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[choir humming]

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[tense music playing]

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[Washington] Order!

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[congress members arguing]

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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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- [indistinct shouting]
- 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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[members] Hear, hear.

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Order.

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[Alexander]
The survival of this country

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- must be our chief concern.
- Yes!

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- [members] Yes.
- [indistinct chatter]

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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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[members chuckle]

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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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[members chuckling]

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[gavel thudding]

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- [Washington] Order.
- [laughter]

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[gavel thudding]

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Order.

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[indistinct chatter]

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[soft music plays]

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[insects chirping]

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[Janey] Benjamin, wait for me!

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[soft music playing]

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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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[dog barks]

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[father] Late again.

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Wet again.

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[young Benjamin] 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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- [young Benjamin] Janey!
- [squeals, chuckles]

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[sighs]

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[father] 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... [sighs]

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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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[sighs]

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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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[sighs]

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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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- [chuckles]
- My offering to God.

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Can't change that.

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[hopeful music playing]

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[muffled gavel thudding]

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Order.

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Order.

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- [James] 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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[members]
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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[members]
Hear, hear. Hear, hear.

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[James] I motion to adjourn.

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[man 2] Second.

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Adjourned.

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[indistinct chatter]

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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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[indistinct chatter]

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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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[chains clattering]

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[horse neighing]

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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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[people coughing]

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[Benny] 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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- [chuckles]
- 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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[together] 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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[chuckles]

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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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[grunts]

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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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[Benny] 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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- [chair thuds]
- [grunts]

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Your press and typesets
arrived this morning.

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[Benjamin] Oh. [chuckles]

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[sighs]

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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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- [both chuckle]
- [coughing]

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[exhales]

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[sighs]

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[sniffles]

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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. [scoffs]

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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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[distant thunder rumbling]

213
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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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00:14:40,749 --> 00:14:41,816
I'm sorry?

219
00:14:42,416 --> 00:14:43,951
Well, you sound like a printer

220
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who's just found
his first headline.

221
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[chuckles] Really?

222
00:14:48,255 --> 00:14:52,292
Now, you can soothe them
with something like,

223
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"A supernatural providence
shall rain down from heaven,

224
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quenching the flames and saving
the City of Brotherly Love."

225
00:15:01,736 --> 00:15:03,470
- Or?
- Or...

226
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you can strike fear into them.

227
00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:08,777
"Judgment has come.

228
00:15:08,877 --> 00:15:11,111
Philadelphia is one
lightning strike away

229
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- from a pile of ash."
- [chuckles]

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00:15:13,046 --> 00:15:14,014
[chuckles]

231
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With those letters,
you can do either one.

232
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Both sell papers, Benny.

233
00:15:21,523 --> 00:15:23,525
And which would you choose?

234
00:15:23,625 --> 00:15:24,626
Ah,

235
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fetch me my chest over there.

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00:15:33,033 --> 00:15:33,934
[grunts]

237
00:15:37,037 --> 00:15:39,173
[Benny] Of all your pen names,

238
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which ones were soothers
and which ones were stokers?

239
00:15:41,776 --> 00:15:42,844
[chuckles]

240
00:15:42,943 --> 00:15:45,880
That depends on who you ask.

241
00:15:45,979 --> 00:15:48,650
[Benny]
Oh, we have Martha Careful,

242
00:15:48,750 --> 00:15:52,520
- uh, Harry Meanwell.
- Mm. [chuckles]

243
00:15:52,620 --> 00:15:55,322
Oh, of course, Poor Richard.

244
00:15:55,422 --> 00:15:58,893
[Benjamin] Ah, my old friends.

245
00:16:01,995 --> 00:16:02,931
Ah.

246
00:16:04,164 --> 00:16:05,199
Hmm.

247
00:16:05,299 --> 00:16:07,000
More true now than ever.

248
00:16:08,469 --> 00:16:09,470
Whose are these?

249
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"November 8th, 1739,

250
00:16:20,748 --> 00:16:24,652
The Reverend George Whitefield
has arrived from England

251
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to awaken the colonies."

252
00:16:27,421 --> 00:16:28,422
George Whitefield?

253
00:16:29,423 --> 00:16:30,424
Whitefield.

254
00:16:31,191 --> 00:16:33,260
It's George Whitefield.

255
00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:34,829
[Benny] Was he soothe or stoke?

256
00:16:36,096 --> 00:16:36,997
Yes.

257
00:16:37,966 --> 00:16:39,166
[chuckles]

258
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"From my infancy
'til my being for a time

259
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at the University of Oxford,"
section one.

260
00:16:47,441 --> 00:16:48,643
Why do you have his journals?

261
00:16:50,110 --> 00:16:51,613
He was an old friend.

262
00:16:51,713 --> 00:16:52,847
[chuckles]

263
00:16:52,947 --> 00:16:54,816
You were friends
with a preacher?

264
00:16:57,117 --> 00:16:58,185
Is he still alive?

265
00:17:01,823 --> 00:17:04,057
Was he part of the revolution?

266
00:17:10,364 --> 00:17:11,298
Grandfather?

267
00:17:16,004 --> 00:17:17,005
Benny...

268
00:17:20,975 --> 00:17:24,311
George Whitefield
was the revolution.

269
00:17:26,681 --> 00:17:31,753
[Burton] Oh, what a rogue
and peasant slave am I!

270
00:17:33,721 --> 00:17:37,759
Is it not monstrous
that this player here

271
00:17:37,859 --> 00:17:41,495
but in a fiction,
in a dream of passion...

272
00:17:41,596 --> 00:17:45,065
Leavin' others
to do all the work again.

273
00:17:45,165 --> 00:17:47,936
But this is where Hamlet wishes
he were an actor.

274
00:17:48,036 --> 00:17:49,003
[chuckles]

275
00:17:50,705 --> 00:17:51,706
Like you,

276
00:17:53,273 --> 00:17:56,076
hiding behind masks.

277
00:17:56,176 --> 00:17:58,012
[chuckles]

278
00:18:00,014 --> 00:18:02,684
I'm a better actor
than all of 'em.

279
00:18:02,784 --> 00:18:05,553
Got your mom convinced anyway.

280
00:18:08,056 --> 00:18:12,426
Smile, Georgie. [chuckles]

281
00:18:12,527 --> 00:18:14,629
[tray clanks]

282
00:18:16,030 --> 00:18:17,297
- Clean it up.
- [utensil clinks]

283
00:18:18,533 --> 00:18:20,001
Use your hands!

284
00:18:20,100 --> 00:18:22,670
An actor's gotta use his hands!

285
00:18:22,770 --> 00:18:24,038
[chuckles]

286
00:18:25,039 --> 00:18:28,042
[Burton, indistinct]

287
00:18:32,346 --> 00:18:35,449
[Elizabeth] Someday,
you'll be up there, son.

288
00:18:38,118 --> 00:18:41,956
[Burton] He would drown
the stage with tears.

289
00:18:42,056 --> 00:18:42,957
[sniffles]

290
00:18:43,958 --> 00:18:46,159
- The play is the thing...
- Someday.

291
00:18:46,259 --> 00:18:50,464
...wherein I'll catch
the conscience of the king!

292
00:18:51,298 --> 00:18:53,701
[audience claps]

293
00:19:08,148 --> 00:19:11,251
Oh, what a rogue
and peasant slave am I!

294
00:19:11,351 --> 00:19:14,756
Oh, what a rogue
and peasant slave am I!

295
00:19:14,856 --> 00:19:17,659
Oh, what a rogue
and peasant slave am I!

296
00:19:17,759 --> 00:19:19,560
From here, Georgie.

297
00:19:19,661 --> 00:19:21,829
The power is not here, but here.

298
00:19:22,797 --> 00:19:23,698
Again.

299
00:19:23,798 --> 00:19:25,033
Oh!

300
00:19:25,133 --> 00:19:26,400
No, again.

301
00:19:26,500 --> 00:19:27,769
Oh!

302
00:19:27,869 --> 00:19:30,004
Yes, yes! That's it, Georgie!

303
00:19:30,104 --> 00:19:31,338
Did you feel that?

304
00:19:31,438 --> 00:19:33,675
Yes, I did.

305
00:19:35,943 --> 00:19:38,713
Now, the whole line,
just like that.

306
00:19:39,479 --> 00:19:43,283
Oh, what a rogue
and peasant slave am I!

307
00:19:43,383 --> 00:19:44,719
Tears in his eyes.

308
00:19:44,819 --> 00:19:46,721
Distraction in's aspect.

309
00:19:46,821 --> 00:19:48,589
A broken voice.

310
00:19:48,690 --> 00:19:53,061
His whole function suiting
with forms to his own conceit.

311
00:19:54,128 --> 00:19:56,631
And all for nothing.

312
00:19:57,732 --> 00:19:59,634
Oh, what would he do,

313
00:19:59,734 --> 00:20:02,704
had he the motive and the cue
for passion that I have!

314
00:20:04,872 --> 00:20:07,340
He would drown the stage
with tears.

315
00:20:08,042 --> 00:20:11,344
He would cleave the general ear
with horrid speech.

316
00:20:11,445 --> 00:20:14,649
Make mad the guilty
and appall the free.

317
00:20:14,749 --> 00:20:18,653
Confound the ignorant
and amaze indeed.

318
00:20:18,753 --> 00:20:20,353
The play's the thing

319
00:20:20,454 --> 00:20:23,091
wherein I'll catch
the conscience of the king.

320
00:20:24,257 --> 00:20:26,259
[audience claps, clamors]

321
00:20:28,196 --> 00:20:29,496
[man] Bravo.

322
00:20:35,203 --> 00:20:40,174
Catch the conscience of the king
and the heart of his mum.

323
00:20:40,273 --> 00:20:44,011
You are good enough
to be on any stage in London.

324
00:20:44,112 --> 00:20:47,148
Uh, not with this eye
and a poor man's accent.

325
00:20:47,247 --> 00:20:50,350
Well, if not the stage,
perhaps the pulpit then.

326
00:20:50,450 --> 00:20:51,384
Mum.

327
00:20:52,385 --> 00:20:53,888
But your voice.

328
00:20:53,988 --> 00:20:56,924
Trapped behind a dusty pulpit
wearing an itchy wig?

329
00:20:57,024 --> 00:20:58,358
- Oh, uh.
- Never.

330
00:20:59,127 --> 00:21:01,963
Actors make people
feel something.

331
00:21:02,063 --> 00:21:03,931
Preachers just put 'em to sleep.

332
00:21:04,031 --> 00:21:06,033
- [chuckles]
- "Oh, God.

333
00:21:06,134 --> 00:21:08,468
Make speed to save us."

334
00:21:08,569 --> 00:21:12,106
"Oh, Lord.
Make haste to help us."

335
00:21:12,206 --> 00:21:14,609
- [chuckling]
- [George chuckles]

336
00:21:14,709 --> 00:21:17,310
A character actor too, I see.

337
00:21:17,410 --> 00:21:19,213
That's all I'll ever be,
Mr. Burton.

338
00:21:19,947 --> 00:21:20,948
Use it.

339
00:21:21,716 --> 00:21:23,383
Act the truth.

340
00:21:23,483 --> 00:21:25,485
Use everything life
throws at you.

341
00:21:27,922 --> 00:21:28,856
There.

342
00:21:29,624 --> 00:21:32,560
Now I've given you
all my secrets.

343
00:21:32,660 --> 00:21:33,895
This is...

344
00:21:33,995 --> 00:21:35,963
You've written notes
on every page. I...

345
00:21:36,063 --> 00:21:38,298
- I can't take this.
- Consider it mandatory reading

346
00:21:38,398 --> 00:21:40,635
before attending Oxford
this fall.

347
00:21:41,903 --> 00:21:42,804
Elizabeth,

348
00:21:44,005 --> 00:21:46,240
I would give 100 guineas

349
00:21:46,339 --> 00:21:48,009
if I could only say, "O",

350
00:21:48,109 --> 00:21:50,878
as effectively as your son
says, "O".

351
00:21:52,180 --> 00:21:53,181
He is...

352
00:21:55,016 --> 00:21:56,117
extraordinary,

353
00:21:57,084 --> 00:21:58,719
and he needs further training

354
00:21:58,820 --> 00:22:01,321
in diction, interpretation,
rhetoric.

355
00:22:01,421 --> 00:22:05,092
Oxford will provide him
all this and more.

356
00:22:05,193 --> 00:22:07,895
His stepfather ran away
and took everything.

357
00:22:08,529 --> 00:22:10,330
Uh, we could never afford it.

358
00:22:10,430 --> 00:22:12,066
He would go as a servitor

359
00:22:12,166 --> 00:22:15,368
to serve the more, shall I say,
privileged students.

360
00:22:16,170 --> 00:22:18,606
You would receive the same level
of education

361
00:22:18,706 --> 00:22:20,942
provided you look after
their affairs,

362
00:22:21,042 --> 00:22:23,611
carrying their books,
serving them meals.

363
00:22:23,711 --> 00:22:26,080
Clearly, you're no stranger
to such tasks.

364
00:22:26,848 --> 00:22:30,518
All you need is a recommendation
from an Oxford alumnus.

365
00:22:31,953 --> 00:22:34,354
Well, we don't know
an Oxford alumnus.

366
00:22:38,826 --> 00:22:41,028
[Burton] They're expecting you
for the fall term.

367
00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,636
Remember the source
of your power.

368
00:22:51,505 --> 00:22:52,740
When the moment comes,

369
00:22:54,575 --> 00:22:55,843
let 'em have it, George.

370
00:23:09,557 --> 00:23:14,061
O, what a rogue
and peasant slave am I!

371
00:23:14,161 --> 00:23:16,330
What would he do
had he the motive

372
00:23:16,429 --> 00:23:18,866
and the cue for passion
that I have?

373
00:23:27,375 --> 00:23:29,076
[George] How will you get along
without me?

374
00:23:31,545 --> 00:23:36,384
You... were always meant
for bigger stages.

375
00:23:38,286 --> 00:23:39,287
I love you, Mum.

376
00:23:39,954 --> 00:23:41,454
I love you, son.

377
00:23:41,555 --> 00:23:44,558
[chuckling]

378
00:23:56,637 --> 00:23:59,974
[students laughing, chattering]

379
00:24:03,044 --> 00:24:04,979
[chuckles]

380
00:24:05,079 --> 00:24:07,548
Already served me, poor chap.

381
00:24:07,648 --> 00:24:09,517
Why don't you move
your good eyeball

382
00:24:09,617 --> 00:24:11,218
to the other side of your face?

383
00:24:11,319 --> 00:24:13,387
[laughing]

384
00:24:13,521 --> 00:24:16,524
Idgit, where's my cake?

385
00:24:16,624 --> 00:24:19,627
[students laughing]

386
00:24:19,727 --> 00:24:21,862
All right, lads. That's enough.

387
00:24:21,963 --> 00:24:23,364
[student 1] No, Seward.

388
00:24:23,463 --> 00:24:25,366
I don't think it is.

389
00:24:25,465 --> 00:24:28,903
Excuse me, Dr. Squintum.

390
00:24:29,003 --> 00:24:32,139
[all laugh]

391
00:24:32,239 --> 00:24:34,408
I say, Dr. Squintum!

392
00:24:34,508 --> 00:24:36,844
Now that is perfect.

393
00:24:36,944 --> 00:24:39,513
Gentlemen of the assembly,

394
00:24:39,613 --> 00:24:43,918
I would like to introduce
to you, Dr. Squintum!

395
00:24:44,018 --> 00:24:45,252
[laughing]

396
00:24:45,353 --> 00:24:47,388
[chanting] Squintum! Squintum!

397
00:24:47,487 --> 00:24:49,056
Squintum! Squintum!

398
00:24:49,156 --> 00:24:51,392
Enough! That's enough!

399
00:24:51,491 --> 00:24:53,828
- Squintum...
- Oh, look, lads.

400
00:24:53,928 --> 00:24:56,063
William fancies himself a hero.

401
00:24:56,163 --> 00:25:00,334
- Oh.
- So, go on, hero, stand up.

402
00:25:01,669 --> 00:25:04,238
Oh, that's right,
you already are.

403
00:25:04,338 --> 00:25:06,507
Oi, Silver Spoon!

404
00:25:06,607 --> 00:25:09,643
Go ahead. Have a go
at the one-eyed servant.

405
00:25:09,744 --> 00:25:13,514
I can take it, but you turn
and eat one of your own?

406
00:25:13,614 --> 00:25:15,783
You lot are nothing
but a nest of spiders.

407
00:25:16,484 --> 00:25:19,020
You got nothing of worth,
except your daddy's money.

408
00:25:19,120 --> 00:25:20,688
He at least has some heart!

409
00:25:21,722 --> 00:25:23,090
[student 2 indistinct]

410
00:25:23,190 --> 00:25:25,092
[chuckles]

411
00:25:25,192 --> 00:25:28,029
Thank you, Dr. Squintum

412
00:25:28,129 --> 00:25:31,799
for that scholarly
and erudite diagnosis.

413
00:25:32,666 --> 00:25:33,868
Are you finished?

414
00:25:36,070 --> 00:25:37,638
I am. [clears throat]

415
00:25:38,572 --> 00:25:41,876
I think me stomach is full.

416
00:25:41,976 --> 00:25:43,544
[laughing]

417
00:25:44,845 --> 00:25:46,147
[students] Oh!

418
00:25:46,247 --> 00:25:48,015
[indistinct chatter]

419
00:25:49,550 --> 00:25:50,785
Clean it up.

420
00:25:50,885 --> 00:25:52,887
[laughter]

421
00:25:54,321 --> 00:25:55,222
Oh.

422
00:25:56,023 --> 00:25:57,558
[laughter continues]

423
00:25:57,658 --> 00:25:58,592
[plates clink]

424
00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:00,494
Enjoy.

425
00:26:02,063 --> 00:26:04,098
- Oops.
- [laughter continues]

426
00:26:04,198 --> 00:26:05,266
[plates clink]

427
00:26:19,180 --> 00:26:21,682
Uh, uh, I've got it.

428
00:26:21,782 --> 00:26:23,851
Don't mess up
your gentleman's clothes.

429
00:26:27,388 --> 00:26:29,123
[William] Silver Spoon.

430
00:26:30,057 --> 00:26:31,892
Nest of spiders.

431
00:26:31,992 --> 00:26:34,028
Fools dressed like princes.

432
00:26:34,128 --> 00:26:35,963
Hmm.

433
00:26:36,063 --> 00:26:38,432
I'm sorry for how they've been
treating you.

434
00:26:38,533 --> 00:26:40,734
Huh, I can't say
I'm not used to it.

435
00:26:42,870 --> 00:26:43,871
Name's William.

436
00:26:45,072 --> 00:26:46,073
Seward.

437
00:26:48,042 --> 00:26:50,144
- Dr. Squintum.
- [light chuckle]

438
00:26:51,278 --> 00:26:53,013
[background chatter]

439
00:26:53,114 --> 00:26:54,115
Who are they?

440
00:26:56,417 --> 00:26:57,818
[William] The Holy Club.

441
00:26:58,619 --> 00:26:59,653
Bible moths,

442
00:27:00,788 --> 00:27:02,189
but they seem harmless enough.

443
00:27:03,558 --> 00:27:05,826
Just be obliging.
They'll leave soon enough.

444
00:27:05,926 --> 00:27:07,461
- [Charles] Excuse me.
- Afternoon, gentlemen.

445
00:27:07,562 --> 00:27:08,896
Uh, nothing here for you to do.

446
00:27:08,996 --> 00:27:12,233
Uh, are you the one who polished
our shoes yesterday?

447
00:27:12,333 --> 00:27:13,901
[George] Uh, likely. Yeah.

448
00:27:14,935 --> 00:27:16,505
We wish to return the favor.

449
00:27:21,475 --> 00:27:23,043
My name is John Wesley.

450
00:27:23,144 --> 00:27:24,613
This is my brother, Charles.

451
00:27:26,147 --> 00:27:27,214
God be with you.

452
00:27:28,182 --> 00:27:30,417
You're, uh, a bunch of radicals?

453
00:27:30,519 --> 00:27:32,353
[both chuckle]

454
00:27:32,453 --> 00:27:33,888
We're Christians.

455
00:27:33,988 --> 00:27:36,490
And if we're radical,
it's in our love for God

456
00:27:36,591 --> 00:27:37,592
and for people.

457
00:27:39,293 --> 00:27:40,861
Oh, uh, what's this?

458
00:27:41,996 --> 00:27:44,498
The Lord whom we serve sees you

459
00:27:45,266 --> 00:27:46,934
and has prompted us
to serve you.

460
00:27:48,702 --> 00:27:49,638
Please sit.

461
00:27:56,944 --> 00:28:00,114
<i>♪ Love divine ♪</i>

462
00:28:00,214 --> 00:28:04,351
<i>♪ All loves excelling ♪</i>

463
00:28:05,286 --> 00:28:11,725
<i>♪ Joy of Heav'n,</i>
<i>to Earth come down ♪</i>

464
00:28:12,726 --> 00:28:15,763
[group] <i>♪ Fix in us ♪</i>

465
00:28:15,863 --> 00:28:20,401
<i>♪ Thy humble dwelling ♪</i>

466
00:28:20,501 --> 00:28:27,875
<i>♪ All Thy faithful</i>
<i>mercies crown ♪</i>

467
00:28:27,975 --> 00:28:31,879
<i>♪ Jesus, Thou art ♪</i>

468
00:28:31,979 --> 00:28:35,449
<i>♪ All compassion ♪</i>

469
00:28:35,550 --> 00:28:40,421
<i>♪ Pure, unbounded love ♪</i>

470
00:28:40,522 --> 00:28:42,423
<i>♪ Thou art ♪</i>

471
00:28:43,390 --> 00:28:46,427
<i>♪ Visit us ♪</i>

472
00:28:46,528 --> 00:28:51,265
<i>♪ With Thy salvation ♪</i>

473
00:28:51,365 --> 00:28:58,372
<i>♪ Enter every trembling heart ♪</i>

474
00:29:00,274 --> 00:29:02,176
[John]
We're all equal in God's eyes,

475
00:29:03,777 --> 00:29:05,647
whether you're a--
a gentleman commoner

476
00:29:05,746 --> 00:29:08,816
or a servitor with cake
on his shoes.

477
00:29:08,916 --> 00:29:10,017
[chucking]

478
00:29:10,117 --> 00:29:11,485
<i>♪ End of faith ♪</i>

479
00:29:11,586 --> 00:29:13,787
<i>♪ As its beginning ♪</i>

480
00:29:13,887 --> 00:29:16,457
[group] <i>♪ Set our hearts ♪</i>

481
00:29:16,558 --> 00:29:20,695
<i>♪ At liberty ♪</i>

482
00:29:27,535 --> 00:29:31,138
Liberty, all men created equal,

483
00:29:31,238 --> 00:29:34,908
sounds like the cry
of the revolution.

484
00:29:38,279 --> 00:29:39,280
Section one.

485
00:29:46,588 --> 00:29:47,622
Section two.

486
00:29:49,189 --> 00:29:52,459
[George] <i>Dear Mum,</i>
<i>my studies are going well.</i>

487
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:54,928
<i>My elocution is much improved.</i>

488
00:29:55,029 --> 00:29:56,230
<i>More importantly,</i>

489
00:29:56,330 --> 00:29:58,866
<i>there has been a shift</i>
<i>in my misfortunes.</i>

490
00:29:58,966 --> 00:30:00,901
<i>The kindest group of men</i>
<i>I've ever met</i>

491
00:30:01,001 --> 00:30:05,640
<i>invited me into their society</i>
<i>called, "The Holy Club".</i>

492
00:30:05,740 --> 00:30:09,644
<i>We study the holy scriptures,</i>
<i>pray, meet for worship,</i>

493
00:30:09,744 --> 00:30:12,747
<i>and bring food</i>
<i>and clothing to the poor.</i>

494
00:30:12,846 --> 00:30:15,717
<i>Yesterday,</i>
<i>while visiting with prisoners,</i>

495
00:30:15,816 --> 00:30:17,652
<i>I was strangely warmed.</i>

496
00:30:17,752 --> 00:30:20,154
[chains clattering]

497
00:30:23,924 --> 00:30:25,660
- Hallelujah. Praise God.
- John...

498
00:30:26,860 --> 00:30:29,764
shouldn't we read
the Bible to them?

499
00:30:30,831 --> 00:30:34,201
We're being the hands
and feet of Christ.

500
00:30:34,301 --> 00:30:35,869
[prisoner] Merciful Jesus...

501
00:30:35,969 --> 00:30:37,104
The hands and feet?

502
00:30:37,204 --> 00:30:38,839
[prisoner]
Blessed be His name...

503
00:30:40,675 --> 00:30:41,842
What about his voice?

504
00:30:42,811 --> 00:30:44,178
[prisoner] The Word of God.

505
00:30:44,278 --> 00:30:46,380
I admire your zeal,

506
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:48,616
but there are hundreds
of prisoners here.

507
00:30:49,517 --> 00:30:52,252
Reading Scripture to each one
would take hours.

508
00:30:52,353 --> 00:30:55,155
Not one at a time, all at once.

509
00:30:56,357 --> 00:30:57,491
All at once?

510
00:30:58,192 --> 00:30:59,893
And how do you suggest
we do that?

511
00:31:00,795 --> 00:31:01,796
From here.

512
00:31:02,896 --> 00:31:05,299
[background chatter]

513
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,303
- [clears throat]
- [prisoner] Bless the Lord.

514
00:31:09,403 --> 00:31:11,573
A reading from the Word of God,

515
00:31:12,574 --> 00:31:14,642
the Book of John, naturally.

516
00:31:17,344 --> 00:31:20,615
"Nicodemus, the Pharisee,
came to Jesus at night

517
00:31:20,715 --> 00:31:22,216
and said unto him,

518
00:31:23,016 --> 00:31:26,453
'We know you are a teacher
who comes from God,

519
00:31:26,554 --> 00:31:29,089
but no one could perform
the signs you are doing

520
00:31:29,189 --> 00:31:30,825
unless God was with him.'

521
00:31:32,259 --> 00:31:36,163
Jesus replied,
'Truly I tell you,

522
00:31:36,263 --> 00:31:38,399
no one can see
the Kingdom of God

523
00:31:38,499 --> 00:31:40,602
unless they are born again.'

524
00:31:43,203 --> 00:31:46,273
Nicodemus asked,
"How can this be?

525
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:49,376
How can someone enter
a second time

526
00:31:49,476 --> 00:31:51,880
into their mother's womb
to be born?'

527
00:31:52,647 --> 00:31:56,116
And Jesus answered,
'Very truly I tell you,

528
00:31:56,216 --> 00:31:58,586
flesh gives birth to flesh,

529
00:31:58,686 --> 00:32:01,556
but the spirit gives birth
to spirit.'"

530
00:32:05,225 --> 00:32:06,493
[clears throat]

531
00:32:06,594 --> 00:32:08,929
"You should not be surprised
at my saying,

532
00:32:09,029 --> 00:32:10,431
'You must be born again.'

533
00:32:14,401 --> 00:32:18,907
The wind blows
wherever it pleases.

534
00:32:19,808 --> 00:32:22,042
You hear its sound,

535
00:32:22,142 --> 00:32:24,813
but you cannot tell
where it comes from

536
00:32:24,913 --> 00:32:26,246
or where it is going.

537
00:32:27,715 --> 00:32:31,051
So it is with everyone
born of the Spirit...

538
00:32:37,391 --> 00:32:41,128
For God so loved the world..."

539
00:32:45,132 --> 00:32:48,135
God so loved each of you.

540
00:32:49,904 --> 00:32:50,905
He loved.

541
00:32:55,075 --> 00:32:56,778
"He gave His only Son...

542
00:32:57,946 --> 00:33:00,380
that whosoever
should believe in Him

543
00:33:00,481 --> 00:33:02,249
and call upon His name

544
00:33:03,918 --> 00:33:05,920
should not perish
in their sins...

545
00:33:07,254 --> 00:33:08,656
but have eternal life."

546
00:33:13,994 --> 00:33:15,663
He did not come to condemn us.

547
00:33:18,867 --> 00:33:19,934
He loves us.

548
00:33:23,872 --> 00:33:25,038
He loves us.

549
00:33:27,876 --> 00:33:29,644
[prisoner coughing]

550
00:33:35,315 --> 00:33:36,483
Is there any water?

551
00:33:38,620 --> 00:33:41,054
Please, get him some water.

552
00:33:41,154 --> 00:33:42,356
What are you doing, George?

553
00:33:43,390 --> 00:33:44,993
The same thing you did for me.

554
00:34:41,849 --> 00:34:43,918
Do you believe
the words I just read?

555
00:34:48,623 --> 00:34:49,557
[sobs] Yes.

556
00:34:50,525 --> 00:34:51,626
So do I.

557
00:34:53,861 --> 00:34:56,096
Do you want to know this Jesus?

558
00:34:56,196 --> 00:34:57,097
Yes.

559
00:34:58,600 --> 00:34:59,801
So do I.

560
00:35:03,103 --> 00:35:05,138
- [prisoner sobs]
- [exhales]

561
00:35:09,242 --> 00:35:10,678
I'm not leaving
until all the feet

562
00:35:10,778 --> 00:35:13,113
of every prisoner
have been washed.

563
00:35:13,213 --> 00:35:14,782
G-George, that-that will take--

564
00:35:14,882 --> 00:35:19,219
All day and all night, I know.

565
00:35:19,319 --> 00:35:22,557
You did it for me,
I will do it for them,

566
00:35:22,657 --> 00:35:23,791
alone if I must.

567
00:35:25,727 --> 00:35:27,394
You won't be alone in this work.

568
00:35:28,997 --> 00:35:31,398
[George] It's all right.
Lean into the light.

569
00:35:42,076 --> 00:35:45,013
<i>Mum, can you believe it?</i>

570
00:35:45,113 --> 00:35:46,514
<i>Me.</i>

571
00:35:46,614 --> 00:35:49,383
<i>I don't know whether to laugh</i>
<i>at myself or weep</i>

572
00:35:49,483 --> 00:35:52,987
<i>when I confess that I no longer</i>
<i>wish to be an actor,</i>

573
00:35:53,087 --> 00:35:54,187
<i>but a preacher.</i>

574
00:35:55,990 --> 00:35:57,992
<i>The pulpit will be my stage.</i>

575
00:35:59,027 --> 00:36:02,162
<i>If, as an actor,</i>
<i>I can make fiction believable,</i>

576
00:36:02,262 --> 00:36:03,665
<i>imagine what could happen</i>

577
00:36:03,765 --> 00:36:07,101
<i>if I speak the truth</i>
<i>from my heart.</i>

578
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:11,706
<i>I have been meditating</i>
<i>upon Psalm 139 every day,</i>

579
00:36:11,806 --> 00:36:14,207
<i>"Lord, search my heart.</i>

580
00:36:14,307 --> 00:36:17,612
<i>See if there is</i>
<i>any offensive way in me</i>

581
00:36:17,712 --> 00:36:19,814
<i>and lead me</i>
<i>in the way everlasting."</i>

582
00:36:21,448 --> 00:36:24,052
<i>I will pray</i>
<i>more than any other.</i>

583
00:36:24,152 --> 00:36:26,754
<i>I will fast</i>
<i>more than any other.</i>

584
00:36:26,854 --> 00:36:29,624
<i>I will make</i>
<i>my Heavenly Father proud.</i>

585
00:36:32,192 --> 00:36:34,028
<i>You will not hear from me</i>
<i>for a while,</i>

586
00:36:34,128 --> 00:36:36,597
<i>as I am entering</i>
<i>into a time of fasting,</i>

587
00:36:36,698 --> 00:36:39,199
<i>a rejection</i>
<i>of all earthly pleasures.</i>

588
00:36:40,367 --> 00:36:41,969
<i>I love you, Mum.</i>

589
00:36:42,070 --> 00:36:45,173
<i>Your God-fearing son, Georgie.</i>

590
00:36:52,847 --> 00:36:55,315
[thunder rumbles]

591
00:36:55,415 --> 00:36:56,483
[knocking on door]

592
00:36:56,584 --> 00:36:57,985
George!

593
00:36:58,086 --> 00:37:00,988
George, you must leave your room
and get some fresh air!

594
00:37:01,089 --> 00:37:02,023
Bathe!

595
00:37:02,924 --> 00:37:06,426
George! You haven't eaten
for nearly a month.

596
00:37:06,527 --> 00:37:07,762
[knocking on door]

597
00:37:07,862 --> 00:37:10,932
Hm. So much for my first line
of defense.

598
00:37:15,402 --> 00:37:18,005
[Benny]
Uh, General Washington, sir.

599
00:37:18,106 --> 00:37:20,340
[Washington] Dr. Franklin,
do not stand for my sake.

600
00:37:21,542 --> 00:37:24,078
General, please come inside.

601
00:37:24,178 --> 00:37:26,180
Eliza, gather the dishes.

602
00:37:26,279 --> 00:37:28,683
- [door closes]
- [distant bell tolling]

603
00:37:28,783 --> 00:37:30,651
[Sally] The storm will arrive
at any moment.

604
00:37:30,752 --> 00:37:31,953
It's already here.

605
00:37:32,053 --> 00:37:34,287
Oh. May I get you
tea or coffee, sir?

606
00:37:34,387 --> 00:37:36,256
No, you are very kind,
but I will not be long.

607
00:37:37,792 --> 00:37:38,960
[Sally] Good night then.

608
00:37:41,929 --> 00:37:42,830
Young man,

609
00:37:44,799 --> 00:37:46,801
if you wouldn't mind,
I wish for you to stay.

610
00:37:48,035 --> 00:37:49,336
This concerns you.

611
00:37:49,436 --> 00:37:50,705
[distant horse whinnies]

612
00:37:50,805 --> 00:37:51,939
Yes, sir.

613
00:37:55,209 --> 00:37:56,544
[Washington] Thank you
for accommodating

614
00:37:56,644 --> 00:37:57,845
my sudden intrusion.

615
00:37:59,046 --> 00:38:01,816
I've just returned
from a brief trip

616
00:38:01,916 --> 00:38:03,618
to an old familiar valley

617
00:38:04,619 --> 00:38:06,154
18 miles from here.

618
00:38:07,454 --> 00:38:08,723
Valley Forge.

619
00:38:13,493 --> 00:38:16,296
[Washington] It's beautiful
and thriving now.

620
00:38:19,332 --> 00:38:20,568
Ten years ago,

621
00:38:21,836 --> 00:38:23,671
- it was our Gethsemane.
- [thunder rumbling]

622
00:38:29,510 --> 00:38:32,713
Men marching through ice
and snow without shoes,

623
00:38:32,814 --> 00:38:36,449
their path traced by the blood
from their feet.

624
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:40,621
Without clothes to cover
their nakedness,

625
00:38:40,721 --> 00:38:42,256
without blankets to lie on.

626
00:38:44,357 --> 00:38:47,494
Enduring endless nights,

627
00:38:49,462 --> 00:38:54,001
desperate for the sun to break
over the horizon.

628
00:38:56,671 --> 00:38:59,874
I was certain Valley Forge
would be the darkest valley

629
00:38:59,974 --> 00:39:01,676
we ever walked
through as a nation.

630
00:39:03,811 --> 00:39:05,012
And I was wrong.

631
00:39:08,216 --> 00:39:13,486
Today, we stand
in an even darker valley, Ben.

632
00:39:20,027 --> 00:39:23,264
We planted a tree
that has been watered

633
00:39:23,363 --> 00:39:24,899
by the blood of patriots.

634
00:39:27,568 --> 00:39:29,604
We did not plant it
for ourselves.

635
00:39:29,704 --> 00:39:31,539
We planted it for him,

636
00:39:34,075 --> 00:39:38,045
and his children,
and their children

637
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:43,851
that they may have shelter
under its branches.

638
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:48,623
The tree we planted
has hardly grown,

639
00:39:49,422 --> 00:39:52,326
and already each state has taken
an ax to its trunk.

640
00:39:54,929 --> 00:39:57,497
If the disunity
within the states continues,

641
00:39:58,566 --> 00:40:00,334
if this convention fails,

642
00:40:01,869 --> 00:40:04,071
the sacrifice of those men
at Valley Forge,

643
00:40:04,171 --> 00:40:06,207
and so many others,
will be in vain.

644
00:40:08,709 --> 00:40:09,744
Now, Ben,

645
00:40:13,281 --> 00:40:15,516
I greatly admire that
you have been quick to listen

646
00:40:15,616 --> 00:40:16,751
and slow to speak,

647
00:40:18,519 --> 00:40:21,088
but that tree we planted
is about to fall.

648
00:40:24,392 --> 00:40:26,394
This great experiment
needs you, Ben.

649
00:40:28,696 --> 00:40:29,697
I need you.

650
00:40:31,632 --> 00:40:34,969
We cannot let the sun set
on this nation.

651
00:40:45,279 --> 00:40:47,081
[thunder rumbling]

652
00:41:02,930 --> 00:41:03,831
Grandfather?

653
00:41:05,633 --> 00:41:06,701
Keep reading.

654
00:41:06,801 --> 00:41:08,336
[rain pouring continues]

655
00:41:14,474 --> 00:41:15,876
[loud pounding]

656
00:41:15,977 --> 00:41:19,479
George! You haven't eaten
for nearly a month!

657
00:41:19,580 --> 00:41:21,248
- [pounding]
- [George praying indistinct]

658
00:41:23,784 --> 00:41:26,854
Lord, search my heart.

659
00:41:26,954 --> 00:41:29,256
See if there is
any offensive way in me.

660
00:41:31,692 --> 00:41:33,928
[coughs]

661
00:41:34,028 --> 00:41:35,730
What has happened to you?

662
00:41:35,830 --> 00:41:37,999
I must crucify my flesh, John.

663
00:41:39,700 --> 00:41:40,634
[grunts]

664
00:41:44,939 --> 00:41:45,940
[John] George!

665
00:41:49,010 --> 00:41:50,344
This is not holiness.

666
00:41:50,444 --> 00:41:51,712
This is madness!

667
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:53,781
George!

668
00:41:53,881 --> 00:41:55,783
[thunder crashing]

669
00:42:01,288 --> 00:42:02,323
Search me.

670
00:42:03,357 --> 00:42:04,625
Search my heart.

671
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:14,902
Why isn't this working?

672
00:42:28,149 --> 00:42:29,050
[John] George!

673
00:42:29,817 --> 00:42:30,718
George!

674
00:42:31,419 --> 00:42:32,353
George!

675
00:42:39,260 --> 00:42:40,428
Keep him fed.

676
00:42:41,929 --> 00:42:44,732
He cannot afford to lose
another pound.

677
00:42:47,234 --> 00:42:48,436
Had you not intervened,

678
00:42:48,537 --> 00:42:50,905
he would most certainly
have died.

679
00:42:53,574 --> 00:42:54,742
Thank you, Doctor.

680
00:42:56,911 --> 00:43:00,848
[door opens, closes]

681
00:43:12,693 --> 00:43:14,228
[George]
Why did you get in the way?

682
00:43:16,764 --> 00:43:18,365
Because you're killing yourself.

683
00:43:18,466 --> 00:43:19,400
[George exhales]

684
00:43:20,569 --> 00:43:21,902
I would rather die

685
00:43:23,003 --> 00:43:25,706
and be in His Holy Presence

686
00:43:25,806 --> 00:43:29,076
than go on living
in this unholy body.

687
00:43:31,445 --> 00:43:33,147
You have been deceived by Satan.

688
00:43:34,281 --> 00:43:35,783
You are feasting on a lie.

689
00:43:35,883 --> 00:43:37,184
[George] I am focusing on God.

690
00:43:37,284 --> 00:43:38,619
You are focusing on yourself.

691
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:41,523
- How dare you, John.
- How dare you, George!

692
00:43:41,622 --> 00:43:43,924
Insulting the Heavenly Father
in this way!

693
00:43:44,024 --> 00:43:46,327
I am making Him proud of me.

694
00:43:46,427 --> 00:43:48,095
[John] Making Him proud of you?

695
00:43:52,601 --> 00:43:55,537
When Jesus emerged from
the water after He was baptized,

696
00:43:55,636 --> 00:43:57,506
what did His Heavenly Father
say to Him?

697
00:43:58,806 --> 00:44:00,741
Well, go on, you know
the scripture.

698
00:44:02,676 --> 00:44:04,345
"This is my beloved Son."

699
00:44:07,181 --> 00:44:08,182
What else?

700
00:44:09,416 --> 00:44:11,152
"In whom I am well pleased."

701
00:44:15,022 --> 00:44:19,994
"In whom I am well pleased."

702
00:44:21,662 --> 00:44:23,330
Did Jesus perform
any mighty works

703
00:44:23,430 --> 00:44:24,633
before that moment?

704
00:44:28,269 --> 00:44:29,604
Not a single one.

705
00:44:30,605 --> 00:44:32,973
So, why then was His Father
so proud?

706
00:44:36,010 --> 00:44:37,546
Because He was His Son.

707
00:44:42,082 --> 00:44:44,718
Because He loved His child.

708
00:44:45,819 --> 00:44:46,887
Don't you see?

709
00:44:47,656 --> 00:44:50,491
It's not you, it's--
it's Christ in you!

710
00:44:53,628 --> 00:44:55,796
You must either receive it
as a gift

711
00:44:57,231 --> 00:44:59,033
or reject it altogether.

712
00:45:00,067 --> 00:45:02,403
So choose, George.

713
00:45:06,707 --> 00:45:08,142
[breathing heavily]

714
00:45:20,154 --> 00:45:22,790
[John]
You are George Whitefield,

715
00:45:22,890 --> 00:45:25,826
in whom the Lord
is well pleased.

716
00:45:31,498 --> 00:45:33,434
[laughter]

717
00:45:40,207 --> 00:45:42,309
Speak from the Word

718
00:45:43,177 --> 00:45:45,045
In lightning speak.

719
00:45:46,413 --> 00:45:48,916
Cry out and thunder
from the Word.

720
00:45:51,686 --> 00:45:53,887
[laughter]

721
00:46:02,763 --> 00:46:04,098
[laughter fades]

722
00:46:04,198 --> 00:46:05,466
[thunder rumbling]

723
00:46:07,736 --> 00:46:11,706
Your great-grandfather owned
a candle shop.

724
00:46:12,873 --> 00:46:14,542
I worked there as a boy.

725
00:46:15,276 --> 00:46:16,944
He used to say...

726
00:46:17,044 --> 00:46:21,583
"One tiny candle
illuminates a thousand."

727
00:46:22,751 --> 00:46:24,985
Hmm. What do you mean?

728
00:46:26,887 --> 00:46:28,690
I mean,

729
00:46:28,789 --> 00:46:31,760
the Church of England
was not ready

730
00:46:31,859 --> 00:46:34,895
for an awakened
Reverend George Whitefield.

731
00:46:39,567 --> 00:46:41,335
[priest 1]
<i>Spare thou them, O God,</i>

732
00:46:41,435 --> 00:46:43,871
restore thou those
that are penitent,

733
00:46:43,971 --> 00:46:47,207
that we may live hereafter
a godly and sober life

734
00:46:47,308 --> 00:46:49,376
to the glory of Thy holy name.

735
00:46:49,476 --> 00:46:50,679
[coughing]

736
00:46:50,779 --> 00:46:54,214
O God, make speed to save us.

737
00:46:54,315 --> 00:46:58,185
O Lord, make haste to help us.

738
00:47:00,487 --> 00:47:02,389
[chuckles]

739
00:47:02,489 --> 00:47:04,892
[baby crying]

740
00:47:04,992 --> 00:47:05,959
Amen.

741
00:47:08,596 --> 00:47:11,666
The congregation has grown
quite large,

742
00:47:11,766 --> 00:47:16,705
presumably in anticipation
of our guest speaker

743
00:47:16,805 --> 00:47:18,506
who has excited many of late

744
00:47:18,606 --> 00:47:22,544
and created not a little
following for himself.

745
00:47:24,144 --> 00:47:27,948
I'm very sorry to see you here,
Mr. Whitefield.

746
00:47:28,048 --> 00:47:30,451
[priest 1]
So, without further ado...

747
00:47:30,552 --> 00:47:32,286
So is the devil.

748
00:47:32,386 --> 00:47:35,989
[priest 1] ...the Reverend
George Whitefield.

749
00:47:37,991 --> 00:47:40,795
Adjust your wig, Mr. Whitefield.

750
00:47:49,336 --> 00:47:52,741
- [man clears throat]
- [indistinct whispers]

751
00:48:08,556 --> 00:48:12,861
In 1675,
the Archbishop of Canterbury

752
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:15,830
became acquainted with
a certain actor of some renown,

753
00:48:16,564 --> 00:48:18,198
Mr. Betterton.

754
00:48:18,298 --> 00:48:23,738
One day, the archbishop said,
"Mr. Betterton, pray, tell me,

755
00:48:23,838 --> 00:48:26,907
how is it that you actors
on the stage

756
00:48:27,007 --> 00:48:29,309
can so move your audiences

757
00:48:29,410 --> 00:48:31,945
whilst speaking of things
imaginary,

758
00:48:32,045 --> 00:48:35,850
while we, in the pulpit,
speak of things real,

759
00:48:35,949 --> 00:48:37,819
which our congregations receive

760
00:48:37,918 --> 00:48:41,488
as if they were
but imaginary things?"

761
00:48:41,589 --> 00:48:44,992
"Why, my lord,"
Mr. Betterton replied,

762
00:48:45,092 --> 00:48:46,828
"The answer is quite plain.

763
00:48:47,896 --> 00:48:52,767
We actors speak of things
imaginary as if they were real,

764
00:48:52,867 --> 00:48:55,402
while you, in the pulpit,

765
00:48:56,270 --> 00:49:01,141
speak of things real
as if they were imaginary."

766
00:49:01,241 --> 00:49:04,311
- [crowd murmurs
- [George] Therefore...

767
00:49:04,411 --> 00:49:07,782
I will not be
a velvet-mouthed preacher.

768
00:49:10,718 --> 00:49:12,520
Do not be deceived!

769
00:49:12,620 --> 00:49:14,188
You may have a religious head

770
00:49:14,288 --> 00:49:16,056
and yet have the devil
in your heart!

771
00:49:16,156 --> 00:49:18,392
Our Lord speaks
the same words to you

772
00:49:18,492 --> 00:49:21,161
as surely as He spoke them
to Nicodemus of old,

773
00:49:21,261 --> 00:49:23,063
"You must be born again!"

774
00:49:24,599 --> 00:49:27,735
Nicodemus, respected, religious,

775
00:49:27,836 --> 00:49:31,205
renowned as righteous,
and still the Master commanded,

776
00:49:31,305 --> 00:49:32,941
"You must be born again!"

777
00:49:33,641 --> 00:49:34,975
Like the church at Sardis,

778
00:49:35,075 --> 00:49:37,144
he had a reputation
for being alive,

779
00:49:37,244 --> 00:49:38,847
and yet was dead inside.

780
00:49:38,947 --> 00:49:40,582
How many of our congregations
are dead,

781
00:49:40,682 --> 00:49:43,150
because they have dead men
preaching to them?

782
00:49:43,250 --> 00:49:45,753
How can dead men beget
living children?

783
00:49:45,854 --> 00:49:49,089
Therefore, Christ says to you,
"Because you are lukewarm,

784
00:49:49,189 --> 00:49:50,525
neither hot nor cold,

785
00:49:50,625 --> 00:49:53,093
I'm about to spit you out
of my mouth!"

786
00:49:54,194 --> 00:49:57,565
Do not trust in your good works
for salvation,

787
00:49:57,665 --> 00:49:59,934
or that your name is written
in the church registry.

788
00:50:00,033 --> 00:50:01,536
I tell you,
there is only one book

789
00:50:01,636 --> 00:50:03,003
where your name must be written,

790
00:50:03,103 --> 00:50:05,272
and that is the Lamb's Book
of Life!

791
00:50:05,372 --> 00:50:07,074
Is your name written there?

792
00:50:07,174 --> 00:50:08,442
- Is it there?
- Yes!

793
00:50:08,543 --> 00:50:09,777
- Do you know?
- Yes!

794
00:50:09,878 --> 00:50:11,111
[priest 1] Stop this!

795
00:50:12,312 --> 00:50:13,948
[George] Come! Come!

796
00:50:14,047 --> 00:50:16,283
Come just as you are to Christ!

797
00:50:16,383 --> 00:50:17,785
For in Him,

798
00:50:17,886 --> 00:50:19,854
there is neither religious
nor irreligious,

799
00:50:19,954 --> 00:50:22,422
slave nor free, male nor female!

800
00:50:22,524 --> 00:50:24,559
All are one in Christ Jesus!

801
00:50:24,659 --> 00:50:27,227
[priest 2] Rebuke
this riotous crowd immediately!

802
00:50:27,327 --> 00:50:28,428
[priest 1] Stop this!

803
00:50:28,530 --> 00:50:30,063
I know not what sorcery

804
00:50:30,163 --> 00:50:31,699
or witchcraft you invoked today,

805
00:50:31,799 --> 00:50:34,468
but it will not be tolerated
in my house of God!

806
00:50:34,569 --> 00:50:36,036
Your house of God?

807
00:50:36,136 --> 00:50:37,539
[priest 1]
You are banned from preaching

808
00:50:37,639 --> 00:50:40,040
in His Majesty King George's
church again!

809
00:50:40,140 --> 00:50:41,709
If I cannot preach inside,

810
00:50:41,809 --> 00:50:44,211
then I will go outside
into the streets

811
00:50:44,311 --> 00:50:47,582
and the fields to the orphans,
the slaves, the widows--

812
00:50:47,682 --> 00:50:49,584
And compel them to come
into the house

813
00:50:49,684 --> 00:50:52,452
of the one true king,
Jesus Christ!

814
00:50:52,554 --> 00:50:54,956
It is prohibited
for an Anglican minister

815
00:50:55,055 --> 00:50:58,225
to-- to preach outside
to the ignorant masses!

816
00:50:58,325 --> 00:51:01,863
I will see you defrocked
as an Anglican minister!

817
00:51:03,163 --> 00:51:04,398
Blind guides!

818
00:51:04,498 --> 00:51:06,000
Let the dead preach to the dead.

819
00:51:06,099 --> 00:51:08,703
But I will proclaim freedom
in Christ to all who believe,

820
00:51:08,803 --> 00:51:10,738
and the gates of Hell
will not prevail!

821
00:51:10,838 --> 00:51:11,806
Get out!

822
00:51:11,906 --> 00:51:15,208
[indistinct chatter]

823
00:51:19,112 --> 00:51:21,649
[churchgoers] Amen. Amen.

824
00:51:22,784 --> 00:51:24,351
Amen.

825
00:51:30,792 --> 00:51:31,726
Yah!

826
00:52:16,504 --> 00:52:18,438
Fastest pulpit on four legs.

827
00:52:20,575 --> 00:52:21,843
Let's try something new.

828
00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:15,163
Hey, now go.

829
00:53:16,030 --> 00:53:17,364
Stop starin', you rat!

830
00:53:24,906 --> 00:53:26,306
What's this?

831
00:53:26,406 --> 00:53:28,475
A priest with a pulpit
but no church?

832
00:53:28,576 --> 00:53:31,045
[workers laughing]

833
00:53:31,145 --> 00:53:33,147
You come to look down on us,
Priest?

834
00:53:33,981 --> 00:53:35,016
It's for the crowd.

835
00:53:35,917 --> 00:53:37,317
The crowd?

836
00:53:37,417 --> 00:53:38,886
It's for the crowd, he says!

837
00:53:38,986 --> 00:53:41,589
Did you know that Jesus said,

838
00:53:41,689 --> 00:53:43,423
"Let the children come to me,

839
00:53:44,125 --> 00:53:46,761
for theirs is the kingdom
of heaven"?

840
00:53:48,763 --> 00:53:50,631
[worker 1]
You're not wanted here.

841
00:53:50,732 --> 00:53:52,734
No, but needed.

842
00:53:55,770 --> 00:53:57,205
[worker 1] I told you to go!

843
00:53:58,338 --> 00:54:00,240
- Now, go!
- [grunts]

844
00:54:00,942 --> 00:54:03,276
[grunting]

845
00:54:11,853 --> 00:54:12,820
[spits]

846
00:54:14,021 --> 00:54:17,625
Must I tell you
of the bitter fruit

847
00:54:17,725 --> 00:54:19,292
of the deeds of darkness?

848
00:54:21,729 --> 00:54:24,632
Nay, I think not...

849
00:54:26,234 --> 00:54:28,368
For I see you to be as I was

850
00:54:29,604 --> 00:54:33,941
acquainted with grief,
with lack,

851
00:54:34,041 --> 00:54:36,944
with unrelenting sorrow
in your soul,

852
00:54:38,513 --> 00:54:42,315
ever anxious and fearful
of what may happen.

853
00:54:44,218 --> 00:54:46,854
Longing to be pure...

854
00:54:48,288 --> 00:54:50,258
but hopelessly defiled...

855
00:54:51,826 --> 00:54:53,561
then fly!

856
00:54:53,661 --> 00:54:55,495
Fly, my brothers!

857
00:54:55,596 --> 00:54:58,566
Fly for your lives
to Jesus Christ!

858
00:54:58,666 --> 00:55:00,768
Fly to the bleeding god!

859
00:55:02,302 --> 00:55:04,572
Fly to the throne of mercy

860
00:55:05,273 --> 00:55:07,175
and beg Him,

861
00:55:07,275 --> 00:55:09,476
beg Him to break your heart!

862
00:55:10,511 --> 00:55:14,048
Beg Him to show you your sin!

863
00:55:14,148 --> 00:55:18,252
Beg Him to give you faith
to close with Christ!

864
00:55:20,121 --> 00:55:22,623
For He too,
was a man of sorrows,

865
00:55:23,925 --> 00:55:25,593
acquainted with grief.

866
00:55:29,697 --> 00:55:32,099
[grunts, inhales]

867
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:35,169
Awake, oh sleeper!

868
00:55:35,269 --> 00:55:37,337
Arise from the dead!

869
00:55:39,207 --> 00:55:43,010
Can you hear him calling
as Lazarus did?

870
00:55:44,045 --> 00:55:45,913
Buried deep in the earth!

871
00:55:46,881 --> 00:55:48,616
Darkness all around!

872
00:55:49,717 --> 00:55:51,351
Arise!

873
00:55:54,856 --> 00:55:56,757
Arise!

874
00:55:56,858 --> 00:55:58,226
Come forth!

875
00:56:00,528 --> 00:56:02,029
- What was that?
- Shh.

876
00:56:02,129 --> 00:56:03,197
Listen.

877
00:56:03,297 --> 00:56:04,599
[George] In the beginning,

878
00:56:04,699 --> 00:56:06,734
darkness covered the face
of the deep.

879
00:56:08,736 --> 00:56:12,840
And the voice of the ancient
of days called forth,

880
00:56:13,875 --> 00:56:15,843
"Let there be light!"

881
00:56:17,645 --> 00:56:19,213
And in the fullness of time...

882
00:56:21,048 --> 00:56:23,718
Christ proclaimed
for all the world to know...

883
00:56:25,019 --> 00:56:26,654
"I am the light of life.

884
00:56:28,089 --> 00:56:29,857
If anyone follows me,

885
00:56:30,791 --> 00:56:32,960
he will never walk
in darkness...

886
00:56:34,528 --> 00:56:36,396
but will have
the light of life."

887
00:56:46,374 --> 00:56:47,407
[groans]

888
00:56:55,216 --> 00:56:58,085
[George] Though your sins
are black as coal...

889
00:56:59,754 --> 00:57:03,190
His blood will wash you
white as snow.

890
00:57:04,392 --> 00:57:05,458
He knows you.

891
00:57:06,694 --> 00:57:07,895
And He loves you.

892
00:57:13,200 --> 00:57:14,535
He won't have me.

893
00:57:18,639 --> 00:57:19,774
He created you.

894
00:57:23,577 --> 00:57:25,279
[sobs]

895
00:57:34,288 --> 00:57:35,957
My-- my children.

896
00:57:38,392 --> 00:57:39,961
My children, forgive me.

897
00:57:40,628 --> 00:57:43,264
[sobs]

898
00:57:46,934 --> 00:57:49,103
Forgive me. [sobbing]

899
00:58:01,082 --> 00:58:02,850
[indistinct]

900
00:58:02,950 --> 00:58:06,420
Will you surrender your life
to Christ

901
00:58:07,421 --> 00:58:08,756
as this man has done?

902
00:58:08,856 --> 00:58:11,258
[workers] Yes.

903
00:58:11,359 --> 00:58:12,727
Will you trust him?

904
00:58:12,827 --> 00:58:14,595
[workers] Yes.

905
00:58:14,695 --> 00:58:17,865
[George] Will you let His blood
seep into your hardened heart

906
00:58:17,965 --> 00:58:20,835
and transform you
from the inside out?

907
00:58:20,935 --> 00:58:23,070
- [workers] Yes.
- [George] Will you trust Him?

908
00:58:23,170 --> 00:58:26,173
[workers] Yes. Yes. Yes.

909
00:58:26,273 --> 00:58:28,709
- Thank you, Father.
- [workers] Thank you, Jesus.

910
00:58:33,981 --> 00:58:36,617
[rousing music playing]

911
00:58:46,494 --> 00:58:48,896
[inaudible]

912
00:59:00,708 --> 00:59:03,377
[Benjamin]
The people embraced him.

913
00:59:03,477 --> 00:59:05,546
The Church of England did not.

914
00:59:06,414 --> 00:59:10,284
And not only did they kick him
out of their parishes,

915
00:59:10,384 --> 00:59:12,319
they kicked him out
of their country.

916
00:59:13,220 --> 00:59:14,388
Well, where did he go?

917
00:59:14,488 --> 00:59:16,490
[exciting music plays]

918
00:59:41,048 --> 00:59:44,952
Arriving from England,
the Reverend George Whitefield

919
00:59:45,052 --> 00:59:48,456
to preach repentance
in New York,

920
00:59:48,557 --> 00:59:49,890
Pennsylvania,

921
00:59:50,991 --> 00:59:54,962
Massachusetts, Rhode Island.

922
00:59:55,062 --> 00:59:58,666
Arriving from England,
the Reverend George Whitefield.

923
00:59:58,766 --> 01:00:01,570
[indistinct chatter]

924
01:00:19,386 --> 01:00:21,021
- Sir!
- Not even a good morning,

925
01:00:21,122 --> 01:00:22,089
young lady?

926
01:00:22,723 --> 01:00:25,626
Father, Mr. Franklin,
a reverend named George--

927
01:00:25,726 --> 01:00:27,895
[Benjamin] Whitefield, yes,
I am aware of him

928
01:00:27,995 --> 01:00:30,131
and his departure from England
for our colonies.

929
01:00:30,231 --> 01:00:31,665
He's been drawing
tremendous crowds.

930
01:00:31,765 --> 01:00:34,201
- Crowds as large as--
- [Benjamin] 25,000.

931
01:00:34,301 --> 01:00:36,704
You know, since my youth,

932
01:00:36,804 --> 01:00:39,006
I have struggled to believe
that a single voice,

933
01:00:39,106 --> 01:00:40,708
say that of an army general,

934
01:00:40,808 --> 01:00:42,877
could be heard by thousands
of his soldiers

935
01:00:42,977 --> 01:00:45,946
without significant aid
in volume amplification.

936
01:00:47,648 --> 01:00:49,717
Yes, sir. Anyway, he--

937
01:00:49,817 --> 01:00:51,085
Now, I am not doubting

938
01:00:51,185 --> 01:00:53,287
Whitefield's skill
as a powerful orator.

939
01:00:53,387 --> 01:00:55,923
I am doubting, however,
the unfounded claim

940
01:00:56,023 --> 01:00:58,627
that he can be heard
and understood by so many.

941
01:00:58,726 --> 01:01:00,928
There's simply not enough data
to support such a claim.

942
01:01:01,028 --> 01:01:02,997
And without evidence,
I won't believe it.

943
01:01:03,764 --> 01:01:05,966
You don't believe the stories
from London are true?

944
01:01:06,667 --> 01:01:10,738
I believe that fish grow larger
as they cross the Atlantic.

945
01:01:10,838 --> 01:01:13,774
Hmm. [chuckles]
But fish tale or not,

946
01:01:13,874 --> 01:01:15,442
religion sells papers.

947
01:01:15,544 --> 01:01:18,746
And printers all over
the colonies, myself included,

948
01:01:18,846 --> 01:01:22,116
have already made a profit
from this English preacher.

949
01:01:22,216 --> 01:01:25,620
So we shall see how long
the Pennsylvania Gazette

950
01:01:25,719 --> 01:01:29,156
can ride the Whitefield wave.
[chuckles]

951
01:01:33,427 --> 01:01:35,329
What is the matter
with the three of you?

952
01:01:36,997 --> 01:01:39,534
Reverend Whitefield is...
is here.

953
01:01:39,634 --> 01:01:40,868
[Benjamin] Here? As in?

954
01:01:40,968 --> 01:01:42,803
- Philadelphia, sir.
- When?

955
01:01:43,538 --> 01:01:44,573
Now.

956
01:01:44,673 --> 01:01:46,807
Well, why didn't you say so,
girl?

957
01:01:50,477 --> 01:01:51,412
[William] Make way!

958
01:01:52,046 --> 01:01:53,280
Excuse me.

959
01:01:54,014 --> 01:01:55,149
Please, sir.

960
01:01:55,249 --> 01:01:57,418
What is that balcony
right there?

961
01:01:57,519 --> 01:01:59,853
Uh, the courthouse.

962
01:02:00,421 --> 01:02:02,489
That's the place.
Thank you, sir.

963
01:02:02,591 --> 01:02:05,292
- God be with you.
- [indistinct chatter]

964
01:02:05,392 --> 01:02:08,229
[crowd cheering]

965
01:02:23,444 --> 01:02:25,779
I guess we're about to find out
how big this fish really is.

966
01:02:31,720 --> 01:02:35,089
[exciting music playing]

967
01:02:39,093 --> 01:02:41,128
The spirit of the Lord is here,
George.

968
01:02:42,229 --> 01:02:43,732
Their hearts are ready.

969
01:02:45,466 --> 01:02:46,500
Are you?

970
01:02:46,601 --> 01:02:48,102
[sighs]

971
01:02:48,202 --> 01:02:49,403
[whistling in background]

972
01:02:50,938 --> 01:02:54,808
Father, tear down the name
of Whitefield

973
01:02:54,908 --> 01:02:57,077
if it means Your name remains.

974
01:02:58,245 --> 01:02:59,146
Amen.

975
01:03:00,247 --> 01:03:01,148
Amen.

976
01:03:03,718 --> 01:03:06,755
[crowd cheering, whistling]

977
01:03:12,793 --> 01:03:13,861
[woman] That's him!

978
01:03:13,961 --> 01:03:15,362
[man 1] Welcome to Philadelphia,
Reverend!

979
01:03:15,462 --> 01:03:16,731
[man 2] Bless you, Reverend!

980
01:03:18,633 --> 01:03:21,235
[George] The spirit of the Lord
is upon me!

981
01:03:21,335 --> 01:03:25,205
For He has anointed me to preach
the gospel to the poor!

982
01:03:25,306 --> 01:03:27,875
To proclaim freedom
to the captives!

983
01:03:27,975 --> 01:03:31,145
And to set at liberty
those who are oppressed!

984
01:03:32,781 --> 01:03:36,651
City of brotherly love,
the words of Christ, our Savior,

985
01:03:36,751 --> 01:03:38,319
ring out to you this day!

986
01:03:39,019 --> 01:03:43,057
Whom the Son sets free
is free indeed.

987
01:03:43,157 --> 01:03:45,192
Dear God.

988
01:03:45,292 --> 01:03:47,061
[George]
Why does Christ set free?

989
01:03:47,161 --> 01:03:48,730
Why does He bring new life?

990
01:03:48,829 --> 01:03:50,230
Because without Him,

991
01:03:50,331 --> 01:03:52,567
you're a condemned prisoner
of your sin.

992
01:03:52,667 --> 01:03:54,835
[exhales] Market Street.

993
01:03:54,935 --> 01:03:58,205
100 feet by 260 per block.

994
01:03:58,807 --> 01:04:00,441
Plus, 40 feet
on the side streets

995
01:04:00,542 --> 01:04:01,643
around to the wharf.

996
01:04:03,477 --> 01:04:04,546
Let's see.

997
01:04:04,646 --> 01:04:07,582
Agh! A printer
without paper and ink.

998
01:04:07,682 --> 01:04:09,950
Excuse me. Pardon me.

999
01:04:10,050 --> 01:04:11,952
Pardon me. Excuse me.

1000
01:04:12,052 --> 01:04:14,388
- [door opens]
- [George preaching continues]

1001
01:04:17,191 --> 01:04:19,326
[sighs]
Where's my graphite stick?

1002
01:04:25,499 --> 01:04:28,068
Blast it, Joseph, have you seen
my graphite stick?

1003
01:04:28,168 --> 01:04:30,705
[George preaching]
...the old has come, behold!

1004
01:04:30,805 --> 01:04:32,540
Old things have become new.

1005
01:04:33,675 --> 01:04:35,209
[Joseph] Have you ever heard
a voice like that?

1006
01:04:35,309 --> 01:04:37,111
[George] How many souls
are kept from Christ

1007
01:04:37,211 --> 01:04:39,748
for fear of reproach?
Of being marked with...

1008
01:04:39,848 --> 01:04:41,816
Like a trumpet blast
from Heaven.

1009
01:04:41,915 --> 01:04:44,719
[George]
We have a living hope within us.

1010
01:04:44,819 --> 01:04:47,856
And yet we fear to proclaim
that which we know is true!

1011
01:04:49,022 --> 01:04:51,659
Are we in truth
ashamed of Christ?

1012
01:04:51,760 --> 01:04:55,329
This is it, Mr. Franklin. Yes.

1013
01:04:56,230 --> 01:04:57,699
A real experiment.

1014
01:05:01,034 --> 01:05:02,102
Discredit...

1015
01:05:05,439 --> 01:05:06,574
Either a rumor...

1016
01:05:07,842 --> 01:05:09,243
or fact.

1017
01:05:09,910 --> 01:05:11,345
Yes. [laughs]

1018
01:05:11,445 --> 01:05:14,248
I ask you, ye men of letters,

1019
01:05:14,948 --> 01:05:17,786
whether your great Lycurgus
or Solon,

1020
01:05:17,886 --> 01:05:21,021
Pythagoras or Plato,
Aristotle, Seneca, Cicero,

1021
01:05:21,121 --> 01:05:23,290
all the heathen moralists
combined

1022
01:05:23,390 --> 01:05:26,460
ever produced a system of ethics
any way comparable

1023
01:05:26,561 --> 01:05:29,963
with so long-lasting,
so widespread in effect

1024
01:05:30,063 --> 01:05:33,333
as the shining wisdom
given by the one they call

1025
01:05:33,434 --> 01:05:34,669
Jesus of Nazareth.

1026
01:05:34,769 --> 01:05:38,272
Divided by four,
plus another five...

1027
01:05:40,474 --> 01:05:42,811
Yeah, 6,000.

1028
01:05:42,911 --> 01:05:44,211
How many, Mr. Franklin?

1029
01:05:46,548 --> 01:05:49,149
According to my calculations,

1030
01:05:49,249 --> 01:05:52,821
his voice can be heard
by 30,000.

1031
01:05:52,921 --> 01:05:54,221
You say 30,000?

1032
01:05:55,489 --> 01:05:56,490
Philadelphia only has--

1033
01:05:56,591 --> 01:05:58,392
20,000 residents.

1034
01:06:00,994 --> 01:06:03,531
What if there be mysteries
in His religion?

1035
01:06:03,631 --> 01:06:05,867
Are they not mysteries
of godliness?

1036
01:06:05,966 --> 01:06:08,570
Are they not worthy of the God
who reveals them?

1037
01:06:09,269 --> 01:06:13,842
Is it not the greatest mystery
that men who pretend to reason

1038
01:06:13,942 --> 01:06:16,878
and search into the very science
of nature itself,

1039
01:06:16,977 --> 01:06:20,347
and consequently find a mystery
in every blade of grass,

1040
01:06:20,447 --> 01:06:22,517
should then be so irrational
as to decry

1041
01:06:22,617 --> 01:06:24,084
all mysteries in religion?

1042
01:06:24,819 --> 01:06:26,420
Where is the scribe?

1043
01:06:26,521 --> 01:06:27,988
Where is the wise?

1044
01:06:28,088 --> 01:06:29,524
Where among you is the disputer

1045
01:06:29,624 --> 01:06:31,325
against
the Christian revelation?

1046
01:06:31,425 --> 01:06:32,459
I ask you.

1047
01:06:33,193 --> 01:06:36,497
Does not everything without
and within us conspire to prove

1048
01:06:36,598 --> 01:06:38,365
their divine origin?

1049
01:06:38,465 --> 01:06:41,636
Was Christ Himself not styled
the Word of God?

1050
01:06:42,704 --> 01:06:45,807
The fear of Him is the beginning
of knowledge.

1051
01:06:47,040 --> 01:06:49,042
It's not a fish tale,
Mr. Franklin.

1052
01:06:50,678 --> 01:06:55,550
Do not let the flat, lifeless,
stained-glass reverence you see

1053
01:06:55,650 --> 01:06:58,452
keep you a cool distance
from His fiery heart!

1054
01:06:58,553 --> 01:07:00,254
For it is the kindness
of the Lord

1055
01:07:00,354 --> 01:07:02,289
that leads us to repentance.

1056
01:07:02,389 --> 01:07:06,026
And what does it mean to repent,
but to turn another way?

1057
01:07:06,895 --> 01:07:10,598
What way shall we turn in naught
but darkness?

1058
01:07:10,698 --> 01:07:11,799
What way shall we turn

1059
01:07:11,900 --> 01:07:13,635
if not toward
the inextinguishable light

1060
01:07:13,735 --> 01:07:15,402
of the risen Son?

1061
01:07:15,502 --> 01:07:19,406
Who, though we reject Him,
still pursues us all our days.

1062
01:07:19,507 --> 01:07:23,578
Oh! Does not your dead heart
quicken to life at the thought

1063
01:07:23,678 --> 01:07:25,813
that you were fashioned
for such purpose,

1064
01:07:25,914 --> 01:07:29,751
and have yet a part to play
in the unfolding kingdom of God?

1065
01:07:29,851 --> 01:07:31,586
Stand therefore, brethren,

1066
01:07:31,686 --> 01:07:34,889
in the liberty wherewith Christ
hath made you free.

1067
01:07:34,989 --> 01:07:38,091
Be not entangled under the yoke
of the bondage of sin.

1068
01:07:38,826 --> 01:07:43,598
I commend you now all to Christ
in His infinite mercy,

1069
01:07:43,698 --> 01:07:46,500
to whom, with the Father
and the Spirit,

1070
01:07:46,601 --> 01:07:50,203
be all glory, all honor,
all power,

1071
01:07:50,304 --> 01:07:52,774
now and forevermore!

1072
01:07:52,874 --> 01:07:54,008
Amen!

1073
01:07:54,107 --> 01:07:56,511
- [crowd] Amen!
- [George] Amen!

1074
01:07:56,611 --> 01:07:57,946
[crowd] Amen!

1075
01:07:58,046 --> 01:07:59,179
[George] Amen!

1076
01:07:59,279 --> 01:08:00,982
[crowd] Amen!

1077
01:08:01,081 --> 01:08:03,083
[George] Awake, oh sleeper!

1078
01:08:03,952 --> 01:08:05,319
The sun has risen.

1079
01:08:05,419 --> 01:08:07,622
[crowd cheering]

1080
01:08:10,725 --> 01:08:13,327
[indistinct chatter]

1081
01:08:13,427 --> 01:08:16,263
- [man] Please, Reverend.
- [Benjamin] Excuse me.
Pardon me.

1082
01:08:16,363 --> 01:08:17,632
Please, excuse me.

1083
01:08:17,732 --> 01:08:19,099
Please, excuse me. Pardon me.

1084
01:08:19,199 --> 01:08:21,569
Thank you. [grunts]

1085
01:08:21,669 --> 01:08:25,305
- Excuse me, sir! It's me!
- Thank you for the help

1086
01:08:25,405 --> 01:08:27,474
but as you can see,
I have no time to speak.

1087
01:08:27,575 --> 01:08:30,143
Is it possible to have a word
with the Reverend?

1088
01:08:30,243 --> 01:08:32,847
- Not now.
- Uh, perhaps tonight?

1089
01:08:32,947 --> 01:08:34,348
Mr. Whitefield is engaged

1090
01:08:34,448 --> 01:08:36,283
to minister and preach
well into the evening.

1091
01:08:36,383 --> 01:08:38,786
- I'm sorry.
- Oh, Mr. Franklin.

1092
01:08:38,886 --> 01:08:42,322
Looks like Whitefield gave you
tomorrow's headline.

1093
01:08:42,422 --> 01:08:44,993
- Are you... Benjamin Franklin?
- I am.

1094
01:08:45,093 --> 01:08:46,628
Proprietor of
the Pennsylvania Gazette?

1095
01:08:46,728 --> 01:08:48,295
- Yes.
- William Seward.

1096
01:08:48,395 --> 01:08:49,797
- Oh.
- Mr. Whitefield was hoping

1097
01:08:49,897 --> 01:08:51,532
to meet with you.
This must be providence.

1098
01:08:51,633 --> 01:08:53,835
- Ah. Or coincidence.
- It'll be late,

1099
01:08:53,935 --> 01:08:56,336
but we could visit you
at your shop when he's through.

1100
01:08:56,436 --> 01:08:57,872
Uh, yes. Very good.

1101
01:08:57,972 --> 01:08:59,707
- Thank you.
- Thank you.

1102
01:08:59,807 --> 01:09:01,009
God bless you, Mr. Franklin.

1103
01:09:01,109 --> 01:09:02,309
[man] Please, Reverend, please.

1104
01:09:02,409 --> 01:09:04,512
All right. [chuckles]

1105
01:09:04,612 --> 01:09:10,985
<i>♪ From the oceans</i>
<i>through the valleys ♪</i>

1106
01:09:11,085 --> 01:09:16,524
[crowd] <i>♪ From the mainland</i>
<i>to the shore ♪</i>

1107
01:09:16,624 --> 01:09:22,830
<i>♪ Let Your Kingdom</i>
<i>be awakened ♪</i>

1108
01:09:22,930 --> 01:09:29,103
<i>♪ In the hearts</i>
<i>of men once more ♪</i>

1109
01:09:29,202 --> 01:09:35,342
<i>♪ Call Your children</i>
<i>into freedom ♪</i>

1110
01:09:35,442 --> 01:09:41,348
<i>♪ Captive souls to liberty ♪</i>

1111
01:09:41,448 --> 01:09:47,689
<i>♪ Come awaken, Holy Spirit ♪</i>

1112
01:09:47,789 --> 01:09:54,294
<i>♪ Come awaken us today ♪</i>

1113
01:09:55,096 --> 01:10:01,636
<i>♪ I will serve Thee,</i>
<i>precious Jesus ♪</i>

1114
01:10:01,736 --> 01:10:07,809
<i>♪ Unto Thee I give my all ♪</i>

1115
01:10:07,909 --> 01:10:14,281
<i>♪ Lay my hands</i>
<i>unto Thy service ♪</i>

1116
01:10:14,381 --> 01:10:20,922
<i>♪ And my heart unto Thy call ♪</i>

1117
01:10:21,022 --> 01:10:27,327
<i>♪ Perish every fond ambition ♪</i>

1118
01:10:27,427 --> 01:10:33,735
<i>♪ Lay aside all selfish gain ♪</i>

1119
01:10:33,835 --> 01:10:40,174
<i>♪ All forsaken for Thy glory ♪</i>

1120
01:10:40,273 --> 01:10:47,280
♪ <i>Come awaken us today ♪</i>

1121
01:10:50,618 --> 01:10:52,787
The whole world has gone
religious, Joseph.

1122
01:10:54,589 --> 01:10:55,523
Yes, sir.

1123
01:11:01,028 --> 01:11:01,963
[sighs]

1124
01:11:02,730 --> 01:11:07,068
Well... tomorrow's Gazette
shall read...

1125
01:11:07,969 --> 01:11:11,205
"November 8th, 1739."

1126
01:11:11,973 --> 01:11:15,076
"The Reverend George Whitefield
has arrived from England...

1127
01:11:16,276 --> 01:11:18,045
to awaken the Colonies."

1128
01:11:19,547 --> 01:11:20,715
[chuckles]

1129
01:11:22,216 --> 01:11:23,618
[crickets chirping]

1130
01:11:42,103 --> 01:11:44,471
You both may retire
for the night.

1131
01:11:44,572 --> 01:11:46,774
Thank you for your endurance.

1132
01:11:47,909 --> 01:11:49,010
And what about you, sir?

1133
01:11:49,811 --> 01:11:54,148
Oh, I will plow deep
while sluggards sleep,

1134
01:11:54,849 --> 01:11:57,952
so I will have corn to sell
and to keep.

1135
01:11:59,687 --> 01:12:00,621
Of course.

1136
01:12:02,957 --> 01:12:04,992
Sweet pea, wake up.

1137
01:12:06,493 --> 01:12:07,595
We must get going.

1138
01:12:17,337 --> 01:12:18,405
Mr. Franklin?

1139
01:12:18,506 --> 01:12:19,439
[Benjamin] Hmm?

1140
01:12:20,775 --> 01:12:23,044
What did you make of Reverend
Whitefield's message today?

1141
01:12:23,544 --> 01:12:25,279
Oh.

1142
01:12:25,378 --> 01:12:27,347
I plan to make a lot from it.

1143
01:12:31,986 --> 01:12:32,987
Good night, sir.

1144
01:12:34,155 --> 01:12:35,156
Good night.

1145
01:12:36,691 --> 01:12:38,559
- [Samuel] Good night, Joseph.
- [knock on door]

1146
01:12:44,464 --> 01:12:47,602
Good evening. I'm looking for
a Mr. Benjamin Franklin.

1147
01:12:47,702 --> 01:12:51,471
Uh... y-yes, please.

1148
01:12:53,674 --> 01:12:54,575
[sighs]

1149
01:12:54,675 --> 01:12:56,443
What is your name?

1150
01:12:56,544 --> 01:12:58,312
- I'm Samuel.
- Samuel?

1151
01:12:58,411 --> 01:12:59,747
That's a strong name.

1152
01:12:59,847 --> 01:13:01,115
Who is this?

1153
01:13:01,215 --> 01:13:02,550
Samantha, sir.

1154
01:13:02,650 --> 01:13:05,887
Samantha, you are a great
blessing to your father.

1155
01:13:05,987 --> 01:13:06,921
God bless you both.

1156
01:13:07,889 --> 01:13:09,557
- [Samuel] Night.
- Good evening.

1157
01:13:10,725 --> 01:13:14,061
Excuse me, sir,
what is your name?

1158
01:13:14,161 --> 01:13:15,062
[door closes]

1159
01:13:15,596 --> 01:13:16,564
Me?

1160
01:13:19,267 --> 01:13:20,433
Joseph.

1161
01:13:20,534 --> 01:13:22,169
[George] Joseph.

1162
01:13:22,270 --> 01:13:24,071
That too, is a strong name.

1163
01:13:24,739 --> 01:13:25,740
Suits you.

1164
01:13:28,609 --> 01:13:31,379
The Lord whom I serve sees you.

1165
01:13:39,553 --> 01:13:40,588
[sighs]

1166
01:13:45,393 --> 01:13:46,527
Mr. Franklin.

1167
01:13:48,062 --> 01:13:50,097
Reverend Whitefield.

1168
01:13:50,197 --> 01:13:52,033
Please, call me, "George".

1169
01:13:52,733 --> 01:13:54,568
It is an honor
to finally meet you.

1170
01:13:55,303 --> 01:13:57,939
Your reputation precedes you
in England.

1171
01:13:58,039 --> 01:13:59,140
Oh? [soft grunt]

1172
01:14:00,574 --> 01:14:01,642
Which one?

1173
01:14:01,742 --> 01:14:04,045
[George chuckling]

1174
01:14:04,145 --> 01:14:06,781
Many there regard
your <i>Poor Richard's Almanack</i>

1175
01:14:06,881 --> 01:14:08,783
as one of the lost books
of the Bible.

1176
01:14:08,883 --> 01:14:10,551
Ah, you flatter me.

1177
01:14:11,352 --> 01:14:14,822
But a man wrapped up in himself
makes a very small bundle.

1178
01:14:15,423 --> 01:14:16,324
Indeed.

1179
01:14:17,124 --> 01:14:19,093
Do you belong to a local parish?

1180
01:14:19,193 --> 01:14:22,563
I am a friend to every church,
but a member of none.

1181
01:14:24,065 --> 01:14:24,966
I see.

1182
01:14:25,833 --> 01:14:27,201
Yes.

1183
01:14:27,301 --> 01:14:28,970
- [George] Hmm.
- Hmm.

1184
01:14:29,070 --> 01:14:30,838
- [door opens]
- [indistinct chatter]

1185
01:14:30,938 --> 01:14:33,374
[William] You will have to wait
until morning.

1186
01:14:33,473 --> 01:14:34,809
- [sighs]
- Hmm.

1187
01:14:37,511 --> 01:14:39,180
Do you mind if I...

1188
01:14:39,280 --> 01:14:40,514
- Mm.
- Ah. Ah!

1189
01:14:42,482 --> 01:14:44,085
- Thank you.
- [soft grunt]

1190
01:14:45,019 --> 01:14:47,021
[together] I am interested
in working with you.

1191
01:14:47,121 --> 01:14:49,090
Oh, please, proceed.

1192
01:14:49,190 --> 01:14:50,424
[chuckles]

1193
01:14:50,524 --> 01:14:53,527
The Pennsylvania Gazette
is the leading newspaper

1194
01:14:53,627 --> 01:14:55,830
in His Majesty's 13 colonies.

1195
01:14:55,930 --> 01:14:57,497
It would be extremely effective

1196
01:14:57,598 --> 01:14:59,333
in communicating
your whereabouts

1197
01:14:59,433 --> 01:15:01,769
to ensure the largest crowds
possible.

1198
01:15:01,869 --> 01:15:05,940
And with it,
the largest possible offerings.

1199
01:15:06,040 --> 01:15:07,842
[George] Well, that is
very thoughtful of you.

1200
01:15:07,942 --> 01:15:11,379
I am endeavoring to raise funds
for an orphanage in Georgia.

1201
01:15:11,479 --> 01:15:13,681
I'm sure you are. [chuckles]

1202
01:15:13,781 --> 01:15:16,751
Partnering with me would
guarantee the maximum benefit

1203
01:15:16,851 --> 01:15:18,152
to your cause,

1204
01:15:20,187 --> 01:15:21,622
and mine.

1205
01:15:23,224 --> 01:15:24,625
A match made in Heaven.

1206
01:15:25,626 --> 01:15:27,895
Or just a deal made
in a print shop.

1207
01:15:30,398 --> 01:15:31,599
[chuckles]

1208
01:15:31,699 --> 01:15:33,134
Now, as business partners,

1209
01:15:33,234 --> 01:15:36,237
whenever you're in my city
and you need lodging,

1210
01:15:36,337 --> 01:15:38,305
my home will be made
available to you.

1211
01:15:38,406 --> 01:15:40,641
That is a very kind offer
for the sake of Christ.

1212
01:15:40,741 --> 01:15:42,910
Well, it's not for
Christ's sake, it's for yours.

1213
01:15:43,010 --> 01:15:45,613
- [chuckles]
- Shall we dunk the papers then?

1214
01:15:45,713 --> 01:15:46,814
Tonight?

1215
01:15:46,914 --> 01:15:48,249
Wasn't it Poor Richard who said

1216
01:15:48,349 --> 01:15:49,917
"One today is worth
two tomorrows"?

1217
01:15:50,017 --> 01:15:52,153
Yes, I know
what Poor Richard said.

1218
01:15:52,253 --> 01:15:53,587
All right, let's get on with it.

1219
01:15:53,687 --> 01:15:55,423
[George] I want to start
by publishing this.

1220
01:15:55,524 --> 01:15:56,424
[sighs]

1221
01:15:58,259 --> 01:16:01,128
Hmm. "To the inhabitants
of Maryland, Virginia,

1222
01:16:01,228 --> 01:16:03,097
North and South Carolina,

1223
01:16:03,197 --> 01:16:05,099
God has a quarrel
to pick with you

1224
01:16:05,199 --> 01:16:09,203
for your abuse of
and cruelty to slaves...

1225
01:16:10,237 --> 01:16:12,606
and for keeping the Gospel
from them."

1226
01:16:14,041 --> 01:16:16,377
You are lighting a powder keg,
my friend.

1227
01:16:17,311 --> 01:16:20,614
I did not cross the Atlantic
to tickle ears, Mr. Franklin.

1228
01:16:20,714 --> 01:16:22,683
Hmm, huh... [chuckles]

1229
01:16:22,783 --> 01:16:24,685
- Soothe or stoke.
- I'm sorry?

1230
01:16:24,785 --> 01:16:27,088
Soothe or stoke the hearts
of the people.

1231
01:16:27,955 --> 01:16:32,259
Both sell papers
and save souls apparently.

1232
01:16:32,359 --> 01:16:34,095
Well, let's get started.

1233
01:16:34,195 --> 01:16:35,863
[both chuckle]

1234
01:16:35,963 --> 01:16:37,798
You were business partners.

1235
01:16:37,898 --> 01:16:40,334
And I sold a lot of these.

1236
01:16:40,434 --> 01:16:42,703
"Whitefield preaches to 17,000

1237
01:16:42,803 --> 01:16:44,138
in Providence, Rhode Island--"

1238
01:16:44,238 --> 01:16:45,206
Rogue Island.

1239
01:16:45,306 --> 01:16:47,808
[Benny] "And 30,000 in Boston."

1240
01:16:47,908 --> 01:16:49,176
[Benjamin] Look at the date.

1241
01:16:50,144 --> 01:16:51,879
These were on the same day.

1242
01:16:51,979 --> 01:16:55,850
But Pro-- Providence
and Boston are 50 miles apart.

1243
01:16:55,950 --> 01:16:59,521
He spent more time on a horse
than on the ground...

1244
01:17:00,321 --> 01:17:02,823
and he preached and prayed
more than he slept.

1245
01:17:04,091 --> 01:17:06,595
Ah... I have to admit,
in the beginning,

1246
01:17:06,727 --> 01:17:09,730
I did not believe that level
of response could be maintained.

1247
01:17:09,830 --> 01:17:11,198
Well, was it?

1248
01:17:11,298 --> 01:17:12,199
No.

1249
01:17:14,168 --> 01:17:15,503
It increased.

1250
01:17:17,104 --> 01:17:19,106
[rousing music playing]

1251
01:17:25,312 --> 01:17:27,148
Reverend George Whitefield
to preach repentance

1252
01:17:27,248 --> 01:17:29,016
in Rhode Island, Massachusetts.

1253
01:17:30,951 --> 01:17:33,154
[George] <i>Let there be</i>
<i>no divisions in the church.</i>

1254
01:17:33,254 --> 01:17:37,158
<i>But rather be of one mind,</i>
<i>united in thought and purpose.</i>

1255
01:17:37,258 --> 01:17:38,726
[crowd] Yes.

1256
01:17:38,826 --> 01:17:42,763
Therefore, let us not be asleep,
but awake.

1257
01:17:42,863 --> 01:17:44,533
- [crowd] Yes.
- And sober minded,

1258
01:17:44,633 --> 01:17:46,867
because we belong to the day.

1259
01:17:46,967 --> 01:17:49,170
Let us be dressed
in the raiment of light.

1260
01:17:49,270 --> 01:17:51,472
[crowd] Yes! Amen.

1261
01:17:53,207 --> 01:17:56,477
[horse hooves galloping]

1262
01:17:57,978 --> 01:18:00,481
[rousing music continues]

1263
01:18:11,992 --> 01:18:15,095
Nathan! Nathan!

1264
01:18:15,196 --> 01:18:17,264
Reverend Whitefield preached
at Hartford yesterday.

1265
01:18:17,364 --> 01:18:19,833
And he's to preach at Middletown
this morning at 10:00.

1266
01:18:29,343 --> 01:18:30,778
[Nathan] Molly.

1267
01:18:30,878 --> 01:18:32,413
- Nathan?
- Molly.

1268
01:18:34,014 --> 01:18:36,984
Molly, Reverend Whitefield.

1269
01:18:37,084 --> 01:18:39,688
And on his head are many crowns.

1270
01:18:40,754 --> 01:18:43,357
On his head are many crowns.

1271
01:18:46,427 --> 01:18:48,929
<i>Lord, speak through me.</i>

1272
01:18:49,698 --> 01:18:51,298
<i>Draw them with Your Word.</i>

1273
01:18:52,701 --> 01:18:55,670
<i>Let them hear Your voice.</i>

1274
01:18:55,769 --> 01:18:58,939
<i>Set them on a path from which</i>
<i>they will never depart.</i>

1275
01:19:00,207 --> 01:19:02,309
<i>Though You are a God</i>
<i>of justice,</i>

1276
01:19:03,043 --> 01:19:06,080
<i>show them that Your heart</i>
<i>resounds with mercy.</i>

1277
01:19:07,448 --> 01:19:11,986
<i>Show them the kindness</i>
<i>that You have always shown me.</i>

1278
01:19:12,086 --> 01:19:15,356
<i>As I speak from the word</i>
<i>like lightning speak,</i>

1279
01:19:16,056 --> 01:19:18,627
<i>cry out in thunder</i>
<i>from the word.</i>

1280
01:19:19,793 --> 01:19:21,630
He has a name written on Him

1281
01:19:21,730 --> 01:19:24,265
that no one knows
but He Himself,

1282
01:19:24,365 --> 01:19:27,201
and His name is the word of God!

1283
01:19:28,603 --> 01:19:30,037
<i>Use me, Lord,</i>

1284
01:19:31,472 --> 01:19:32,707
<i>whatever the cost.</i>

1285
01:19:34,875 --> 01:19:38,045
<i>Let them receive</i>
<i>your gift of salvation,</i>

1286
01:19:40,247 --> 01:19:42,216
<i>and set us free.</i>

1287
01:19:44,918 --> 01:19:46,954
[Benjamin]
"And I saw that my righteousness

1288
01:19:47,054 --> 01:19:48,657
would not save me.

1289
01:19:48,757 --> 01:19:52,727
Nathan Cole.
October 23rd, 1740."

1290
01:19:53,927 --> 01:19:57,865
Nearly 13 years ago,
and the reports remain the same.

1291
01:19:58,600 --> 01:20:02,169
Mr. Nathan Cole would never have
experienced the new birth

1292
01:20:02,269 --> 01:20:04,271
if you had not published
my whereabouts.

1293
01:20:04,371 --> 01:20:07,509
[chuckles] Well, poor Richard
would still be poor

1294
01:20:07,609 --> 01:20:09,678
had I not published
your whereabouts.

1295
01:20:12,413 --> 01:20:15,949
I see the church has, uh,
greeted you warmly today.

1296
01:20:16,785 --> 01:20:17,985
[sighs]

1297
01:20:18,085 --> 01:20:21,155
My dear friend, John Wesley,
once said,

1298
01:20:21,855 --> 01:20:26,327
"You must be willing to preach,
pray or die at any moment."

1299
01:20:26,427 --> 01:20:29,930
[chuckles] He forgot to tell you
to also duck and dodge.

1300
01:20:35,336 --> 01:20:36,604
We lost Seward.

1301
01:20:40,841 --> 01:20:41,942
I'm sorry.

1302
01:20:43,110 --> 01:20:45,714
He was preaching
in South Wales...

1303
01:20:47,181 --> 01:20:49,850
when an angry mob
began to throw stones.

1304
01:20:52,787 --> 01:20:54,321
He died three days later.

1305
01:20:56,457 --> 01:20:58,425
In his final letter to me,
he said...

1306
01:20:59,393 --> 01:21:00,662
"Fear not, George...

1307
01:21:01,895 --> 01:21:06,400
we are immortal until our work
on earth is done."

1308
01:21:08,001 --> 01:21:11,573
What compels one back
into angry mobs?

1309
01:21:12,906 --> 01:21:16,377
The same thing that compelled
Christ onto a cross of wood.

1310
01:21:18,379 --> 01:21:19,714
When you follow Him,

1311
01:21:21,215 --> 01:21:22,883
you are led by love...

1312
01:21:24,017 --> 01:21:25,319
no matter the cost.

1313
01:21:28,188 --> 01:21:33,227
Those who follow dead religion
are led by a desire to be right.

1314
01:21:35,496 --> 01:21:37,097
Eventually, they will
throw stones

1315
01:21:37,197 --> 01:21:38,867
at those they believe are wrong.

1316
01:21:42,503 --> 01:21:46,741
I grow weary in the work, Ben,
but never of the work.

1317
01:21:48,576 --> 01:21:51,145
And like you... [chuckles]

1318
01:21:51,245 --> 01:21:54,014
I would rather wear out
than rust out.

1319
01:21:57,786 --> 01:21:59,219
[inhales]

1320
01:21:59,319 --> 01:22:03,290
Seward also said that
I should give you these...

1321
01:22:05,794 --> 01:22:08,028
my personal journals.

1322
01:22:08,128 --> 01:22:10,431
He said you should publish them,

1323
01:22:10,532 --> 01:22:14,134
that many would see
the goodness of God.

1324
01:22:14,234 --> 01:22:18,005
I needed a new press
just to publish your sermons.

1325
01:22:18,105 --> 01:22:20,307
Well, I suppose
you'd better get a third.

1326
01:22:20,407 --> 01:22:22,644
[both chuckle]

1327
01:22:23,944 --> 01:22:24,913
[sighs]

1328
01:22:26,146 --> 01:22:27,448
[sniffles]

1329
01:22:27,549 --> 01:22:29,249
[clears throat] My...

1330
01:22:30,585 --> 01:22:33,721
Your print shop has become
a rather strange laboratory

1331
01:22:33,822 --> 01:22:36,223
- since my last visit.
- [Benjamin chuckles]

1332
01:22:36,323 --> 01:22:39,527
Yes, His Majesty's Royal Society

1333
01:22:39,627 --> 01:22:42,730
has taken special interest
in my research

1334
01:22:42,831 --> 01:22:45,199
on the mysteries
of electric fire.

1335
01:22:45,299 --> 01:22:47,201
[both chuckle]

1336
01:22:47,301 --> 01:22:49,403
- And what about you, Ben?
- Hmm?

1337
01:22:49,503 --> 01:22:51,138
What is your source?

1338
01:22:51,238 --> 01:22:52,507
[Benjamin] My source?

1339
01:22:52,607 --> 01:22:54,576
- What compels you?
- [thunder rumbling]

1340
01:22:54,676 --> 01:22:57,579
Aha, I thought you'd never ask.

1341
01:22:57,679 --> 01:22:58,913
[chuckles]

1342
01:23:03,116 --> 01:23:05,252
[chuckles] Follow me.

1343
01:23:06,420 --> 01:23:08,890
[George chuckling]

1344
01:23:08,989 --> 01:23:11,526
I fail to see what is
so humorous.

1345
01:23:11,626 --> 01:23:13,661
Uh, it's a virtue chart.

1346
01:23:13,761 --> 01:23:15,262
- You actually use this?
- Oh, dear.

1347
01:23:15,362 --> 01:23:17,097
He's showing him the chart.

1348
01:23:17,197 --> 01:23:18,666
[George]
Good evening, Mrs. Franklin.

1349
01:23:18,766 --> 01:23:20,668
Allow me to expound.

1350
01:23:20,768 --> 01:23:22,770
First, on a small card,
I write the virtue

1351
01:23:22,871 --> 01:23:24,672
I am to focus on for the week.

1352
01:23:24,772 --> 01:23:27,107
- Currently, it's humility.
- Which he just added,

1353
01:23:27,207 --> 01:23:29,009
because he bragged about
the first 12.

1354
01:23:29,109 --> 01:23:31,546
"Imitate Jesus and Socrates."

1355
01:23:31,646 --> 01:23:33,280
[Benjamin]
I refer to it frequently,

1356
01:23:33,380 --> 01:23:35,950
and then I replace it
with a new virtue every week

1357
01:23:36,049 --> 01:23:37,384
for 13 weeks,

1358
01:23:37,484 --> 01:23:40,053
so that the series is repeated
four times a year.

1359
01:23:40,153 --> 01:23:42,122
Then I assess how I'm doing
on the chart.

1360
01:23:42,222 --> 01:23:44,358
Our assessments
do not always align.

1361
01:23:44,458 --> 01:23:47,327
Well, whatever achievements
I have made,

1362
01:23:47,427 --> 01:23:49,898
I credit to the ethical,
intellectual,

1363
01:23:49,998 --> 01:23:52,299
and physical discipline
of these virtues.

1364
01:23:52,399 --> 01:23:55,469
Upon them, I founded
the most successful newspaper

1365
01:23:55,570 --> 01:23:56,738
in the colonies,

1366
01:23:56,838 --> 01:23:59,373
the first public library,
firehouse,

1367
01:23:59,473 --> 01:24:01,910
and Philadelphia's
first hospital.

1368
01:24:02,010 --> 01:24:04,913
Says the man who states, "He
who falls in love with himself

1369
01:24:05,013 --> 01:24:06,581
will have no rivals."

1370
01:24:06,681 --> 01:24:08,783
[Benjamin] I say this
not to boast, Deborah,

1371
01:24:08,883 --> 01:24:11,051
but to prove the merit
of my system.

1372
01:24:11,151 --> 01:24:12,820
Had someone else taken up
this discipline,

1373
01:24:12,921 --> 01:24:14,889
it might be their name
on the Franklin stove.

1374
01:24:14,989 --> 01:24:17,157
- Hmm.
- Lightning rod, swim fins,

1375
01:24:17,257 --> 01:24:19,661
- and the flexible catheter.
- [Deborah] Benjamin Franklin.

1376
01:24:19,761 --> 01:24:20,929
I think the flexible catheter

1377
01:24:21,029 --> 01:24:22,162
will be
your highest achievement.

1378
01:24:22,262 --> 01:24:24,264
- Ah.
- What's a catheter?

1379
01:24:24,364 --> 01:24:26,634
- [Deborah] Never mind.
- [laughter]

1380
01:24:26,734 --> 01:24:29,436
[Benjamin] It is the zeal
for improvement in self,

1381
01:24:29,537 --> 01:24:32,172
society, and science
that drove me to prove

1382
01:24:32,272 --> 01:24:34,742
that storms can move
in an opposite direction

1383
01:24:34,842 --> 01:24:36,310
than the direction
from the wind.

1384
01:24:36,410 --> 01:24:38,245
And of course,
you invented the wind.

1385
01:24:38,345 --> 01:24:40,648
Absolutely, I did.
I needed to fly my kites.

1386
01:24:40,748 --> 01:24:42,517
- Oh!
- [laughter]

1387
01:24:42,617 --> 01:24:44,652
Oh, well, he is certainly
responsible

1388
01:24:44,752 --> 01:24:46,588
for all of the hot air
blowing through here.

1389
01:24:46,688 --> 01:24:47,855
- [laughs]
- Hear, hear.

1390
01:24:47,956 --> 01:24:49,991
- [laughter]
- [Deborah] Good night, George.

1391
01:24:50,090 --> 01:24:51,124
[Sally]
Good night, Mr. Whitefield.

1392
01:24:51,224 --> 01:24:52,927
Good night, Sally,
Mrs. Franklin.

1393
01:24:53,027 --> 01:24:54,028
Good night, Father.

1394
01:24:54,662 --> 01:24:56,631
- Good night.
- [footsteps thudding]

1395
01:25:00,735 --> 01:25:02,402
[chuckling]

1396
01:25:02,937 --> 01:25:04,271
[distant thunder rumbling]

1397
01:25:04,371 --> 01:25:06,173
Oh, no. You're doing it again.

1398
01:25:06,273 --> 01:25:07,976
- [George] What?
- There, stop that.

1399
01:25:08,076 --> 01:25:10,110
Are you mocking my bad eye, Ben?

1400
01:25:10,210 --> 01:25:12,479
[sighs] No, not the blasted eye.

1401
01:25:12,580 --> 01:25:13,615
That look.

1402
01:25:14,247 --> 01:25:16,985
You got some pseudo spiritual
gaze upon me.

1403
01:25:18,653 --> 01:25:21,856
I tried this, Ben,
and it nearly killed me.

1404
01:25:22,991 --> 01:25:26,561
It's the same religious spirit
that leads men to throw stones.

1405
01:25:27,595 --> 01:25:30,632
- You must be born again.
- [laughs]

1406
01:25:30,732 --> 01:25:33,001
I trust my good works
from a good heart

1407
01:25:33,101 --> 01:25:34,669
will go before me.

1408
01:25:34,769 --> 01:25:36,871
[George] Getting to heaven
on your own strength.

1409
01:25:36,971 --> 01:25:39,907
You might as well climb
to the moon on a rope of sand.

1410
01:25:40,008 --> 01:25:43,811
I have too much to do on earth
to worry about the moon.

1411
01:25:43,911 --> 01:25:46,146
Even if I were to experience
this new birth

1412
01:25:46,246 --> 01:25:47,515
you so often speak of,

1413
01:25:47,615 --> 01:25:49,483
I would never give you
or anyone else

1414
01:25:49,584 --> 01:25:51,085
the satisfaction of knowing it.

1415
01:25:52,687 --> 01:25:54,488
[chuckling]

1416
01:25:54,589 --> 01:25:57,491
[loud thunder crashing]

1417
01:25:57,592 --> 01:25:58,593
Let's go.

1418
01:26:00,427 --> 01:26:02,997
- I'm sorry?
- Grab your coat.

1419
01:26:03,097 --> 01:26:04,599
I want to show you something.

1420
01:26:04,699 --> 01:26:06,333
[George] Now?
You can't be serious.

1421
01:26:06,868 --> 01:26:09,236
Do not squander time,
Georgie. [chuckles]

1422
01:26:09,336 --> 01:26:11,304
It's the stuff life is made of.

1423
01:26:11,405 --> 01:26:15,043
- All right.
- I'm going to need this, and...

1424
01:26:16,376 --> 01:26:17,679
- What is that?
- Huh?

1425
01:26:17,779 --> 01:26:18,846
- Okay.
- [chuckles]

1426
01:26:18,946 --> 01:26:21,248
[loud thunder crashing]

1427
01:26:21,348 --> 01:26:23,084
[church bells tolling]

1428
01:26:23,183 --> 01:26:25,119
[woman screaming]

1429
01:26:26,821 --> 01:26:28,589
Why are they ringing
church bells?

1430
01:26:28,690 --> 01:26:30,058
Superstition.

1431
01:26:30,158 --> 01:26:31,626
They believe it will appease God

1432
01:26:31,726 --> 01:26:34,428
so his wrath won't strike
and burn their homes.

1433
01:26:34,529 --> 01:26:36,430
- That's not scriptural.
- [laughs]

1434
01:26:36,531 --> 01:26:39,967
Finally, somebody who agrees
with me.

1435
01:26:40,068 --> 01:26:41,102
[laughs]

1436
01:26:41,201 --> 01:26:43,171
These are perfect conditions.

1437
01:26:44,739 --> 01:26:46,674
Is madness one of your virtues?

1438
01:26:48,475 --> 01:26:50,144
[laughs heartily]

1439
01:26:52,345 --> 01:26:54,982
When the thunder clouds
come over the kite,

1440
01:26:55,683 --> 01:26:58,886
this pointed wire will draw
the electric fire from them.

1441
01:26:58,986 --> 01:27:00,922
The kite, and all of the twine,

1442
01:27:01,022 --> 01:27:02,389
will become electrified.

1443
01:27:02,489 --> 01:27:04,424
Then the loose filaments
of the twine

1444
01:27:04,525 --> 01:27:06,094
will stand up every way

1445
01:27:06,194 --> 01:27:08,696
and be attracted
by an approaching finger.

1446
01:27:09,329 --> 01:27:10,798
[laughs]

1447
01:27:10,898 --> 01:27:13,400
Oh, thank you, my little friend.

1448
01:27:14,168 --> 01:27:18,673
[grunts, laughs]

1449
01:27:20,273 --> 01:27:21,408
Haha!

1450
01:27:22,342 --> 01:27:24,746
When the moisture has wet
the kite and twine,

1451
01:27:24,846 --> 01:27:27,515
so that it conducts
the electric fire freely,

1452
01:27:27,615 --> 01:27:29,851
you will find it stream out
plentifully from the key

1453
01:27:29,951 --> 01:27:30,985
on the approach of your knuckle.

1454
01:27:31,085 --> 01:27:32,520
Here, try it.

1455
01:27:32,620 --> 01:27:34,021
No, I'd-I'd rather not.

1456
01:27:34,122 --> 01:27:35,923
I've done this
many times before.

1457
01:27:36,023 --> 01:27:37,024
It works.

1458
01:27:37,125 --> 01:27:39,359
It-- Precisely.

1459
01:27:39,459 --> 01:27:42,530
First time, I had my son William
hold the line.

1460
01:27:42,630 --> 01:27:46,801
Boom! The lightning struck
and surged through his hands.

1461
01:27:47,769 --> 01:27:49,103
He shook like a leaf.

1462
01:27:49,203 --> 01:27:51,139
It was incredible.

1463
01:27:51,239 --> 01:27:52,540
He's never helped me since.

1464
01:27:52,640 --> 01:27:53,875
I should think not.

1465
01:27:53,975 --> 01:27:56,443
[chuckles]
That's when I learned,

1466
01:27:57,712 --> 01:28:01,582
I needed to ground the line
to disperse the power.

1467
01:28:02,984 --> 01:28:06,286
So... I invented
my lightning rod.

1468
01:28:06,386 --> 01:28:08,723
[George]
You're an amazing man, Ben.

1469
01:28:08,823 --> 01:28:10,525
Wait, do you feel that?

1470
01:28:10,625 --> 01:28:11,726
Feel what?

1471
01:28:12,960 --> 01:28:14,562
Ah!

1472
01:28:14,662 --> 01:28:16,396
Touch the Leyden jar to the key.

1473
01:28:16,496 --> 01:28:17,698
No, I don't think so.

1474
01:28:17,799 --> 01:28:18,800
Ah, here.

1475
01:28:25,338 --> 01:28:27,407
[chuckles]

1476
01:28:27,508 --> 01:28:28,609
Yes.

1477
01:28:29,577 --> 01:28:30,912
Fire from heaven.

1478
01:28:31,012 --> 01:28:33,848
[both chuckle]

1479
01:28:36,449 --> 01:28:38,519
[chuckling]

1480
01:28:43,925 --> 01:28:46,127
You are the lightning bolt,
George.

1481
01:28:47,762 --> 01:28:50,097
I am just the lightning rod.

1482
01:28:50,198 --> 01:28:51,899
And who is the source, Ben?

1483
01:28:54,101 --> 01:28:55,903
[laughs]

1484
01:28:56,003 --> 01:28:58,172
I see what you did there.

1485
01:28:58,272 --> 01:29:00,074
Very clever, Reverend.

1486
01:29:00,174 --> 01:29:01,474
Very clever.

1487
01:29:05,980 --> 01:29:07,248
Confirmation!

1488
01:29:07,347 --> 01:29:08,783
Evacuation!

1489
01:29:08,883 --> 01:29:10,618
We need to leave now!

1490
01:29:10,718 --> 01:29:14,322
[laughing]

1491
01:29:24,332 --> 01:29:27,301
[George] <i>April 21st, 1770.</i>

1492
01:29:28,002 --> 01:29:31,272
<i>My dear friend,</i>
<i>Dr. Benjamin Franklin,</i>

1493
01:29:32,173 --> 01:29:36,310
<i>I have embarked upon my seventh</i>
<i>pilgrimage to the colonies.</i>

1494
01:29:36,409 --> 01:29:37,879
<i>And although difficult,</i>

1495
01:29:37,979 --> 01:29:41,381
<i>Christ's presence allows me</i>
<i>to smile through pain,</i>

1496
01:29:42,116 --> 01:29:46,220
<i>and the fire of His love</i>
<i>burns up all fevers whatsoever.</i>

1497
01:29:47,688 --> 01:29:49,422
<i>I was sorry to have missed</i>

1498
01:29:49,523 --> 01:29:51,592
<i>the christening</i>
<i>of your city bell,</i>

1499
01:29:51,692 --> 01:29:54,929
<i>proclaiming God's liberty</i>
<i>throughout all the land.</i>

1500
01:29:55,796 --> 01:29:59,700
<i>The people of America seem more</i>
<i>eager after the Word than ever.</i>

1501
01:30:00,635 --> 01:30:03,604
<i>May their voices ring</i>
<i>in harmony with that bell.</i>

1502
01:30:05,106 --> 01:30:07,308
<i>I find you grow more</i>
<i>and more famous</i>

1503
01:30:07,407 --> 01:30:09,110
<i>in the learned world.</i>

1504
01:30:09,210 --> 01:30:11,444
<i>As you have made</i>
<i>considerable progress</i>

1505
01:30:11,545 --> 01:30:13,748
<i>in the mysteries</i>
<i>of electricity,</i>

1506
01:30:13,848 --> 01:30:15,650
<i>I now humbly recommend</i>

1507
01:30:15,750 --> 01:30:19,153
<i>the study of the mystery</i>
<i>of the new birth,</i>

1508
01:30:19,253 --> 01:30:20,688
<i>for without it,</i>

1509
01:30:20,788 --> 01:30:23,057
<i>we cannot enter</i>
<i>the kingdom of heaven.</i>

1510
01:30:24,292 --> 01:30:25,927
<i>You will be pleased to know</i>

1511
01:30:26,027 --> 01:30:28,729
<i>I have raised</i>
<i>700 pounds sterling</i>

1512
01:30:28,829 --> 01:30:31,332
<i>for my orphanage in Georgia.</i>

1513
01:30:31,431 --> 01:30:33,034
<i>I hope to grow rich in heaven</i>

1514
01:30:33,134 --> 01:30:35,269
<i>by taking care of the orphans</i>
<i>on earth.</i>

1515
01:30:36,537 --> 01:30:41,842
<i>I subscribe myself, dear sir,</i>
<i>your very affectionate friend</i>

1516
01:30:41,943 --> 01:30:45,012
<i>and obliged servant,</i>
<i>George Whitefield.</i>

1517
01:30:46,247 --> 01:30:48,115
[distant bell tolling]

1518
01:30:58,491 --> 01:31:02,229
"Proclaim liberty
throughout all the land...

1519
01:31:03,965 --> 01:31:06,901
unto all
the inhabitants thereof."

1520
01:31:08,669 --> 01:31:10,371
What a glorious verse
to ring out

1521
01:31:10,470 --> 01:31:12,340
over the city of brotherly love.

1522
01:31:13,107 --> 01:31:14,008
Hmm?

1523
01:31:14,842 --> 01:31:16,911
Oh, yes. Well,

1524
01:31:17,011 --> 01:31:18,946
apparently,
the inhabitants thereof

1525
01:31:19,046 --> 01:31:22,350
are ringing just as loudly
in the ears of our king.

1526
01:31:22,616 --> 01:31:23,584
[sharp exhale]

1527
01:31:23,684 --> 01:31:25,519
Parliament would like
to influence

1528
01:31:25,619 --> 01:31:27,355
our definition of liberty,

1529
01:31:28,255 --> 01:31:31,225
and because I am fully
acquainted with the temper

1530
01:31:31,325 --> 01:31:33,728
and disposition of the colonies,

1531
01:31:33,828 --> 01:31:35,696
the Continental Congress
has chosen me

1532
01:31:35,796 --> 01:31:38,199
to act on their behalf.

1533
01:31:38,299 --> 01:31:41,135
I sail for London
the day after tomorrow.

1534
01:31:42,803 --> 01:31:45,072
[George] Blood will be shed
for that liberty,

1535
01:31:47,808 --> 01:31:49,744
whereas blood was already shed

1536
01:31:50,444 --> 01:31:52,880
for the liberty proclaimed
by that bell.

1537
01:31:53,948 --> 01:31:55,116
[George breathes deeply]

1538
01:31:55,216 --> 01:31:57,518
You will have my prayers.

1539
01:31:57,618 --> 01:31:58,519
[Benjamin chuckles]

1540
01:31:59,320 --> 01:32:00,221
[sharp exhale]

1541
01:32:00,855 --> 01:32:01,789
Prayers?

1542
01:32:02,990 --> 01:32:04,625
- [sighs]
- [George coughs]

1543
01:32:05,893 --> 01:32:10,297
An appeal to a distant God
cannot resolve these issues.

1544
01:32:10,398 --> 01:32:12,299
[George coughs]

1545
01:32:12,400 --> 01:32:15,336
It's going to take a lot more
than prayer, I'm afraid.

1546
01:32:17,471 --> 01:32:18,739
[George] So that's it then?

1547
01:32:19,807 --> 01:32:21,976
A distant God

1548
01:32:22,076 --> 01:32:24,011
uninvolved
in the affairs of man?

1549
01:32:24,612 --> 01:32:27,748
[chuckles] No, I'm quite certain
he was never involved

1550
01:32:27,848 --> 01:32:29,183
in my affairs.

1551
01:32:32,186 --> 01:32:33,888
Does my confession shock you?

1552
01:32:37,458 --> 01:32:38,392
No.

1553
01:32:40,027 --> 01:32:42,096
Your idea of virtue does.

1554
01:32:42,997 --> 01:32:44,265
I beg your pardon?

1555
01:32:45,833 --> 01:32:48,202
What do you make
of Jesus Christ?

1556
01:32:49,570 --> 01:32:51,772
I made a lot from Him.

1557
01:32:51,872 --> 01:32:54,408
[George] And how long
will you hide behind your wit

1558
01:32:54,509 --> 01:32:56,477
and make light of the truth?

1559
01:32:56,577 --> 01:32:58,446
Not again. Not now.

1560
01:32:58,547 --> 01:33:02,149
Ben, our time grows short.

1561
01:33:02,249 --> 01:33:04,285
There is a Judgment Day coming

1562
01:33:04,385 --> 01:33:07,154
when all will stand
before the Lord,

1563
01:33:07,254 --> 01:33:10,658
and only faith in Jesus Christ,

1564
01:33:10,758 --> 01:33:12,993
not your wit, will save you.

1565
01:33:13,594 --> 01:33:15,796
Your frequent wishes
for my eternal happiness

1566
01:33:15,896 --> 01:33:17,498
- are very obliging but--
- It is your life,

1567
01:33:17,598 --> 01:33:18,799
Benjamin Franklin,

1568
01:33:18,899 --> 01:33:20,868
your eternal life at stake

1569
01:33:20,968 --> 01:33:23,304
that keeps me begging you
to consider the truth

1570
01:33:23,404 --> 01:33:24,371
of the gospel.

1571
01:33:24,472 --> 01:33:26,674
I choose evidence over faith.

1572
01:33:26,774 --> 01:33:28,342
Evidence?

1573
01:33:28,442 --> 01:33:30,177
How much more do you need?

1574
01:33:31,312 --> 01:33:33,114
For 30 years now,

1575
01:33:33,214 --> 01:33:35,382
you have promoted
the greatest awakening

1576
01:33:35,483 --> 01:33:38,719
these colonies have ever seen.

1577
01:33:38,819 --> 01:33:42,923
That wasn't me or the Wesleys
or Jonathan Edwards.

1578
01:33:43,657 --> 01:33:46,160
It was an intervention
by our most powerful friend.

1579
01:33:46,260 --> 01:33:48,563
I have never attempted
to change you,

1580
01:33:48,696 --> 01:33:50,131
and I would greatly
appreciate it

1581
01:33:50,231 --> 01:33:52,199
if you would stop trying
to change me.

1582
01:33:52,299 --> 01:33:55,469
I don't understand
how thousands of strangers

1583
01:33:55,570 --> 01:33:58,205
can melt at the sound
of this truth,

1584
01:33:58,305 --> 01:34:03,310
but you, my dearest friend,
why can't I get through to you?

1585
01:34:03,410 --> 01:34:05,012
Because I've heard it all before

1586
01:34:05,112 --> 01:34:07,348
and I've seen it all before,
George.

1587
01:34:11,285 --> 01:34:14,188
Born the 10th son
of a Puritan father,

1588
01:34:15,122 --> 01:34:18,527
set apart as his holy tithe
in service to the church.

1589
01:34:19,693 --> 01:34:21,862
He wanted me to be a preacher.

1590
01:34:21,962 --> 01:34:22,930
Me!

1591
01:34:23,664 --> 01:34:28,035
But never in 50 lifetimes
would I ever have anything to do

1592
01:34:28,135 --> 01:34:32,072
with my father's overbearing,
hypocritical clergy,

1593
01:34:32,173 --> 01:34:33,741
who spent so much
of their time praying

1594
01:34:33,841 --> 01:34:35,544
and very little time doing good.

1595
01:34:35,644 --> 01:34:37,044
[coughs]

1596
01:34:37,144 --> 01:34:38,946
As a devout and thorough deist,

1597
01:34:39,046 --> 01:34:41,550
I have done more good to better
the lives of this city

1598
01:34:41,650 --> 01:34:44,718
than all the collective clergy
combined.

1599
01:34:44,818 --> 01:34:46,754
I do believe in a deity,

1600
01:34:47,388 --> 01:34:50,724
but I believe He has given us
rights, resources,

1601
01:34:50,824 --> 01:34:53,227
and reason to do good,

1602
01:34:53,327 --> 01:34:54,962
and now He waits
and watches to see if we will.

1603
01:34:55,062 --> 01:34:57,765
It's not enough to do good, Ben.

1604
01:34:57,865 --> 01:34:59,800
It's not enough
to believe in God.

1605
01:34:59,900 --> 01:35:01,969
Even the devil believes in God.

1606
01:35:02,903 --> 01:35:06,974
Everything,
everything comes down

1607
01:35:07,074 --> 01:35:09,276
to what you make
of Jesus Christ.

1608
01:35:11,680 --> 01:35:12,581
Tell me,

1609
01:35:14,481 --> 01:35:18,152
what have I lacked by not
experiencing this new birth?

1610
01:35:18,252 --> 01:35:19,186
Hmm?

1611
01:35:19,887 --> 01:35:22,122
Living my life on the back
of a horse,

1612
01:35:22,990 --> 01:35:27,061
being pelted with rocks,
dung, and dead animals.

1613
01:35:28,262 --> 01:35:29,330
Sleeping on the ground

1614
01:35:29,430 --> 01:35:31,899
or a stranger's floor
every night,

1615
01:35:34,068 --> 01:35:36,437
being led into the hands
of an angry mob

1616
01:35:36,538 --> 01:35:37,672
and an early grave?

1617
01:35:39,440 --> 01:35:44,778
You have no money, no family,
failing health,

1618
01:35:45,879 --> 01:35:48,315
your failing orphanage.

1619
01:35:48,415 --> 01:35:50,619
My orphanage
is no longer failing

1620
01:35:51,519 --> 01:35:52,687
by the grace of God.

1621
01:35:53,887 --> 01:35:56,691
By the grace of God
or by resorting to slave labor

1622
01:35:56,790 --> 01:35:57,958
to keep it running?

1623
01:35:58,058 --> 01:35:59,460
[tense music plays]

1624
01:36:18,979 --> 01:36:20,548
It was the only way.

1625
01:36:22,383 --> 01:36:26,320
Those orphans would have
become homeless

1626
01:36:26,420 --> 01:36:28,222
if we had not intervened--

1627
01:36:28,322 --> 01:36:29,990
Is that providence?

1628
01:36:31,425 --> 01:36:34,995
Is that God being involved
in the affairs of man?

1629
01:36:36,765 --> 01:36:38,232
You've made that orphanage
an idol

1630
01:36:38,332 --> 01:36:39,900
and a stain on your name.

1631
01:36:41,135 --> 01:36:45,072
Oh, the irony,
proclaiming liberty

1632
01:36:45,172 --> 01:36:46,874
while standing on the backs
of slaves.

1633
01:36:46,974 --> 01:36:48,643
Then tear down the name
of Whitefield

1634
01:36:49,443 --> 01:36:51,478
if it means
the name of Christ remains.

1635
01:36:52,514 --> 01:36:55,916
Do not base your faith
upon my flawed life.

1636
01:36:57,117 --> 01:36:58,819
Do not base your faith

1637
01:36:58,919 --> 01:37:01,021
upon the cold religion
of your father.

1638
01:37:02,590 --> 01:37:06,761
Base it upon what He has done
on a cross of wood.

1639
01:37:07,629 --> 01:37:09,597
- [gasps]
- George?

1640
01:37:09,698 --> 01:37:10,699
[gasps]

1641
01:37:12,132 --> 01:37:13,934
- [wheezing]
- Georgie, what?

1642
01:37:15,336 --> 01:37:16,270
Georgie.

1643
01:37:17,672 --> 01:37:20,307
[wheezing]

1644
01:37:33,621 --> 01:37:37,559
[people singing in distance]

1645
01:37:37,659 --> 01:37:38,892
[raspy breathing]

1646
01:37:43,464 --> 01:37:46,233
[grunting]

1647
01:37:47,702 --> 01:37:49,704
[raspy breathing continues]

1648
01:37:54,709 --> 01:37:55,976
[grunts]

1649
01:37:57,712 --> 01:37:59,714
[breathing deeply]

1650
01:38:13,427 --> 01:38:14,662
They're waiting for me.

1651
01:38:16,531 --> 01:38:17,998
[grunts, wheezes]

1652
01:38:18,098 --> 01:38:20,100
You are more fit to go to bed
than to preach.

1653
01:38:21,902 --> 01:38:23,203
I must preach.

1654
01:38:24,104 --> 01:38:26,407
[raspy breathing]
A dying man...

1655
01:38:27,675 --> 01:38:28,743
to dying men.

1656
01:38:43,390 --> 01:38:44,358
Georgie.

1657
01:38:44,458 --> 01:38:48,495
[people singing continues]

1658
01:38:54,903 --> 01:39:00,675
<i>♪ Rise upon us, King of glory ♪</i>

1659
01:39:00,775 --> 01:39:07,782
<i>♪ Come awaken us today ♪</i>

1660
01:39:09,983 --> 01:39:13,320
[choir humming]

1661
01:39:35,976 --> 01:39:39,346
[George] <i>Do not base your faith</i>
<i>upon my flawed life.</i>

1662
01:39:43,250 --> 01:39:44,919
<i>Do not base your faith</i>

1663
01:39:45,018 --> 01:39:47,287
<i>upon the cold religion</i>
<i>of your father.</i>

1664
01:39:50,257 --> 01:39:54,529
<i>Base it upon what He has done</i>
<i>on a cross of wood.</i>

1665
01:40:00,869 --> 01:40:02,336
[laughter]

1666
01:40:03,805 --> 01:40:05,405
[woman] No!

1667
01:40:05,507 --> 01:40:08,543
It is the great and terrible

1668
01:40:08,643 --> 01:40:11,579
Reverend George Preachfield!

1669
01:40:11,679 --> 01:40:13,380
[audience laughing]

1670
01:40:45,245 --> 01:40:47,381
[choir vocalizing]

1671
01:40:52,554 --> 01:40:53,588
[music fades]

1672
01:40:53,688 --> 01:40:54,989
[Benjamin] Admiral Howe,

1673
01:40:56,658 --> 01:40:58,793
you do not know the heart
of these people.

1674
01:40:59,493 --> 01:41:02,396
They are a sturdy,
independently-minded kind.

1675
01:41:03,731 --> 01:41:07,535
Moral, self-governing,
they have been awakened.

1676
01:41:08,502 --> 01:41:09,604
Awakened?

1677
01:41:12,239 --> 01:41:13,173
How?

1678
01:41:14,341 --> 01:41:16,611
They believe
that once they dealt

1679
01:41:16,711 --> 01:41:18,980
with the tyrant
within themselves,

1680
01:41:19,079 --> 01:41:22,584
they now have eyes to see
the tyrant across the sea.

1681
01:41:22,684 --> 01:41:24,117
Oh, do they?

1682
01:41:24,217 --> 01:41:26,119
Oh, so they found it necessary
to send you

1683
01:41:26,219 --> 01:41:28,923
to rebuke this tyrant
across the sea?

1684
01:41:30,357 --> 01:41:32,159
I would have thought
your sturdy colonists

1685
01:41:32,259 --> 01:41:35,295
would have at least equipped you
with a shovel or a tomahawk

1686
01:41:35,395 --> 01:41:36,430
to face such a tyrant.

1687
01:41:37,599 --> 01:41:40,367
Perhaps a sling
and a few smooth stones

1688
01:41:40,467 --> 01:41:42,102
are all that is necessary.

1689
01:41:46,206 --> 01:41:49,577
Do you know how many men
are on just one of my ships?

1690
01:41:51,980 --> 01:41:53,081
800.

1691
01:41:54,281 --> 01:41:57,384
My Royal Navy
has over 250 ships.

1692
01:41:57,484 --> 01:41:59,621
And you're a man
of calculations.

1693
01:41:59,721 --> 01:42:01,823
You're going to need more
than a few smooth stones,

1694
01:42:01,923 --> 01:42:02,957
Dr. Franklin.

1695
01:42:04,993 --> 01:42:07,895
There is no need
to escalate this to a war.

1696
01:42:07,996 --> 01:42:09,998
Oh, I don't know.

1697
01:42:10,098 --> 01:42:13,300
Make for a wonderful story
for your little newspaper.

1698
01:42:13,400 --> 01:42:15,770
Farmers with slings and stones

1699
01:42:15,870 --> 01:42:18,338
versus the most powerful army
on earth.

1700
01:42:18,438 --> 01:42:20,240
It would be a good little war.

1701
01:42:20,340 --> 01:42:23,945
Short-lived, but...
exhilarating.

1702
01:42:24,712 --> 01:42:28,448
There never was a good war,
nor a bad peace.

1703
01:42:28,549 --> 01:42:30,150
Then may I suggest you refrain
from threats

1704
01:42:30,250 --> 01:42:32,053
you're not able to fulfill?

1705
01:42:32,954 --> 01:42:36,057
We have petitioned the King
exhaustively.

1706
01:42:37,125 --> 01:42:39,426
We've appealed to the royal
governors within the colonies,

1707
01:42:39,527 --> 01:42:40,962
to no avail.

1708
01:42:41,062 --> 01:42:43,296
We have sought participation
in trade agreements,

1709
01:42:43,397 --> 01:42:45,165
taxation, and governance,

1710
01:42:45,265 --> 01:42:47,501
without even a response
from His Majesty.

1711
01:42:47,602 --> 01:42:49,269
Well, the King has
far greater concerns

1712
01:42:49,369 --> 01:42:52,272
than distant dirt workers
crying for attention.

1713
01:42:52,372 --> 01:42:55,877
Admiral Howe, across that ocean,

1714
01:42:55,977 --> 01:42:58,079
an entire generation
of Americans

1715
01:42:58,178 --> 01:42:59,914
have been awakened to believe

1716
01:43:00,014 --> 01:43:03,618
that liberty is not a gift
given to them by a king,

1717
01:43:03,718 --> 01:43:06,120
but a right given to them
by God.

1718
01:43:07,320 --> 01:43:08,355
God?

1719
01:43:09,489 --> 01:43:10,958
Hm.

1720
01:43:11,059 --> 01:43:12,292
Well, perhaps if I match

1721
01:43:12,392 --> 01:43:15,295
your surprisingly
religious tone,

1722
01:43:15,395 --> 01:43:18,132
you might understand.

1723
01:43:18,231 --> 01:43:22,136
When the prodigal son received
his inheritance prematurely,

1724
01:43:22,235 --> 01:43:25,238
he too thought he could handle
his newly found freedom.

1725
01:43:26,507 --> 01:43:28,643
He was shamefully deluded.

1726
01:43:28,743 --> 01:43:31,311
He squandered it
and came crawling back to Daddy

1727
01:43:31,411 --> 01:43:34,549
with empty hands
and an empty belly.

1728
01:43:34,649 --> 01:43:36,951
You Americans
are exactly the same.

1729
01:43:37,518 --> 01:43:40,021
Utterly incapable
of handling freedom.

1730
01:43:40,722 --> 01:43:43,457
A virtuous people
can handle freedom.

1731
01:43:43,558 --> 01:43:46,493
[laughs]

1732
01:43:46,594 --> 01:43:49,897
Oh, and you, as model citizen.

1733
01:43:49,997 --> 01:43:51,733
Would Mrs. Franklin find you

1734
01:43:51,833 --> 01:43:54,334
and last night's
theater guest virtuous?

1735
01:43:56,070 --> 01:43:57,905
Oh, Dr. Franklin,

1736
01:43:58,005 --> 01:44:00,575
need I remind you
that for over a century,

1737
01:44:00,675 --> 01:44:03,745
our kings have emptied
their poorhouses

1738
01:44:03,845 --> 01:44:06,346
and drained the vagrants
from our streets

1739
01:44:06,446 --> 01:44:08,381
by sending them
to your colonies?

1740
01:44:09,751 --> 01:44:13,755
And now you think
these indentured servants

1741
01:44:13,855 --> 01:44:15,156
can be self-governed?

1742
01:44:15,255 --> 01:44:17,257
[scoffs, chuckles]

1743
01:44:18,192 --> 01:44:19,093
[glass thuds]

1744
01:44:21,729 --> 01:44:23,396
You know you are not
on the same level

1745
01:44:23,497 --> 01:44:25,867
as these rats you represent.

1746
01:44:25,967 --> 01:44:28,803
British society is greatly
enamored by you

1747
01:44:28,903 --> 01:44:31,839
and think you
delightfully entertaining.

1748
01:44:31,939 --> 01:44:33,141
If you would simply drop

1749
01:44:33,241 --> 01:44:35,109
this notion
of independent government,

1750
01:44:35,209 --> 01:44:37,111
you'd be greatly rewarded
by the King.

1751
01:44:38,146 --> 01:44:39,312
I cannot be bought.

1752
01:44:39,412 --> 01:44:41,414
You would die on the vine
without us!

1753
01:44:41,516 --> 01:44:42,950
[loud knock on door]

1754
01:44:43,050 --> 01:44:44,919
[doors opens, squeaks]

1755
01:44:49,257 --> 01:44:50,825
[servant] Pardon
the interruption, Admiral.

1756
01:44:50,925 --> 01:44:53,460
I have just been informed
of news from the colonies.

1757
01:44:53,561 --> 01:44:57,464
Hmm, they're requesting more
shovels, plows, and stones?

1758
01:44:58,199 --> 01:44:59,667
The Reverend George Whitefield
has died...

1759
01:44:59,767 --> 01:45:01,969
[muffled] ...in Newburyport,
Massachusetts.

1760
01:45:02,069 --> 01:45:04,138
Being a friend of England
and her colonies,

1761
01:45:04,238 --> 01:45:06,007
the consulate thought
you both should know.

1762
01:45:08,910 --> 01:45:09,811
Is that all?

1763
01:45:09,911 --> 01:45:10,812
Yes, sir.

1764
01:45:18,519 --> 01:45:20,922
Speaking of dying on the vine,

1765
01:45:21,022 --> 01:45:22,824
and rather young, wasn't he?

1766
01:45:27,128 --> 01:45:28,428
Did you know him?

1767
01:45:31,431 --> 01:45:32,365
Well,

1768
01:45:33,167 --> 01:45:37,205
your colonies had
their awakening, Dr. Franklin.

1769
01:45:37,305 --> 01:45:39,774
Now, it's time they have
their reckoning.

1770
01:45:43,778 --> 01:45:44,846
Checkmate.

1771
01:45:56,324 --> 01:45:58,159
[distant shouting]

1772
01:45:59,627 --> 01:46:01,829
[soft, dramatic music playing]

1773
01:46:57,885 --> 01:47:00,521
[music flourishing]

1774
01:47:04,424 --> 01:47:06,627
[thunder rumbling]

1775
01:47:22,076 --> 01:47:23,277
[Benny] Where are you going?

1776
01:47:27,447 --> 01:47:28,883
Grandfather, what are you doing?

1777
01:47:28,983 --> 01:47:30,017
The storm is here!

1778
01:47:30,885 --> 01:47:32,620
This is unsafe!

1779
01:47:38,059 --> 01:47:39,961
Grandfather, put this on!

1780
01:47:40,995 --> 01:47:42,029
Grandfather!

1781
01:48:09,757 --> 01:48:11,425
[loud thunder crashing]

1782
01:48:18,599 --> 01:48:20,334
And who is the source, Ben?

1783
01:48:28,376 --> 01:48:30,011
[panting]

1784
01:48:30,111 --> 01:48:31,545
Dunk the papers, Benny.

1785
01:48:33,381 --> 01:48:34,815
I have something to say.

1786
01:48:36,617 --> 01:48:39,020
[panting]

1787
01:48:40,521 --> 01:48:42,957
[rousing music playing]

1788
01:49:36,077 --> 01:49:38,579
[machine rattling]

1789
01:49:40,714 --> 01:49:41,615
Grandfather,

1790
01:49:42,783 --> 01:49:43,918
care to do the honors?

1791
01:49:51,258 --> 01:49:53,461
[rousing music continues]

1792
01:50:28,597 --> 01:50:29,598
Grandfather...

1793
01:50:31,832 --> 01:50:33,334
why didn't you
tell me this before...

1794
01:50:34,268 --> 01:50:35,803
t-the story of Whitefield?

1795
01:50:37,171 --> 01:50:39,006
[loud sigh] I...

1796
01:50:40,441 --> 01:50:42,143
I didn't think I needed to.

1797
01:50:45,746 --> 01:50:46,814
You needed to.

1798
01:51:19,980 --> 01:51:23,217
One tiny candle
illuminates a thousand.

1799
01:51:56,518 --> 01:51:59,787
- [loud thudding]
- [indistinct arguing]

1800
01:51:59,887 --> 01:52:00,854
Order!

1801
01:52:02,056 --> 01:52:03,157
Order!

1802
01:52:04,693 --> 01:52:07,161
Proceed, Mr. Read.

1803
01:52:07,261 --> 01:52:10,397
[Read] The states formed
this confederation in 1776

1804
01:52:10,497 --> 01:52:12,634
on equal terms.

1805
01:52:12,733 --> 01:52:14,401
The states being equal,

1806
01:52:14,501 --> 01:52:16,904
must have equal influence
and equal votes.

1807
01:52:17,004 --> 01:52:18,472
- [members] Aye!
- [Read] If...

1808
01:52:18,573 --> 01:52:22,076
if this convention grants
large states more votes

1809
01:52:22,176 --> 01:52:23,410
than the small,

1810
01:52:23,511 --> 01:52:26,413
the large states
will naturally combine

1811
01:52:26,514 --> 01:52:28,583
and form a tyranny
over the smaller states.

1812
01:52:28,683 --> 01:52:30,150
- [members] Hear, hear!
- Nowhere

1813
01:52:30,251 --> 01:52:32,453
in the history of men or nations

1814
01:52:32,554 --> 01:52:35,322
has such a thing occurred,
Mr. Read.

1815
01:52:35,422 --> 01:52:37,791
Carthage and Rome
tore one another to pieces

1816
01:52:37,891 --> 01:52:40,461
instead of uniting their forces
to devour the weaker nations

1817
01:52:40,562 --> 01:52:41,829
of the earth.

1818
01:52:41,929 --> 01:52:43,897
Sparta, Athens, and Thebes

1819
01:52:43,998 --> 01:52:46,200
never combined to oppress
their neighbors.

1820
01:52:46,300 --> 01:52:49,638
Instead they were rivals,
and fought each other.

1821
01:52:50,871 --> 01:52:53,007
Anarchy and discord await us

1822
01:52:53,107 --> 01:52:56,277
if we fail to unite
under a central authority.

1823
01:52:56,377 --> 01:52:58,045
[members clamoring]

1824
01:52:58,145 --> 01:53:01,782
When men or nations
are strong and equal,

1825
01:53:01,882 --> 01:53:03,851
they become rivals.

1826
01:53:03,951 --> 01:53:06,487
Jealousy prevents their union.

1827
01:53:06,588 --> 01:53:08,322
[Read] This convention
might as well go on then

1828
01:53:08,422 --> 01:53:10,057
and dissolve the union now.

1829
01:53:10,157 --> 01:53:12,192
[indistinct shouting]

1830
01:53:12,293 --> 01:53:14,128
- [man] How dare you?
- [gavel banging]

1831
01:53:16,765 --> 01:53:19,033
If partial confederates
take place,

1832
01:53:19,133 --> 01:53:21,636
then the present plan
on the table, Mr. Madison.

1833
01:53:21,736 --> 01:53:24,739
- [members arguing]
- [gavel banging]

1834
01:53:24,838 --> 01:53:27,374
- [Washington] Order.
- [gavel banging]

1835
01:53:27,474 --> 01:53:28,475
Order.

1836
01:53:30,244 --> 01:53:32,012
This chair recognizes

1837
01:53:33,147 --> 01:53:34,716
Dr. Benjamin Franklin.

1838
01:53:34,815 --> 01:53:35,849
[man clears throat]

1839
01:53:41,523 --> 01:53:42,823
Mr. President,

1840
01:53:44,291 --> 01:53:46,360
the small progress we have made

1841
01:53:46,460 --> 01:53:49,698
after four or five weeks'
close attendance

1842
01:53:49,798 --> 01:53:52,499
and continual reasonings
with each other,

1843
01:53:53,300 --> 01:53:56,738
our different sentiments
on almost every question,

1844
01:53:56,837 --> 01:54:01,008
several of the last producing
as many nos as ayes,

1845
01:54:01,108 --> 01:54:03,712
is methinks a melancholy proof

1846
01:54:03,812 --> 01:54:06,380
of the imperfection
of the human understanding.

1847
01:54:08,349 --> 01:54:12,853
We indeed seem
to feel our own want

1848
01:54:12,953 --> 01:54:15,122
of political wisdom,

1849
01:54:15,222 --> 01:54:19,226
since we've been running about
in search of it. [scoffs]

1850
01:54:19,326 --> 01:54:22,363
We have gone back
to ancient history

1851
01:54:22,463 --> 01:54:24,098
for models of government.

1852
01:54:24,198 --> 01:54:25,132
[grunts]

1853
01:54:25,734 --> 01:54:31,740
And having examined those forms
of those republics,

1854
01:54:31,840 --> 01:54:33,775
which having been formed

1855
01:54:33,874 --> 01:54:36,009
with the seeds
of their own disillusion,

1856
01:54:37,211 --> 01:54:38,912
now no longer exist.

1857
01:54:40,682 --> 01:54:44,719
We have viewed modern states
all around Europe,

1858
01:54:45,886 --> 01:54:48,389
but find none
of their constitutions

1859
01:54:48,489 --> 01:54:50,592
suitable to our circumstances.

1860
01:54:52,025 --> 01:54:55,162
In this situation
of this assembly,

1861
01:54:55,262 --> 01:55:00,000
groping as it were in the dark
for political truth

1862
01:55:00,100 --> 01:55:02,002
and scarce able
to distinguish it

1863
01:55:02,102 --> 01:55:03,538
when presented to us,

1864
01:55:04,405 --> 01:55:06,741
how has it happened, sir,

1865
01:55:06,841 --> 01:55:10,110
that we have not hitherto
once thought

1866
01:55:10,210 --> 01:55:13,247
of humbly applying
to the Father of Lights

1867
01:55:13,347 --> 01:55:15,382
to illuminate
our understandings?

1868
01:55:17,451 --> 01:55:20,020
In the beginning of the contest
with Great Britain,

1869
01:55:21,021 --> 01:55:23,525
when we were sensible of danger,

1870
01:55:23,625 --> 01:55:26,661
we had daily prayer in this room

1871
01:55:26,761 --> 01:55:28,228
for the divine protection.

1872
01:55:29,597 --> 01:55:31,833
Our prayers, sir, were heard,

1873
01:55:31,932 --> 01:55:33,934
and they were graciously
answered.

1874
01:55:36,538 --> 01:55:40,040
All of us who were engaged
in the struggle

1875
01:55:40,974 --> 01:55:44,278
must have observed
frequent instances

1876
01:55:44,378 --> 01:55:47,281
of a superintending providence
in our favor.

1877
01:55:48,982 --> 01:55:50,384
To that kind providence,

1878
01:55:50,484 --> 01:55:54,689
we owe this happy opportunity
of consulting in peace

1879
01:55:54,789 --> 01:55:58,927
on the means of establishing
our future national felicity.

1880
01:56:02,262 --> 01:56:04,264
And have we now forgotten

1881
01:56:06,133 --> 01:56:07,401
that powerful friend?

1882
01:56:09,671 --> 01:56:12,640
Or do we imagine that we
no longer need his assistance?

1883
01:56:15,075 --> 01:56:17,612
I have lived, sir, a long time.

1884
01:56:18,947 --> 01:56:20,748
And the longer I live,

1885
01:56:20,849 --> 01:56:24,351
the more convincing proofs
I have seen of this truth,

1886
01:56:25,753 --> 01:56:29,022
that God governs
in the affairs of man.

1887
01:56:30,859 --> 01:56:33,928
And if a sparrow cannot fall
without his notice,

1888
01:56:35,830 --> 01:56:39,834
is it probable that an empire
can rise without his aid?

1889
01:56:42,503 --> 01:56:45,439
We have been assured, sir,
in the sacred Scriptures

1890
01:56:46,608 --> 01:56:49,409
that unless the Lord
built the house,

1891
01:56:49,511 --> 01:56:51,378
they labor in vain
that build it.

1892
01:56:53,648 --> 01:56:55,182
I firmly believe this.

1893
01:56:57,050 --> 01:57:00,187
And I also believe
that without his concurring aid,

1894
01:57:00,889 --> 01:57:04,124
we shall succeed
in this political building

1895
01:57:04,224 --> 01:57:06,159
no better than
the builders of Babel.

1896
01:57:08,530 --> 01:57:12,165
We shall be divided by our
little partial local interest,

1897
01:57:13,066 --> 01:57:15,202
our projects
shall be confounded,

1898
01:57:16,004 --> 01:57:19,874
and we ourselves shall become
a reproach and a byword

1899
01:57:19,974 --> 01:57:21,375
down to future age.

1900
01:57:22,242 --> 01:57:23,377
And what is worse,

1901
01:57:24,411 --> 01:57:28,148
mankind may hereafter these
unfortunate instances,

1902
01:57:28,783 --> 01:57:32,052
despair of establishing
governments on human wisdom

1903
01:57:33,086 --> 01:57:38,325
and leave it to chance, war,
and conquest.

1904
01:57:41,663 --> 01:57:45,232
I, therefore, beg leave to move

1905
01:57:46,901 --> 01:57:49,336
that henceforth prayers

1906
01:57:50,437 --> 01:57:52,640
imploring the assistance
of Heaven

1907
01:57:52,740 --> 01:57:55,643
and its blessings
on our deliberations

1908
01:57:55,743 --> 01:57:58,245
be held in this assembly
every morning

1909
01:57:58,345 --> 01:58:00,447
before we proceed to business

1910
01:58:02,517 --> 01:58:06,153
and that one or more
of the clergy of this city

1911
01:58:06,253 --> 01:58:08,590
be requested to officiate
in that service.

1912
01:58:16,764 --> 01:58:17,765
[clears throat]

1913
01:58:23,303 --> 01:58:25,974
However proper such a resolution
might have been

1914
01:58:26,074 --> 01:58:28,543
at the beginning
of the convention,

1915
01:58:30,243 --> 01:58:32,446
it might at this late day lead
the public to believe

1916
01:58:32,547 --> 01:58:34,549
that the embarrassments
of disunity

1917
01:58:34,649 --> 01:58:36,149
and dissensions
within the convention

1918
01:58:36,249 --> 01:58:37,619
have suggested this measure.

1919
01:58:40,287 --> 01:58:41,689
It would make us look weak.

1920
01:58:47,461 --> 01:58:51,833
And the true cause
of the omission

1921
01:58:51,933 --> 01:58:55,469
of clergy-led prayer
must not be mistaken.

1922
01:58:56,336 --> 01:59:00,407
This convention has no funds
to pay a clergyman.

1923
01:59:02,510 --> 01:59:04,311
I propose, in order to give

1924
01:59:04,411 --> 01:59:06,547
a favorable aspect
to this measure,

1925
01:59:06,648 --> 01:59:10,250
that a sermon be preached
at the request of the convention

1926
01:59:10,350 --> 01:59:11,586
on 4th of July

1927
01:59:12,587 --> 01:59:13,921
and henceforward

1928
01:59:15,188 --> 01:59:18,026
prayers be offered
in this convention

1929
01:59:19,761 --> 01:59:20,828
every morning.

1930
01:59:21,996 --> 01:59:23,031
Second.

1931
01:59:27,467 --> 01:59:28,836
[Washington]
Shall we take a vote?

1932
01:59:32,506 --> 01:59:36,077
I request a postponement
due to adjournment.

1933
01:59:36,176 --> 01:59:37,344
Second.

1934
01:59:41,149 --> 01:59:42,449
Dr. Franklin's recommendation

1935
01:59:42,550 --> 01:59:44,986
and Mr. Randolph's motion
for daily prayer

1936
01:59:45,987 --> 01:59:48,221
is postponed due to adjournment.

1937
01:59:55,395 --> 01:59:58,166
I, for one, will be
in attendance on July the 4th,

1938
01:59:59,534 --> 02:00:01,169
observing a day of prayer.

1939
02:00:03,638 --> 02:00:05,205
I would welcome

1940
02:00:05,305 --> 02:00:07,742
any and all of you

1941
02:00:08,876 --> 02:00:09,877
to join me.

1942
02:00:12,513 --> 02:00:13,447
Adjourned.

1943
02:00:13,548 --> 02:00:14,749
[gavel bangs]

1944
02:00:14,849 --> 02:00:16,483
[indistinct chatter]

1945
02:00:32,934 --> 02:00:35,937
[rousing music playing]

1946
02:01:00,327 --> 02:01:03,131
[George] <i>The Father of Lights</i>
<i>says in His Word,</i>

1947
02:01:03,231 --> 02:01:05,633
<i>"For you who honor my name,</i>

1948
02:01:05,733 --> 02:01:07,535
<i>the sun of righteousness</i>
<i>will rise</i>

1949
02:01:07,635 --> 02:01:09,369
<i>with healing in its wings."</i>

1950
02:01:10,872 --> 02:01:12,472
<i>My friends,</i>

1951
02:01:12,573 --> 02:01:14,041
do you want to be free?

1952
02:01:15,375 --> 02:01:17,277
Liberty is found in Him alone.

1953
02:01:18,513 --> 02:01:20,447
Do you want to live?

1954
02:01:20,548 --> 02:01:22,817
He alone gives eternal life.

1955
02:01:24,552 --> 02:01:27,387
<i>Because of the tender mercy</i>
<i>of our God,</i>

1956
02:01:27,487 --> 02:01:30,191
<i>the rising sun will come to us</i>
<i>from heaven</i>

1957
02:01:30,290 --> 02:01:32,459
<i>to shine on those living</i>
<i>in darkness.</i>

1958
02:01:33,828 --> 02:01:38,166
I beseech you,
do not reject so great a gift.

1959
02:01:41,068 --> 02:01:42,502
A great awakening has come.

1960
02:01:44,504 --> 02:01:45,973
Arise, O sleeper!

1961
02:01:47,241 --> 02:01:48,408
Awaken!

1962
02:01:52,013 --> 02:01:53,313
[music fades]

1963
02:01:53,413 --> 02:01:56,017
[soft music playing]

1964
02:02:55,743 --> 02:03:02,083
[singer] <i>♪ From the oceans,</i>
<i>through the valleys ♪</i>

1965
02:03:02,183 --> 02:03:08,756
<i>♪ From the mainland</i>
<i>to the shore ♪</i>

1966
02:03:08,856 --> 02:03:15,363
<i>♪ Let Your Kingdom</i>
<i>be awakened ♪</i>

1967
02:03:15,462 --> 02:03:21,836
<i>♪ In the hearts of men</i>
<i>once more ♪</i>

1968
02:03:21,936 --> 02:03:28,576
<i>♪ Call Your children</i>
<i>into freedom ♪</i>

1969
02:03:28,676 --> 02:03:35,116
<i>♪ Captive souls to liberty ♪</i>

1970
02:03:35,216 --> 02:03:41,656
<i>♪ Come awaken, Holy Spirit ♪</i>

1971
02:03:41,756 --> 02:03:48,763
<i>♪ Come awaken us today ♪</i>

1972
02:03:58,406 --> 02:04:04,779
[choir] <i>♪ Love unending,</i>
<i>grace unyielding ♪</i>

1973
02:04:04,879 --> 02:04:11,451
<i>♪ Tender mercies</i>
<i>from thy throne ♪</i>

1974
02:04:11,552 --> 02:04:17,959
<i>♪ Brings the lost soul</i>
<i>into families ♪</i>

1975
02:04:18,059 --> 02:04:23,998
<i>♪ Calls the wayward</i>
<i>sinner home ♪</i>

1976
02:04:24,632 --> 02:04:31,072
<i>♪ Bring salvation,</i>
<i>Great Redeemer ♪</i>

1977
02:04:31,172 --> 02:04:37,678
<i>♪ Holy fire fan to flame ♪</i>

1978
02:04:37,778 --> 02:04:44,251
<i>♪ Come restore us,</i>
<i>come revive us ♪</i>

1979
02:04:44,352 --> 02:04:50,958
<i>♪ Come awaken us today ♪</i>

1980
02:05:00,968 --> 02:05:07,341
<i>♪ I will serve Thee,</i>
<i>Precious Jesus ♪</i>

1981
02:05:07,441 --> 02:05:13,781
<i>♪ Unto Thee I give my all ♪</i>

1982
02:05:13,881 --> 02:05:20,388
<i>♪ Lay my hands</i>
<i>unto thy service ♪</i>

1983
02:05:20,488 --> 02:05:27,094
<i>♪ And my heart unto thy call ♪</i>

1984
02:05:27,194 --> 02:05:33,567
<i>♪ Perish every fond ambition ♪</i>

1985
02:05:33,667 --> 02:05:40,241
<i>♪ Lay aside all selfish gain ♪</i>

1986
02:05:40,341 --> 02:05:46,714
<i>♪ All forsaken for thy glory ♪</i>

1987
02:05:46,814 --> 02:05:53,821
<i>♪ Come awaken us today ♪</i>

1988
02:06:33,727 --> 02:06:40,668
<i>♪ Wake, O sleeper,</i>
<i>from your slumber ♪</i>

1989
02:06:40,768 --> 02:06:47,775
<i>♪ Saints awaken,</i>
<i>come to life ♪</i>

1990
02:06:47,875 --> 02:06:55,182
<i>♪ Christ will rise</i>
<i>and shine upon you ♪</i>

1991
02:06:55,282 --> 02:07:02,256
<i>♪ In His heav'nly</i>
<i>light divine ♪</i>

1992
02:07:02,356 --> 02:07:08,863
<i>♪ Like the sunrise</i>
<i>in its dawning ♪</i>

1993
02:07:09,663 --> 02:07:16,670
<i>♪ Breaking darkness</i>
<i>with new light ♪</i>

1994
02:07:16,770 --> 02:07:23,744
<i>♪ Rise upon us, King of glory ♪</i>

1995
02:07:23,844 --> 02:07:30,151
<i>♪ Come awaken us today ♪</i>

1996
02:07:34,523 --> 02:07:38,025
[singer] <i>♪ For Your Kingdom ♪</i>

1997
02:07:38,125 --> 02:07:43,632
<i>♪ For Your Glory ♪</i>

1998
02:07:45,466 --> 02:07:53,040
[choir] <i>♪ Come awaken us ♪</i>

1999
02:07:53,140 --> 02:07:58,145
<i>♪ Today! ♪</i>