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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
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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
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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]
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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]

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Another storm rolling in.

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Ever since
the Great Boston Fire,

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every thunderclap
and distant flash

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ignites an inferno of fear.

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Soothe or stoke?

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I'm sorry?

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Well, you sound like a printer

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who's just found
his first headline.

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[chuckles] Really?

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Now, you can soothe them
with something like,

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"A supernatural providence
shall rain down from heaven,

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

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- Or?
- Or...

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you can strike fear into them.

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"Judgment has come.

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Philadelphia is one
lightning strike away

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- from a pile of ash."
- [chuckles]

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[chuckles]

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With those letters,
you can do either one.

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Both sell papers, Benny.

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And which would you choose?

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Ah,

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fetch me my chest over there.

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[grunts]

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[Benny] Of all your pen names,

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which ones were soothers
and which ones were stokers?

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[chuckles]

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That depends on who you ask.

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[Benny]
Oh, we have Martha Careful,

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- uh, Harry Meanwell.
- Mm. [chuckles]

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Oh, of course, Poor Richard.

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[Benjamin] Ah, my old friends.

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Ah.

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Hmm.

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More true now than ever.

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Whose are these?

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"November 8th, 1739,

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The Reverend George Whitefield
has arrived from England

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to awaken the colonies."

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George Whitefield?

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Whitefield.

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It's George Whitefield.

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[Benny] Was he soothe or stoke?

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Yes.

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[chuckles]

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"From my infancy
'til my being for a time

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at the University of Oxford,"
section one.

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Why do you have his journals?

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He was an old friend.

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[chuckles]

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You were friends
with a preacher?

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Is he still alive?

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Was he part of the revolution?

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Grandfather?

269
00:17:16,002 --> 00:17:17,003
Benny...

270
00:17:20,973 --> 00:17:24,311
George Whitefield
was the revolution.

271
00:17:26,679 --> 00:17:31,751
[Burton] Oh, what a rogue
and peasant slave am I!

272
00:17:33,686 --> 00:17:37,757
Is it not monstrous
that this player here

273
00:17:37,857 --> 00:17:41,494
but in a fiction,
in a dream of passion...

274
00:17:41,594 --> 00:17:45,064
Leavin' others
to do all the work again.

275
00:17:45,165 --> 00:17:47,934
But this is where Hamlet wishes
he were an actor.

276
00:17:48,034 --> 00:17:49,001
[chuckles]

277
00:17:50,703 --> 00:17:51,704
Like you,

278
00:17:53,273 --> 00:17:56,075
hiding behind masks.

279
00:17:56,176 --> 00:17:58,010
[chuckles]

280
00:18:00,012 --> 00:18:02,682
I'm a better actor
than all of 'em.

281
00:18:02,782 --> 00:18:05,552
Got your mom convinced anyway.

282
00:18:08,054 --> 00:18:12,425
Smile, Georgie. [chuckles]

283
00:18:12,525 --> 00:18:14,627
[tray clanks]

284
00:18:16,028 --> 00:18:17,297
- Clean it up.
- [utensil clinks]

285
00:18:18,531 --> 00:18:19,999
Use your hands!

286
00:18:20,099 --> 00:18:22,669
An actor's gotta use his hands!

287
00:18:22,769 --> 00:18:24,036
[chuckles]

288
00:18:25,037 --> 00:18:28,040
[Burton, indistinct]

289
00:18:32,345 --> 00:18:35,448
[Elizabeth] Someday,
you'll be up there, son.

290
00:18:38,117 --> 00:18:41,954
[Burton] He would drown
the stage with tears.

291
00:18:42,054 --> 00:18:42,955
[sniffles]

292
00:18:43,956 --> 00:18:46,159
- The play is the thing...
- Someday.

293
00:18:46,259 --> 00:18:50,463
...wherein I'll catch
the conscience of the king!

294
00:18:51,298 --> 00:18:53,700
[audience claps]

295
00:19:08,147 --> 00:19:11,251
Oh, what a rogue
and peasant slave am I!

296
00:19:11,351 --> 00:19:14,754
Oh, what a rogue
and peasant slave am I!

297
00:19:14,854 --> 00:19:17,657
Oh, what a rogue
and peasant slave am I!

298
00:19:17,757 --> 00:19:19,559
From here, Georgie.

299
00:19:19,659 --> 00:19:21,828
The power is not here, but here.

300
00:19:22,795 --> 00:19:23,696
Again.

301
00:19:23,796 --> 00:19:25,031
Oh!

302
00:19:25,131 --> 00:19:26,399
No, again.

303
00:19:26,499 --> 00:19:27,767
Oh!

304
00:19:27,867 --> 00:19:30,002
Yes, yes! That's it, Georgie!

305
00:19:30,102 --> 00:19:31,338
Did you feel that?

306
00:19:31,438 --> 00:19:33,673
Yes, I did.

307
00:19:35,942 --> 00:19:38,711
Now, the whole line,
just like that.

308
00:19:39,479 --> 00:19:43,283
Oh, what a rogue
and peasant slave am I!

309
00:19:43,383 --> 00:19:44,717
Tears in his eyes.

310
00:19:44,817 --> 00:19:46,719
Distraction in's aspect.

311
00:19:46,819 --> 00:19:48,588
A broken voice.

312
00:19:48,688 --> 00:19:53,059
His whole function suiting
with forms to his own conceit.

313
00:19:54,126 --> 00:19:56,629
And all for nothing.

314
00:19:57,730 --> 00:19:59,632
Oh, what would he do,

315
00:19:59,732 --> 00:20:02,702
had he the motive and the cue
for passion that I have!

316
00:20:04,871 --> 00:20:07,340
He would drown the stage
with tears.

317
00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:11,344
He would cleave the general ear
with horrid speech.

318
00:20:11,444 --> 00:20:14,647
Make mad the guilty
and appall the free.

319
00:20:14,747 --> 00:20:18,651
Confound the ignorant
and amaze indeed.

320
00:20:18,751 --> 00:20:20,353
The play's the thing

321
00:20:20,453 --> 00:20:23,089
wherein I'll catch
the conscience of the king.

322
00:20:24,257 --> 00:20:26,259
[audience claps, clamors]

323
00:20:28,194 --> 00:20:29,496
[man] Bravo.

324
00:20:35,201 --> 00:20:40,172
Catch the conscience of the king
and the heart of his mum.

325
00:20:40,273 --> 00:20:44,010
You are good enough
to be on any stage in London.

326
00:20:44,110 --> 00:20:47,146
Uh, not with this eye
and a poor man's accent.

327
00:20:47,246 --> 00:20:50,350
Well, if not the stage,
perhaps the pulpit then.

328
00:20:50,450 --> 00:20:51,384
Mum.

329
00:20:52,385 --> 00:20:53,853
But your voice.

330
00:20:53,953 --> 00:20:56,923
Trapped behind a dusty pulpit
wearing an itchy wig?

331
00:20:57,023 --> 00:20:58,358
- Oh, uh.
- Never.

332
00:20:59,125 --> 00:21:01,961
Actors make people
feel something.

333
00:21:02,061 --> 00:21:03,930
Preachers just put 'em to sleep.

334
00:21:04,030 --> 00:21:06,032
- [chuckles]
- "Oh, God.

335
00:21:06,132 --> 00:21:08,468
Make speed to save us."

336
00:21:08,568 --> 00:21:12,104
"Oh, Lord.
Make haste to help us."

337
00:21:12,204 --> 00:21:14,607
- [chuckling]
- [George chuckles]

338
00:21:14,707 --> 00:21:17,310
A character actor too, I see.

339
00:21:17,410 --> 00:21:19,211
That's all I'll ever be,
Mr. Burton.

340
00:21:19,946 --> 00:21:20,947
Use it.

341
00:21:21,714 --> 00:21:23,383
Act the truth.

342
00:21:23,483 --> 00:21:25,485
Use everything life
throws at you.

343
00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:28,855
There.

344
00:21:29,622 --> 00:21:32,559
Now I've given you
all my secrets.

345
00:21:32,659 --> 00:21:33,893
This is...

346
00:21:33,993 --> 00:21:35,962
You've written notes
on every page. I...

347
00:21:36,062 --> 00:21:38,297
- I can't take this.
- Consider it mandatory reading

348
00:21:38,398 --> 00:21:40,633
before attending Oxford
this fall.

349
00:21:41,901 --> 00:21:42,802
Elizabeth,

350
00:21:44,003 --> 00:21:46,238
I would give 100 guineas

351
00:21:46,339 --> 00:21:48,007
if I could only say, "O",

352
00:21:48,107 --> 00:21:50,877
as effectively as your son
says, "O".

353
00:21:52,178 --> 00:21:53,179
He is...

354
00:21:55,014 --> 00:21:56,115
extraordinary,

355
00:21:57,083 --> 00:21:58,718
and he needs further training

356
00:21:58,818 --> 00:22:01,320
in diction, interpretation,
rhetoric.

357
00:22:01,421 --> 00:22:05,091
Oxford will provide him
all this and more.

358
00:22:05,191 --> 00:22:07,894
His stepfather ran away
and took everything.

359
00:22:08,528 --> 00:22:10,329
Uh, we could never afford it.

360
00:22:10,430 --> 00:22:12,064
He would go as a servitor

361
00:22:12,164 --> 00:22:15,368
to serve the more, shall I say,
privileged students.

362
00:22:16,168 --> 00:22:18,605
You would receive the same level
of education

363
00:22:18,705 --> 00:22:20,940
provided you look after
their affairs,

364
00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:23,610
carrying their books,
serving them meals.

365
00:22:23,710 --> 00:22:26,078
Clearly, you're no stranger
to such tasks.

366
00:22:26,846 --> 00:22:30,517
All you need is a recommendation
from an Oxford alumnus.

367
00:22:31,951 --> 00:22:34,353
Well, we don't know
an Oxford alumnus.

368
00:22:38,825 --> 00:22:41,027
[Burton] They're expecting you
for the fall term.

369
00:22:45,998 --> 00:22:48,635
Remember the source
of your power.

370
00:22:51,504 --> 00:22:52,739
When the moment comes,

371
00:22:54,574 --> 00:22:55,842
let 'em have it, George.

372
00:23:09,556 --> 00:23:14,060
O, what a rogue
and peasant slave am I!

373
00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:16,328
What would he do
had he the motive

374
00:23:16,429 --> 00:23:18,865
and the cue for passion
that I have?

375
00:23:27,373 --> 00:23:29,075
[George] How will you get along
without me?

376
00:23:31,544 --> 00:23:36,382
You... were always meant
for bigger stages.

377
00:23:38,284 --> 00:23:39,285
I love you, Mum.

378
00:23:39,952 --> 00:23:41,454
I love you, son.

379
00:23:41,554 --> 00:23:44,557
[chuckling]

380
00:23:56,636 --> 00:23:59,972
[students laughing, chattering]

381
00:24:03,042 --> 00:24:04,977
[chuckles]

382
00:24:05,077 --> 00:24:07,547
Already served me, poor chap.

383
00:24:07,647 --> 00:24:09,516
Why don't you move
your good eyeball

384
00:24:09,616 --> 00:24:11,217
to the other side of your face?

385
00:24:11,317 --> 00:24:13,385
[laughing]

386
00:24:13,486 --> 00:24:16,523
Idgit, where's my cake?

387
00:24:16,623 --> 00:24:19,626
[students laughing]

388
00:24:19,726 --> 00:24:21,861
All right, lads. That's enough.

389
00:24:21,961 --> 00:24:23,362
[student 1] No, Seward.

390
00:24:23,462 --> 00:24:25,364
I don't think it is.

391
00:24:25,464 --> 00:24:28,901
Excuse me, Dr. Squintum.

392
00:24:29,001 --> 00:24:32,138
[all laugh]

393
00:24:32,238 --> 00:24:34,406
I say, Dr. Squintum!

394
00:24:34,507 --> 00:24:36,843
Now that is perfect.

395
00:24:36,943 --> 00:24:39,512
Gentlemen of the assembly,

396
00:24:39,612 --> 00:24:43,916
I would like to introduce
to you, Dr. Squintum!

397
00:24:44,016 --> 00:24:45,251
[laughing]

398
00:24:45,351 --> 00:24:47,386
[chanting] Squintum! Squintum!

399
00:24:47,486 --> 00:24:49,055
Squintum! Squintum!

400
00:24:49,155 --> 00:24:51,390
Enough! That's enough!

401
00:24:51,490 --> 00:24:53,826
- Squintum...
- Oh, look, lads.

402
00:24:53,926 --> 00:24:56,062
William fancies himself a hero.

403
00:24:56,162 --> 00:25:00,332
- Oh.
- So, go on, hero, stand up.

404
00:25:01,668 --> 00:25:04,236
Oh, that's right,
you already are.

405
00:25:04,336 --> 00:25:06,505
Oi, Silver Spoon!

406
00:25:06,606 --> 00:25:09,642
Go ahead. Have a go
at the one-eyed servant.

407
00:25:09,742 --> 00:25:13,512
I can take it, but you turn
and eat one of your own?

408
00:25:13,613 --> 00:25:15,782
You lot are nothing
but a nest of spiders.

409
00:25:16,482 --> 00:25:19,018
You got nothing of worth,
except your daddy's money.

410
00:25:19,118 --> 00:25:20,687
He at least has some heart!

411
00:25:21,721 --> 00:25:23,089
[student 2 indistinct]

412
00:25:23,189 --> 00:25:25,091
[chuckles]

413
00:25:25,191 --> 00:25:28,027
Thank you, Dr. Squintum

414
00:25:28,127 --> 00:25:31,798
for that scholarly
and erudite diagnosis.

415
00:25:32,665 --> 00:25:33,866
Are you finished?

416
00:25:36,068 --> 00:25:37,637
I am. [clears throat]

417
00:25:38,571 --> 00:25:41,874
I think me stomach is full.

418
00:25:41,974 --> 00:25:43,542
[laughing]

419
00:25:44,844 --> 00:25:46,145
[students] Oh!

420
00:25:46,245 --> 00:25:48,014
[indistinct chatter]

421
00:25:49,548 --> 00:25:50,783
Clean it up.

422
00:25:50,883 --> 00:25:52,885
[laughter]

423
00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:55,221
Oh.

424
00:25:56,022 --> 00:25:57,556
[laughter continues]

425
00:25:57,657 --> 00:25:58,591
[plates clink]

426
00:25:59,558 --> 00:26:00,492
Enjoy.

427
00:26:02,061 --> 00:26:04,096
- Oops.
- [laughter continues]

428
00:26:04,196 --> 00:26:05,264
[plates clink]

429
00:26:19,178 --> 00:26:21,681
Uh, uh, I've got it.

430
00:26:21,781 --> 00:26:23,850
Don't mess up
your gentleman's clothes.

431
00:26:27,386 --> 00:26:29,121
[William] Silver Spoon.

432
00:26:30,056 --> 00:26:31,891
Nest of spiders.

433
00:26:31,991 --> 00:26:34,026
Fools dressed like princes.

434
00:26:34,126 --> 00:26:35,962
Hmm.

435
00:26:36,062 --> 00:26:38,430
I'm sorry for how they've been
treating you.

436
00:26:38,530 --> 00:26:40,733
Huh, I can't say
I'm not used to it.

437
00:26:42,869 --> 00:26:43,870
Name's William.

438
00:26:45,071 --> 00:26:46,072
Seward.

439
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:50,142
- Dr. Squintum.
- [light chuckle]

440
00:26:51,277 --> 00:26:53,012
[background chatter]

441
00:26:53,112 --> 00:26:54,113
Who are they?

442
00:26:56,415 --> 00:26:57,817
[William] The Holy Club.

443
00:26:58,617 --> 00:26:59,652
Bible moths,

444
00:27:00,753 --> 00:27:02,188
but they seem harmless enough.

445
00:27:03,555 --> 00:27:05,825
Just be obliging.
They'll leave soon enough.

446
00:27:05,925 --> 00:27:07,459
- [Charles] Excuse me.
- Afternoon, gentlemen.

447
00:27:07,559 --> 00:27:08,895
Uh, nothing here for you to do.

448
00:27:08,995 --> 00:27:12,231
Uh, are you the one who polished
our shoes yesterday?

449
00:27:12,331 --> 00:27:13,900
[George] Uh, likely. Yeah.

450
00:27:14,934 --> 00:27:16,502
We wish to return the favor.

451
00:27:21,473 --> 00:27:23,042
My name is John Wesley.

452
00:27:23,142 --> 00:27:24,610
This is my brother, Charles.

453
00:27:26,145 --> 00:27:27,213
God be with you.

454
00:27:28,180 --> 00:27:30,416
You're, uh, a bunch of radicals?

455
00:27:30,516 --> 00:27:32,351
[both chuckle]

456
00:27:32,451 --> 00:27:33,853
We're Christians.

457
00:27:33,953 --> 00:27:36,488
And if we're radical,
it's in our love for God

458
00:27:36,588 --> 00:27:37,589
and for people.

459
00:27:39,291 --> 00:27:40,860
Oh, uh, what's this?

460
00:27:41,994 --> 00:27:44,496
The Lord whom we serve sees you

461
00:27:45,264 --> 00:27:46,933
and has prompted us
to serve you.

462
00:27:48,701 --> 00:27:49,635
Please sit.

463
00:27:56,943 --> 00:28:00,112
* Love divine *

464
00:28:00,212 --> 00:28:04,350
* All loves excelling *

465
00:28:05,284 --> 00:28:11,724
* Joy of Heav'n,
to Earth come down *

466
00:28:12,725 --> 00:28:15,762
[group]
* Fix in us *

467
00:28:15,862 --> 00:28:20,399
* Thy humble dwelling *

468
00:28:20,499 --> 00:28:27,874
* All Thy faithful
mercies crown *

469
00:28:27,974 --> 00:28:31,878
* Jesus, Thou art *

470
00:28:31,978 --> 00:28:35,447
* All compassion *

471
00:28:35,547 --> 00:28:40,419
* Pure, unbounded love *

472
00:28:40,519 --> 00:28:42,421
* Thou art *

473
00:28:43,389 --> 00:28:46,425
* Visit us *

474
00:28:46,525 --> 00:28:51,263
* With Thy salvation *

475
00:28:51,363 --> 00:28:58,370
* Enter every trembling heart *

476
00:29:00,272 --> 00:29:02,174
[John]
We're all equal in God's eyes,

477
00:29:03,776 --> 00:29:05,644
whether you're a--
a gentleman commoner

478
00:29:05,744 --> 00:29:08,815
or a servitor with cake
on his shoes.

479
00:29:08,915 --> 00:29:10,016
[chucking]

480
00:29:10,116 --> 00:29:11,483
* End of faith *

481
00:29:11,583 --> 00:29:13,752
* As its beginning *

482
00:29:13,853 --> 00:29:16,455
[group]
* Set our hearts *

483
00:29:16,555 --> 00:29:20,692
* At liberty *

484
00:29:27,533 --> 00:29:31,137
Liberty, all men created equal,

485
00:29:31,237 --> 00:29:34,907
sounds like the cry
of the revolution.

486
00:29:38,277 --> 00:29:39,278
Section one.

487
00:29:46,585 --> 00:29:47,619
Section two.

488
00:29:49,188 --> 00:29:52,458
[George]
Dear Mum,
my studies are going well.

489
00:29:52,558 --> 00:29:54,927
My elocution is much improved.

490
00:29:55,027 --> 00:29:56,228
More importantly,

491
00:29:56,328 --> 00:29:58,865
there has been a shift
in my misfortunes.

492
00:29:58,965 --> 00:30:00,900
The kindest group of men
I've ever met

493
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:05,637
invited me into their society
called, "The Holy Club".

494
00:30:05,737 --> 00:30:09,641
We study the holy scriptures,
pray, meet for worship,

495
00:30:09,741 --> 00:30:12,744
and bring food
and clothing to the poor.

496
00:30:12,845 --> 00:30:15,714
Yesterday,
while visiting with prisoners,

497
00:30:15,814 --> 00:30:17,649
I was strangely warmed.

498
00:30:17,749 --> 00:30:20,152
[chains clattering]

499
00:30:23,923 --> 00:30:25,657
- Hallelujah. Praise God.
- John...

500
00:30:26,859 --> 00:30:29,761
shouldn't we read
the Bible to them?

501
00:30:30,829 --> 00:30:34,200
We're being the hands
and feet of Christ.

502
00:30:34,300 --> 00:30:35,868
[prisoner] Merciful Jesus...

503
00:30:35,968 --> 00:30:37,103
The hands and feet?

504
00:30:37,203 --> 00:30:38,837
[prisoner]
Blessed be His name...

505
00:30:40,672 --> 00:30:41,840
What about his voice?

506
00:30:42,808 --> 00:30:44,176
[prisoner] The Word of God.

507
00:30:44,276 --> 00:30:46,378
I admire your zeal,

508
00:30:46,478 --> 00:30:48,614
but there are hundreds
of prisoners here.

509
00:30:49,515 --> 00:30:52,251
Reading Scripture to each one
would take hours.

510
00:30:52,351 --> 00:30:55,154
Not one at a time, all at once.

511
00:30:56,355 --> 00:30:57,489
All at once?

512
00:30:58,190 --> 00:30:59,892
And how do you suggest
we do that?

513
00:31:00,792 --> 00:31:01,793
From here.

514
00:31:02,895 --> 00:31:05,297
[background chatter]

515
00:31:06,999 --> 00:31:09,301
- [clears throat]
- [prisoner] Bless the Lord.

516
00:31:09,401 --> 00:31:11,570
A reading from the Word of God,

517
00:31:12,571 --> 00:31:14,640
the Book of John, naturally.

518
00:31:17,343 --> 00:31:20,612
"Nicodemus, the Pharisee,
came to Jesus at night

519
00:31:20,712 --> 00:31:22,214
and said unto him,

520
00:31:23,015 --> 00:31:26,452
'We know you are a teacher
who comes from God,

521
00:31:26,552 --> 00:31:29,088
but no one could perform
the signs you are doing

522
00:31:29,188 --> 00:31:30,822
unless God was with him.'

523
00:31:32,258 --> 00:31:36,162
Jesus replied,
'Truly I tell you,

524
00:31:36,262 --> 00:31:38,397
no one can see
the Kingdom of God

525
00:31:38,497 --> 00:31:40,599
unless they are born again.'

526
00:31:43,202 --> 00:31:46,272
Nicodemus asked,
"How can this be?

527
00:31:47,039 --> 00:31:49,375
How can someone enter
a second time

528
00:31:49,475 --> 00:31:51,877
into their mother's womb
to be born?'

529
00:31:52,644 --> 00:31:56,115
And Jesus answered,
'Very truly I tell you,

530
00:31:56,215 --> 00:31:58,584
flesh gives birth to flesh,

531
00:31:58,684 --> 00:32:01,553
but the spirit gives birth
to spirit.'"

532
00:32:05,224 --> 00:32:06,492
[clears throat]

533
00:32:06,592 --> 00:32:08,927
"You should not be surprised
at my saying,

534
00:32:09,028 --> 00:32:10,429
'You must be born again.'

535
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:18,904
The wind blows
wherever it pleases.

536
00:32:19,805 --> 00:32:22,041
You hear its sound,

537
00:32:22,141 --> 00:32:24,810
but you cannot tell
where it comes from

538
00:32:24,910 --> 00:32:26,245
or where it is going.

539
00:32:27,713 --> 00:32:31,050
So it is with everyone
born of the Spirit...

540
00:32:37,389 --> 00:32:41,127
For God so loved the world..."

541
00:32:45,131 --> 00:32:48,134
God so loved each of you.

542
00:32:49,901 --> 00:32:50,902
He loved.

543
00:32:55,074 --> 00:32:56,775
"He gave His only Son...

544
00:32:57,943 --> 00:33:00,379
that whosoever
should believe in Him

545
00:33:00,479 --> 00:33:02,248
and call upon His name

546
00:33:03,915 --> 00:33:05,917
should not perish
in their sins...

547
00:33:07,253 --> 00:33:08,654
but have eternal life."

548
00:33:13,992 --> 00:33:15,661
He did not come to condemn us.

549
00:33:18,864 --> 00:33:19,931
He loves us.

550
00:33:23,869 --> 00:33:25,037
He loves us.

551
00:33:27,873 --> 00:33:29,641
[prisoner coughing]

552
00:33:35,314 --> 00:33:36,482
Is there any water?

553
00:33:38,617 --> 00:33:41,019
Please, get him some water.

554
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:42,354
What are you doing, George?

555
00:33:43,389 --> 00:33:44,990
The same thing you did for me.

556
00:34:41,847 --> 00:34:43,915
Do you believe
the words I just read?

557
00:34:48,620 --> 00:34:49,555
[sobs] Yes.

558
00:34:50,522 --> 00:34:51,623
So do I.

559
00:34:53,859 --> 00:34:56,094
Do you want to know this Jesus?

560
00:34:56,195 --> 00:34:57,095
Yes.

561
00:34:58,597 --> 00:34:59,798
So do I.

562
00:35:03,101 --> 00:35:05,137
- [prisoner sobs]
- [exhales]

563
00:35:09,241 --> 00:35:10,676
I'm not leaving
until all the feet

564
00:35:10,776 --> 00:35:13,111
of every prisoner
have been washed.

565
00:35:13,212 --> 00:35:14,780
G-George, that-that will take--

566
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:19,218
All day and all night, I know.

567
00:35:19,318 --> 00:35:22,554
You did it for me,
I will do it for them,

568
00:35:22,654 --> 00:35:23,789
alone if I must.

569
00:35:25,724 --> 00:35:27,393
You won't be alone in this work.

570
00:35:28,994 --> 00:35:31,397
[George] It's all right.
Lean into the light.

571
00:35:42,073 --> 00:35:45,010
Mum, can you believe it?

572
00:35:45,110 --> 00:35:46,512
Me.

573
00:35:46,612 --> 00:35:49,381
I don't know whether to laugh
at myself or weep

574
00:35:49,481 --> 00:35:52,984
when I confess that I no longer
wish to be an actor,

575
00:35:53,084 --> 00:35:54,186
but a preacher.

576
00:35:55,987 --> 00:35:57,989
The pulpit will be my stage.

577
00:35:59,024 --> 00:36:02,160
If, as an actor,
I can make fiction believable,

578
00:36:02,261 --> 00:36:03,662
imagine what could happen

579
00:36:03,762 --> 00:36:07,098
if I speak the truth
from my heart.

580
00:36:07,199 --> 00:36:11,703
I have been meditating
upon Psalm 139 every day,

581
00:36:11,803 --> 00:36:14,206
"Lord, search my heart.

582
00:36:14,306 --> 00:36:17,609
See if there is
any offensive way in me

583
00:36:17,709 --> 00:36:19,811
and lead me
in the way everlasting."

584
00:36:21,447 --> 00:36:24,049
I will pray
more than any other.

585
00:36:24,149 --> 00:36:26,752
I will fast
more than any other.

586
00:36:26,852 --> 00:36:29,621
I will make
my Heavenly Father proud.

587
00:36:32,190 --> 00:36:34,025
You will not hear from me
for a while,

588
00:36:34,125 --> 00:36:36,595
as I am entering
into a time of fasting,

589
00:36:36,695 --> 00:36:39,197
a rejection
of all earthly pleasures.

590
00:36:40,366 --> 00:36:41,967
I love you, Mum.

591
00:36:42,067 --> 00:36:45,170
Your God-fearing son, Georgie.

592
00:36:52,844 --> 00:36:55,314
[thunder rumbles]

593
00:36:55,414 --> 00:36:56,482
[knocking on door]

594
00:36:56,582 --> 00:36:57,983
George!

595
00:36:58,083 --> 00:37:00,986
George, you must leave your room
and get some fresh air!

596
00:37:01,086 --> 00:37:02,020
Bathe!

597
00:37:02,921 --> 00:37:06,425
George! You haven't eaten
for nearly a month.

598
00:37:06,525 --> 00:37:07,759
[knocking on door]

599
00:37:07,859 --> 00:37:10,929
Hm. So much for my first line
of defense.

600
00:37:15,401 --> 00:37:18,003
[Benny]
Uh, General Washington, sir.

601
00:37:18,103 --> 00:37:20,339
[Washington] Dr. Franklin,
do not stand for my sake.

602
00:37:21,540 --> 00:37:24,075
General, please come inside.

603
00:37:24,175 --> 00:37:26,177
Eliza, gather the dishes.

604
00:37:26,278 --> 00:37:28,680
- [door closes]
- [distant bell tolling]

605
00:37:28,780 --> 00:37:30,649
[Sally] The storm will arrive
at any moment.

606
00:37:30,749 --> 00:37:31,950
It's already here.

607
00:37:32,050 --> 00:37:34,286
Oh. May I get you
tea or coffee, sir?

608
00:37:34,386 --> 00:37:36,254
No, you are very kind,
but I will not be long.

609
00:37:37,789 --> 00:37:38,957
[Sally] Good night then.

610
00:37:41,927 --> 00:37:42,828
Young man,

611
00:37:44,796 --> 00:37:46,798
if you wouldn't mind,
I wish for you to stay.

612
00:37:48,033 --> 00:37:49,335
This concerns you.

613
00:37:49,435 --> 00:37:50,702
[distant horse whinnies]

614
00:37:50,802 --> 00:37:51,937
Yes, sir.

615
00:37:55,206 --> 00:37:56,542
[Washington] Thank you
for accommodating

616
00:37:56,642 --> 00:37:57,843
my sudden intrusion.

617
00:37:59,044 --> 00:38:01,813
I've just returned
from a brief trip

618
00:38:01,913 --> 00:38:03,615
to an old familiar valley

619
00:38:04,616 --> 00:38:06,151
18 miles from here.

620
00:38:07,453 --> 00:38:08,720
Valley Forge.

621
00:38:13,492 --> 00:38:16,294
[Washington] It's beautiful
and thriving now.

622
00:38:19,331 --> 00:38:20,566
Ten years ago,

623
00:38:21,833 --> 00:38:23,669
- it was our Gethsemane.
- [thunder rumbling]

624
00:38:29,508 --> 00:38:32,711
Men marching through ice
and snow without shoes,

625
00:38:32,811 --> 00:38:36,448
their path traced by the blood
from their feet.

626
00:38:38,917 --> 00:38:40,619
Without clothes to cover
their nakedness,

627
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:42,253
without blankets to lie on.

628
00:38:44,356 --> 00:38:47,493
Enduring endless nights,

629
00:38:49,461 --> 00:38:53,999
desperate for the sun to break
over the horizon.

630
00:38:56,668 --> 00:38:59,871
I was certain Valley Forge
would be the darkest valley

631
00:38:59,971 --> 00:39:01,673
we ever walked
through as a nation.

632
00:39:03,809 --> 00:39:05,010
And I was wrong.

633
00:39:08,213 --> 00:39:13,485
Today, we stand
in an even darker valley, Ben.

634
00:39:20,025 --> 00:39:23,261
We planted a tree
that has been watered

635
00:39:23,361 --> 00:39:24,896
by the blood of patriots.

636
00:39:27,566 --> 00:39:29,601
We did not plant it
for ourselves.

637
00:39:29,701 --> 00:39:31,537
We planted it for him,

638
00:39:34,072 --> 00:39:38,043
and his children,
and their children

639
00:39:40,479 --> 00:39:43,849
that they may have shelter
under its branches.

640
00:39:46,518 --> 00:39:48,587
The tree we planted
has hardly grown,

641
00:39:49,387 --> 00:39:52,323
and already each state has taken
an ax to its trunk.

642
00:39:54,926 --> 00:39:57,496
If the disunity
within the states continues,

643
00:39:58,564 --> 00:40:00,331
if this convention fails,

644
00:40:01,867 --> 00:40:04,069
the sacrifice of those men
at Valley Forge,

645
00:40:04,169 --> 00:40:06,204
and so many others,
will be in vain.

646
00:40:08,707 --> 00:40:09,741
Now, Ben,

647
00:40:13,278 --> 00:40:15,514
I greatly admire that
you have been quick to listen

648
00:40:15,614 --> 00:40:16,748
and slow to speak,

649
00:40:18,517 --> 00:40:21,086
but that tree we planted
is about to fall.

650
00:40:24,389 --> 00:40:26,391
This great experiment
needs you, Ben.

651
00:40:28,694 --> 00:40:29,695
I need you.

652
00:40:31,630 --> 00:40:34,966
We cannot let the sun set
on this nation.

653
00:40:45,276 --> 00:40:47,078
[thunder rumbling]

654
00:41:02,928 --> 00:41:03,829
Grandfather?

655
00:41:05,631 --> 00:41:06,698
Keep reading.

656
00:41:06,798 --> 00:41:08,333
[rain pouring continues]

657
00:41:14,472 --> 00:41:15,874
[loud pounding]

658
00:41:15,974 --> 00:41:19,477
George! You haven't eaten
for nearly a month!

659
00:41:19,578 --> 00:41:21,246
- [pounding]
- [George praying indistinct]

660
00:41:23,782 --> 00:41:26,852
Lord, search my heart.

661
00:41:26,952 --> 00:41:29,254
See if there is
any offensive way in me.

662
00:41:31,690 --> 00:41:33,925
[coughs]

663
00:41:34,025 --> 00:41:35,727
What has happened to you?

664
00:41:35,827 --> 00:41:37,996
I must crucify my flesh, John.

665
00:41:39,698 --> 00:41:40,632
[grunts]

666
00:41:44,936 --> 00:41:45,937
[John] George!

667
00:41:49,007 --> 00:41:50,341
This is not holiness.

668
00:41:50,441 --> 00:41:51,710
This is madness!

669
00:41:52,678 --> 00:41:53,779
George!

670
00:41:53,879 --> 00:41:55,781
[thunder crashing]

671
00:42:01,286 --> 00:42:02,320
Search me.

672
00:42:03,354 --> 00:42:04,623
Search my heart.

673
00:42:12,798 --> 00:42:14,900
Why isn't this working?

674
00:42:28,146 --> 00:42:29,047
[John] George!

675
00:42:29,815 --> 00:42:30,716
George!

676
00:42:31,416 --> 00:42:32,350
George!

677
00:42:39,257 --> 00:42:40,425
Keep him fed.

678
00:42:41,927 --> 00:42:44,730
He cannot afford to lose
another pound.

679
00:42:47,232 --> 00:42:48,433
Had you not intervened,

680
00:42:48,533 --> 00:42:50,902
he would most certainly
have died.

681
00:42:53,571 --> 00:42:54,740
Thank you, Doctor.

682
00:42:56,908 --> 00:43:00,846
[door opens, closes]

683
00:43:12,691 --> 00:43:14,225
[George]
Why did you get in the way?

684
00:43:16,762 --> 00:43:18,363
Because you're killing yourself.

685
00:43:18,463 --> 00:43:19,397
[George exhales]

686
00:43:20,565 --> 00:43:21,900
I would rather die

687
00:43:23,001 --> 00:43:25,704
and be in His Holy Presence

688
00:43:25,804 --> 00:43:29,074
than go on living
in this unholy body.

689
00:43:31,442 --> 00:43:33,144
You have been deceived by Satan.

690
00:43:34,279 --> 00:43:35,781
You are feasting on a lie.

691
00:43:35,881 --> 00:43:37,182
[George] I am focusing on God.

692
00:43:37,282 --> 00:43:38,616
You are focusing on yourself.

693
00:43:38,717 --> 00:43:41,519
- How dare you, John.
- How dare you, George!

694
00:43:41,619 --> 00:43:43,922
Insulting the Heavenly Father
in this way!

695
00:43:44,022 --> 00:43:46,324
I am making Him proud of me.

696
00:43:46,424 --> 00:43:48,093
[John] Making Him proud of you?

697
00:43:52,597 --> 00:43:55,533
When Jesus emerged from
the water after He was baptized,

698
00:43:55,633 --> 00:43:57,502
what did His Heavenly Father
say to Him?

699
00:43:58,804 --> 00:44:00,739
Well, go on, you know
the scripture.

700
00:44:02,674 --> 00:44:04,342
"This is my beloved Son."

701
00:44:07,178 --> 00:44:08,179
What else?

702
00:44:09,414 --> 00:44:11,149
"In whom I am well pleased."

703
00:44:15,020 --> 00:44:19,991
"In whom I am well pleased."

704
00:44:21,659 --> 00:44:23,328
Did Jesus perform
any mighty works

705
00:44:23,428 --> 00:44:24,629
before that moment?

706
00:44:28,266 --> 00:44:29,600
Not a single one.

707
00:44:30,601 --> 00:44:32,971
So, why then was His Father
so proud?

708
00:44:36,007 --> 00:44:37,542
Because He was His Son.

709
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:44,716
Because He loved His child.

710
00:44:45,817 --> 00:44:46,885
Don't you see?

711
00:44:47,652 --> 00:44:50,488
It's not you, it's--
it's Christ in you!

712
00:44:53,624 --> 00:44:55,794
You must either receive it
as a gift

713
00:44:57,228 --> 00:44:59,030
or reject it altogether.

714
00:45:00,065 --> 00:45:02,400
So choose, George.

715
00:45:06,704 --> 00:45:08,139
[breathing heavily]

716
00:45:20,151 --> 00:45:22,754
[John]
You are George Whitefield,

717
00:45:22,854 --> 00:45:25,824
in whom the Lord
is well pleased.

718
00:45:31,496 --> 00:45:33,431
[laughter]

719
00:45:40,205 --> 00:45:42,307
Speak from the Word

720
00:45:43,174 --> 00:45:45,043
In lightning speak.

721
00:45:46,411 --> 00:45:48,914
Cry out and thunder
from the Word.

722
00:45:51,682 --> 00:45:53,885
[laughter]

723
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:04,095
[laughter fades]

724
00:46:04,195 --> 00:46:05,463
[thunder rumbling]

725
00:46:07,732 --> 00:46:11,702
Your great-grandfather owned
a candle shop.

726
00:46:12,871 --> 00:46:14,539
I worked there as a boy.

727
00:46:15,273 --> 00:46:16,942
He used to say...

728
00:46:17,042 --> 00:46:21,579
"One tiny candle
illuminates a thousand."

729
00:46:22,747 --> 00:46:24,983
Hmm. What do you mean?

730
00:46:26,885 --> 00:46:28,686
I mean,

731
00:46:28,786 --> 00:46:31,756
the Church of England
was not ready

732
00:46:31,857 --> 00:46:34,893
for an awakened
Reverend George Whitefield.

733
00:46:39,564 --> 00:46:41,332
[priest 1]
Spare thou them, O God,

734
00:46:41,432 --> 00:46:43,869
restore thou those
that are penitent,

735
00:46:43,969 --> 00:46:47,205
that we may live hereafter
a godly and sober life

736
00:46:47,305 --> 00:46:49,374
to the glory of Thy holy name.

737
00:46:49,474 --> 00:46:50,675
[coughing]

738
00:46:50,775 --> 00:46:54,212
O God, make speed to save us.

739
00:46:54,312 --> 00:46:58,183
O Lord, make haste to help us.

740
00:47:00,485 --> 00:47:02,387
[chuckles]

741
00:47:02,487 --> 00:47:04,890
[baby crying]

742
00:47:04,990 --> 00:47:05,957
Amen.

743
00:47:08,593 --> 00:47:11,662
The congregation has grown
quite large,

744
00:47:11,762 --> 00:47:16,701
presumably in anticipation
of our guest speaker

745
00:47:16,801 --> 00:47:18,503
who has excited many of late

746
00:47:18,603 --> 00:47:22,540
and created not a little
following for himself.

747
00:47:24,142 --> 00:47:27,946
I'm very sorry to see you here,
Mr. Whitefield.

748
00:47:28,046 --> 00:47:30,448
[priest 1]
So, without further ado...

749
00:47:30,548 --> 00:47:32,283
So is the devil.

750
00:47:32,383 --> 00:47:35,987
[priest 1] ...the Reverend
George Whitefield.

751
00:47:37,989 --> 00:47:40,791
Adjust your wig, Mr. Whitefield.

752
00:47:49,334 --> 00:47:52,737
- [man clears throat]
- [indistinct whispers]

753
00:48:08,553 --> 00:48:12,857
In 1675,
the Archbishop of Canterbury

754
00:48:12,958 --> 00:48:15,826
became acquainted with
a certain actor of some renown,

755
00:48:16,561 --> 00:48:18,196
Mr. Betterton.

756
00:48:18,296 --> 00:48:23,734
One day, the archbishop said,
"Mr. Betterton, pray, tell me,

757
00:48:23,834 --> 00:48:26,904
how is it that you actors
on the stage

758
00:48:27,005 --> 00:48:29,307
can so move your audiences

759
00:48:29,407 --> 00:48:31,943
whilst speaking of things
imaginary,

760
00:48:32,043 --> 00:48:35,846
while we, in the pulpit,
speak of things real,

761
00:48:35,947 --> 00:48:37,815
which our congregations receive

762
00:48:37,915 --> 00:48:41,486
as if they were
but imaginary things?"

763
00:48:41,586 --> 00:48:44,990
"Why, my lord,"
Mr. Betterton replied,

764
00:48:45,090 --> 00:48:46,824
"The answer is quite plain.

765
00:48:47,892 --> 00:48:52,763
We actors speak of things
imaginary as if they were real,

766
00:48:52,863 --> 00:48:55,400
while you, in the pulpit,

767
00:48:56,267 --> 00:49:01,139
speak of things real
as if they were imaginary."

768
00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:04,309
- [crowd murmurs
- [George] Therefore...

769
00:49:04,409 --> 00:49:07,778
I will not be
a velvet-mouthed preacher.

770
00:49:10,715 --> 00:49:12,517
Do not be deceived!

771
00:49:12,617 --> 00:49:14,185
You may have a religious head

772
00:49:14,285 --> 00:49:16,021
and yet have the devil
in your heart!

773
00:49:16,121 --> 00:49:18,389
Our Lord speaks
the same words to you

774
00:49:18,489 --> 00:49:21,159
as surely as He spoke them
to Nicodemus of old,

775
00:49:21,259 --> 00:49:23,061
"You must be born again!"

776
00:49:24,595 --> 00:49:27,732
Nicodemus, respected, religious,

777
00:49:27,832 --> 00:49:31,202
renowned as righteous,
and still the Master commanded,

778
00:49:31,302 --> 00:49:32,937
"You must be born again!"

779
00:49:33,638 --> 00:49:34,972
Like the church at Sardis,

780
00:49:35,073 --> 00:49:37,142
he had a reputation
for being alive,

781
00:49:37,242 --> 00:49:38,843
and yet was dead inside.

782
00:49:38,943 --> 00:49:40,578
How many of our congregations
are dead,

783
00:49:40,678 --> 00:49:43,148
because they have dead men
preaching to them?

784
00:49:43,248 --> 00:49:45,750
How can dead men beget
living children?

785
00:49:45,850 --> 00:49:49,087
Therefore, Christ says to you,
"Because you are lukewarm,

786
00:49:49,187 --> 00:49:50,488
neither hot nor cold,

787
00:49:50,588 --> 00:49:53,091
I'm about to spit you out
of my mouth!"

788
00:49:54,192 --> 00:49:57,562
Do not trust in your good works
for salvation,

789
00:49:57,662 --> 00:49:59,930
or that your name is written
in the church registry.

790
00:50:00,031 --> 00:50:01,532
I tell you,
there is only one book

791
00:50:01,632 --> 00:50:03,000
where your name must be written,

792
00:50:03,101 --> 00:50:05,270
and that is the Lamb's Book
of Life!

793
00:50:05,370 --> 00:50:07,072
Is your name written there?

794
00:50:07,172 --> 00:50:08,439
- Is it there?
- Yes!

795
00:50:08,539 --> 00:50:09,774
- Do you know?
- Yes!

796
00:50:09,874 --> 00:50:11,109
[priest 1] Stop this!

797
00:50:12,310 --> 00:50:13,944
[George] Come! Come!

798
00:50:14,045 --> 00:50:16,281
Come just as you are to Christ!

799
00:50:16,381 --> 00:50:17,782
For in Him,

800
00:50:17,882 --> 00:50:19,850
there is neither religious
nor irreligious,

801
00:50:19,950 --> 00:50:22,420
slave nor free, male nor female!

802
00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:24,555
All are one in Christ Jesus!

803
00:50:24,655 --> 00:50:27,225
[priest 2] Rebuke
this riotous crowd immediately!

804
00:50:27,325 --> 00:50:28,426
[priest 1] Stop this!

805
00:50:28,526 --> 00:50:30,061
I know not what sorcery

806
00:50:30,161 --> 00:50:31,696
or witchcraft you invoked today,

807
00:50:31,796 --> 00:50:34,465
but it will not be tolerated
in my house of God!

808
00:50:34,565 --> 00:50:36,033
Your house of God?

809
00:50:36,134 --> 00:50:37,535
[priest 1]
You are banned from preaching

810
00:50:37,635 --> 00:50:40,037
in His Majesty King George's
church again!

811
00:50:40,138 --> 00:50:41,706
If I cannot preach inside,

812
00:50:41,806 --> 00:50:44,209
then I will go outside
into the streets

813
00:50:44,309 --> 00:50:47,578
and the fields to the orphans,
the slaves, the widows--

814
00:50:47,678 --> 00:50:49,580
And compel them to come
into the house

815
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:52,450
of the one true king,
Jesus Christ!

816
00:50:52,550 --> 00:50:54,952
It is prohibited
for an Anglican minister

817
00:50:55,052 --> 00:50:58,223
to-- to preach outside
to the ignorant masses!

818
00:50:58,323 --> 00:51:01,859
I will see you defrocked
as an Anglican minister!

819
00:51:03,161 --> 00:51:04,395
Blind guides!

820
00:51:04,495 --> 00:51:05,996
Let the dead preach to the dead.

821
00:51:06,097 --> 00:51:08,699
But I will proclaim freedom
in Christ to all who believe,

822
00:51:08,799 --> 00:51:10,735
and the gates of Hell
will not prevail!

823
00:51:10,835 --> 00:51:11,802
Get out!

824
00:51:11,902 --> 00:51:15,206
[indistinct chatter]

825
00:51:19,110 --> 00:51:21,646
[churchgoers] Amen. Amen.

826
00:51:22,780 --> 00:51:24,349
Amen.

827
00:51:30,788 --> 00:51:31,722
Yah!

828
00:52:16,501 --> 00:52:18,436
Fastest pulpit on four legs.

829
00:52:20,571 --> 00:52:21,839
Let's try something new.

830
00:53:12,957 --> 00:53:15,159
Hey, now go.

831
00:53:16,026 --> 00:53:17,362
Stop starin', you rat!

832
00:53:24,902 --> 00:53:26,304
What's this?

833
00:53:26,404 --> 00:53:28,473
A priest with a pulpit
but no church?

834
00:53:28,573 --> 00:53:31,041
[workers laughing]

835
00:53:31,141 --> 00:53:33,143
You come to look down on us,
Priest?

836
00:53:33,978 --> 00:53:35,012
It's for the crowd.

837
00:53:35,913 --> 00:53:37,315
The crowd?

838
00:53:37,415 --> 00:53:38,883
It's for the crowd, he says!

839
00:53:38,983 --> 00:53:41,586
Did you know that Jesus said,

840
00:53:41,686 --> 00:53:43,388
"Let the children come to me,

841
00:53:44,088 --> 00:53:46,757
for theirs is the kingdom
of heaven"?

842
00:53:48,759 --> 00:53:50,628
[worker 1]
You're not wanted here.

843
00:53:50,728 --> 00:53:52,730
No, but needed.

844
00:53:55,766 --> 00:53:57,201
[worker 1] I told you to go!

845
00:53:58,336 --> 00:54:00,237
- Now, go!
- [grunts]

846
00:54:00,938 --> 00:54:03,274
[grunting]

847
00:54:11,849 --> 00:54:12,817
[spits]

848
00:54:14,018 --> 00:54:17,588
Must I tell you
of the bitter fruit

849
00:54:17,688 --> 00:54:19,290
of the deeds of darkness?

850
00:54:21,726 --> 00:54:24,629
Nay, I think not...

851
00:54:26,230 --> 00:54:28,366
For I see you to be as I was

852
00:54:29,600 --> 00:54:33,938
acquainted with grief,
with lack,

853
00:54:34,038 --> 00:54:36,941
with unrelenting sorrow
in your soul,

854
00:54:38,509 --> 00:54:42,313
ever anxious and fearful
of what may happen.

855
00:54:44,214 --> 00:54:46,851
Longing to be pure...

856
00:54:48,285 --> 00:54:50,287
but hopelessly defiled...

857
00:54:51,822 --> 00:54:53,558
then fly!

858
00:54:53,658 --> 00:54:55,493
Fly, my brothers!

859
00:54:55,593 --> 00:54:58,563
Fly for your lives
to Jesus Christ!

860
00:54:58,663 --> 00:55:00,765
Fly to the bleeding god!

861
00:55:02,299 --> 00:55:04,569
Fly to the throne of mercy

862
00:55:05,269 --> 00:55:07,171
and beg Him,

863
00:55:07,271 --> 00:55:09,474
beg Him to break your heart!

864
00:55:10,508 --> 00:55:14,044
Beg Him to show you your sin!

865
00:55:14,144 --> 00:55:18,248
Beg Him to give you faith
to close with Christ!

866
00:55:20,117 --> 00:55:22,620
For He too,
was a man of sorrows,

867
00:55:23,921 --> 00:55:25,590
acquainted with grief.

868
00:55:29,694 --> 00:55:32,096
[grunts, inhales]

869
00:55:32,196 --> 00:55:35,165
Awake, oh sleeper!

870
00:55:35,265 --> 00:55:37,334
Arise from the dead!

871
00:55:39,203 --> 00:55:43,007
Can you hear him calling
as Lazarus did?

872
00:55:44,041 --> 00:55:45,910
Buried deep in the earth!

873
00:55:46,877 --> 00:55:48,613
Darkness all around!

874
00:55:49,714 --> 00:55:51,348
Arise!

875
00:55:54,852 --> 00:55:56,754
Arise!

876
00:55:56,854 --> 00:55:58,222
Come forth!

877
00:56:00,525 --> 00:56:02,026
- What was that?
- Shh.

878
00:56:02,126 --> 00:56:03,193
Listen.

879
00:56:03,293 --> 00:56:04,595
[George] In the beginning,

880
00:56:04,695 --> 00:56:06,731
darkness covered the face
of the deep.

881
00:56:08,733 --> 00:56:12,837
And the voice of the ancient
of days called forth,

882
00:56:13,871 --> 00:56:15,840
"Let there be light!"

883
00:56:17,642 --> 00:56:19,209
And in the fullness of time...

884
00:56:21,045 --> 00:56:23,714
Christ proclaimed
for all the world to know...

885
00:56:25,015 --> 00:56:26,651
"I am the light of life.

886
00:56:28,085 --> 00:56:29,854
If anyone follows me,

887
00:56:30,755 --> 00:56:32,957
he will never walk
in darkness...

888
00:56:34,525 --> 00:56:36,393
but will have
the light of life."

889
00:56:46,370 --> 00:56:47,404
[groans]

890
00:56:55,212 --> 00:56:58,082
[George] Though your sins
are black as coal...

891
00:56:59,750 --> 00:57:03,187
His blood will wash you
white as snow.

892
00:57:04,388 --> 00:57:05,456
He knows you.

893
00:57:06,691 --> 00:57:07,892
And He loves you.

894
00:57:13,197 --> 00:57:14,532
He won't have me.

895
00:57:18,636 --> 00:57:19,770
He created you.

896
00:57:23,574 --> 00:57:25,275
[sobs]

897
00:57:34,284 --> 00:57:35,953
My-- my children.

898
00:57:38,388 --> 00:57:39,957
My children, forgive me.

899
00:57:40,625 --> 00:57:43,260
[sobs]

900
00:57:46,931 --> 00:57:49,099
Forgive me. [sobbing]

901
00:58:01,078 --> 00:58:02,847
[indistinct]

902
00:58:02,947 --> 00:58:06,416
Will you surrender your life
to Christ

903
00:58:07,417 --> 00:58:08,753
as this man has done?

904
00:58:08,853 --> 00:58:11,255
[workers] Yes.

905
00:58:11,355 --> 00:58:12,723
Will you trust him?

906
00:58:12,823 --> 00:58:14,592
[workers] Yes.

907
00:58:14,692 --> 00:58:17,862
[George] Will you let His blood
seep into your hardened heart

908
00:58:17,962 --> 00:58:20,831
and transform you
from the inside out?

909
00:58:20,931 --> 00:58:23,067
- [workers] Yes.
- [George] Will you trust Him?

910
00:58:23,167 --> 00:58:26,170
[workers] Yes. Yes. Yes.

911
00:58:26,270 --> 00:58:28,706
- Thank you, Father.
- [workers] Thank you, Jesus.

912
00:58:33,978 --> 00:58:36,614
[rousing music playing]

913
00:58:46,490 --> 00:58:48,893
[inaudible]

914
00:59:00,705 --> 00:59:03,373
[Benjamin]
The people embraced him.

915
00:59:03,473 --> 00:59:05,542
The Church of England did not.

916
00:59:06,410 --> 00:59:10,280
And not only did they kick him
out of their parishes,

917
00:59:10,380 --> 00:59:12,316
they kicked him out
of their country.

918
00:59:13,217 --> 00:59:14,384
Well, where did he go?

919
00:59:14,484 --> 00:59:16,486
[exciting music plays]

920
00:59:41,045 --> 00:59:44,949
Arriving from England,
the Reverend George Whitefield

921
00:59:45,049 --> 00:59:48,452
to preach repentance
in New York,

922
00:59:48,552 --> 00:59:49,887
Pennsylvania,

923
00:59:50,955 --> 00:59:54,959
Massachusetts, Rhode Island.

924
00:59:55,059 --> 00:59:58,663
Arriving from England,
the Reverend George Whitefield.

925
00:59:58,763 --> 01:00:01,565
[indistinct chatter]

926
01:00:19,383 --> 01:00:21,018
- Sir!
- Not even a good morning,

927
01:00:21,118 --> 01:00:22,086
young lady?

928
01:00:22,720 --> 01:00:25,622
Father, Mr. Franklin,
a reverend named George--

929
01:00:25,723 --> 01:00:27,892
[Benjamin] Whitefield, yes,
I am aware of him

930
01:00:27,992 --> 01:00:30,127
and his departure from England
for our colonies.

931
01:00:30,227 --> 01:00:31,662
He's been drawing
tremendous crowds.

932
01:00:31,762 --> 01:00:34,198
- Crowds as large as--
- [Benjamin] 25,000.

933
01:00:34,298 --> 01:00:36,701
You know, since my youth,

934
01:00:36,801 --> 01:00:39,003
I have struggled to believe
that a single voice,

935
01:00:39,103 --> 01:00:40,705
say that of an army general,

936
01:00:40,805 --> 01:00:42,873
could be heard by thousands
of his soldiers

937
01:00:42,973 --> 01:00:45,943
without significant aid
in volume amplification.

938
01:00:47,644 --> 01:00:49,714
Yes, sir. Anyway, he--

939
01:00:49,814 --> 01:00:51,081
Now, I am not doubting

940
01:00:51,181 --> 01:00:53,283
Whitefield's skill
as a powerful orator.

941
01:00:53,383 --> 01:00:55,920
I am doubting, however,
the unfounded claim

942
01:00:56,020 --> 01:00:58,588
that he can be heard
and understood by so many.

943
01:00:58,689 --> 01:01:00,925
There's simply not enough data
to support such a claim.

944
01:01:01,025 --> 01:01:02,993
And without evidence,
I won't believe it.

945
01:01:03,761 --> 01:01:05,963
You don't believe the stories
from London are true?

946
01:01:06,663 --> 01:01:10,735
I believe that fish grow larger
as they cross the Atlantic.

947
01:01:10,835 --> 01:01:13,771
Hmm. [chuckles]
But fish tale or not,

948
01:01:13,871 --> 01:01:15,439
religion sells papers.

949
01:01:15,539 --> 01:01:18,743
And printers all over
the colonies, myself included,

950
01:01:18,843 --> 01:01:22,112
have already made a profit
from this English preacher.

951
01:01:22,212 --> 01:01:25,615
So we shall see how long
the Pennsylvania Gazette

952
01:01:25,716 --> 01:01:29,153
can ride the Whitefield wave.
[chuckles]

953
01:01:33,423 --> 01:01:35,325
What is the matter
with the three of you?

954
01:01:36,994 --> 01:01:39,529
Reverend Whitefield is...
is here.

955
01:01:39,629 --> 01:01:40,865
[Benjamin] Here? As in?

956
01:01:40,965 --> 01:01:42,800
- Philadelphia, sir.
- When?

957
01:01:43,533 --> 01:01:44,568
Now.

958
01:01:44,668 --> 01:01:46,804
Well, why didn't you say so,
girl?

959
01:01:50,474 --> 01:01:51,408
[William] Make way!

960
01:01:52,042 --> 01:01:53,277
Excuse me.

961
01:01:54,011 --> 01:01:55,145
Please, sir.

962
01:01:55,245 --> 01:01:57,414
What is that balcony
right there?

963
01:01:57,514 --> 01:01:59,850
Uh, the courthouse.

964
01:02:00,417 --> 01:02:02,486
That's the place.
Thank you, sir.

965
01:02:02,586 --> 01:02:05,289
- God be with you.
- [indistinct chatter]

966
01:02:05,389 --> 01:02:08,225
[crowd cheering]

967
01:02:23,440 --> 01:02:25,776
I guess we're about to find out
how big this fish really is.

968
01:02:31,715 --> 01:02:35,085
[exciting music playing]

969
01:02:39,089 --> 01:02:41,125
The spirit of the Lord is here,
George.

970
01:02:42,226 --> 01:02:43,727
Their hearts are ready.

971
01:02:45,462 --> 01:02:46,496
Are you?

972
01:02:46,596 --> 01:02:48,098
[sighs]

973
01:02:48,198 --> 01:02:49,399
[whistling in background]

974
01:02:50,935 --> 01:02:54,805
Father, tear down the name
of Whitefield

975
01:02:54,905 --> 01:02:57,074
if it means Your name remains.

976
01:02:58,242 --> 01:02:59,143
Amen.

977
01:03:00,244 --> 01:03:01,145
Amen.

978
01:03:03,713 --> 01:03:06,750
[crowd cheering, whistling]

979
01:03:12,789 --> 01:03:13,858
[woman] That's him!

980
01:03:13,958 --> 01:03:15,359
[man 1] Welcome to Philadelphia,
Reverend!

981
01:03:15,459 --> 01:03:16,726
[man 2] Bless you, Reverend!

982
01:03:18,628 --> 01:03:21,231
[George] The spirit of the Lord
is upon me!

983
01:03:21,331 --> 01:03:25,202
For He has anointed me to preach
the gospel to the poor!

984
01:03:25,302 --> 01:03:27,872
To proclaim freedom
to the captives!

985
01:03:27,972 --> 01:03:31,141
And to set at liberty
those who are oppressed!

986
01:03:32,776 --> 01:03:36,646
City of brotherly love,
the words of Christ, our Savior,

987
01:03:36,746 --> 01:03:38,315
ring out to you this day!

988
01:03:39,016 --> 01:03:43,053
Whom the Son sets free
is free indeed.

989
01:03:43,153 --> 01:03:45,155
Dear God.

990
01:03:45,255 --> 01:03:47,057
[George]
Why does Christ set free?

991
01:03:47,157 --> 01:03:48,725
Why does He bring new life?

992
01:03:48,825 --> 01:03:50,227
Because without Him,

993
01:03:50,327 --> 01:03:52,562
you're a condemned prisoner
of your sin.

994
01:03:52,662 --> 01:03:54,831
[exhales] Market Street.

995
01:03:54,932 --> 01:03:58,202
100 feet by 260 per block.

996
01:03:58,802 --> 01:04:00,437
Plus, 40 feet
on the side streets

997
01:04:00,537 --> 01:04:01,638
around to the wharf.

998
01:04:03,473 --> 01:04:04,541
Let's see.

999
01:04:04,641 --> 01:04:07,577
Agh! A printer
without paper and ink.

1000
01:04:07,677 --> 01:04:09,947
Excuse me. Pardon me.

1001
01:04:10,047 --> 01:04:11,949
Pardon me. Excuse me.

1002
01:04:12,049 --> 01:04:14,384
- [door opens]
- [George preaching continues]

1003
01:04:17,187 --> 01:04:19,323
[sighs]
Where's my graphite stick?

1004
01:04:25,495 --> 01:04:28,065
Blast it, Joseph, have you seen
my graphite stick?

1005
01:04:28,165 --> 01:04:30,700
[George preaching]
...the old has come, behold!

1006
01:04:30,800 --> 01:04:32,536
Old things have become new.

1007
01:04:33,670 --> 01:04:35,205
[Joseph] Have you ever heard
a voice like that?

1008
01:04:35,305 --> 01:04:37,107
[George] How many souls
are kept from Christ

1009
01:04:37,207 --> 01:04:39,743
for fear of reproach?
Of being marked with...

1010
01:04:39,843 --> 01:04:41,811
Like a trumpet blast
from Heaven.

1011
01:04:41,912 --> 01:04:44,714
[George]
We have a living hope within us.

1012
01:04:44,814 --> 01:04:47,851
And yet we fear to proclaim
that which we know is true!

1013
01:04:49,019 --> 01:04:51,655
Are we in truth
ashamed of Christ?

1014
01:04:51,755 --> 01:04:55,325
This is it, Mr. Franklin. Yes.

1015
01:04:56,226 --> 01:04:57,694
A real experiment.

1016
01:05:01,031 --> 01:05:02,099
Discredit...

1017
01:05:05,435 --> 01:05:06,570
Either a rumor...

1018
01:05:07,837 --> 01:05:09,239
or fact.

1019
01:05:09,906 --> 01:05:11,341
Yes. [laughs]

1020
01:05:11,441 --> 01:05:14,244
I ask you, ye men of letters,

1021
01:05:14,945 --> 01:05:17,781
whether your great Lycurgus
or Solon,

1022
01:05:17,881 --> 01:05:21,018
Pythagoras or Plato,
Aristotle, Seneca, Cicero,

1023
01:05:21,118 --> 01:05:23,287
all the heathen moralists
combined

1024
01:05:23,387 --> 01:05:26,456
ever produced a system of ethics
any way comparable

1025
01:05:26,556 --> 01:05:29,960
with so long-lasting,
so widespread in effect

1026
01:05:30,060 --> 01:05:33,330
as the shining wisdom
given by the one they call

1027
01:05:33,430 --> 01:05:34,664
Jesus of Nazareth.

1028
01:05:34,764 --> 01:05:38,268
Divided by four,
plus another five...

1029
01:05:40,470 --> 01:05:42,806
Yeah, 6,000.

1030
01:05:42,906 --> 01:05:44,208
How many, Mr. Franklin?

1031
01:05:46,543 --> 01:05:49,146
According to my calculations,

1032
01:05:49,246 --> 01:05:52,816
his voice can be heard
by 30,000.

1033
01:05:52,916 --> 01:05:54,218
You say 30,000?

1034
01:05:55,485 --> 01:05:56,486
Philadelphia only has--

1035
01:05:56,586 --> 01:05:58,388
20,000 residents.

1036
01:06:00,991 --> 01:06:03,527
What if there be mysteries
in His religion?

1037
01:06:03,627 --> 01:06:05,862
Are they not mysteries
of godliness?

1038
01:06:05,962 --> 01:06:08,565
Are they not worthy of the God
who reveals them?

1039
01:06:09,266 --> 01:06:13,837
Is it not the greatest mystery
that men who pretend to reason

1040
01:06:13,937 --> 01:06:16,873
and search into the very science
of nature itself,

1041
01:06:16,973 --> 01:06:20,344
and consequently find a mystery
in every blade of grass,

1042
01:06:20,444 --> 01:06:22,512
should then be so irrational
as to decry

1043
01:06:22,612 --> 01:06:24,081
all mysteries in religion?

1044
01:06:24,814 --> 01:06:26,416
Where is the scribe?

1045
01:06:26,516 --> 01:06:27,984
Where is the wise?

1046
01:06:28,085 --> 01:06:29,519
Where among you is the disputer

1047
01:06:29,619 --> 01:06:31,321
against
the Christian revelation?

1048
01:06:31,421 --> 01:06:32,456
I ask you.

1049
01:06:33,190 --> 01:06:36,493
Does not everything without
and within us conspire to prove

1050
01:06:36,593 --> 01:06:38,362
their divine origin?

1051
01:06:38,462 --> 01:06:41,631
Was Christ Himself not styled
the Word of God?

1052
01:06:42,699 --> 01:06:45,802
The fear of Him is the beginning
of knowledge.

1053
01:06:47,037 --> 01:06:49,039
It's not a fish tale,
Mr. Franklin.

1054
01:06:50,674 --> 01:06:55,545
Do not let the flat, lifeless,
stained-glass reverence you see

1055
01:06:55,645 --> 01:06:58,448
keep you a cool distance
from His fiery heart!

1056
01:06:58,548 --> 01:07:00,250
For it is the kindness
of the Lord

1057
01:07:00,350 --> 01:07:02,286
that leads us to repentance.

1058
01:07:02,386 --> 01:07:06,022
And what does it mean to repent,
but to turn another way?

1059
01:07:06,890 --> 01:07:10,594
What way shall we turn in naught
but darkness?

1060
01:07:10,694 --> 01:07:11,795
What way shall we turn

1061
01:07:11,895 --> 01:07:13,630
if not toward
the inextinguishable light

1062
01:07:13,730 --> 01:07:15,399
of the risen Son?

1063
01:07:15,499 --> 01:07:19,403
Who, though we reject Him,
still pursues us all our days.

1064
01:07:19,503 --> 01:07:23,573
Oh! Does not your dead heart
quicken to life at the thought

1065
01:07:23,673 --> 01:07:25,809
that you were fashioned
for such purpose,

1066
01:07:25,909 --> 01:07:29,746
and have yet a part to play
in the unfolding kingdom of God?

1067
01:07:29,846 --> 01:07:31,581
Stand therefore, brethren,

1068
01:07:31,681 --> 01:07:34,884
in the liberty wherewith Christ
hath made you free.

1069
01:07:34,984 --> 01:07:38,088
Be not entangled under the yoke
of the bondage of sin.

1070
01:07:38,822 --> 01:07:43,593
I commend you now all to Christ
in His infinite mercy,

1071
01:07:43,693 --> 01:07:46,496
to whom, with the Father
and the Spirit,

1072
01:07:46,596 --> 01:07:50,200
be all glory, all honor,
all power,

1073
01:07:50,300 --> 01:07:52,769
now and forevermore!

1074
01:07:52,869 --> 01:07:54,003
Amen!

1075
01:07:54,104 --> 01:07:56,506
- [crowd] Amen!
- [George] Amen!

1076
01:07:56,606 --> 01:07:57,941
[crowd] Amen!

1077
01:07:58,041 --> 01:07:59,176
[George] Amen!

1078
01:07:59,276 --> 01:08:00,977
[crowd] Amen!

1079
01:08:01,077 --> 01:08:03,079
[George] Awake, oh sleeper!

1080
01:08:03,947 --> 01:08:05,315
The sun has risen.

1081
01:08:05,415 --> 01:08:07,617
[crowd cheering]

1082
01:08:10,720 --> 01:08:13,323
[indistinct chatter]

1083
01:08:13,423 --> 01:08:16,260
- [man] Please, Reverend.
- [Benjamin] Excuse me.
Pardon me.

1084
01:08:16,360 --> 01:08:17,627
Please, excuse me.

1085
01:08:17,727 --> 01:08:19,095
Please, excuse me. Pardon me.

1086
01:08:19,196 --> 01:08:21,565
Thank you. [grunts]

1087
01:08:21,665 --> 01:08:25,302
- Excuse me, sir! It's me!
- Thank you for the help

1088
01:08:25,402 --> 01:08:27,471
but as you can see,
I have no time to speak.

1089
01:08:27,571 --> 01:08:30,140
Is it possible to have a word
with the Reverend?

1090
01:08:30,240 --> 01:08:32,842
- Not now.
- Uh, perhaps tonight?

1091
01:08:32,942 --> 01:08:34,344
Mr. Whitefield is engaged

1092
01:08:34,444 --> 01:08:36,280
to minister and preach
well into the evening.

1093
01:08:36,380 --> 01:08:38,782
- I'm sorry.
- Oh, Mr. Franklin.

1094
01:08:38,882 --> 01:08:42,319
Looks like Whitefield gave you
tomorrow's headline.

1095
01:08:42,419 --> 01:08:44,988
- Are you... Benjamin Franklin?
- I am.

1096
01:08:45,088 --> 01:08:46,623
Proprietor of
the Pennsylvania Gazette?

1097
01:08:46,723 --> 01:08:48,292
- Yes.
- William Seward.

1098
01:08:48,392 --> 01:08:49,793
- Oh.
- Mr. Whitefield was hoping

1099
01:08:49,893 --> 01:08:51,528
to meet with you.
This must be providence.

1100
01:08:51,628 --> 01:08:53,830
- Ah. Or coincidence.
- It'll be late,

1101
01:08:53,930 --> 01:08:56,333
but we could visit you
at your shop when he's through.

1102
01:08:56,433 --> 01:08:57,867
Uh, yes. Very good.

1103
01:08:57,967 --> 01:08:59,703
- Thank you.
- Thank you.

1104
01:08:59,803 --> 01:09:01,004
God bless you, Mr. Franklin.

1105
01:09:01,104 --> 01:09:02,306
[man] Please, Reverend, please.

1106
01:09:02,406 --> 01:09:04,508
All right. [chuckles]

1107
01:09:04,608 --> 01:09:10,980
* From the oceans
through the valleys *

1108
01:09:11,080 --> 01:09:16,520
[crowd]
* From the mainland
to the shore *

1109
01:09:16,620 --> 01:09:22,826
* Let Your Kingdom
be awakened *

1110
01:09:22,926 --> 01:09:29,098
* In the hearts
of men once more *

1111
01:09:29,199 --> 01:09:35,339
* Call Your children
into freedom *

1112
01:09:35,439 --> 01:09:41,345
* Captive souls to liberty *

1113
01:09:41,445 --> 01:09:47,684
* Come awaken, Holy Spirit *

1114
01:09:47,784 --> 01:09:54,291
* Come awaken us today *

1115
01:09:55,091 --> 01:10:01,631
* I will serve Thee,
precious Jesus *

1116
01:10:01,731 --> 01:10:07,804
* Unto Thee I give my all *

1117
01:10:07,904 --> 01:10:14,278
* Lay my hands
unto Thy service *

1118
01:10:14,378 --> 01:10:20,917
* And my heart unto Thy call *

1119
01:10:21,017 --> 01:10:27,324
* Perish every fond ambition *

1120
01:10:27,424 --> 01:10:33,730
* Lay aside all selfish gain *

1121
01:10:33,830 --> 01:10:40,169
* All forsaken for Thy glory *

1122
01:10:40,270 --> 01:10:47,277
*
Come awaken us today *

1123
01:10:50,614 --> 01:10:52,782
The whole world has gone
religious, Joseph.

1124
01:10:54,584 --> 01:10:55,519
Yes, sir.

1125
01:11:01,024 --> 01:11:01,958
[sighs]

1126
01:11:02,726 --> 01:11:07,063
Well... tomorrow's Gazette
shall read...

1127
01:11:07,964 --> 01:11:11,200
"November 8th, 1739."

1128
01:11:11,968 --> 01:11:15,071
"The Reverend George Whitefield
has arrived from England...

1129
01:11:16,272 --> 01:11:18,041
to awaken the Colonies."

1130
01:11:19,543 --> 01:11:20,710
[chuckles]

1131
01:11:22,211 --> 01:11:23,613
[crickets chirping]

1132
01:11:42,098 --> 01:11:44,468
You both may retire
for the night.

1133
01:11:44,568 --> 01:11:46,770
Thank you for your endurance.

1134
01:11:47,904 --> 01:11:49,005
And what about you, sir?

1135
01:11:49,806 --> 01:11:54,143
Oh, I will plow deep
while sluggards sleep,

1136
01:11:54,844 --> 01:11:57,947
so I will have corn to sell
and to keep.

1137
01:11:59,683 --> 01:12:00,617
Of course.

1138
01:12:02,952 --> 01:12:04,988
Sweet pea, wake up.

1139
01:12:06,490 --> 01:12:07,591
We must get going.

1140
01:12:17,333 --> 01:12:18,402
Mr. Franklin?

1141
01:12:18,502 --> 01:12:19,436
[Benjamin] Hmm?

1142
01:12:20,770 --> 01:12:23,039
What did you make of Reverend
Whitefield's message today?

1143
01:12:23,540 --> 01:12:25,274
Oh.

1144
01:12:25,375 --> 01:12:27,343
I plan to make a lot from it.

1145
01:12:31,981 --> 01:12:32,982
Good night, sir.

1146
01:12:34,150 --> 01:12:35,151
Good night.

1147
01:12:36,686 --> 01:12:38,555
- [Samuel] Good night, Joseph.
- [knock on door]

1148
01:12:44,461 --> 01:12:47,597
Good evening. I'm looking for
a Mr. Benjamin Franklin.

1149
01:12:47,697 --> 01:12:51,468
Uh... y-yes, please.

1150
01:12:53,670 --> 01:12:54,571
[sighs]

1151
01:12:54,671 --> 01:12:56,440
What is your name?

1152
01:12:56,540 --> 01:12:58,307
- I'm Samuel.
- Samuel?

1153
01:12:58,408 --> 01:12:59,743
That's a strong name.

1154
01:12:59,843 --> 01:13:01,110
Who is this?

1155
01:13:01,210 --> 01:13:02,546
Samantha, sir.

1156
01:13:02,646 --> 01:13:05,882
Samantha, you are a great
blessing to your father.

1157
01:13:05,982 --> 01:13:06,916
God bless you both.

1158
01:13:07,884 --> 01:13:09,553
- [Samuel] Night.
- Good evening.

1159
01:13:10,720 --> 01:13:14,057
Excuse me, sir,
what is your name?

1160
01:13:14,157 --> 01:13:15,058
[door closes]

1161
01:13:15,592 --> 01:13:16,560
Me?

1162
01:13:19,262 --> 01:13:20,430
Joseph.

1163
01:13:20,530 --> 01:13:22,165
[George] Joseph.

1164
01:13:22,265 --> 01:13:24,067
That too, is a strong name.

1165
01:13:24,734 --> 01:13:25,735
Suits you.

1166
01:13:28,605 --> 01:13:31,374
The Lord whom I serve sees you.

1167
01:13:39,549 --> 01:13:40,584
[sighs]

1168
01:13:45,388 --> 01:13:46,523
Mr. Franklin.

1169
01:13:48,057 --> 01:13:50,093
Reverend Whitefield.

1170
01:13:50,193 --> 01:13:52,028
Please, call me, "George".

1171
01:13:52,729 --> 01:13:54,564
It is an honor
to finally meet you.

1172
01:13:55,298 --> 01:13:57,934
Your reputation precedes you
in England.

1173
01:13:58,034 --> 01:13:59,135
Oh? [soft grunt]

1174
01:14:00,570 --> 01:14:01,638
Which one?

1175
01:14:01,738 --> 01:14:04,040
[George chuckling]

1176
01:14:04,140 --> 01:14:06,776
Many there regard
your
Poor Richard's Almanack

1177
01:14:06,876 --> 01:14:08,778
as one of the lost books
of the Bible.

1178
01:14:08,878 --> 01:14:10,547
Ah, you flatter me.

1179
01:14:11,347 --> 01:14:14,818
But a man wrapped up in himself
makes a very small bundle.

1180
01:14:15,418 --> 01:14:16,319
Indeed.

1181
01:14:17,120 --> 01:14:19,088
Do you belong to a local parish?

1182
01:14:19,188 --> 01:14:22,559
I am a friend to every church,
but a member of none.

1183
01:14:24,060 --> 01:14:24,961
I see.

1184
01:14:25,829 --> 01:14:27,196
Yes.

1185
01:14:27,296 --> 01:14:28,965
- [George] Hmm.
- Hmm.

1186
01:14:29,065 --> 01:14:30,834
- [door opens]
- [indistinct chatter]

1187
01:14:30,934 --> 01:14:33,369
[William] You will have to wait
until morning.

1188
01:14:33,469 --> 01:14:34,804
- [sighs]
- Hmm.

1189
01:14:37,507 --> 01:14:39,175
Do you mind if I...

1190
01:14:39,275 --> 01:14:40,510
- Mm.
- Ah. Ah!

1191
01:14:42,478 --> 01:14:44,080
- Thank you.
- [soft grunt]

1192
01:14:45,014 --> 01:14:47,016
[together] I am interested
in working with you.

1193
01:14:47,116 --> 01:14:49,085
Oh, please, proceed.

1194
01:14:49,185 --> 01:14:50,419
[chuckles]

1195
01:14:50,520 --> 01:14:53,523
The Pennsylvania Gazette
is the leading newspaper

1196
01:14:53,623 --> 01:14:55,825
in His Majesty's 13 colonies.

1197
01:14:55,925 --> 01:14:57,493
It would be extremely effective

1198
01:14:57,594 --> 01:14:59,328
in communicating
your whereabouts

1199
01:14:59,428 --> 01:15:01,765
to ensure the largest crowds
possible.

1200
01:15:01,865 --> 01:15:05,935
And with it,
the largest possible offerings.

1201
01:15:06,035 --> 01:15:07,837
[George] Well, that is
very thoughtful of you.

1202
01:15:07,937 --> 01:15:11,374
I am endeavoring to raise funds
for an orphanage in Georgia.

1203
01:15:11,474 --> 01:15:13,677
I'm sure you are. [chuckles]

1204
01:15:13,777 --> 01:15:16,746
Partnering with me would
guarantee the maximum benefit

1205
01:15:16,846 --> 01:15:18,147
to your cause,

1206
01:15:20,183 --> 01:15:21,618
and mine.

1207
01:15:23,219 --> 01:15:24,621
A match made in Heaven.

1208
01:15:25,622 --> 01:15:27,891
Or just a deal made
in a print shop.

1209
01:15:30,393 --> 01:15:31,595
[chuckles]

1210
01:15:31,695 --> 01:15:33,129
Now, as business partners,

1211
01:15:33,229 --> 01:15:36,232
whenever you're in my city
and you need lodging,

1212
01:15:36,332 --> 01:15:38,301
my home will be made
available to you.

1213
01:15:38,401 --> 01:15:40,637
That is a very kind offer
for the sake of Christ.

1214
01:15:40,737 --> 01:15:42,906
Well, it's not for
Christ's sake, it's for yours.

1215
01:15:43,006 --> 01:15:45,609
- [chuckles]
- Shall we dunk the papers then?

1216
01:15:45,709 --> 01:15:46,810
Tonight?

1217
01:15:46,910 --> 01:15:48,244
Wasn't it Poor Richard who said

1218
01:15:48,344 --> 01:15:49,913
"One today is worth
two tomorrows"?

1219
01:15:50,013 --> 01:15:52,148
Yes, I know
what Poor Richard said.

1220
01:15:52,248 --> 01:15:53,583
All right, let's get on with it.

1221
01:15:53,683 --> 01:15:55,418
[George] I want to start
by publishing this.

1222
01:15:55,518 --> 01:15:56,419
[sighs]

1223
01:15:58,254 --> 01:16:01,124
Hmm. "To the inhabitants
of Maryland, Virginia,

1224
01:16:01,224 --> 01:16:03,092
North and South Carolina,

1225
01:16:03,192 --> 01:16:05,094
God has a quarrel
to pick with you

1226
01:16:05,194 --> 01:16:09,198
for your abuse of
and cruelty to slaves...

1227
01:16:10,233 --> 01:16:12,602
and for keeping the Gospel
from them."

1228
01:16:14,037 --> 01:16:16,372
You are lighting a powder keg,
my friend.

1229
01:16:17,306 --> 01:16:20,610
I did not cross the Atlantic
to tickle ears, Mr. Franklin.

1230
01:16:20,710 --> 01:16:22,679
Hmm, huh... [chuckles]

1231
01:16:22,779 --> 01:16:24,681
- Soothe or stoke.
- I'm sorry?

1232
01:16:24,781 --> 01:16:27,083
Soothe or stoke the hearts
of the people.

1233
01:16:27,951 --> 01:16:32,255
Both sell papers
and save souls apparently.

1234
01:16:32,355 --> 01:16:34,090
Well, let's get started.

1235
01:16:34,190 --> 01:16:35,859
[both chuckle]

1236
01:16:35,959 --> 01:16:37,794
You were business partners.

1237
01:16:37,894 --> 01:16:40,329
And I sold a lot of these.

1238
01:16:40,429 --> 01:16:42,699
"Whitefield preaches to 17,000

1239
01:16:42,799 --> 01:16:44,133
in Providence, Rhode Island--"

1240
01:16:44,233 --> 01:16:45,201
Rogue Island.

1241
01:16:45,301 --> 01:16:47,804
[Benny] "And 30,000 in Boston."

1242
01:16:47,904 --> 01:16:49,172
[Benjamin] Look at the date.

1243
01:16:50,139 --> 01:16:51,875
These were on the same day.

1244
01:16:51,975 --> 01:16:55,845
But Pro-- Providence
and Boston are 50 miles apart.

1245
01:16:55,945 --> 01:16:59,515
He spent more time on a horse
than on the ground...

1246
01:17:00,316 --> 01:17:02,819
and he preached and prayed
more than he slept.

1247
01:17:04,087 --> 01:17:06,589
Ah... I have to admit,
in the beginning,

1248
01:17:06,690 --> 01:17:09,726
I did not believe that level
of response could be maintained.

1249
01:17:09,826 --> 01:17:11,194
Well, was it?

1250
01:17:11,294 --> 01:17:12,195
No.

1251
01:17:14,163 --> 01:17:15,498
It increased.

1252
01:17:17,100 --> 01:17:19,102
[rousing music playing]

1253
01:17:25,308 --> 01:17:27,143
Reverend George Whitefield
to preach repentance

1254
01:17:27,243 --> 01:17:29,012
in Rhode Island, Massachusetts.

1255
01:17:30,947 --> 01:17:33,149
[George]
Let there be
no divisions in the church.

1256
01:17:33,249 --> 01:17:37,153
But rather be of one mind,
united in thought and purpose.

1257
01:17:37,253 --> 01:17:38,722
[crowd] Yes.

1258
01:17:38,822 --> 01:17:42,759
Therefore, let us not be asleep,
but awake.

1259
01:17:42,859 --> 01:17:44,527
- [crowd] Yes.
- And sober minded,

1260
01:17:44,627 --> 01:17:46,863
because we belong to the day.

1261
01:17:46,963 --> 01:17:49,165
Let us be dressed
in the raiment of light.

1262
01:17:49,265 --> 01:17:51,467
[crowd] Yes! Amen.

1263
01:17:53,202 --> 01:17:56,472
[horse hooves galloping]

1264
01:17:57,974 --> 01:18:00,476
[rousing music continues]

1265
01:18:11,988 --> 01:18:15,091
Nathan! Nathan!

1266
01:18:15,191 --> 01:18:17,260
Reverend Whitefield preached
at Hartford yesterday.

1267
01:18:17,360 --> 01:18:19,829
And he's to preach at Middletown
this morning at 10:00.

1268
01:18:29,338 --> 01:18:30,774
[Nathan] Molly.

1269
01:18:30,874 --> 01:18:32,408
- Nathan?
- Molly.

1270
01:18:34,010 --> 01:18:36,980
Molly, Reverend Whitefield.

1271
01:18:37,080 --> 01:18:39,682
And on his head are many crowns.

1272
01:18:40,750 --> 01:18:43,352
On his head are many crowns.

1273
01:18:46,422 --> 01:18:48,925
Lord, speak through me.

1274
01:18:49,692 --> 01:18:51,294
Draw them with Your Word.

1275
01:18:52,695 --> 01:18:55,664
Let them hear Your voice.

1276
01:18:55,765 --> 01:18:58,935
Set them on a path from which
they will never depart.

1277
01:19:00,203 --> 01:19:02,305
Though You are a God
of justice,

1278
01:19:03,039 --> 01:19:06,075
show them that Your heart
resounds with mercy.

1279
01:19:07,443 --> 01:19:11,981
Show them the kindness
that You have always shown me.

1280
01:19:12,081 --> 01:19:15,351
As I speak from the word
like lightning speak,

1281
01:19:16,052 --> 01:19:18,621
cry out in thunder
from the word.

1282
01:19:19,755 --> 01:19:21,624
He has a name written on Him

1283
01:19:21,724 --> 01:19:24,260
that no one knows
but He Himself,

1284
01:19:24,360 --> 01:19:27,196
and His name is the word of God!

1285
01:19:28,597 --> 01:19:30,033
Use me, Lord,

1286
01:19:31,467 --> 01:19:32,701
whatever the cost.

1287
01:19:34,871 --> 01:19:38,041
Let them receive
your gift of salvation,

1288
01:19:40,243 --> 01:19:42,211
and set us free.

1289
01:19:44,914 --> 01:19:46,950
[Benjamin]
"And I saw that my righteousness

1290
01:19:47,050 --> 01:19:48,651
would not save me.

1291
01:19:48,751 --> 01:19:52,721
Nathan Cole.
October 23rd, 1740."

1292
01:19:53,890 --> 01:19:57,861
Nearly 13 years ago,
and the reports remain the same.

1293
01:19:58,594 --> 01:20:02,165
Mr. Nathan Cole would never have
experienced the new birth

1294
01:20:02,265 --> 01:20:04,267
if you had not published
my whereabouts.

1295
01:20:04,367 --> 01:20:07,503
[chuckles] Well, poor Richard
would still be poor

1296
01:20:07,603 --> 01:20:09,672
had I not published
your whereabouts.

1297
01:20:12,408 --> 01:20:15,945
I see the church has, uh,
greeted you warmly today.

1298
01:20:16,779 --> 01:20:17,981
[sighs]

1299
01:20:18,081 --> 01:20:21,150
My dear friend, John Wesley,
once said,

1300
01:20:21,851 --> 01:20:26,322
"You must be willing to preach,
pray or die at any moment."

1301
01:20:26,422 --> 01:20:29,926
[chuckles] He forgot to tell you
to also duck and dodge.

1302
01:20:35,331 --> 01:20:36,599
We lost Seward.

1303
01:20:40,836 --> 01:20:41,938
I'm sorry.

1304
01:20:43,106 --> 01:20:45,708
He was preaching
in South Wales...

1305
01:20:47,176 --> 01:20:49,845
when an angry mob
began to throw stones.

1306
01:20:52,781 --> 01:20:54,317
He died three days later.

1307
01:20:56,452 --> 01:20:58,421
In his final letter to me,
he said...

1308
01:20:59,388 --> 01:21:00,656
"Fear not, George...

1309
01:21:01,891 --> 01:21:06,395
we are immortal until our work
on earth is done."

1310
01:21:07,997 --> 01:21:11,567
What compels one back
into angry mobs?

1311
01:21:12,902 --> 01:21:16,372
The same thing that compelled
Christ onto a cross of wood.

1312
01:21:18,374 --> 01:21:19,708
When you follow Him,

1313
01:21:21,210 --> 01:21:22,878
you are led by love...

1314
01:21:24,013 --> 01:21:25,314
no matter the cost.

1315
01:21:28,184 --> 01:21:33,222
Those who follow dead religion
are led by a desire to be right.

1316
01:21:35,491 --> 01:21:37,093
Eventually, they will
throw stones

1317
01:21:37,193 --> 01:21:38,861
at those they believe are wrong.

1318
01:21:42,498 --> 01:21:46,735
I grow weary in the work, Ben,
but never of the work.

1319
01:21:48,571 --> 01:21:51,140
And like you... [chuckles]

1320
01:21:51,240 --> 01:21:54,010
I would rather wear out
than rust out.

1321
01:21:57,780 --> 01:21:59,215
[inhales]

1322
01:21:59,315 --> 01:22:03,286
Seward also said that
I should give you these...

1323
01:22:05,788 --> 01:22:08,024
my personal journals.

1324
01:22:08,124 --> 01:22:10,426
He said you should publish them,

1325
01:22:10,526 --> 01:22:14,130
that many would see
the goodness of God.

1326
01:22:14,230 --> 01:22:18,001
I needed a new press
just to publish your sermons.

1327
01:22:18,101 --> 01:22:20,303
Well, I suppose
you'd better get a third.

1328
01:22:20,403 --> 01:22:22,638
[both chuckle]

1329
01:22:23,939 --> 01:22:24,907
[sighs]

1330
01:22:26,142 --> 01:22:27,443
[sniffles]

1331
01:22:27,543 --> 01:22:29,245
[clears throat] My...

1332
01:22:30,579 --> 01:22:33,716
Your print shop has become
a rather strange laboratory

1333
01:22:33,816 --> 01:22:36,219
- since my last visit.
- [Benjamin chuckles]

1334
01:22:36,319 --> 01:22:39,522
Yes, His Majesty's Royal Society

1335
01:22:39,622 --> 01:22:42,725
has taken special interest
in my research

1336
01:22:42,825 --> 01:22:45,194
on the mysteries
of electric fire.

1337
01:22:45,294 --> 01:22:47,196
[both chuckle]

1338
01:22:47,296 --> 01:22:49,398
- And what about you, Ben?
- Hmm?

1339
01:22:49,498 --> 01:22:51,134
What is your source?

1340
01:22:51,234 --> 01:22:52,501
[Benjamin] My source?

1341
01:22:52,601 --> 01:22:54,570
- What compels you?
- [thunder rumbling]

1342
01:22:54,670 --> 01:22:57,573
Aha, I thought you'd never ask.

1343
01:22:57,673 --> 01:22:58,907
[chuckles]

1344
01:23:03,112 --> 01:23:05,248
[chuckles] Follow me.

1345
01:23:06,415 --> 01:23:08,884
[George chuckling]

1346
01:23:08,984 --> 01:23:11,520
I fail to see what is
so humorous.

1347
01:23:11,620 --> 01:23:13,656
Uh, it's a virtue chart.

1348
01:23:13,756 --> 01:23:15,258
- You actually use this?
- Oh, dear.

1349
01:23:15,358 --> 01:23:17,093
He's showing him the chart.

1350
01:23:17,193 --> 01:23:18,661
[George]
Good evening, Mrs. Franklin.

1351
01:23:18,761 --> 01:23:20,663
Allow me to expound.

1352
01:23:20,763 --> 01:23:22,765
First, on a small card,
I write the virtue

1353
01:23:22,865 --> 01:23:24,667
I am to focus on for the week.

1354
01:23:24,767 --> 01:23:27,103
- Currently, it's humility.
- Which he just added,

1355
01:23:27,203 --> 01:23:29,004
because he bragged about
the first 12.

1356
01:23:29,105 --> 01:23:31,540
"Imitate Jesus and Socrates."

1357
01:23:31,640 --> 01:23:33,276
[Benjamin]
I refer to it frequently,

1358
01:23:33,376 --> 01:23:35,944
and then I replace it
with a new virtue every week

1359
01:23:36,045 --> 01:23:37,380
for 13 weeks,

1360
01:23:37,480 --> 01:23:40,049
so that the series is repeated
four times a year.

1361
01:23:40,149 --> 01:23:42,118
Then I assess how I'm doing
on the chart.

1362
01:23:42,218 --> 01:23:44,353
Our assessments
do not always align.

1363
01:23:44,453 --> 01:23:47,290
Well, whatever achievements
I have made,

1364
01:23:47,390 --> 01:23:49,892
I credit to the ethical,
intellectual,

1365
01:23:49,992 --> 01:23:52,295
and physical discipline
of these virtues.

1366
01:23:52,395 --> 01:23:55,464
Upon them, I founded
the most successful newspaper

1367
01:23:55,564 --> 01:23:56,732
in the colonies,

1368
01:23:56,832 --> 01:23:59,368
the first public library,
firehouse,

1369
01:23:59,468 --> 01:24:01,904
and Philadelphia's
first hospital.

1370
01:24:02,004 --> 01:24:04,907
Says the man who states, "He
who falls in love with himself

1371
01:24:05,007 --> 01:24:06,575
will have no rivals."

1372
01:24:06,675 --> 01:24:08,777
[Benjamin] I say this
not to boast, Deborah,

1373
01:24:08,877 --> 01:24:11,046
but to prove the merit
of my system.

1374
01:24:11,147 --> 01:24:12,815
Had someone else taken up
this discipline,

1375
01:24:12,915 --> 01:24:14,883
it might be their name
on the Franklin stove.

1376
01:24:14,983 --> 01:24:17,153
- Hmm.
- Lightning rod, swim fins,

1377
01:24:17,253 --> 01:24:19,655
- and the flexible catheter.
- [Deborah] Benjamin Franklin.

1378
01:24:19,755 --> 01:24:20,923
I think the flexible catheter

1379
01:24:21,023 --> 01:24:22,158
will be
your highest achievement.

1380
01:24:22,258 --> 01:24:24,260
- Ah.
- What's a catheter?

1381
01:24:24,360 --> 01:24:26,629
- [Deborah] Never mind.
- [laughter]

1382
01:24:26,729 --> 01:24:29,432
[Benjamin] It is the zeal
for improvement in self,

1383
01:24:29,532 --> 01:24:32,168
society, and science
that drove me to prove

1384
01:24:32,268 --> 01:24:34,737
that storms can move
in an opposite direction

1385
01:24:34,837 --> 01:24:36,305
than the direction
from the wind.

1386
01:24:36,405 --> 01:24:38,241
And of course,
you invented the wind.

1387
01:24:38,341 --> 01:24:40,643
Absolutely, I did.
I needed to fly my kites.

1388
01:24:40,743 --> 01:24:42,511
- Oh!
- [laughter]

1389
01:24:42,611 --> 01:24:44,647
Oh, well, he is certainly
responsible

1390
01:24:44,747 --> 01:24:46,582
for all of the hot air
blowing through here.

1391
01:24:46,682 --> 01:24:47,850
- [laughs]
- Hear, hear.

1392
01:24:47,950 --> 01:24:49,985
- [laughter]
- [Deborah] Good night, George.

1393
01:24:50,085 --> 01:24:51,120
[Sally]
Good night, Mr. Whitefield.

1394
01:24:51,220 --> 01:24:52,921
Good night, Sally,
Mrs. Franklin.

1395
01:24:53,021 --> 01:24:54,022
Good night, Father.

1396
01:24:54,623 --> 01:24:56,625
- Good night.
- [footsteps thudding]

1397
01:25:00,729 --> 01:25:02,398
[chuckling]

1398
01:25:02,931 --> 01:25:04,267
[distant thunder rumbling]

1399
01:25:04,367 --> 01:25:06,169
Oh, no. You're doing it again.

1400
01:25:06,269 --> 01:25:07,970
- [George] What?
- There, stop that.

1401
01:25:08,070 --> 01:25:10,105
Are you mocking my bad eye, Ben?

1402
01:25:10,206 --> 01:25:12,475
[sighs] No, not the blasted eye.

1403
01:25:12,575 --> 01:25:13,609
That look.

1404
01:25:14,243 --> 01:25:16,979
You got some pseudo spiritual
gaze upon me.

1405
01:25:18,647 --> 01:25:21,850
I tried this, Ben,
and it nearly killed me.

1406
01:25:22,985 --> 01:25:26,555
It's the same religious spirit
that leads men to throw stones.

1407
01:25:27,556 --> 01:25:30,626
- You must be born again.
- [laughs]

1408
01:25:30,726 --> 01:25:32,995
I trust my good works
from a good heart

1409
01:25:33,095 --> 01:25:34,663
will go before me.

1410
01:25:34,763 --> 01:25:36,865
[George] Getting to heaven
on your own strength.

1411
01:25:36,965 --> 01:25:39,902
You might as well climb
to the moon on a rope of sand.

1412
01:25:40,002 --> 01:25:43,806
I have too much to do on earth
to worry about the moon.

1413
01:25:43,906 --> 01:25:46,141
Even if I were to experience
this new birth

1414
01:25:46,242 --> 01:25:47,510
you so often speak of,

1415
01:25:47,610 --> 01:25:49,478
I would never give you
or anyone else

1416
01:25:49,578 --> 01:25:51,079
the satisfaction of knowing it.

1417
01:25:52,681 --> 01:25:54,483
[chuckling]

1418
01:25:54,583 --> 01:25:57,486
[loud thunder crashing]

1419
01:25:57,586 --> 01:25:58,587
Let's go.

1420
01:26:00,423 --> 01:26:02,991
- I'm sorry?
- Grab your coat.

1421
01:26:03,091 --> 01:26:04,593
I want to show you something.

1422
01:26:04,693 --> 01:26:06,329
[George] Now?
You can't be serious.

1423
01:26:06,862 --> 01:26:09,232
Do not squander time,
Georgie. [chuckles]

1424
01:26:09,332 --> 01:26:11,300
It's the stuff life is made of.

1425
01:26:11,400 --> 01:26:15,037
- All right.
- I'm going to need this, and...

1426
01:26:16,372 --> 01:26:17,673
- What is that?
- Huh?

1427
01:26:17,773 --> 01:26:18,841
- Okay.
- [chuckles]

1428
01:26:18,941 --> 01:26:21,244
[loud thunder crashing]

1429
01:26:21,344 --> 01:26:23,078
[church bells tolling]

1430
01:26:23,178 --> 01:26:25,113
[woman screaming]

1431
01:26:26,815 --> 01:26:28,584
Why are they ringing
church bells?

1432
01:26:28,684 --> 01:26:30,052
Superstition.

1433
01:26:30,152 --> 01:26:31,620
They believe it will appease God

1434
01:26:31,720 --> 01:26:34,390
so his wrath won't strike
and burn their homes.

1435
01:26:34,490 --> 01:26:36,425
- That's not scriptural.
- [laughs]

1436
01:26:36,525 --> 01:26:39,962
Finally, somebody who agrees
with me.

1437
01:26:40,062 --> 01:26:41,096
[laughs]

1438
01:26:41,196 --> 01:26:43,165
These are perfect conditions.

1439
01:26:44,733 --> 01:26:46,669
Is madness one of your virtues?

1440
01:26:48,471 --> 01:26:50,138
[laughs heartily]

1441
01:26:52,341 --> 01:26:54,977
When the thunder clouds
come over the kite,

1442
01:26:55,678 --> 01:26:58,881
this pointed wire will draw
the electric fire from them.

1443
01:26:58,981 --> 01:27:00,916
The kite, and all of the twine,

1444
01:27:01,016 --> 01:27:02,385
will become electrified.

1445
01:27:02,485 --> 01:27:04,420
Then the loose filaments
of the twine

1446
01:27:04,520 --> 01:27:06,088
will stand up every way

1447
01:27:06,188 --> 01:27:08,691
and be attracted
by an approaching finger.

1448
01:27:09,325 --> 01:27:10,793
[laughs]

1449
01:27:10,893 --> 01:27:13,396
Oh, thank you, my little friend.

1450
01:27:14,162 --> 01:27:18,667
[grunts, laughs]

1451
01:27:20,269 --> 01:27:21,404
Haha!

1452
01:27:22,338 --> 01:27:24,740
When the moisture has wet
the kite and twine,

1453
01:27:24,840 --> 01:27:27,510
so that it conducts
the electric fire freely,

1454
01:27:27,610 --> 01:27:29,845
you will find it stream out
plentifully from the key

1455
01:27:29,945 --> 01:27:30,979
on the approach of your knuckle.

1456
01:27:31,079 --> 01:27:32,515
Here, try it.

1457
01:27:32,615 --> 01:27:34,016
No, I'd-I'd rather not.

1458
01:27:34,116 --> 01:27:35,918
I've done this
many times before.

1459
01:27:36,018 --> 01:27:37,019
It works.

1460
01:27:37,119 --> 01:27:39,355
It-- Precisely.

1461
01:27:39,455 --> 01:27:42,525
First time, I had my son William
hold the line.

1462
01:27:42,625 --> 01:27:46,795
Boom! The lightning struck
and surged through his hands.

1463
01:27:47,763 --> 01:27:49,097
He shook like a leaf.

1464
01:27:49,197 --> 01:27:51,133
It was incredible.

1465
01:27:51,233 --> 01:27:52,535
He's never helped me since.

1466
01:27:52,635 --> 01:27:53,869
I should think not.

1467
01:27:53,969 --> 01:27:56,439
[chuckles]
That's when I learned,

1468
01:27:57,706 --> 01:28:01,577
I needed to ground the line
to disperse the power.

1469
01:28:02,978 --> 01:28:06,281
So... I invented
my lightning rod.

1470
01:28:06,382 --> 01:28:08,717
[George]
You're an amazing man, Ben.

1471
01:28:08,817 --> 01:28:10,519
Wait, do you feel that?

1472
01:28:10,619 --> 01:28:11,720
Feel what?

1473
01:28:12,955 --> 01:28:14,523
Ah!

1474
01:28:14,623 --> 01:28:16,392
Touch the Leyden jar to the key.

1475
01:28:16,492 --> 01:28:17,693
No, I don't think so.

1476
01:28:17,793 --> 01:28:18,794
Ah, here.

1477
01:28:25,334 --> 01:28:27,403
[chuckles]

1478
01:28:27,503 --> 01:28:28,604
Yes.

1479
01:28:29,572 --> 01:28:30,906
Fire from heaven.

1480
01:28:31,006 --> 01:28:33,842
[both chuckle]

1481
01:28:36,445 --> 01:28:38,514
[chuckling]

1482
01:28:43,919 --> 01:28:46,121
You are the lightning bolt,
George.

1483
01:28:47,723 --> 01:28:50,092
I am just the lightning rod.

1484
01:28:50,192 --> 01:28:51,894
And who is the source, Ben?

1485
01:28:54,096 --> 01:28:55,898
[laughs]

1486
01:28:55,998 --> 01:28:58,166
I see what you did there.

1487
01:28:58,266 --> 01:29:00,068
Very clever, Reverend.

1488
01:29:00,168 --> 01:29:01,470
Very clever.

1489
01:29:05,974 --> 01:29:07,242
Confirmation!

1490
01:29:07,342 --> 01:29:08,777
Evacuation!

1491
01:29:08,877 --> 01:29:10,613
We need to leave now!

1492
01:29:10,713 --> 01:29:14,316
[laughing]

1493
01:29:24,326 --> 01:29:27,295
[George]
April 21st, 1770.

1494
01:29:27,996 --> 01:29:31,266
My dear friend,
Dr. Benjamin Franklin,

1495
01:29:32,167 --> 01:29:36,304
I have embarked upon my seventh
pilgrimage to the colonies.

1496
01:29:36,405 --> 01:29:37,873
And although difficult,

1497
01:29:37,973 --> 01:29:41,376
Christ's presence allows me
to smile through pain,

1498
01:29:42,110 --> 01:29:46,214
and the fire of His love
burns up all fevers whatsoever.

1499
01:29:47,683 --> 01:29:49,418
I was sorry to have missed

1500
01:29:49,518 --> 01:29:51,587
the christening
of your city bell,

1501
01:29:51,687 --> 01:29:54,923
proclaiming God's liberty
throughout all the land.

1502
01:29:55,791 --> 01:29:59,695
The people of America seem more
eager after the Word than ever.

1503
01:30:00,629 --> 01:30:03,599
May their voices ring
in harmony with that bell.

1504
01:30:05,100 --> 01:30:07,302
I find you grow more
and more famous

1505
01:30:07,402 --> 01:30:09,104
in the learned world.

1506
01:30:09,204 --> 01:30:11,440
As you have made
considerable progress

1507
01:30:11,540 --> 01:30:13,742
in the mysteries
of electricity,

1508
01:30:13,842 --> 01:30:15,644
I now humbly recommend

1509
01:30:15,744 --> 01:30:19,147
the study of the mystery
of the new birth,

1510
01:30:19,247 --> 01:30:20,683
for without it,

1511
01:30:20,783 --> 01:30:23,051
we cannot enter
the kingdom of heaven.

1512
01:30:24,286 --> 01:30:25,921
You will be pleased to know

1513
01:30:26,021 --> 01:30:28,691
I have raised
700 pounds sterling

1514
01:30:28,791 --> 01:30:31,326
for my orphanage in Georgia.

1515
01:30:31,426 --> 01:30:33,028
I hope to grow rich in heaven

1516
01:30:33,128 --> 01:30:35,263
by taking care of the orphans
on earth.

1517
01:30:36,532 --> 01:30:41,837
I subscribe myself, dear sir,
your very affectionate friend

1518
01:30:41,937 --> 01:30:45,007
and obliged servant,
George Whitefield.

1519
01:30:46,241 --> 01:30:48,110
[distant bell tolling]

1520
01:30:58,487 --> 01:31:02,224
"Proclaim liberty
throughout all the land...

1521
01:31:03,959 --> 01:31:06,895
unto all
the inhabitants thereof."

1522
01:31:08,664 --> 01:31:10,365
What a glorious verse
to ring out

1523
01:31:10,465 --> 01:31:12,334
over the city of brotherly love.

1524
01:31:13,101 --> 01:31:14,002
Hmm?

1525
01:31:14,837 --> 01:31:16,905
Oh, yes. Well,

1526
01:31:17,005 --> 01:31:18,941
apparently,
the inhabitants thereof

1527
01:31:19,041 --> 01:31:22,344
are ringing just as loudly
in the ears of our king.

1528
01:31:22,611 --> 01:31:23,579
[sharp exhale]

1529
01:31:23,679 --> 01:31:25,514
Parliament would like
to influence

1530
01:31:25,614 --> 01:31:27,349
our definition of liberty,

1531
01:31:28,250 --> 01:31:31,219
and because I am fully
acquainted with the temper

1532
01:31:31,319 --> 01:31:33,722
and disposition of the colonies,

1533
01:31:33,822 --> 01:31:35,691
the Continental Congress
has chosen me

1534
01:31:35,791 --> 01:31:38,193
to act on their behalf.

1535
01:31:38,293 --> 01:31:41,129
I sail for London
the day after tomorrow.

1536
01:31:42,798 --> 01:31:45,067
[George] Blood will be shed
for that liberty,

1537
01:31:47,803 --> 01:31:49,738
whereas blood was already shed

1538
01:31:50,438 --> 01:31:52,875
for the liberty proclaimed
by that bell.

1539
01:31:53,942 --> 01:31:55,110
[George breathes deeply]

1540
01:31:55,210 --> 01:31:57,512
You will have my prayers.

1541
01:31:57,613 --> 01:31:58,513
[Benjamin chuckles]

1542
01:31:59,314 --> 01:32:00,215
[sharp exhale]

1543
01:32:00,849 --> 01:32:01,784
Prayers?

1544
01:32:02,985 --> 01:32:04,620
- [sighs]
- [George coughs]

1545
01:32:05,888 --> 01:32:10,292
An appeal to a distant God
cannot resolve these issues.

1546
01:32:10,392 --> 01:32:12,294
[George coughs]

1547
01:32:12,394 --> 01:32:15,330
It's going to take a lot more
than prayer, I'm afraid.

1548
01:32:17,465 --> 01:32:18,734
[George] So that's it then?

1549
01:32:19,802 --> 01:32:21,970
A distant God

1550
01:32:22,070 --> 01:32:24,006
uninvolved
in the affairs of man?

1551
01:32:24,607 --> 01:32:27,743
[chuckles] No, I'm quite certain
he was never involved

1552
01:32:27,843 --> 01:32:29,177
in my affairs.

1553
01:32:32,180 --> 01:32:33,882
Does my confession shock you?

1554
01:32:37,452 --> 01:32:38,386
No.

1555
01:32:40,022 --> 01:32:42,090
Your idea of virtue does.

1556
01:32:42,991 --> 01:32:44,259
I beg your pardon?

1557
01:32:45,828 --> 01:32:48,196
What do you make
of Jesus Christ?

1558
01:32:49,564 --> 01:32:51,767
I made a lot from Him.

1559
01:32:51,867 --> 01:32:54,402
[George] And how long
will you hide behind your wit

1560
01:32:54,502 --> 01:32:56,471
and make light of the truth?

1561
01:32:56,571 --> 01:32:58,440
Not again. Not now.

1562
01:32:58,540 --> 01:33:02,144
Ben, our time grows short.

1563
01:33:02,244 --> 01:33:04,279
There is a Judgment Day coming

1564
01:33:04,379 --> 01:33:07,149
when all will stand
before the Lord,

1565
01:33:07,249 --> 01:33:10,653
and only faith in Jesus Christ,

1566
01:33:10,753 --> 01:33:12,988
not your wit, will save you.

1567
01:33:13,588 --> 01:33:15,791
Your frequent wishes
for my eternal happiness

1568
01:33:15,891 --> 01:33:17,492
- are very obliging but--
- It is your life,

1569
01:33:17,592 --> 01:33:18,794
Benjamin Franklin,

1570
01:33:18,894 --> 01:33:20,863
your eternal life at stake

1571
01:33:20,963 --> 01:33:23,298
that keeps me begging you
to consider the truth

1572
01:33:23,398 --> 01:33:24,366
of the gospel.

1573
01:33:24,466 --> 01:33:26,669
I choose evidence over faith.

1574
01:33:26,769 --> 01:33:28,336
Evidence?

1575
01:33:28,436 --> 01:33:30,172
How much more do you need?

1576
01:33:31,306 --> 01:33:33,108
For 30 years now,

1577
01:33:33,208 --> 01:33:35,377
you have promoted
the greatest awakening

1578
01:33:35,477 --> 01:33:38,714
these colonies have ever seen.

1579
01:33:38,814 --> 01:33:42,918
That wasn't me or the Wesleys
or Jonathan Edwards.

1580
01:33:43,652 --> 01:33:46,154
It was an intervention
by our most powerful friend.

1581
01:33:46,254 --> 01:33:48,556
I have never attempted
to change you,

1582
01:33:48,657 --> 01:33:50,125
and I would greatly
appreciate it

1583
01:33:50,225 --> 01:33:52,194
if you would stop trying
to change me.

1584
01:33:52,294 --> 01:33:55,463
I don't understand
how thousands of strangers

1585
01:33:55,563 --> 01:33:58,200
can melt at the sound
of this truth,

1586
01:33:58,300 --> 01:34:03,305
but you, my dearest friend,
why can't I get through to you?

1587
01:34:03,405 --> 01:34:05,007
Because I've heard it all before

1588
01:34:05,107 --> 01:34:07,342
and I've seen it all before,
George.

1589
01:34:11,279 --> 01:34:14,182
Born the 10th son
of a Puritan father,

1590
01:34:15,117 --> 01:34:18,520
set apart as his holy tithe
in service to the church.

1591
01:34:19,688 --> 01:34:21,857
He wanted me to be a preacher.

1592
01:34:21,957 --> 01:34:22,925
Me!

1593
01:34:23,658 --> 01:34:28,030
But never in 50 lifetimes
would I ever have anything to do

1594
01:34:28,130 --> 01:34:32,067
with my father's overbearing,
hypocritical clergy,

1595
01:34:32,167 --> 01:34:33,736
who spent so much
of their time praying

1596
01:34:33,836 --> 01:34:35,537
and very little time doing good.

1597
01:34:35,637 --> 01:34:37,039
[coughs]

1598
01:34:37,139 --> 01:34:38,941
As a devout and thorough deist,

1599
01:34:39,041 --> 01:34:41,543
I have done more good to better
the lives of this city

1600
01:34:41,643 --> 01:34:44,713
than all the collective clergy
combined.

1601
01:34:44,813 --> 01:34:46,749
I do believe in a deity,

1602
01:34:47,382 --> 01:34:50,719
but I believe He has given us
rights, resources,

1603
01:34:50,819 --> 01:34:53,221
and reason to do good,

1604
01:34:53,321 --> 01:34:54,957
and now He waits
and watches to see if we will.

1605
01:34:55,057 --> 01:34:57,760
It's not enough to do good, Ben.

1606
01:34:57,860 --> 01:34:59,795
It's not enough
to believe in God.

1607
01:34:59,895 --> 01:35:01,964
Even the devil believes in God.

1608
01:35:02,898 --> 01:35:06,969
Everything,
everything comes down

1609
01:35:07,069 --> 01:35:09,271
to what you make
of Jesus Christ.

1610
01:35:11,673 --> 01:35:12,574
Tell me,

1611
01:35:14,476 --> 01:35:18,146
what have I lacked by not
experiencing this new birth?

1612
01:35:18,246 --> 01:35:19,181
Hmm?

1613
01:35:19,882 --> 01:35:22,117
Living my life on the back
of a horse,

1614
01:35:22,985 --> 01:35:27,055
being pelted with rocks,
dung, and dead animals.

1615
01:35:28,256 --> 01:35:29,291
Sleeping on the ground

1616
01:35:29,391 --> 01:35:31,894
or a stranger's floor
every night,

1617
01:35:34,062 --> 01:35:36,431
being led into the hands
of an angry mob

1618
01:35:36,531 --> 01:35:37,665
and an early grave?

1619
01:35:39,434 --> 01:35:44,773
You have no money, no family,
failing health,

1620
01:35:45,874 --> 01:35:48,310
your failing orphanage.

1621
01:35:48,410 --> 01:35:50,612
My orphanage
is no longer failing

1622
01:35:51,513 --> 01:35:52,680
by the grace of God.

1623
01:35:53,882 --> 01:35:56,684
By the grace of God
or by resorting to slave labor

1624
01:35:56,785 --> 01:35:57,953
to keep it running?

1625
01:35:58,053 --> 01:35:59,454
[tense music plays]

1626
01:36:18,974 --> 01:36:20,542
It was the only way.

1627
01:36:22,377 --> 01:36:26,314
Those orphans would have
become homeless

1628
01:36:26,414 --> 01:36:28,216
if we had not intervened--

1629
01:36:28,316 --> 01:36:29,985
Is that providence?

1630
01:36:31,419 --> 01:36:34,990
Is that God being involved
in the affairs of man?

1631
01:36:36,758 --> 01:36:38,226
You've made that orphanage
an idol

1632
01:36:38,326 --> 01:36:39,895
and a stain on your name.

1633
01:36:41,129 --> 01:36:45,067
Oh, the irony,
proclaiming liberty

1634
01:36:45,167 --> 01:36:46,869
while standing on the backs
of slaves.

1635
01:36:46,969 --> 01:36:48,636
Then tear down the name
of Whitefield

1636
01:36:49,437 --> 01:36:51,473
if it means
the name of Christ remains.

1637
01:36:52,507 --> 01:36:55,911
Do not base your faith
upon my flawed life.

1638
01:36:57,112 --> 01:36:58,813
Do not base your faith

1639
01:36:58,914 --> 01:37:01,016
upon the cold religion
of your father.

1640
01:37:02,584 --> 01:37:06,754
Base it upon what He has done
on a cross of wood.

1641
01:37:07,622 --> 01:37:09,591
- [gasps]
- George?

1642
01:37:09,691 --> 01:37:10,692
[gasps]

1643
01:37:12,127 --> 01:37:13,929
- [wheezing]
- Georgie, what?

1644
01:37:15,330 --> 01:37:16,264
Georgie.

1645
01:37:17,665 --> 01:37:20,302
[wheezing]

1646
01:37:33,615 --> 01:37:37,552
[people singing in distance]

1647
01:37:37,652 --> 01:37:38,887
[raspy breathing]

1648
01:37:43,458 --> 01:37:46,228
[grunting]

1649
01:37:47,695 --> 01:37:49,697
[raspy breathing continues]

1650
01:37:54,702 --> 01:37:55,971
[grunts]

1651
01:37:57,705 --> 01:37:59,707
[breathing deeply]

1652
01:38:13,421 --> 01:38:14,656
They're waiting for me.

1653
01:38:16,524 --> 01:38:17,993
[grunts, wheezes]

1654
01:38:18,093 --> 01:38:20,095
You are more fit to go to bed
than to preach.

1655
01:38:21,896 --> 01:38:23,198
I must preach.

1656
01:38:24,099 --> 01:38:26,401
[raspy breathing]
A dying man...

1657
01:38:27,669 --> 01:38:28,736
to dying men.

1658
01:38:43,385 --> 01:38:44,352
Georgie.

1659
01:38:44,452 --> 01:38:48,490
[people singing continues]

1660
01:38:54,896 --> 01:39:00,668
* Rise upon us, King of glory *

1661
01:39:00,768 --> 01:39:07,775
* Come awaken us today *

1662
01:39:09,978 --> 01:39:13,315
[choir humming]

1663
01:39:35,970 --> 01:39:39,341
[George]
Do not base your faith
upon my flawed life.

1664
01:39:43,245 --> 01:39:44,912
Do not base your faith

1665
01:39:45,013 --> 01:39:47,282
upon the cold religion
of your father.

1666
01:39:50,252 --> 01:39:54,522
Base it upon what He has done
on a cross of wood.

1667
01:40:00,862 --> 01:40:02,330
[laughter]

1668
01:40:03,798 --> 01:40:05,400
[woman] No!

1669
01:40:05,500 --> 01:40:08,536
It is the great and terrible

1670
01:40:08,636 --> 01:40:11,573
Reverend George Preachfield!

1671
01:40:11,673 --> 01:40:13,375
[audience laughing]

1672
01:40:45,240 --> 01:40:47,375
[choir vocalizing]

1673
01:40:52,547 --> 01:40:53,581
[music fades]

1674
01:40:53,681 --> 01:40:54,982
[Benjamin] Admiral Howe,

1675
01:40:56,651 --> 01:40:58,786
you do not know the heart
of these people.

1676
01:40:59,487 --> 01:41:02,390
They are a sturdy,
independently-minded kind.

1677
01:41:03,691 --> 01:41:07,529
Moral, self-governing,
they have been awakened.

1678
01:41:08,496 --> 01:41:09,597
Awakened?

1679
01:41:12,234 --> 01:41:13,168
How?

1680
01:41:14,336 --> 01:41:16,604
They believe
that once they dealt

1681
01:41:16,704 --> 01:41:18,973
with the tyrant
within themselves,

1682
01:41:19,073 --> 01:41:22,577
they now have eyes to see
the tyrant across the sea.

1683
01:41:22,677 --> 01:41:24,112
Oh, do they?

1684
01:41:24,212 --> 01:41:26,114
Oh, so they found it necessary
to send you

1685
01:41:26,214 --> 01:41:28,916
to rebuke this tyrant
across the sea?

1686
01:41:30,352 --> 01:41:32,154
I would have thought
your sturdy colonists

1687
01:41:32,254 --> 01:41:35,290
would have at least equipped you
with a shovel or a tomahawk

1688
01:41:35,390 --> 01:41:36,424
to face such a tyrant.

1689
01:41:37,592 --> 01:41:40,362
Perhaps a sling
and a few smooth stones

1690
01:41:40,462 --> 01:41:42,096
are all that is necessary.

1691
01:41:46,201 --> 01:41:49,571
Do you know how many men
are on just one of my ships?

1692
01:41:51,973 --> 01:41:53,074
800.

1693
01:41:54,276 --> 01:41:57,379
My Royal Navy
has over 250 ships.

1694
01:41:57,479 --> 01:41:59,614
And you're a man
of calculations.

1695
01:41:59,714 --> 01:42:01,816
You're going to need more
than a few smooth stones,

1696
01:42:01,916 --> 01:42:02,950
Dr. Franklin.

1697
01:42:04,986 --> 01:42:07,889
There is no need
to escalate this to a war.

1698
01:42:07,989 --> 01:42:09,957
Oh, I don't know.

1699
01:42:10,057 --> 01:42:13,295
Make for a wonderful story
for your little newspaper.

1700
01:42:13,395 --> 01:42:15,763
Farmers with slings and stones

1701
01:42:15,863 --> 01:42:18,333
versus the most powerful army
on earth.

1702
01:42:18,433 --> 01:42:20,235
It would be a good little war.

1703
01:42:20,335 --> 01:42:23,938
Short-lived, but...
exhilarating.

1704
01:42:24,706 --> 01:42:28,443
There never was a good war,
nor a bad peace.

1705
01:42:28,543 --> 01:42:30,144
Then may I suggest you refrain
from threats

1706
01:42:30,245 --> 01:42:32,046
you're not able to fulfill?

1707
01:42:32,947 --> 01:42:36,050
We have petitioned the King
exhaustively.

1708
01:42:37,118 --> 01:42:39,421
We've appealed to the royal
governors within the colonies,

1709
01:42:39,521 --> 01:42:40,955
to no avail.

1710
01:42:41,055 --> 01:42:43,258
We have sought participation
in trade agreements,

1711
01:42:43,358 --> 01:42:45,159
taxation, and governance,

1712
01:42:45,260 --> 01:42:47,495
without even a response
from His Majesty.

1713
01:42:47,595 --> 01:42:49,264
Well, the King has
far greater concerns

1714
01:42:49,364 --> 01:42:52,267
than distant dirt workers
crying for attention.

1715
01:42:52,367 --> 01:42:55,870
Admiral Howe, across that ocean,

1716
01:42:55,970 --> 01:42:58,072
an entire generation
of Americans

1717
01:42:58,172 --> 01:42:59,907
have been awakened to believe

1718
01:43:00,007 --> 01:43:03,611
that liberty is not a gift
given to them by a king,

1719
01:43:03,711 --> 01:43:06,113
but a right given to them
by God.

1720
01:43:07,315 --> 01:43:08,350
God?

1721
01:43:09,484 --> 01:43:10,952
Hm.

1722
01:43:11,052 --> 01:43:12,287
Well, perhaps if I match

1723
01:43:12,387 --> 01:43:15,290
your surprisingly
religious tone,

1724
01:43:15,390 --> 01:43:18,125
you might understand.

1725
01:43:18,226 --> 01:43:22,129
When the prodigal son received
his inheritance prematurely,

1726
01:43:22,230 --> 01:43:25,233
he too thought he could handle
his newly found freedom.

1727
01:43:26,501 --> 01:43:28,636
He was shamefully deluded.

1728
01:43:28,736 --> 01:43:31,306
He squandered it
and came crawling back to Daddy

1729
01:43:31,406 --> 01:43:34,542
with empty hands
and an empty belly.

1730
01:43:34,642 --> 01:43:36,944
You Americans
are exactly the same.

1731
01:43:37,512 --> 01:43:40,014
Utterly incapable
of handling freedom.

1732
01:43:40,715 --> 01:43:43,451
A virtuous people
can handle freedom.

1733
01:43:43,551 --> 01:43:46,488
[laughs]

1734
01:43:46,588 --> 01:43:49,891
Oh, and you, as model citizen.

1735
01:43:49,991 --> 01:43:51,726
Would Mrs. Franklin find you

1736
01:43:51,826 --> 01:43:54,329
and last night's
theater guest virtuous?

1737
01:43:56,063 --> 01:43:57,899
Oh, Dr. Franklin,

1738
01:43:57,999 --> 01:44:00,568
need I remind you
that for over a century,

1739
01:44:00,668 --> 01:44:03,738
our kings have emptied
their poorhouses

1740
01:44:03,838 --> 01:44:06,341
and drained the vagrants
from our streets

1741
01:44:06,441 --> 01:44:08,376
by sending them
to your colonies?

1742
01:44:09,744 --> 01:44:13,748
And now you think
these indentured servants

1743
01:44:13,848 --> 01:44:15,149
can be self-governed?

1744
01:44:15,249 --> 01:44:17,251
[scoffs, chuckles]

1745
01:44:18,185 --> 01:44:19,086
[glass thuds]

1746
01:44:21,723 --> 01:44:23,358
You know you are not
on the same level

1747
01:44:23,458 --> 01:44:25,860
as these rats you represent.

1748
01:44:25,960 --> 01:44:28,796
British society is greatly
enamored by you

1749
01:44:28,896 --> 01:44:31,833
and think you
delightfully entertaining.

1750
01:44:31,933 --> 01:44:33,134
If you would simply drop

1751
01:44:33,234 --> 01:44:35,102
this notion
of independent government,

1752
01:44:35,202 --> 01:44:37,104
you'd be greatly rewarded
by the King.

1753
01:44:38,139 --> 01:44:39,307
I cannot be bought.

1754
01:44:39,407 --> 01:44:41,409
You would die on the vine
without us!

1755
01:44:41,509 --> 01:44:42,944
[loud knock on door]

1756
01:44:43,044 --> 01:44:44,912
[doors opens, squeaks]

1757
01:44:49,250 --> 01:44:50,818
[servant] Pardon
the interruption, Admiral.

1758
01:44:50,918 --> 01:44:53,455
I have just been informed
of news from the colonies.

1759
01:44:53,555 --> 01:44:57,459
Hmm, they're requesting more
shovels, plows, and stones?

1760
01:44:58,192 --> 01:44:59,661
The Reverend George Whitefield
has died...

1761
01:44:59,761 --> 01:45:01,963
[muffled] ...in Newburyport,
Massachusetts.

1762
01:45:02,063 --> 01:45:04,131
Being a friend of England
and her colonies,

1763
01:45:04,231 --> 01:45:06,000
the consulate thought
you both should know.

1764
01:45:08,903 --> 01:45:09,804
Is that all?

1765
01:45:09,904 --> 01:45:10,805
Yes, sir.

1766
01:45:18,513 --> 01:45:20,915
Speaking of dying on the vine,

1767
01:45:21,015 --> 01:45:22,817
and rather young, wasn't he?

1768
01:45:27,121 --> 01:45:28,423
Did you know him?

1769
01:45:31,426 --> 01:45:32,360
Well,

1770
01:45:33,160 --> 01:45:37,198
your colonies had
their awakening, Dr. Franklin.

1771
01:45:37,298 --> 01:45:39,767
Now, it's time they have
their reckoning.

1772
01:45:43,771 --> 01:45:44,839
Checkmate.

1773
01:45:56,317 --> 01:45:58,152
[distant shouting]

1774
01:45:59,621 --> 01:46:01,823
[soft, dramatic music playing]

1775
01:46:57,879 --> 01:47:00,515
[music flourishing]

1776
01:47:04,418 --> 01:47:06,621
[thunder rumbling]

1777
01:47:22,069 --> 01:47:23,270
[Benny] Where are you going?

1778
01:47:27,441 --> 01:47:28,876
Grandfather, what are you doing?

1779
01:47:28,976 --> 01:47:30,011
The storm is here!

1780
01:47:30,878 --> 01:47:32,614
This is unsafe!

1781
01:47:38,052 --> 01:47:39,954
Grandfather, put this on!

1782
01:47:40,988 --> 01:47:42,023
Grandfather!

1783
01:48:09,751 --> 01:48:11,418
[loud thunder crashing]

1784
01:48:18,593 --> 01:48:20,327
And who is the source, Ben?

1785
01:48:28,369 --> 01:48:30,004
[panting]

1786
01:48:30,104 --> 01:48:31,539
Dunk the papers, Benny.

1787
01:48:33,374 --> 01:48:34,809
I have something to say.

1788
01:48:36,611 --> 01:48:39,013
[panting]

1789
01:48:40,514 --> 01:48:42,950
[rousing music playing]

1790
01:49:36,070 --> 01:49:38,572
[machine rattling]

1791
01:49:40,708 --> 01:49:41,609
Grandfather,

1792
01:49:42,777 --> 01:49:43,911
care to do the honors?

1793
01:49:51,252 --> 01:49:53,454
[rousing music continues]

1794
01:50:28,589 --> 01:50:29,590
Grandfather...

1795
01:50:31,826 --> 01:50:33,327
why didn't you
tell me this before...

1796
01:50:34,261 --> 01:50:35,797
t-the story of Whitefield?

1797
01:50:37,164 --> 01:50:39,000
[loud sigh] I...

1798
01:50:40,434 --> 01:50:42,136
I didn't think I needed to.

1799
01:50:45,740 --> 01:50:46,808
You needed to.

1800
01:51:19,974 --> 01:51:23,210
One tiny candle
illuminates a thousand.

1801
01:51:56,510 --> 01:51:59,781
- [loud thudding]
- [indistinct arguing]

1802
01:51:59,881 --> 01:52:00,848
Order!

1803
01:52:02,049 --> 01:52:03,150
Order!

1804
01:52:04,685 --> 01:52:07,154
Proceed, Mr. Read.

1805
01:52:07,254 --> 01:52:10,391
[Read] The states formed
this confederation in 1776

1806
01:52:10,491 --> 01:52:12,626
on equal terms.

1807
01:52:12,726 --> 01:52:14,395
The states being equal,

1808
01:52:14,495 --> 01:52:16,898
must have equal influence
and equal votes.

1809
01:52:16,998 --> 01:52:18,465
- [members] Aye!
- [Read] If...

1810
01:52:18,565 --> 01:52:22,069
if this convention grants
large states more votes

1811
01:52:22,169 --> 01:52:23,404
than the small,

1812
01:52:23,504 --> 01:52:26,407
the large states
will naturally combine

1813
01:52:26,507 --> 01:52:28,575
and form a tyranny
over the smaller states.

1814
01:52:28,675 --> 01:52:30,144
- [members] Hear, hear!
- Nowhere

1815
01:52:30,244 --> 01:52:32,446
in the history of men or nations

1816
01:52:32,546 --> 01:52:35,316
has such a thing occurred,
Mr. Read.

1817
01:52:35,416 --> 01:52:37,785
Carthage and Rome
tore one another to pieces

1818
01:52:37,885 --> 01:52:40,454
instead of uniting their forces
to devour the weaker nations

1819
01:52:40,554 --> 01:52:41,823
of the earth.

1820
01:52:41,923 --> 01:52:43,858
Sparta, Athens, and Thebes

1821
01:52:43,958 --> 01:52:46,193
never combined to oppress
their neighbors.

1822
01:52:46,293 --> 01:52:49,630
Instead they were rivals,
and fought each other.

1823
01:52:50,865 --> 01:52:53,000
Anarchy and discord await us

1824
01:52:53,100 --> 01:52:56,270
if we fail to unite
under a central authority.

1825
01:52:56,370 --> 01:52:58,039
[members clamoring]

1826
01:52:58,139 --> 01:53:01,775
When men or nations
are strong and equal,

1827
01:53:01,876 --> 01:53:03,845
they become rivals.

1828
01:53:03,945 --> 01:53:06,480
Jealousy prevents their union.

1829
01:53:06,580 --> 01:53:08,315
[Read] This convention
might as well go on then

1830
01:53:08,415 --> 01:53:10,051
and dissolve the union now.

1831
01:53:10,151 --> 01:53:12,186
[indistinct shouting]

1832
01:53:12,286 --> 01:53:14,121
- [man] How dare you?
- [gavel banging]

1833
01:53:16,757 --> 01:53:19,026
If partial confederates
take place,

1834
01:53:19,126 --> 01:53:21,628
then the present plan
on the table, Mr. Madison.

1835
01:53:21,728 --> 01:53:24,731
- [members arguing]
- [gavel banging]

1836
01:53:24,832 --> 01:53:27,368
- [Washington] Order.
- [gavel banging]

1837
01:53:27,468 --> 01:53:28,469
Order.

1838
01:53:30,237 --> 01:53:32,006
This chair recognizes

1839
01:53:33,140 --> 01:53:34,708
Dr. Benjamin Franklin.

1840
01:53:34,808 --> 01:53:35,843
[man clears throat]

1841
01:53:41,515 --> 01:53:42,816
Mr. President,

1842
01:53:44,285 --> 01:53:46,353
the small progress we have made

1843
01:53:46,453 --> 01:53:49,690
after four or five weeks'
close attendance

1844
01:53:49,790 --> 01:53:52,493
and continual reasonings
with each other,

1845
01:53:53,294 --> 01:53:56,730
our different sentiments
on almost every question,

1846
01:53:56,830 --> 01:54:01,002
several of the last producing
as many nos as ayes,

1847
01:54:01,102 --> 01:54:03,704
is methinks a melancholy proof

1848
01:54:03,804 --> 01:54:06,373
of the imperfection
of the human understanding.

1849
01:54:08,342 --> 01:54:12,846
We indeed seem
to feel our own want

1850
01:54:12,947 --> 01:54:15,116
of political wisdom,

1851
01:54:15,216 --> 01:54:19,220
since we've been running about
in search of it. [scoffs]

1852
01:54:19,320 --> 01:54:22,356
We have gone back
to ancient history

1853
01:54:22,456 --> 01:54:24,091
for models of government.

1854
01:54:24,191 --> 01:54:25,126
[grunts]

1855
01:54:25,726 --> 01:54:31,732
And having examined those forms
of those republics,

1856
01:54:31,832 --> 01:54:33,767
which having been formed

1857
01:54:33,867 --> 01:54:36,003
with the seeds
of their own disillusion,

1858
01:54:37,204 --> 01:54:38,906
now no longer exist.

1859
01:54:40,674 --> 01:54:44,711
We have viewed modern states
all around Europe,

1860
01:54:45,879 --> 01:54:48,382
but find none
of their constitutions

1861
01:54:48,482 --> 01:54:50,584
suitable to our circumstances.

1862
01:54:52,019 --> 01:54:55,156
In this situation
of this assembly,

1863
01:54:55,256 --> 01:54:59,994
groping as it were in the dark
for political truth

1864
01:55:00,094 --> 01:55:01,996
and scarce able
to distinguish it

1865
01:55:02,096 --> 01:55:03,530
when presented to us,

1866
01:55:04,398 --> 01:55:06,733
how has it happened, sir,

1867
01:55:06,833 --> 01:55:10,104
that we have not hitherto
once thought

1868
01:55:10,204 --> 01:55:13,240
of humbly applying
to the Father of Lights

1869
01:55:13,340 --> 01:55:15,376
to illuminate
our understandings?

1870
01:55:17,444 --> 01:55:20,014
In the beginning of the contest
with Great Britain,

1871
01:55:21,015 --> 01:55:23,517
when we were sensible of danger,

1872
01:55:23,617 --> 01:55:26,653
we had daily prayer in this room

1873
01:55:26,753 --> 01:55:28,222
for the divine protection.

1874
01:55:29,590 --> 01:55:31,825
Our prayers, sir, were heard,

1875
01:55:31,925 --> 01:55:33,927
and they were graciously
answered.

1876
01:55:36,530 --> 01:55:40,034
All of us who were engaged
in the struggle

1877
01:55:40,968 --> 01:55:44,271
must have observed
frequent instances

1878
01:55:44,371 --> 01:55:47,274
of a superintending providence
in our favor.

1879
01:55:48,976 --> 01:55:50,377
To that kind providence,

1880
01:55:50,477 --> 01:55:54,681
we owe this happy opportunity
of consulting in peace

1881
01:55:54,781 --> 01:55:58,919
on the means of establishing
our future national felicity.

1882
01:56:02,256 --> 01:56:04,258
And have we now forgotten

1883
01:56:06,127 --> 01:56:07,394
that powerful friend?

1884
01:56:09,663 --> 01:56:12,633
Or do we imagine that we
no longer need his assistance?

1885
01:56:15,069 --> 01:56:17,604
I have lived, sir, a long time.

1886
01:56:18,939 --> 01:56:20,741
And the longer I live,

1887
01:56:20,841 --> 01:56:24,345
the more convincing proofs
I have seen of this truth,

1888
01:56:25,746 --> 01:56:29,016
that God governs
in the affairs of man.

1889
01:56:30,851 --> 01:56:33,920
And if a sparrow cannot fall
without his notice,

1890
01:56:35,822 --> 01:56:39,826
is it probable that an empire
can rise without his aid?

1891
01:56:42,496 --> 01:56:45,432
We have been assured, sir,
in the sacred Scriptures

1892
01:56:46,600 --> 01:56:49,403
that unless the Lord
built the house,

1893
01:56:49,503 --> 01:56:51,372
they labor in vain
that build it.

1894
01:56:53,640 --> 01:56:55,176
I firmly believe this.

1895
01:56:57,044 --> 01:57:00,181
And I also believe
that without his concurring aid,

1896
01:57:00,881 --> 01:57:04,118
we shall succeed
in this political building

1897
01:57:04,218 --> 01:57:06,153
no better than
the builders of Babel.

1898
01:57:08,522 --> 01:57:12,159
We shall be divided by our
little partial local interest,

1899
01:57:13,060 --> 01:57:15,196
our projects
shall be confounded,

1900
01:57:15,996 --> 01:57:19,866
and we ourselves shall become
a reproach and a byword

1901
01:57:19,966 --> 01:57:21,368
down to future age.

1902
01:57:22,236 --> 01:57:23,370
And what is worse,

1903
01:57:24,405 --> 01:57:28,142
mankind may hereafter these
unfortunate instances,

1904
01:57:28,775 --> 01:57:32,045
despair of establishing
governments on human wisdom

1905
01:57:33,080 --> 01:57:38,319
and leave it to chance, war,
and conquest.

1906
01:57:41,655 --> 01:57:45,226
I, therefore, beg leave to move

1907
01:57:46,893 --> 01:57:49,330
that henceforth prayers

1908
01:57:50,431 --> 01:57:52,633
imploring the assistance
of Heaven

1909
01:57:52,733 --> 01:57:55,636
and its blessings
on our deliberations

1910
01:57:55,736 --> 01:57:58,239
be held in this assembly
every morning

1911
01:57:58,339 --> 01:58:00,441
before we proceed to business

1912
01:58:02,509 --> 01:58:06,147
and that one or more
of the clergy of this city

1913
01:58:06,247 --> 01:58:08,582
be requested to officiate
in that service.

1914
01:58:16,757 --> 01:58:17,758
[clears throat]

1915
01:58:23,297 --> 01:58:25,966
However proper such a resolution
might have been

1916
01:58:26,066 --> 01:58:28,535
at the beginning
of the convention,

1917
01:58:30,237 --> 01:58:32,439
it might at this late day lead
the public to believe

1918
01:58:32,539 --> 01:58:34,541
that the embarrassments
of disunity

1919
01:58:34,641 --> 01:58:36,143
and dissensions
within the convention

1920
01:58:36,243 --> 01:58:37,611
have suggested this measure.

1921
01:58:40,281 --> 01:58:41,682
It would make us look weak.

1922
01:58:47,454 --> 01:58:51,792
And the true cause
of the omission

1923
01:58:51,892 --> 01:58:55,462
of clergy-led prayer
must not be mistaken.

1924
01:58:56,330 --> 01:59:00,401
This convention has no funds
to pay a clergyman.

1925
01:59:02,503 --> 01:59:04,305
I propose, in order to give

1926
01:59:04,405 --> 01:59:06,540
a favorable aspect
to this measure,

1927
01:59:06,640 --> 01:59:10,244
that a sermon be preached
at the request of the convention

1928
01:59:10,344 --> 01:59:11,578
on 4th of July

1929
01:59:12,579 --> 01:59:13,914
and henceforward

1930
01:59:15,182 --> 01:59:18,018
prayers be offered
in this convention

1931
01:59:19,753 --> 01:59:20,821
every morning.

1932
01:59:21,988 --> 01:59:23,023
Second.

1933
01:59:27,461 --> 01:59:28,829
[Washington]
Shall we take a vote?

1934
01:59:32,499 --> 01:59:36,069
I request a postponement
due to adjournment.

1935
01:59:36,169 --> 01:59:37,338
Second.

1936
01:59:41,141 --> 01:59:42,443
Dr. Franklin's recommendation

1937
01:59:42,543 --> 01:59:44,978
and Mr. Randolph's motion
for daily prayer

1938
01:59:45,979 --> 01:59:48,215
is postponed due to adjournment.

1939
01:59:55,389 --> 01:59:58,191
I, for one, will be
in attendance on July the 4th,

1940
01:59:59,526 --> 02:00:01,161
observing a day of prayer.

1941
02:00:03,630 --> 02:00:05,198
I would welcome

1942
02:00:05,299 --> 02:00:07,734
any and all of you

1943
02:00:08,869 --> 02:00:09,870
to join me.

1944
02:00:12,506 --> 02:00:13,440
Adjourned.

1945
02:00:13,540 --> 02:00:14,741
[gavel bangs]

1946
02:00:14,841 --> 02:00:16,477
[indistinct chatter]

1947
02:00:32,926 --> 02:00:35,929
[rousing music playing]

1948
02:01:00,321 --> 02:01:03,123
[George]
The Father of Lights
says in His Word,

1949
02:01:03,223 --> 02:01:05,592
"For you who honor my name,

1950
02:01:05,692 --> 02:01:07,528
the sun of righteousness
will rise

1951
02:01:07,628 --> 02:01:09,363
with healing in its wings."

1952
02:01:10,864 --> 02:01:12,466
My friends,

1953
02:01:12,566 --> 02:01:14,034
do you want to be free?

1954
02:01:15,369 --> 02:01:17,270
Liberty is found in Him alone.

1955
02:01:18,505 --> 02:01:20,441
Do you want to live?

1956
02:01:20,541 --> 02:01:22,809
He alone gives eternal life.

1957
02:01:24,545 --> 02:01:27,381
Because of the tender mercy
of our God,

1958
02:01:27,481 --> 02:01:30,183
the rising sun will come to us
from heaven

1959
02:01:30,283 --> 02:01:32,453
to shine on those living
in darkness.

1960
02:01:33,820 --> 02:01:38,158
I beseech you,
do not reject so great a gift.

1961
02:01:41,061 --> 02:01:42,496
A great awakening has come.

1962
02:01:44,498 --> 02:01:45,966
Arise, O sleeper!

1963
02:01:47,233 --> 02:01:48,402
Awaken!

1964
02:01:52,005 --> 02:01:53,306
[music fades]

1965
02:01:53,407 --> 02:01:56,009
[soft music playing]

1966
02:02:55,736 --> 02:03:02,075
[singer]
* From the oceans,
through the valleys *

1967
02:03:02,175 --> 02:03:08,749
* From the mainland
to the shore *

1968
02:03:08,849 --> 02:03:15,355
* Let Your Kingdom
be awakened *

1969
02:03:15,456 --> 02:03:21,828
* In the hearts of men
once more *

1970
02:03:21,928 --> 02:03:28,569
* Call Your children
into freedom *

1971
02:03:28,669 --> 02:03:35,108
* Captive souls to liberty *

1972
02:03:35,208 --> 02:03:41,648
* Come awaken, Holy Spirit *

1973
02:03:41,748 --> 02:03:48,755
* Come awaken us today *

1974
02:03:58,398 --> 02:04:04,771
[choir]
* Love unending,
grace unyielding *

1975
02:04:04,871 --> 02:04:11,444
* Tender mercies
from thy throne *

1976
02:04:11,545 --> 02:04:17,951
* Brings the lost soul
into families *

1977
02:04:18,051 --> 02:04:23,990
* Calls the wayward
sinner home *

1978
02:04:24,625 --> 02:04:31,064
* Bring salvation,
Great Redeemer *

1979
02:04:31,164 --> 02:04:37,671
* Holy fire fan to flame *

1980
02:04:37,771 --> 02:04:44,244
* Come restore us,
come revive us *

1981
02:04:44,344 --> 02:04:50,951
* Come awaken us today *

1982
02:05:00,961 --> 02:05:07,333
* I will serve Thee,
Precious Jesus *

1983
02:05:07,433 --> 02:05:13,774
* Unto Thee I give my all *

1984
02:05:13,874 --> 02:05:20,380
* Lay my hands
unto thy service *

1985
02:05:20,480 --> 02:05:27,087
* And my heart unto thy call *

1986
02:05:27,187 --> 02:05:33,560
* Perish every fond ambition *

1987
02:05:33,660 --> 02:05:40,233
* Lay aside all selfish gain *

1988
02:05:40,333 --> 02:05:46,707
* All forsaken for thy glory *

1989
02:05:46,807 --> 02:05:53,814
* Come awaken us today *

1990
02:06:33,720 --> 02:06:40,661
* Wake, O sleeper,
from your slumber *

1991
02:06:40,761 --> 02:06:47,768
* Saints awaken,
come to life *

1992
02:06:47,868 --> 02:06:55,175
* Christ will rise
and shine upon you *

1993
02:06:55,275 --> 02:07:02,248
* In His heav'nly
light divine *

1994
02:07:02,348 --> 02:07:08,855
* Like the sunrise
in its dawning *

1995
02:07:09,656 --> 02:07:16,663
* Breaking darkness
with new light *

1996
02:07:16,763 --> 02:07:23,737
* Rise upon us, King of glory *

1997
02:07:23,837 --> 02:07:30,143
* Come awaken us today *

1998
02:07:34,514 --> 02:07:38,018
[singer]
* For Your Kingdom *

1999
02:07:38,118 --> 02:07:43,623
* For Your Glory *

2000
02:07:45,458 --> 02:07:53,033
[choir]
* Come awaken us *

2001
02:07:53,133 --> 02:07:58,138
* Today! *