have made
considerable progress

1321
01:30:10,945 --> 01:30:13,148
in the mysteries
of electricity,

1322
01:30:13,248 --> 01:30:15,050
I now humbly recommend

1323
01:30:15,150 --> 01:30:18,553
the study of the mystery
of the new birth,

1324
01:30:18,653 --> 01:30:20,088
for without it,

1325
01:30:20,188 --> 01:30:22,457
we cannot enter
the kingdom of heaven.

1326
01:30:23,692 --> 01:30:25,327
You will be pleased to know

1327
01:30:25,427 --> 01:30:28,129
I have raised
700 pounds sterling

1328
01:30:28,229 --> 01:30:30,732
for my orphanage in Georgia.

1329
01:30:30,831 --> 01:30:32,434
I hope to grow rich in heaven

1330
01:30:32,534 --> 01:30:34,669
by taking care of the orphans
on earth.

1331
01:30:35,937 --> 01:30:41,242
I subscribe myself, dear sir,
your very affectionate friend

1332
01:30:41,343 --> 01:30:44,412
and obliged servant,
George Whitefield.

1333
01:30:57,891 --> 01:31:01,629
"Proclaim liberty
throughout all the land...

1334
01:31:03,365 --> 01:31:06,301
unto all
the inhabitants thereof."

1335
01:31:08,069 --> 01:31:09,771
What a glorious verse
to ring out

1336
01:31:09,870 --> 01:31:11,740
over the city of brotherly love.

1337
01:31:12,507 --> 01:31:13,408
Hmm?

1338
01:31:14,242 --> 01:31:16,311
Oh, yes. Well,

1339
01:31:16,411 --> 01:31:18,346
apparently,
the inhabitants thereof

1340
01:31:18,446 --> 01:31:21,750
are ringing just as loudly
in the ears of our king.

1341
01:31:23,084 --> 01:31:24,919
Parliament would like
to influence

1342
01:31:25,019 --> 01:31:26,755
our definition of liberty,

1343
01:31:27,655 --> 01:31:30,625
and because I am fully
acquainted with the temper

1344
01:31:30,725 --> 01:31:33,128
and disposition of the colonies,

1345
01:31:33,228 --> 01:31:35,096
the Continental Congress
has chosen me

1346
01:31:35,196 --> 01:31:37,599
to act on their behalf.

1347
01:31:37,699 --> 01:31:40,535
I sail for London
the day after tomorrow.

1348
01:31:42,203 --> 01:31:44,472
Blood will be shed
for that liberty,

1349
01:31:47,208 --> 01:31:49,144
whereas blood was already shed

1350
01:31:49,844 --> 01:31:52,280
for the liberty proclaimed
by that bell.

1351
01:31:54,616 --> 01:31:56,918
You will have my prayers.

1352
01:32:00,255 --> 01:32:01,189
Prayers?

1353
01:32:05,293 --> 01:32:09,697
An appeal to a distant God
cannot resolve these issues.

1354
01:32:11,800 --> 01:32:14,736
It's going to take a lot more
than prayer, I'm afraid.

1355
01:32:16,871 --> 01:32:18,139
So that's it then?

1356
01:32:19,207 --> 01:32:21,376
A distant God

1357
01:32:21,476 --> 01:32:23,411
uninvolved
in the affairs of man?

1358
01:32:24,012 --> 01:32:27,148
No, I'm quite certain
he was never involved

1359
01:32:27,248 --> 01:32:28,583
in my affairs.

1360
01:32:31,586 --> 01:32:33,288
Does my confession shock you?

1361
01:32:36,858 --> 01:32:37,792
No.

1362
01:32:39,427 --> 01:32:41,496
Your idea of virtue does.

1363
01:32:42,397 --> 01:32:43,665
I beg your pardon?

1364
01:32:45,233 --> 01:32:47,602
What do you make
of Jesus Christ?

1365
01:32:48,970 --> 01:32:51,172
I made a lot from Him.

1366
01:32:51,272 --> 01:32:53,808
And how long
will you hide behind your wit

1367
01:32:53,909 --> 01:32:55,877
and make light of the truth?

1368
01:32:55,977 --> 01:32:57,846
Not again. Not now.

1369
01:32:57,947 --> 01:33:01,549
Ben, our time grows short.

1370
01:33:01,649 --> 01:33:03,685
There is a Judgment Day coming

1371
01:33:03,785 --> 01:33:06,554
when all will stand
before the Lord,

1372
01:33:06,654 --> 01:33:10,058
and only faith in Jesus Christ,

1373
01:33:10,158 --> 01:33:12,393
not your wit, will save you.

1374
01:33:12,994 --> 01:33:15,196
Your frequent wishes
for my eternal happiness

1375
01:33:15,296 --> 01:33:16,898
- are very obliging but--
- It is your life,

1376
01:33:16,998 --> 01:33:18,199
Benjamin Franklin,

1377
01:33:18,299 --> 01:33:20,268
your eternal life at stake

1378
01:33:20,368 --> 01:33:22,704
that keeps me begging you
to consider the truth

1379
01:33:22,804 --> 01:33:23,771
of the gospel.

1380
01:33:23,872 --> 01:33:26,074
I choose evidence over faith.

1381
01:33:26,174 --> 01:33:27,742
Evidence?

1382
01:33:27,842 --> 01:33:29,577
How much more do you need?

1383
01:33:30,712 --> 01:33:32,514
For 30 years now,

1384
01:33:32,614 --> 01:33:34,782
you have promoted
the greatest awakening

1385
01:33:34,883 --> 01:33:38,119
these colonies have ever seen.

1386
01:33:38,219 --> 01:33:42,323
That wasn't me or the Wesleys
or Jonathan Edwards.

1387
01:33:43,057 --> 01:33:45,560
It was an intervention
by our most powerful friend.

1388
01:33:45,660 --> 01:33:47,963
I have never attempted
to change you,

1389
01:33:48,096 --> 01:33:49,531
and I would greatly
appreciate it

1390
01:33:49,631 --> 01:33:51,599
if you would stop trying
to change me.

1391
01:33:51,699 --> 01:33:54,869
I don't understand
how thousands of strangers

1392
01:33:54,970 --> 01:33:57,605
can melt at the sound
of this truth,

1393
01:33:57,705 --> 01:34:02,710
but you, my dearest friend,
why can't I get through to you?

1394
01:34:02,810 --> 01:34:04,412
Because I've heard it all before

1395
01:34:04,512 --> 01:34:06,748
and I've seen it all before,
George.

1396
01:34:10,685 --> 01:34:13,588
Born the 10th son
of a Puritan father,

1397
01:34:14,522 --> 01:34:17,927
set apart as his holy tithe
in service to the church.

1398
01:34:19,093 --> 01:34:21,262
He wanted me to be a preacher.

1399
01:34:21,362 --> 01:34:22,330
Me!

1400
01:34:23,064 --> 01:34:27,435
But never in 50 lifetimes
would I ever have anything to do

1401
01:34:27,535 --> 01:34:31,472
with my father's overbearing,
hypocritical clergy,

1402
01:34:31,573 --> 01:34:33,141
who spent so much
of their time praying

1403
01:34:33,241 --> 01:34:34,944
and very little time doing good.

1404
01:34:36,544 --> 01:34:38,346
As a devout and thorough deist,

1405
01:34:38,446 --> 01:34:40,950
I have done more good to better
the lives of this city

1406
01:34:41,050 --> 01:34:44,118
than all the collective clergy
combined.

1407
01:34:44,218 --> 01:34:46,154
I do believe in a deity,

1408
01:34:46,788 --> 01:34:50,124
but I believe He has given us
rights, resources,

1409
01:34:50,224 --> 01:34:52,627
and reason to do good,

1410
01:34:52,727 --> 01:34:54,362
and now He waits
and watches to see if we will.

1411
01:34:54,462 --> 01:34:57,165
It's not enough to do good, Ben.

1412
01:34:57,265 --> 01:34:59,200
It's not enough
to believe in God.

1413
01:34:59,300 --> 01:35:01,369
Even the devil believes in God.

1414
01:35:02,303 --> 01:35:06,374
Everything,
everything comes down

1415
01:35:06,474 --> 01:35:08,676
to what you make
of Jesus Christ.

1416
01:35:11,080 --> 01:35:11,981
Tell me,

1417
01:35:13,881 --> 01:35:17,552
what have I lacked by not
experiencing this new birth?

1418
01:35:17,652 --> 01:35:18,586
Hmm?

1419
01:35:19,287 --> 01:35:21,522
Living my life on the back
of a horse,

1420
01:35:22,390 --> 01:35:26,461
being pelted with rocks,
dung, and dead animals.

1421
01:35:27,662 --> 01:35:28,730
Sleeping on the ground

1422
01:35:28,830 --> 01:35:31,299
or a stranger's floor
every night,

1423
01:35:33,468 --> 01:35:35,837
being led into the hands
of an angry mob

1424
01:35:35,938 --> 01:35:37,072
and an early grave?

1425
01:35:38,840 --> 01:35:44,178
You have no money, no family,
failing health,

1426
01:35:45,279 --> 01:35:47,715
your failing orphanage.

1427
01:35:47,815 --> 01:35:50,019
My orphanage
is no longer failing

1428
01:35:50,919 --> 01:35:52,087
by the grace of God.

1429
01:35:53,287 --> 01:35:56,091
By the grace of God
or by resorting to slave labor

1430
01:35:56,190 --> 01:35:57,358
to keep it running?

1431
01:36:18,379 --> 01:36:19,948
It was the only way.

1432
01:36:21,783 --> 01:36:25,720
Those orphans would have
become homeless

1433
01:36:25,820 --> 01:36:27,622
if we had not intervened--

1434
01:36:27,722 --> 01:36:29,390
Is that providence?

1435
01:36:30,825 --> 01:36:34,395
Is that God being involved
in the affairs of man?

1436
01:36:36,165 --> 01:36:37,632
You've made that orphanage
an idol

1437
01:36:37,732 --> 01:36:39,300
and a stain on your name.

1438
01:36:40,535 --> 01:36:44,472
Oh, the irony,
proclaiming liberty

1439
01:36:44,572 --> 01:36:46,274
while standing on the backs
of slaves.

1440
01:36:46,374 --> 01:36:48,043
Then tear down the name
of Whitefield

1441
01:36:48,843 --> 01:36:50,878
if it means
the name of Christ remains.

1442
01:36:51,914 --> 01:36:55,316
Do not base your faith
upon my flawed life.

1443
01:36:56,517 --> 01:36:58,219
Do not base your faith

1444
01:36:58,319 --> 01:37:00,421
upon the cold religion
of your father.

1445
01:37:01,990 --> 01:37:06,161
Base it upon what He has done
on a cross of wood.

1446
01:37:07,029 --> 01:37:08,997
George?

1447
01:37:11,532 --> 01:37:13,334
Georgie, what?

1448
01:37:14,736 --> 01:37:15,670
Georgie.

1449
01:38:12,827 --> 01:38:14,062
They're waiting for me.

1450
01:38:17,498 --> 01:38:19,500
You are more fit to go to bed
than to preach.

1451
01:38:21,302 --> 01:38:22,603
I must preach.

1452
01:38:23,504 --> 01:38:25,807
A dying man...

1453
01:38:27,075 --> 01:38:28,143
to dying men.

1454
01:38:42,790 --> 01:38:43,758
Georgie.

1455
01:39:35,376 --> 01:39:38,746
Do not base your faith
upon my flawed life.

1456
01:39:42,650 --> 01:39:44,319
Do not base your faith

1457
01:39:44,418 --> 01:39:46,687
upon the cold religion
of your father.

1458
01:39:49,657 --> 01:39:53,929
Base it upon what He has done
on a cross of wood.

1459
01:40:03,205 --> 01:40:04,805
No!

1460
01:40:04,907 --> 01:40:07,943
It is the great and terrible

1461
01:40:08,043 --> 01:40:10,979
Reverend George Preachfield!

1462
01:40:53,088 --> 01:40:54,389
Admiral Howe,

1463
01:40:56,058 --> 01:40:58,193
you do not know the heart
of these people.

1464
01:40:58,893 --> 01:41:01,796
They are a sturdy,
independently-minded kind.

1465
01:41:03,131 --> 01:41:06,935
Moral, self-governing,
they have been awakened.

1466
01:41:07,902 --> 01:41:09,004
Awakened?

1467
01:41:11,639 --> 01:41:12,573
How?

1468
01:41:13,741 --> 01:41:16,011
They believe
that once they dealt

1469
01:41:16,111 --> 01:41:18,380
with the tyrant
within themselves,

1470
01:41:18,479 --> 01:41:21,984
they now have eyes to see
the tyrant across the sea.

1471
01:41:22,084 --> 01:41:23,517
Oh, do they?

1472
01:41:23,617 --> 01:41:25,519
Oh, so they found it necessary
to send you

1473
01:41:25,619 --> 01:41:28,323
to rebuke this tyrant
across the sea?

1474
01:41:29,757 --> 01:41:31,559
I would have thought
your sturdy colonists

1475
01:41:31,659 --> 01:41:34,695
would have at least equipped you
with a shovel or a tomahawk

1476
01:41:34,795 --> 01:41:35,830
to face such a tyrant.

1477
01:41:36,999 --> 01:41:39,767
Perhaps a sling
and a few smooth stones

1478
01:41:39,867 --> 01:41:41,502
are all that is necessary.

1479
01:41:45,606 --> 01:41:48,977
Do you know how many men
are on just one of my ships?

1480
01:41:51,380 --> 01:41:52,481
800.

1481
01:41:53,681 --> 01:41:56,784
My Royal Navy
has over 250 ships.

1482
01:41:56,884 --> 01:41:59,021
And you're a man
of calculations.

1483
01:41:59,121 --> 01:42:01,223
You're going to need more
than a few smooth stones,

1484
01:42:01,323 --> 01:42:02,357
Dr. Franklin.

1485
01:42:04,393 --> 01:42:07,295
There is no need
to escalate this to a war.

1486
01:42:07,396 --> 01:42:09,398
Oh, I don't know.

1487
01:42:09,498 --> 01:42:12,700
Make for a wonderful story
for your little newspaper.

1488
01:42:12,800 --> 01:42:15,170
Farmers with slings and stones

1489
01:42:15,270 --> 01:42:17,738
versus the most powerful army
on earth.

1490
01:42:17,838 --> 01:42:19,640
It would be a good little war.

1491
01:42:19,740 --> 01:42:23,345
Short-lived, but...
exhilarating.

1492
01:42:24,112 --> 01:42:27,848
There never was a good war,
nor a bad peace.

1493
01:42:27,949 --> 01:42:29,550
Then may I suggest you refrain
from threats

1494
01:42:29,650 --> 01:42:31,453
you're not able to fulfill?

1495
01:42:32,354 --> 01:42:35,457
We have petitioned the King
exhaustively.

1496
01:42:36,525 --> 01:42:38,826
We've appealed to the royal
governors within the colonies,

1497
01:42:38,927 --> 01:42:40,362
to no avail.

1498
01:42:40,462 --> 01:42:42,696
We have sought participation
in trade agreements,

1499
01:42:42,797 --> 01:42:44,565
taxation, and governance,

1500
01:42:44,665 --> 01:42:46,901
without even a response
from His Majesty.

1501
01:42:47,002 --> 01:42:48,669
Well, the King has
far greater concerns

1502
01:42:48,769 --> 01:42:51,672
than distant dirt workers
crying for attention.

1503
01:42:51,772 --> 01:42:55,277
Admiral Howe, across that ocean,

1504
01:42:55,377 --> 01:42:57,479
an entire generation
of Americans

1505
01:42:57,578 --> 01:42:59,314
have been awakened to believe

1506
01:42:59,414 --> 01:43:03,018
that liberty is not a gift
given to them by a king,

1507
01:43:03,118 --> 01:43:05,520
but a right given to them
by God.

1508
01:43:06,720 --> 01:43:07,755
God?

1509
01:43:08,889 --> 01:43:10,358
Hm.

1510
01:43:10,459 --> 01:43:11,692
Well, perhaps if I match

1511
01:43:11,792 --> 01:43:14,695
your surprisingly
religious tone,

1512
01:43:14,795 --> 01:43:17,532
you might understand.

1513
01:43:17,631 --> 01:43:21,536
When the prodigal son received
his inheritance prematurely,

1514
01:43:21,635 --> 01:43:24,638
he too thought he could handle
his newly found freedom.

1515
01:43:25,907 --> 01:43:28,043
He was shamefully deluded.

1516
01:43:28,143 --> 01:43:30,711
He squandered it
and came crawling back to Daddy

1517
01:43:30,811 --> 01:43:33,949
with empty hands
and an empty belly.

1518
01:43:34,049 --> 01:43:36,351
You Americans
are exactly the same.

1519
01:43:36,918 --> 01:43:39,421
Utterly incapable
of handling freedom.

1520
01:43:40,122 --> 01:43:42,857
A virtuous people
can handle freedom.

1521
01:43:45,994 --> 01:43:49,297
Oh, and you, as model citizen.

1522
01:43:49,397 --> 01:43:51,133
Would Mrs. Franklin find you

1523
01:43:51,233 --> 01:43:53,734
and last night's
theater guest virtuous?

1524
01:43:55,470 --> 01:43:57,305
Oh, Dr. Franklin,

1525
01:43:57,405 --> 01:43:59,975
need I remind you
that for over a century,

1526
01:44:00,075 --> 01:44:03,145
our kings have emptied
their poorhouses

1527
01:44:03,245 --> 01:44:05,746
and drained the vagrants
from our streets

1528
01:44:05,846 --> 01:44:07,781
by sending them
to your colonies?

1529
01:44:09,151 --> 01:44:13,155
And now you think
these indentured servants

1530
01:44:13,255 --> 01:44:14,556
can be self-governed?

1531
01:44:21,129 --> 01:44:22,796
You know you are not
on the same level

1532
01:44:22,897 --> 01:44:25,267
as these rats you represent.

1533
01:44:25,367 --> 01:44:28,203
British society is greatly
enamored by you

1534
01:44:28,303 --> 01:44:31,239
and think you
delightfully entertaining.

1535
01:44:31,339 --> 01:44:32,541
If you would simply drop

1536
01:44:32,641 --> 01:44:34,509
this notion
of independent government,

1537
01:44:34,609 --> 01:44:36,511
you'd be greatly rewarded
by the King.

1538
01:44:37,546 --> 01:44:38,712
I cannot be bought.

1539
01:44:38,812 --> 01:44:40,814
You would die on the vine
without us!

1540
01:44:48,657 --> 01:44:50,225
Pardon
the interruption, Admiral.

1541
01:44:50,325 --> 01:44:52,860
I have just been informed
of news from the colonies.

1542
01:44:52,961 --> 01:44:56,864
Hmm, they're requesting more
shovels, plows, and stones?

1543
01:44:57,599 --> 01:44:59,067
The Reverend George Whitefield
has died...

1544
01:44:59,167 --> 01:45:01,369
...in Newburyport,
Massachusetts.

1545
01:45:01,469 --> 01:45:03,538
Being a friend of England
and her colonies,

1546
01:45:03,638 --> 01:45:05,407
the consulate thought
you both should know.

1547
01:45:08,310 --> 01:45:09,211
Is that all?

1548
01:45:09,311 --> 01:45:10,212
Yes, sir.

1549
01:45:17,919 --> 01:45:20,322
Speaking of dying on the vine,

1550
01:45:20,422 --> 01:45:22,224
and rather young, wasn't he?

1551
01:45:26,528 --> 01:45:27,828
Did you know him?

1552
01:45:30,831 --> 01:45:31,765
Well,

1553
01:45:32,567 --> 01:45:36,605
your colonies had
their awakening, Dr. Franklin.

1554
01:45:36,705 --> 01:45:39,174
Now, it's time they have
their reckoning.

1555
01:45:43,178 --> 01:45:44,246
Checkmate.

1556
01:47:21,476 --> 01:47:22,677
Where are you going?

1557
01:47:26,847 --> 01:47:28,283
Grandfather, what are you doing?

1558
01:47:28,383 --> 01:47:29,417
The storm is here!

1559
01:47:30,285 --> 01:47:32,020
This is unsafe!

1560
01:47:37,459 --> 01:47:39,361
Grandfather, put this on!

1561
01:47:40,395 --> 01:47:41,429
Grandfather!

1562
01:48:17,999 --> 01:48:19,734
And who is the source, Ben?

1563
01:48:29,511 --> 01:48:30,945
Dunk the papers, Benny.

1564
01:48:32,781 --> 01:48:34,215
I have something to say.

1565
01:49:40,114 --> 01:49:41,015
Grandfather,

1566
01:49:42,183 --> 01:49:43,318
care to do the honors?

1567
01:50:27,997 --> 01:50:28,998
Grandfather...

1568
01:50:31,232 --> 01:50:32,734
why didn't you
tell me this before...

1569
01:50:33,668 --> 01:50:35,203
t-the story of Whitefield?

1570
01:50:36,571 --> 01:50:38,406
I...

1571
01:50:39,841 --> 01:50:41,543
I didn't think I needed to.

1572
01:50:45,146 --> 01:50:46,214
You needed to.

1573
01:51:19,380 --> 01:51:22,617
One tiny candle
illuminates a thousand.

1574
01:51:59,287 --> 01:52:00,254
Order!

1575
01:52:01,456 --> 01:52:02,557
Order!

1576
01:52:04,093 --> 01:52:06,561
Proceed, Mr. Read.

1577
01:52:06,661 --> 01:52:09,797
The states formed
this confederation in 1776

1578
01:52:09,897 --> 01:52:12,034
on equal terms.

1579
01:52:12,133 --> 01:52:13,801
The states being equal,

1580
01:52:13,901 --> 01:52:16,304
must have equal influence
and equal votes.

1581
01:52:16,404 --> 01:52:17,872
- Aye!
- If...

1582
01:52:17,973 --> 01:52:21,476
if this convention grants
large states more votes

1583
01:52:21,576 --> 01:52:22,810
than the small,

1584
01:52:22,911 --> 01:52:25,813
the large states
will naturally combine

1585
01:52:25,914 --> 01:52:27,983
and form a tyranny
over the smaller states.

1586
01:52:28,083 --> 01:52:29,550
- Hear, hear!
- Nowhere

1587
01:52:29,651 --> 01:52:31,853
in the history of men or nations

1588
01:52:31,954 --> 01:52:34,722
has such a thing occurred,
Mr. Read.

1589
01:52:34,822 --> 01:52:37,191
Carthage and Rome
tore one another to pieces

1590
01:52:37,291 --> 01:52:39,861
instead of uniting their forces
to devour the weaker nations

1591
01:52:39,962 --> 01:52:41,229
of the earth.

1592
01:52:41,329 --> 01:52:43,297
Sparta, Athens, and Thebes

1593
01:52:43,398 --> 01:52:45,600
never combined to oppress
their neighbors.

1594
01:52:45,700 --> 01:52:49,038
Instead they were rivals,
and fought each other.

1595
01:52:50,271 --> 01:52:52,407
Anarchy and discord await us

1596
01:52:52,507 --> 01:52:55,677
if we fail to unite
under a central authority.

1597
01:52:57,545 --> 01:53:01,182
When men or nations
are strong and equal,

1598
01:53:01,282 --> 01:53:03,251
they become rivals.

1599
01:53:03,351 --> 01:53:05,887
Jealousy prevents their union.

1600
01:53:05,988 --> 01:53:07,722
This convention
might as well go on then

1601
01:53:07,822 --> 01:53:09,457
and dissolve the union now.

1602
01:53:11,693 --> 01:53:13,528
How dare you?

1603
01:53:16,165 --> 01:53:18,433
If partial confederates
take place,

1604
01:53:18,533 --> 01:53:21,036
then the present plan
on the table, Mr. Madison.

1605
01:53:24,238 --> 01:53:26,774
Order.

1606
01:53:26,874 --> 01:53:27,875
Order.

1607
01:53:29,644 --> 01:53:31,412
This chair recognizes

1608
01:53:32,547 --> 01:53:34,116
Dr. Benjamin Franklin.

1609
01:53:40,923 --> 01:53:42,223
Mr. President,

1610
01:53:43,691 --> 01:53:45,760
the small progress we have made

1611
01:53:45,860 --> 01:53:49,098
after four or five weeks'
close attendance

1612
01:53:49,198 --> 01:53:51,899
and continual reasonings
with each other,

1613
01:53:52,700 --> 01:53:56,138
our different sentiments
on almost every question,

1614
01:53:56,237 --> 01:54:00,408
several of the last producing
as many nos as ayes,

1615
01:54:00,508 --> 01:54:03,112
is methinks a melancholy proof

1616
01:54:03,212 --> 01:54:05,780
of the imperfection
of the human understanding.

1617
01:54:07,749 --> 01:54:12,253
We indeed seem
to feel our own want

1618
01:54:12,353 --> 01:54:14,522
of political wisdom,

1619
01:54:14,622 --> 01:54:18,626
since we've been running about
in search of it.

1620
01:54:18,726 --> 01:54:21,763
We have gone back
to ancient history

1621
01:54:21,863 --> 01:54:23,498
for models of government.

1622
01:54:25,134 --> 01:54:31,140
And having examined those forms
of those republics,

1623
01:54:31,240 --> 01:54:33,175
which having been formed

1624
01:54:33,274 --> 01:54:35,409
with the seeds
of their own disillusion,

1625
01:54:36,611 --> 01:54:38,312
now no longer exist.

1626
01:54:40,082 --> 01:54:44,119
We have viewed modern states
all around Europe,

1627
01:54:45,286 --> 01:54:47,789
but find none
of their constitutions

1628
01:54:47,889 --> 01:54:49,992
suitable to our circumstances.

1629
01:54:51,425 --> 01:54:54,562
In this situation
of this assembly,

1630
01:54:54,662 --> 01:54:59,400
groping as it were in the dark
for political truth

1631
01:54:59,500 --> 01:55:01,402
and scarce able
to distinguish it

1632
01:55:01,502 --> 01:55:02,938
when presented to us,

1633
01:55:03,805 --> 01:55:06,141
how has it happened, sir,

1634
01:55:06,241 --> 01:55:09,510
that we have not hitherto
once thought

1635
01:55:09,610 --> 01:55:12,647
of humbly applying
to the Father of Lights

1636
01:55:12,747 --> 01:55:14,782
to illuminate
our understandings?

1637
01:55:16,851 --> 01:55:19,420
In the beginning of the contest
with Great Britain,

1638
01:55:20,421 --> 01:55:22,925
when we were sensible of danger,

1639
01:55:23,025 --> 01:55:26,061
we had daily prayer in this room

1640
01:55:26,161 --> 01:55:27,628
for the divine protection.

1641
01:55:28,997 --> 01:55:31,233
Our prayers, sir, were heard,

1642
01:55:31,332 --> 01:55:33,334
and they were graciously
answered.

1643
01:55:35,938 --> 01:55:39,440
All of us who were engaged
in the struggle

1644
01:55:40,374 --> 01:55:43,678
must have observed
frequent instances

1645
01:55:43,778 --> 01:55:46,681
of a superintending providence
in our favor.

1646
01:55:48,382 --> 01:55:49,784
To that kind providence,

1647
01:55:49,884 --> 01:55:54,089
we owe this happy opportunity
of consulting in peace

1648
01:55:54,189 --> 01:55:58,327
on the means of establishing
our future national felicity.

1649
01:56:01,662 --> 01:56:03,664
And have we now forgotten

1650
01:56:05,533 --> 01:56:06,801
that powerful friend?

1651
01:56:09,071 --> 01:56:12,040
Or do we imagine that we
no longer need his assistance?

1652
01:56:14,475 --> 01:56:17,012
I have lived, sir, a long time.

1653
01:56:18,347 --> 01:56:20,148
And the longer I live,

1654
01:56:20,249 --> 01:56:23,751
the more convincing proofs
I have seen of this truth,

1655
01:56:25,153 --> 01:56:28,422
that God governs
in the affairs of man.

1656
01:56:30,259 --> 01:56:33,328
And if a sparrow cannot fall
without his notice,

1657
01:56:35,230 --> 01:56:39,234
is it probable that an empire
can rise without his aid?

1658
01:56:41,903 --> 01:56:44,839
We have been assured, sir,
in the sacred Scriptures

1659
01:56:46,008 --> 01:56:48,809
that unless the Lord
built the house,

1660
01:56:48,911 --> 01:56:50,778
they labor in vain
that build it.

1661
01:56:53,048 --> 01:56:54,582
I firmly believe this.

1662
01:56:56,450 --> 01:56:59,587
And I also believe
that without his concurring aid,

1663
01:57:00,289 --> 01:57:03,524
we shall succeed
in this political building

1664
01:57:03,624 --> 01:57:05,559
no better than
the builders of Babel.

1665
01:57:07,930 --> 01:57:11,565
We shall be divided by our
little partial local interest,

1666
01:57:12,466 --> 01:57:14,602
our projects
shall be confounded,

1667
01:57:15,404 --> 01:57:19,274
and we ourselves shall become
a reproach and a byword

1668
01:57:19,374 --> 01:57:20,775
down to future age.

1669
01:57:21,642 --> 01:57:22,777
And what is worse,

1670
01:57:23,811 --> 01:57:27,548
mankind may hereafter these
unfortunate instances,

1671
01:57:28,183 --> 01:57:31,452
despair of establishing
governments on human wisdom

1672
01:57:32,486 --> 01:57:37,725
and leave it to chance, war,
and conquest.

1673
01:57:41,063 --> 01:57:44,632
I, therefore, beg leave to move

1674
01:57:46,301 --> 01:57:48,736
that henceforth prayers

1675
01:57:49,837 --> 01:57:52,040
imploring the assistance
of Heaven

1676
01:57:52,140 --> 01:57:55,043
and its blessings
on our deliberations

1677
01:57:55,143 --> 01:57:57,645
be held in this assembly
every morning

1678
01:57:57,745 --> 01:57:59,847
before we proceed to business

1679
01:58:01,917 --> 01:58:05,553
and that one or more
of the clergy of this city

1680
01:58:05,653 --> 01:58:07,990
be requested to officiate
in that service.

1681
01:58:22,703 --> 01:58:25,374
However proper such a resolution
might have been

1682
01:58:25,474 --> 01:58:27,943
at the beginning
of the convention,

1683
01:58:29,643 --> 01:58:31,846
it might at this late day lead
the public to believe

1684
01:58:31,947 --> 01:58:33,949
that the embarrassments
of disunity

1685
01:58:34,049 --> 01:58:35,549
and dissensions
within the convention

1686
01:58:35,649 --> 01:58:37,019
have suggested this measure.

1687
01:58:39,687 --> 01:58:41,089
It would make us look weak.

1688
01:58:46,861 --> 01:58:51,233
And the true cause
of the omission

1689
01:58:51,333 --> 01:58:54,869
of clergy-led prayer
must not be mistaken.

1690
01:58:55,736 --> 01:58:59,807
This convention has no funds
to pay a clergyman.

1691
01:59:01,910 --> 01:59:03,711
I propose, in order to give

1692
01:59:03,811 --> 01:59:05,947
a favorable aspect
to this measure,

1693
01:59:06,048 --> 01:59:09,650
that a sermon be preached
at the request of the convention

1694
01:59:09,750 --> 01:59:10,986
on 4th of July

1695
01:59:11,987 --> 01:59:13,321
and henceforward

1696
01:59:14,588 --> 01:59:17,426
prayers be offered
in this convention

1697
01:59:19,161 --> 01:59:20,228
every morning.

1698
01:59:21,396 --> 01:59:22,431
Second.

1699
01:59:26,867 --> 01:59:28,236
Shall we take a vote?

1700
01:59:31,906 --> 01:59:35,477
I request a postponement
due to adjournment.

1701
01:59:35,576 --> 01:59:36,744
Second.

1702
01:59:40,549 --> 01:59:41,849
Dr. Franklin's recommendation

1703
01:59:41,950 --> 01:59:44,386
and Mr. Randolph's motion
for daily prayer

1704
01:59:45,387 --> 01:59:47,621
is postponed due to adjournment.

1705
01:59:54,795 --> 01:59:57,566
I, for one, will be
in attendance on July the 4th,

1706
01:59:58,934 --> 02:00:00,569
observing a day of prayer.

1707
02:00:03,038 --> 02:00:04,605
I would welcome

1708
02:00:04,705 --> 02:00:07,142
any and all of you

1709
02:00:08,276 --> 02:00:09,277
to join me.

1710
02:00:11,913 --> 02:00:12,847
Adjourned.

1711
02:00:59,727 --> 02:01:02,531
The Father of Lights
says in His Word,

1712
02:01:02,631 --> 02:01:05,033
"For you who honor my name,

1713
02:01:05,133 --> 02:01:06,935
the sun of righteousness
will rise

1714
02:01:07,035 --> 02:01:08,769
with healing in its wings."

1715
02:01:10,272 --> 02:01:11,872
My friends,

1716
02:01:11,973 --> 02:01:13,441
do you want to be free?

1717
02:01:14,775 --> 02:01:16,677
Liberty is found in Him alone.

1718
02:01:17,913 --> 02:01:19,847
Do you want to live?

1719
02:01:19,948 --> 02:01:22,217
He alone gives eternal life.

1720
02:01:23,952 --> 02:01:26,787
Because of the tender mercy
of our God,

1721
02:01:26,887 --> 02:01:29,591
the rising sun will come to us
from heaven

1722
02:01:29,690 --> 02:01:31,859
to shine on those living
in darkness.

1723
02:01:33,228 --> 02:01:37,566
I beseech you,
do not reject so great a gift.

1724
02:01:40,468 --> 02:01:41,902
A great awakening has come.

1725
02:01:43,904 --> 02:01:45,373
Arise, O sleeper!

1726
02:01:46,641 --> 02:01:47,808
Awaken!