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Yeah, he was a Jewish evangelist.

He came to the Lord through reading Isaiah 53.

He traveled all over the world preaching and traveling.

He had all kinds of experiences.

But one of the interesting ones was that he was in Europe.

He wanted to come and needed to come to America.

Why is that?

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The Pilgrims, as we know them, were Puritans fleeing religious persecution in England.

And after their arrival on the Mayflower in 1620, thousands upon thousands of more Puritans emigrated to America.

They were some of England's best-trained scholars, barristers, educators, and clergymen.

On April the 8th, 1630, a fleet of four ships left the Isle of Wight carrying yet another 700 Puritan immigrants to the New World.

Among them was John Winthrop, a noted English lawyer who was distressed by the persecution directed towards his fellow Puritans from King Charles I.

Joining Winthrop aboard the flagship Arabella were his two young sons, but his wife Margaret wasn't able to join him until the next year.

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[upbeat music] Two or three years ago when I was in New York City, I spent a day in Lower Manhattan in the area around Wall Street.

Within just a few blocks, I searched out some of America's greatest historical sites.

The Brooklyn Bridge now spans the East River at a spot very close to where George Washington's revolutionary army escaped disaster during a remarkable nighttime evacuation.

Nearby is Fraunces Tavern, where Washington later met with his generals after the war.

Five minutes later, I was gazing at the Statue of Liberty.

Nearby is Fulton Street, the origin of a powerful 1857 religious revival that spread over the United States.

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Here they came from across the colonies amid fear and rising tensions.

Delegates arriving in Philadelphia on September the 4th, 1774, to convene the First Continental Congress.

There was Samuel Adams, and John Adams, and George Washington.

These men and many others had come to Philadelphia to discuss how the colonies should respond to what they called the Intolerable Acts, laws that had been passed by the British Parliament after the Boston Tea Party.

Among the delegates was Thomas Cushing from Boston.

Considered by England to be a dangerous radical, Cushing was a Congregationalist, and he had strong beliefs in the power of prayer.

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Why is that not a good plan when it comes to the hymns?

Oh, I could talk to you for hours about this.

I have a deep, deep set of convictions about it.

First of all, I love new Christian music.

We need to have room for that.

We need to make room for that.

We need to enjoy it.

I mean, things like that, where it would bring the scripture into song, you know, I guess we have, the Gettys do a pretty good job with that, but not a lot of others.

Let's take a listen.

[wind blowing] After the Pilgrims landed on Cape Cod in 1620, large numbers of Puritans and Separatists began arriving in New England seeking freedom for religion.

The Puritans arrived in Massachusetts Bay by the boatloads during the Great Migration, the Puritan migration of the 1630s, and many of them were very well-educated.

They were graduates of England's leading universities, especially Emmanuel College in Cambridge.

Many were theologians, pastors, and Bible scholars.

One thing was paramount on the minds of those who settled into the New World.

They wanted to establish a school in the colonies, especially for the training of ministerial students.

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The, um, the shot heard, the Heard Around the World, um, 1775, and this is during the Revolutionary War.

This is the beginning of the Revolutionary War.

So outside of Boston was Lexington and Concord, and the British were occupying Boston, and John Hancock and Samuel Adams had fled the city of Boston, and they were staying with a pastor named Jonas Clark.

This was the pastor of the church in Lexington.

Jonas Clark was a tremendous, uh, advocate for spiritual and political liberty, for liberty of religion, for liberty of worship, and for political liberty, and he had trained his church members in what the Bible says about liberty.

Well, for safety, out in the farmhouse, uh, where the parsonage was, uh, John Adams and, and, uh, Samuel Adams and John Hancock were staying.

Well, that evening, Paul Revere came running by and said, "The British are coming this way." And the two, uh, Founding Fathers looked at Jonas Clark and said, "Will your church stand up against the British?" And Jonas Clark said they will.

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was a financial panic in 1857.

They just almost destroyed the nation, brought it to its knees.

And that's literal.

In New York, Bill, if you ever go or the next time you're in New York City, there are so many biblical slash patriotic sites in lower Manhattan, you can hardly believe it.

The place where Washington's troops evacuated from Brooklyn to Manhattan and an amazing act of providence where the fog rolled in as they prayed and shielded them.

The place where Washington was inaugurated.

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Well, when the pilgrims came from Plymouth Harbor in England to Cape Cod, they had a very rough passage.

they were all crowded on board the gun deck.

They couldn't even stand up all the way.

It took a very long time.

They sailed at an opportune time with the weather.

There were storms.

So now you could tell the audience who gave the most famous sermon in American history and why is it so significant?

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After King Henry VIII severed ties with Rome and appointed himself the head of the Church of England in 1553, three groups of Protestants emerged.

First, the Anglicans, who continued within the traditions of their church.

Secondly, the Puritans, who wanted to work within Anglicanism to reform and to purify it.

And third, Separatists and Dissenters, who were determined to establish their own independent congregations.

Over the next hundred years or so, the Puritans and the Separatists faced extreme pressure from the English Crown, and this compelled many of them to flee their country.

One of these men was named John Robinson.

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Two or three years ago, when I was in New York City, I spent a day in lower Manhattan in the area around Wall Street.

Within just a few blocks, I searched out some of America's greatest historical sites.

The Brooklyn Bridge now spans the East River at a spot very close to where George Washington's Revolutionary Army escaped disaster during a remarkable nighttime evacuation.

Nearby is France's Tavern, where Washington later met with his generals after the war.

Five minutes later, I was gazing at the Statue of Liberty.

He stole 96 bases in one season, which was a record second only to Ty Cobb's 98.

One day, he was strolling around the Chicago streets with some of his baseball friends.

He saw a small crowd gathered in an empty lot at the corner of State and Van Buren Streets.

It was an outdoor evangelistic rally.

Billy and his friends stopped to listen and soon sat down on the curb and heard every word of the sermon.

He did the same for several nights in a row.

The Pacific Garden Mission had been started by Colonel George Clark and his wife, Sarah.

The famous actor later said