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[GENTLE HYMNAL MUSIC PLAYING]
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[DRAMATIC MUSIC BEGINS]
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PRESIDENT: Order!
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- Silence!
- [CONGRESS MEMBERS ARGUING]
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Yes! But at what cost?
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I refute it. 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
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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...
- MAN 1: Yes.
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- ...but unitedly!
- [MEMBERS CHEER]
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I agree.
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And I would hope to appease
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the interests
of the small states
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by assuring them they would be
safer within the union
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than they would be
separated from it.
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Is it to be thought,
Mr. Hamilton,
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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.
They never ought!
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- [INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
- 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.
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- Yes!
- MEMBERS: Yes.
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If the British were to
attack again, and I remind you,
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they have six armed forts
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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BENJAMIN: Hmm?
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Ah, yes, well...
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I believe, Mr. Hamilton,
that he that speaks much
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is much mistaken.
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[MEMBERS LAUGHING]
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[GAVEL BANGING]
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PRESIDENT: Order.
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[GAVEL BANGING]
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Order.
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[CHATTER FADES AND MUFFLES]
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[PASTORAL MUSIC PLAYING]
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- [LEAVES RUSTLING]
- [INSECT CHIRRING]
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JANEY: Benjamin, wait for me!
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Whoo.
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[DOG BARKS]
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[PASTORAL MUSIC CONTINUES]
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[DOG BARKS]
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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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[WIND BLOWING]
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[DOG BARKS]
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- [BREATH SHUDDERING]
- 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, GIGGLES]
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[YOUNG BENJAMIN 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.
- [MOUTHING ALONG]
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Five...
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10, 15, 16,
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17 candles,
one for each of my children.
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You are my 10th son.
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Do you know
why that makes you special?
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[SIGHS]
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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.
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I hated it.
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Yet you were first
in your class.
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God's hand is upon you,
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and... [SIGHS] ...I believe
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he has called you,
Benjamin Franklin,
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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.
- 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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[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
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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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[PEACEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
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[SEAGULLS CALLING IN DISTANCE]
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[GAVEL BANGING]
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Order!
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Order!
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JAMES: If I may.
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The chair recognizes
Mr. James Madison
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as today's final remarks.
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JAMES: I affirm
the sentiments made earlier,
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that if we do not
soon find stability
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within this convention,
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all our efforts
will be disgraced,
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and the liberty
we fought so hard to gain,
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lost among ourselves
and posterity forever.
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Now, I've scoured ancient
governments to exhaustion,
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and I find it probable
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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.
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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.
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JAMES: I motion to adjourn.
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MAN: Second.
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Adjourned.
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[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
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General.
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I'm curious of something.
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That sun
at the top of your chair,
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is it rising or setting?
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When my uncle Peyton
presided over
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the First Continental Congress,
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he used to tell stories of how
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they'd gather to pray
as an assembly.
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But that was a different time.
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[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
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[DOOR SHUTS]
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[CHICKENS CLUCKING]
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[HORSE WHINNIES]
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[MAN SHOUTS INDISTINCTLY]
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SOLDIER: Hey, hey,
your money's no good here.
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I can't buy bread.
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Fix it.
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[PEOPLE COUGHING]
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[SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES]
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[KNOCKS ON GLASS]
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BENNY: Grandfather.
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Thank you for your
kind service, gentlemen.
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[SIGHS]
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Have I told you
who this young man is?
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This is
Benjamin Franklin Bache,
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- Lightning Rod Junior.
- Junior.
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- Ah.
- [BENNY CHUCKLES]
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Lightning Rod Junior.
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Come now, Father.
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You can be proud of Benny.
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He hasn't stopped all day,
even to eat.
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Well, I'd rather go to bed
without dinner
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- than to rise in debt.
- "Than to rise in debt."
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Says the man who claims
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"a home is not a home
unless it has food."
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[BOTH CHUCKLE]
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Come, Eliza.
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I was hoping
you'd see my progress
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before going home.
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Benny...
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the print shop is my home.
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- [CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
- Hmm.
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[BENJAMIN GRUNTS]
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Ah.
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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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[GROANS]
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[GRUNTS]
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Your press and typesets
arrived this morning.
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Oh.
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- [BENNY EXHALES]
- [BENJAMIN CHUCKLES]
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[SIGHS]
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Well...
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I think I've told every story
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I could possibly tell
with them.
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They're yours.
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BENNY: You've already
given me so much. Uh...
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You built me a print shop
in front of your house.
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BENJAMIN: I needed
a first line of defense
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against unwanted visitors.
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Guests, like fish,
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begin to smell
after a few days.
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[BOTH LAUGH]
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[COUGHING]
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[EXHALES, SNIFFS]
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[EXHALES]
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[SIGHS, SNIFFLES]
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[BIRD CHIRPING OUTSIDE]
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How long
will this convention last?
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However long
it takes 13 architects
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to build a structure
that stands.
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[CHUCKLES]
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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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[SIGHS]
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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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[BELL TOLLING IN DISTANCE]
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Then we have failed them.
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[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? [CHUCKLES]
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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?
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Or you can
strike fear into them.
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- "Judgment has come."
- [LAUGHS]
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"Philadelphia is
one lightning strike away
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"from a pile of ash."
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[BOTH LAUGH]
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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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BENNY: Of all your pen names,
00:16:00.926 --> 00:16:03.583 align:center
which ones were soothers
and which ones were stokers?
00:16:03.584 --> 00:16:06.484 align:center
[CHUCKLES] That depends on
who you ask.
00:16:07.657 --> 00:16:10.383 align:center
Oh, we have Martha Careful,
00:16:10.384 --> 00:16:13.766 align:center
- uh, Harry Meanwell.
- [BENJAMIN CHUCKLES]
00:16:13.767 --> 00:16:16.527 align:center
Oh, of course, Poor Richard.
00:16:16.528 --> 00:16:17.633 align:center
- [CHUCKLES]
- BENJAMIN: Ah.
00:16:19.255 --> 00:16:20.429 align:center
My old friends.
00:16:23.570 --> 00:16:24.640 align:center
[BENJAMIN SIGHS]
00:16:25.848 --> 00:16:28.644 align:center
Hmm. More true now than ever.
00:16:30.163 --> 00:16:31.578 align:center
Whose are these?
00:16:39.827 --> 00:16:42.312 align:center
"November 8th, 1739,
00:16:42.313 --> 00:16:44.279 align:center
"The Reverend
George Whitefield
00:16:44.280 --> 00:16:46.385 align:center
"has arrived from England
00:16:46.386 --> 00:16:48.973 align:center
"to awaken the colonies."
00:16:48.974 --> 00:16:51.079 align:center
[IN AMERICAN PRONUNCIATION]
George Whitefield?
00:16:51.080 --> 00:16:52.116 align:center
[IN BRITISH PRONUNCIATION]
Whitefield.
00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:54.048 align:center
It's George Whitefield.
00:16:54.980 --> 00:16:56.258 align:center
Was he soothe or stoke?
00:16:57.742 --> 00:16:59.122 align:center
Yes.
00:16:59.123 --> 00:17:00.916 align:center
[CHUCKLES]
00:17:00.917 --> 00:17:03.850 align:center
"From my infancy
'til my being for a time
00:17:03.851 --> 00:17:07.061 align:center
"at the University of Oxford,"
section one.
00:17:09.063 --> 00:17:10.479 align:center
Why do you have his journals?
00:17:11.721 --> 00:17:14.482 align:center
- He was an old friend.
- [LAUGHS]
00:17:14.483 --> 00:17:16.381 align:center
You were friends
with a preacher?
00:17:18.728 --> 00:17:19.833 align:center
Is he still alive?
00:17:23.492 --> 00:17:25.701 align:center
Was he part of the revolution?
00:17:26.529 --> 00:17:28.531 align:center
[WISTFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
00:17:32.052 --> 00:17:33.053 align:center
Grandfather?
00:17:37.782 --> 00:17:38.886 align:center
Benny...
00:17:42.683 --> 00:17:45.859 align:center
George Whitefield
was the revolution.
00:17:48.241 --> 00:17:53.487 align:center
BURTON: O, what a rogue
and peasant slave am I!
00:17:55.317 --> 00:17:59.492 align:center
Is it not monstrous
that this player here,
00:17:59.493 --> 00:18:01.356 align:center
but in a fiction,
00:18:01.357 --> 00:18:03.186 align:center
in a dream of passion...
00:18:03.187 --> 00:18:06.810 align:center
Leavin' others
to do all the work again?
00:18:06.811 --> 00:18:09.640 align:center
But this is where Hamlet
wishes he were an actor.
00:18:09.641 --> 00:18:10.677 align:center
[SCOFFS]
00:18:12.265 --> 00:18:13.921 align:center
Like you,
00:18:14.922 --> 00:18:17.201 align:center
hiding behind masks.
00:18:17.718 --> 00:18:19.686 align:center
[LAUGHING]
00:18:21.584 --> 00:18:24.345 align:center
I'm a better actor
than all of 'em.
00:18:24.346 --> 00:18:26.934 align:center
Got your mum convinced, anyway.
00:18:29.765 --> 00:18:34.045 align:center
Smile, Georgie. [LAUGHS]
00:18:34.804 --> 00:18:35.943 align:center
[PLATE CLATTERS]
00:18:37.738 --> 00:18:38.774 align:center
Clean it up.
00:18:40.224 --> 00:18:41.707 align:center
Use your hands!
00:18:41.708 --> 00:18:45.608 align:center
An actor's gotta use his hands!
[LAUGHS]
00:18:53.996 --> 00:18:57.413 align:center
ELIZABETH: Someday,
you'll be up there, son.
00:18:59.760 --> 00:19:03.522 align:center
BURTON: He would drown
the stage with tears.
00:19:03.523 --> 00:19:05.558 align:center
[CRYING]
00:19:05.559 --> 00:19:07.905 align:center
- The play is the thing...
- ELIZABETH: Someday.
00:19:07.906 --> 00:19:12.117 align:center
...wherein I'll catch
the conscience of the king.
00:19:12.946 --> 00:19:15.016 align:center
[AUDIENCE APPLAUDING]
00:19:15.017 --> 00:19:17.330 align:center
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
00:19:30.170 --> 00:19:32.965 align:center
O, what a rogue
and peasant slave am I!
00:19:32.966 --> 00:19:36.451 align:center
[FERVENTLY] O, what a rogue
and peasant slave am I!
00:19:36.452 --> 00:19:39.316 align:center
[LOUDLY] O, what a rogue
and peasant slave am I!
00:19:39.317 --> 00:19:41.145 align:center
From here, Georgie.
00:19:41.146 --> 00:19:43.425 align:center
The power is not here,
but here.
00:19:44.460 --> 00:19:46.668 align:center
- Again.
- Oh!
00:19:46.669 --> 00:19:49.464 align:center
- No, again.
- [LOUDLY] Oh!
00:19:49.465 --> 00:19:51.811 align:center
Yes, yes! That's it, Georgie!
00:19:51.812 --> 00:19:53.088 align:center
Did you feel that?
00:19:53.089 --> 00:19:55.160 align:center
Yes, I did.
00:19:57.542 --> 00:20:01.096 align:center
Now, the whole line,
just like that.
00:20:01.097 --> 00:20:05.100 align:center
[FERVENTLY] O, what a rogue
and peasant slave am I!
00:20:05.101 --> 00:20:08.449 align:center
Tears in his eyes,
distraction in's aspect.
00:20:08.450 --> 00:20:10.313 align:center
A broken voice.
00:20:10.314 --> 00:20:14.732 align:center
His whole function suiting
with forms to his own conceit.
00:20:15.767 --> 00:20:18.218 align:center
And all for nothing.
00:20:19.495 --> 00:20:21.358 align:center
Oh, what would he do,
00:20:21.359 --> 00:20:24.328 align:center
had he the motive and the cue
for passion that I have?
00:20:26.399 --> 00:20:29.608 align:center
He would drown the stage
with tears.
00:20:29.609 --> 00:20:33.025 align:center
He would cleave the general
ear with horrid speech.
00:20:33.026 --> 00:20:36.408 align:center
Make mad the guilty
and appall the free.
00:20:36.409 --> 00:20:40.343 align:center
Confound the ignorant
and amaze indeed.
00:20:40.344 --> 00:20:42.137 align:center
The play's the thing
00:20:42.138 --> 00:20:45.176 align:center
wherein I'll catch
the conscience of the king.
00:20:47.489 --> 00:20:48.731 align:center
MAN: Well done, lad.
00:20:49.767 --> 00:20:51.182 align:center
MAN 2: Bravo.
00:20:56.739 --> 00:21:01.812 align:center
Catch the conscience of the king
and the heart of his mum.
00:21:01.813 --> 00:21:05.713 align:center
You are good enough
to be on any stage in London.
00:21:05.714 --> 00:21:08.888 align:center
Uh, not with this eye
and a poor man's accent.
00:21:08.889 --> 00:21:12.236 align:center
Well, if not the stage,
perhaps the pulpit then.
00:21:12.237 --> 00:21:13.273 align:center
Mum.
00:21:14.101 --> 00:21:15.550 align:center
But your voice.
00:21:15.551 --> 00:21:18.588 align:center
Trapped behind a dusty pulpit
wearing an itchy wig?
00:21:18.589 --> 00:21:20.728 align:center
- Oh. [SCOFFS]
- Never.
00:21:20.729 --> 00:21:23.662 align:center
Actors make people
feel something.
00:21:23.663 --> 00:21:25.249 align:center
Preachers just
put 'em to sleep.
00:21:25.250 --> 00:21:26.354 align:center
[CHUCKLES]
00:21:26.355 --> 00:21:30.116 align:center
"O God, make speed to save us.
00:21:30.117 --> 00:21:31.566 align:center
"O Lord,
00:21:31.567 --> 00:21:33.880 align:center
- "make haste to help us."
- [LAUGHING]
00:21:35.088 --> 00:21:36.226 align:center
[BOTH LAUGH]
00:21:36.227 --> 00:21:38.987 align:center
A character actor, too,
I see.
00:21:38.988 --> 00:21:40.783 align:center
That's all I'll ever be,
Mr. Burton.
00:21:41.577 --> 00:21:42.578 align:center
Use it.
00:21:43.337 --> 00:21:45.028 align:center
Act the truth.
00:21:45.029 --> 00:21:46.927 align:center
Use everything
life throws at you.
00:21:49.551 --> 00:21:51.310 align:center
There.
00:21:51.311 --> 00:21:54.278 align:center
Now I've given you
all my secrets.
00:21:54.279 --> 00:21:55.556 align:center
This is...
00:21:55.557 --> 00:21:57.005 align:center
You've written notes
on every page.
00:21:57.006 --> 00:21:58.421 align:center
I... I can't take this.
00:21:58.422 --> 00:21:59.974 align:center
Consider it mandatory reading
00:21:59.975 --> 00:22:02.253 align:center
before attending Oxford
this fall.
00:22:03.599 --> 00:22:04.600 align:center
Elizabeth.
00:22:05.532 --> 00:22:07.809 align:center
I would give 100 guineas
00:22:07.810 --> 00:22:09.777 align:center
if I could only say "O"
00:22:09.778 --> 00:22:12.505 align:center
as effectively
as your son says "O."
00:22:13.816 --> 00:22:14.817 align:center
He is...
00:22:16.612 --> 00:22:17.613 align:center
extraordinary.
00:22:18.752 --> 00:22:20.443 align:center
And he needs further training
00:22:20.444 --> 00:22:22.617 align:center
in diction,
interpretation, rhetoric.
00:22:22.618 --> 00:22:26.828 align:center
Oxford will provide him
all this and more.
00:22:26.829 --> 00:22:30.142 align:center
His stepfather ran away
and took everything.
00:22:30.143 --> 00:22:32.075 align:center
Uh, we could never afford it.
00:22:32.076 --> 00:22:33.870 align:center
He would go as a servitor
00:22:33.871 --> 00:22:35.734 align:center
to serve the more,
shall I say,
00:22:35.735 --> 00:22:37.839 align:center
privileged students.
00:22:37.840 --> 00:22:40.290 align:center
You would receive
the same level of education
00:22:40.291 --> 00:22:42.672 align:center
provided you look after
their affairs,
00:22:42.673 --> 00:22:45.329 align:center
carrying their books,
serving them meals.
00:22:45.330 --> 00:22:48.505 align:center
Clearly, you're no stranger
to such tasks.
00:22:48.506 --> 00:22:50.611 align:center
All you need
is a recommendation
00:22:50.612 --> 00:22:51.958 align:center
from an Oxford alumnus.
00:22:53.649 --> 00:22:55.962 align:center
Well, we don't know
an Oxford alumnus.
00:22:59.828 --> 00:23:01.276 align:center
- [GEORGE GASPS]
- They're expecting you
00:23:01.277 --> 00:23:02.624 align:center
for the fall term.
00:23:07.629 --> 00:23:10.321 align:center
Remember the source
of your power.
00:23:13.151 --> 00:23:14.221 align:center
When the moment comes,
00:23:16.154 --> 00:23:17.397 align:center
let 'em have it, George.
00:23:31.204 --> 00:23:34.690 align:center
"O, what a rogue
and peasant slave am I!
00:23:35.864 --> 00:23:37.830 align:center
"What would he do
had he the motive
00:23:37.831 --> 00:23:40.351 align:center
"and the cue for passion
that I have?"
00:23:49.084 --> 00:23:50.706 align:center
GEORGE: How will you get along
without me?
00:23:53.226 --> 00:23:55.158 align:center
You...
00:23:55.159 --> 00:23:57.920 align:center
were always meant
for bigger stages.
00:23:59.888 --> 00:24:01.647 align:center
I love you, Mum.
00:24:01.648 --> 00:24:03.856 align:center
- ELIZABETH: I love you, son.
- [BOTH LAUGHING TEARFULLY]
00:24:03.857 --> 00:24:05.894 align:center
[SENTIMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING]
00:24:08.793 --> 00:24:11.071 align:center
[ELIZABETH LAUGHING HEARTILY]
00:24:12.521 --> 00:24:14.246 align:center
[GEORGE LAUGHS]
00:24:14.247 --> 00:24:16.801 align:center
- [BELL TOLLING]
- [LIGHT MUSIC PLAYING]
00:24:18.251 --> 00:24:19.701 align:center
[STUDENTS LAUGHING]
00:24:26.742 --> 00:24:29.261 align:center
Already served me, poor chap.
00:24:29.262 --> 00:24:31.125 align:center
Why don't you move
your good eyeball
00:24:31.126 --> 00:24:33.092 align:center
to the other side
of your face?
00:24:33.093 --> 00:24:35.060 align:center
[STUDENTS LAUGHING]
00:24:35.061 --> 00:24:38.201 align:center
Idgit, where's my cake?
00:24:38.202 --> 00:24:40.445 align:center
[STUDENTS LAUGHING]
00:24:41.343 --> 00:24:43.551 align:center
All right, lads.
That's enough.
00:24:43.552 --> 00:24:45.035 align:center
STUDENT 1: No, Seward.
00:24:45.036 --> 00:24:46.934 align:center
I don't think it is.
00:24:46.935 --> 00:24:48.383 align:center
Excuse me. [SNAPS FINGERS]
00:24:48.384 --> 00:24:51.664 align:center
- Dr. Squintum.
- [LAUGHTER]
00:24:53.907 --> 00:24:56.046 align:center
I say, Dr. Squintum!
00:24:56.047 --> 00:24:58.566 align:center
Now that is perfect.
00:24:58.567 --> 00:25:01.155 align:center
Gentlemen of the assembly,
00:25:01.156 --> 00:25:03.364 align:center
I would like to
introduce to you
00:25:03.365 --> 00:25:07.057 align:center
- Dr. Squintum!
- [LAUGHTER]
00:25:07.058 --> 00:25:09.473 align:center
STUDENTS: [CHANTING]
Squintum! Squintum!
00:25:09.474 --> 00:25:12.131 align:center
- Squintum! Squintum! Squintum!
- Enough!
00:25:12.132 --> 00:25:13.754 align:center
That's enough!
00:25:13.755 --> 00:25:15.514 align:center
- [CHANTING FADES]
- STUDENT 2: Oh, look, lads.
00:25:15.515 --> 00:25:18.655 align:center
- William fancies himself a hero.
- STUDENT 3: Oh!
00:25:18.656 --> 00:25:21.694 align:center
So, go on, hero, stand up.
00:25:23.350 --> 00:25:25.938 align:center
Oh, that's right,
you already are.
00:25:25.939 --> 00:25:28.907 align:center
Oi, Silver Spoon!
Go ahead.
00:25:28.908 --> 00:25:31.357 align:center
Have a go
at the one-eyed servant.
00:25:31.358 --> 00:25:35.189 align:center
I can take it, but you turn
and eat one of your own?
00:25:35.190 --> 00:25:37.985 align:center
You lot are nothing
but a nest of spiders.
00:25:37.986 --> 00:25:40.677 align:center
You got nothing of worth,
except your daddy's money.
00:25:40.678 --> 00:25:42.369 align:center
He at least has some heart!
00:25:43.716 --> 00:25:44.785 align:center
STUDENT 4:
What's he going on about?
00:25:44.786 --> 00:25:46.787 align:center
[STUDENT 2 CHUCKLES]
00:25:46.788 --> 00:25:48.167 align:center
- STUDENT 2: Thank you...
- [STUDENTS SNICKER]
00:25:48.168 --> 00:25:49.755 align:center
...Dr. Squintum,
00:25:49.756 --> 00:25:53.863 align:center
for that scholarly
and erudite diagnosis.
00:25:53.864 --> 00:25:54.899 align:center
Are you finished?
00:25:57.764 --> 00:25:58.731 align:center
I am.
00:26:00.215 --> 00:26:03.527 align:center
[MOCKINGLY] I think
me stomach is full.
00:26:03.528 --> 00:26:05.151 align:center
[STUDENTS LAUGH]
00:26:06.497 --> 00:26:08.706 align:center
STUDENTS: Oh!
[CHATTER INDISTINCTLY]
00:26:11.226 --> 00:26:12.295 align:center
Clean it up.
00:26:12.296 --> 00:26:14.332 align:center
[LAUGHTER]
00:26:16.024 --> 00:26:17.542 align:center
Oh. [CHUCKLES]
00:26:21.236 --> 00:26:22.237 align:center
STUDENT 5: Enjoy.
00:26:23.687 --> 00:26:24.688 align:center
STUDENT 6: Oops.
00:26:26.034 --> 00:26:28.345 align:center
- [PLATE CLATTERS]
- [LAUGHTER CONTINUES]
00:26:28.346 --> 00:26:29.623 align:center
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
00:26:32.074 --> 00:26:33.524 align:center
[LAUGHTER]
00:26:40.773 --> 00:26:42.360 align:center
Uh... Uh, I've got it.
00:26:43.534 --> 00:26:45.398 align:center
Don't mess up
your gentleman's clothes.
00:26:46.917 --> 00:26:49.090 align:center
- [SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
- [SCRAPING]
00:26:49.091 --> 00:26:50.714 align:center
WILLIAM: "Silver Spoon."
00:26:51.715 --> 00:26:53.750 align:center
"Nest of spiders."
00:26:53.751 --> 00:26:55.787 align:center
Fools dressed like princes.
00:26:55.788 --> 00:26:57.754 align:center
- WILLIAM: Mm.
- [CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
00:26:57.755 --> 00:27:00.412 align:center
I'm sorry for how
they've been treating you.
00:27:00.413 --> 00:27:02.311 align:center
[SIGHS] I can't say
I'm not used to it.
00:27:04.451 --> 00:27:05.556 align:center
Name's William.
00:27:06.730 --> 00:27:07.869 align:center
Seward.
00:27:09.733 --> 00:27:11.804 align:center
- Dr. Squintum.
- [BOTH CHUCKLE SOFTLY]
00:27:14.772 --> 00:27:15.910 align:center
Who are they?
00:27:15.911 --> 00:27:17.395 align:center
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
00:27:18.086 --> 00:27:19.432 align:center
WILLIAM: The Holy Club.
00:27:20.226 --> 00:27:21.227 align:center
Bible moths.
00:27:22.331 --> 00:27:23.781 align:center
But they seem harmless enough.
00:27:25.127 --> 00:27:27.439 align:center
Just be obliging.
They'll leave soon enough.
00:27:27.440 --> 00:27:29.096 align:center
- CHARLES: Excuse me.
- Afternoon, gentlemen.
00:27:29.097 --> 00:27:30.649 align:center
Uh, nothing here
for you to do.
00:27:30.650 --> 00:27:33.963 align:center
Uh, are you the one who
polished our shoes yesterday?
00:27:33.964 --> 00:27:35.344 align:center
GEORGE: Uh, likely. Yeah.
00:27:36.587 --> 00:27:38.175 align:center
We wish to return the favor.
00:27:43.111 --> 00:27:46.183 align:center
My name is John Wesley.
This is my brother, Charles.
00:27:47.805 --> 00:27:48.772 align:center
God be with you.
00:27:49.876 --> 00:27:52.084 align:center
You're, uh,
a bunch of radicals?
00:27:52.085 --> 00:27:53.879 align:center
[BOTH LAUGH]
00:27:53.880 --> 00:27:55.501 align:center
We're Christians.
00:27:55.502 --> 00:27:56.640 align:center
And if we're radical,
00:27:56.641 --> 00:27:58.954 align:center
it's in our love for God
and for people.
00:28:00.956 --> 00:28:03.682 align:center
Oh, what... What's this?
00:28:03.683 --> 00:28:06.823 align:center
The Lord whom
we serve sees you
00:28:06.824 --> 00:28:08.481 align:center
and has prompted us
to serve you.
00:28:10.345 --> 00:28:11.346 align:center
Please sit.
00:28:18.525 --> 00:28:21.700 align:center
♪ Love divine
00:28:21.701 --> 00:28:26.809 align:center
♪ All loves excelling
00:28:26.810 --> 00:28:30.260 align:center
♪ Joy of Heaven
00:28:30.261 --> 00:28:33.333 align:center
♪ To Earth come down
00:28:34.541 --> 00:28:37.440 align:center
GROUP: ♪ Fix in us
00:28:37.441 --> 00:28:42.065 align:center
♪ Thy humble dwelling
00:28:42.066 --> 00:28:48.762 align:center
♪ All thy faithful
mercies crown
00:28:49.729 --> 00:28:51.626 align:center
♪ Jesus
00:28:51.627 --> 00:28:57.563 align:center
♪ Thou art all compassion
00:28:57.564 --> 00:29:02.154 align:center
♪ Pure, unbounded love
00:29:02.155 --> 00:29:03.916 align:center
♪ Thou art
00:29:05.020 --> 00:29:08.057 align:center
♪ Visit us
00:29:08.058 --> 00:29:12.889 align:center
♪ With Thy salvation
00:29:12.890 --> 00:29:19.897 align:center
♪ Enter every
trembling heart ♪
00:29:22.003 --> 00:29:23.763 align:center
JOHN: We're all equal
in God's eyes,
00:29:25.523 --> 00:29:27.352 align:center
whether you're a...
a gentleman commoner
00:29:27.353 --> 00:29:30.320 align:center
or a servitor
with cake on his shoes.
00:29:30.321 --> 00:29:31.735 align:center
[GROUP CHUCKLES]
00:29:31.736 --> 00:29:35.670 align:center
♪ End of faith,
as its beginning
00:29:35.671 --> 00:29:42.195 align:center
GROUP:
♪ Set our hearts at liberty
00:29:43.127 --> 00:29:45.129 align:center
[HYMNAL MUSIC PLAYS]
00:29:49.133 --> 00:29:52.929 align:center
"Liberty."
"All men created equal."
00:29:52.930 --> 00:29:56.553 align:center
Sounds like
the cry of the revolution.
00:29:56.554 --> 00:29:58.453 align:center
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
00:29:59.903 --> 00:30:00.973 align:center
Section one.
00:30:04.735 --> 00:30:06.046 align:center
[SIGHS SOFTLY]
00:30:06.047 --> 00:30:07.151 align:center
[BOOK THUDS]
00:30:08.221 --> 00:30:09.222 align:center
Section two.
00:30:10.948 --> 00:30:14.226 align:center
GEORGE: Dear Mum,
my studies are going well.
00:30:14.227 --> 00:30:16.815 align:center
My elocution is much improved.
00:30:16.816 --> 00:30:18.023 align:center
More importantly,
00:30:18.024 --> 00:30:20.577 align:center
there has been a shift
in my misfortunes.
00:30:20.578 --> 00:30:22.579 align:center
The kindest group of men
I've ever met
00:30:22.580 --> 00:30:27.550 align:center
invited me into their society
called the Holy Club.
00:30:27.551 --> 00:30:31.312 align:center
We study the holy scriptures,
pray, meet for worship,
00:30:31.313 --> 00:30:34.557 align:center
and bring food and clothing
to the poor.
00:30:34.558 --> 00:30:37.491 align:center
Yesterday,
while visiting with prisoners,
00:30:37.492 --> 00:30:39.252 align:center
I was strangely warmed.
00:30:45.500 --> 00:30:46.603 align:center
PRISONER: Hallelujah.
Praise God.
00:30:46.604 --> 00:30:48.536 align:center
John.
00:30:48.537 --> 00:30:51.368 align:center
Shouldn't we
read the Bible to them?
00:30:52.679 --> 00:30:55.096 align:center
We're being the hands
and feet of Christ.
00:30:55.993 --> 00:30:57.580 align:center
PRISONER: Merciful Jesus.
00:30:57.581 --> 00:30:58.995 align:center
The hands and feet?
00:30:58.996 --> 00:31:00.342 align:center
PRISONER: Blessed be His name.
00:31:02.310 --> 00:31:03.483 align:center
What about His voice?
00:31:04.450 --> 00:31:05.933 align:center
PRISONER: The Word of God.
00:31:05.934 --> 00:31:08.073 align:center
I admire your zeal,
00:31:08.074 --> 00:31:11.076 align:center
but there are
hundreds of prisoners here.
00:31:11.077 --> 00:31:13.941 align:center
Reading scripture to each one
would take hours.
00:31:13.942 --> 00:31:16.703 align:center
Not one at a time,
all at once.
00:31:18.015 --> 00:31:19.843 align:center
All at once?
00:31:19.844 --> 00:31:21.570 align:center
And how do you suggest
we do that?
00:31:22.468 --> 00:31:23.469 align:center
From here.
00:31:27.059 --> 00:31:29.163 align:center
[CHUCKLES, CLEARS THROAT]
00:31:29.164 --> 00:31:31.027 align:center
- PRISONER: Bless the Lord.
- [PRISONER 2 COUGHS]
00:31:31.028 --> 00:31:34.203 align:center
[LOUDLY] A reading
from the Word of God,
00:31:34.204 --> 00:31:37.172 align:center
the Book of John, naturally.
[CHUCKLES]
00:31:39.036 --> 00:31:40.830 align:center
"Nicodemus, the Pharisee,
00:31:40.831 --> 00:31:44.661 align:center
"came to Jesus at night
and said unto Him,
00:31:44.662 --> 00:31:48.182 align:center
"'We know you are a teacher
who comes from God,
00:31:48.183 --> 00:31:50.012 align:center
"'but no one
could perform the signs
00:31:50.013 --> 00:31:52.256 align:center
"'you are doing
unless God was with Him.'
00:31:53.913 --> 00:31:57.916 align:center
"Jesus replied,
'Truly I tell you,
00:31:57.917 --> 00:32:00.091 align:center
"'no one can see
the Kingdom of God
00:32:00.092 --> 00:32:02.508 align:center
"'unless they are born again.'
00:32:04.751 --> 00:32:08.409 align:center
"Nicodemus asked,
'How can this be?
00:32:08.410 --> 00:32:11.067 align:center
"'How can someone
enter a second time
00:32:11.068 --> 00:32:14.139 align:center
"'into their mother's womb
to be born?'
00:32:14.140 --> 00:32:17.832 align:center
"And Jesus answered,
'Very truly I tell you,
00:32:17.833 --> 00:32:20.214 align:center
"'flesh gives birth to flesh,
00:32:20.215 --> 00:32:23.356 align:center
"'but the Spirit
gives birth to spirit.
00:32:26.911 --> 00:32:28.084 align:center
[CLEARS THROAT]
00:32:28.085 --> 00:32:30.535 align:center
"'You should not be
surprised at my saying,
00:32:30.536 --> 00:32:32.296 align:center
"'You must be born again.'
00:32:35.955 --> 00:32:40.649 align:center
"'The wind blows
wherever it pleases.
00:32:41.409 --> 00:32:43.617 align:center
"'You hear its sound,
00:32:43.618 --> 00:32:46.378 align:center
"'but you cannot tell
where it comes from
00:32:46.379 --> 00:32:48.071 align:center
"'or where it is going.
00:32:49.382 --> 00:32:53.040 align:center
"'So it is with everyone
born of the Spirit.'"
00:32:53.041 --> 00:32:55.216 align:center
[SERENE MUSIC PLAYING]
00:32:58.840 --> 00:33:02.671 align:center
"For God
so loved the world..."
00:33:06.641 --> 00:33:09.920 align:center
God so loved each of you.
00:33:11.577 --> 00:33:12.612 align:center
He loved.
00:33:16.582 --> 00:33:19.446 align:center
"He gave His only Son
00:33:19.447 --> 00:33:21.965 align:center
"that whosoever
should believe in Him
00:33:21.966 --> 00:33:23.865 align:center
"and call upon His name
00:33:25.522 --> 00:33:27.765 align:center
"should not perish
in their sins,
00:33:28.835 --> 00:33:30.492 align:center
"but have eternal life."
00:33:35.635 --> 00:33:37.258 align:center
He did not come to condemn us.
00:33:40.364 --> 00:33:41.607 align:center
He loves us.
00:33:45.542 --> 00:33:47.026 align:center
He loves us.
00:33:49.304 --> 00:33:51.306 align:center
[PRISONER 3 COUGHING]
00:33:57.001 --> 00:33:58.279 align:center
Is there any water?
00:34:00.039 --> 00:34:02.489 align:center
Please, get him some water.
00:34:02.490 --> 00:34:05.008 align:center
What are you doing, George?
00:34:05.009 --> 00:34:06.839 align:center
The same thing you did for me.
00:34:26.893 --> 00:34:29.033 align:center
[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]
00:35:03.413 --> 00:35:05.691 align:center
Do you believe the words
I just read?
00:35:10.109 --> 00:35:12.938 align:center
- Yes.
- So do I.
00:35:12.939 --> 00:35:15.424 align:center
[CRYING SOFTLY]
00:35:15.425 --> 00:35:17.736 align:center
Do you want to know
this Jesus?
00:35:17.737 --> 00:35:18.911 align:center
Yes.
00:35:20.257 --> 00:35:21.293 align:center
So do I.
00:35:24.572 --> 00:35:26.919 align:center
- [PRISONER 3 SOBS]
- [EXHALES]
00:35:30.819 --> 00:35:32.268 align:center
I'm not leaving
until all the feet
00:35:32.269 --> 00:35:33.960 align:center
of every prisoner
have been washed.
00:35:35.065 --> 00:35:36.445 align:center
George, that...
that will take...
00:35:36.446 --> 00:35:38.275 align:center
All day and all night,
00:35:39.138 --> 00:35:40.243 align:center
I know.
00:35:40.898 --> 00:35:42.761 align:center
You did it for me,
00:35:42.762 --> 00:35:45.420 align:center
I will do it for them,
alone if I must.
00:35:47.422 --> 00:35:49.079 align:center
You won't be alone
in this work.
00:35:50.667 --> 00:35:52.979 align:center
GEORGE: It's all right.
Lean into the light.
00:35:57.639 --> 00:35:58.744 align:center
[SIGHS SOFTLY]
00:36:03.576 --> 00:36:08.166 align:center
GEORGE: Mum,
can you believe it? Me.
00:36:08.167 --> 00:36:10.962 align:center
I don't know whether
to laugh at myself or weep
00:36:10.963 --> 00:36:14.655 align:center
when I confess that I no longer
wish to be an actor,
00:36:14.656 --> 00:36:15.795 align:center
but a preacher.
00:36:17.556 --> 00:36:20.627 align:center
The pulpit will be my stage.
00:36:20.628 --> 00:36:23.561 align:center
If, as an actor,
I can make fiction believable,
00:36:23.562 --> 00:36:25.390 align:center
imagine what could happen
00:36:25.391 --> 00:36:27.428 align:center
if I speak the truth
from my heart.
00:36:28.808 --> 00:36:33.329 align:center
I have been meditating
upon Psalm 139 every day,
00:36:33.330 --> 00:36:36.021 align:center
"Lord, search my heart.
00:36:36.022 --> 00:36:39.335 align:center
"See if there is
any offensive way in me,
00:36:39.336 --> 00:36:41.442 align:center
"and lead me
in the way everlasting."
00:36:43.064 --> 00:36:45.755 align:center
I will pray
more than any other.
00:36:45.756 --> 00:36:48.448 align:center
I will fast
more than any other.
00:36:48.449 --> 00:36:51.210 align:center
I will make
my Heavenly Father proud.
00:36:53.833 --> 00:36:55.765 align:center
You will not hear from me
for a while,
00:36:55.766 --> 00:36:58.320 align:center
as I am entering into
a time of fasting,
00:36:58.321 --> 00:37:00.771 align:center
a rejection
of all earthly pleasures.
00:37:02.014 --> 00:37:03.773 align:center
I love you, Mum.
00:37:03.774 --> 00:37:06.743 align:center
Your God-fearing son, Georgie.
00:37:14.509 --> 00:37:16.993 align:center
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
00:37:16.994 --> 00:37:18.167 align:center
[KNOCKING AT DOOR]
00:37:18.168 --> 00:37:19.617 align:center
George!
00:37:19.618 --> 00:37:22.378 align:center
George, you must leave your room
and get some fresh air!
00:37:22.379 --> 00:37:24.518 align:center
Bathe!
00:37:24.519 --> 00:37:28.108 align:center
George! You haven't eaten
for nearly a month.
00:37:28.109 --> 00:37:30.317 align:center
- [KNOCKING AT DOOR]
- BENJAMIN: Hmm.
00:37:30.318 --> 00:37:32.527 align:center
So much for
my first line of defense.
00:37:37.014 --> 00:37:39.809 align:center
BENNY: Uh,
General Washington, sir.
00:37:39.810 --> 00:37:41.950 align:center
GENERAL: Dr. Franklin,
do not stand for my sake.
00:37:43.227 --> 00:37:45.091 align:center
General, please come inside.
00:37:45.851 --> 00:37:47.784 align:center
Eliza, gather the dishes.
00:37:50.511 --> 00:37:52.374 align:center
The storm will arrive
at any moment.
00:37:52.375 --> 00:37:53.789 align:center
It's already here.
00:37:53.790 --> 00:37:55.929 align:center
May I get you tea
or coffee, sir?
00:37:55.930 --> 00:37:58.208 align:center
No, you are very kind,
but I will not be long.
00:37:59.451 --> 00:38:00.866 align:center
SARAH: Goodnight then.
00:38:03.455 --> 00:38:04.421 align:center
Young man.
00:38:06.423 --> 00:38:08.667 align:center
If you wouldn't mind,
I wish for you to stay.
00:38:09.599 --> 00:38:10.772 align:center
This concerns you.
00:38:12.464 --> 00:38:13.568 align:center
Yes, sir.
00:38:16.778 --> 00:38:19.574 align:center
Thank you for accommodating
my sudden intrusion.
00:38:20.610 --> 00:38:23.543 align:center
I've just returned
from a brief trip
00:38:23.544 --> 00:38:25.442 align:center
to an old familiar valley...
00:38:26.270 --> 00:38:27.617 align:center
18 miles from here.
00:38:29.170 --> 00:38:30.343 align:center
Valley Forge.
00:38:35.107 --> 00:38:37.799 align:center
GENERAL: It's beautiful
and thriving now.
00:38:41.044 --> 00:38:42.148 align:center
Ten years ago,
00:38:43.495 --> 00:38:45.289 align:center
it was our Gethsemane.
00:38:51.123 --> 00:38:54.436 align:center
Men marching through ice
and snow without shoes,
00:38:54.437 --> 00:38:58.060 align:center
their path traced by the blood
from their feet.
00:38:58.061 --> 00:39:00.545 align:center
[WIND HOWLING]
00:39:00.546 --> 00:39:02.271 align:center
Without clothes
to cover their nakedness,
00:39:02.272 --> 00:39:04.067 align:center
without blankets to lie on.
00:39:06.034 --> 00:39:09.106 align:center
Enduring endless nights,
00:39:11.177 --> 00:39:15.733 align:center
desperate for the sun
to break over the horizon.
00:39:15.734 --> 00:39:17.149 align:center
[THUNDERCLAP]
00:39:18.771 --> 00:39:21.532 align:center
I was certain Valley Forge
would be the darkest valley
00:39:21.533 --> 00:39:23.466 align:center
we ever walked through
as a nation.
00:39:25.537 --> 00:39:26.607 align:center
And I was wrong.
00:39:29.886 --> 00:39:35.304 align:center
Today, we stand in
an even darker valley, Ben.
00:39:35.305 --> 00:39:36.927 align:center
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
00:39:37.997 --> 00:39:39.999 align:center
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
00:39:41.518 --> 00:39:43.485 align:center
We planted a tree
00:39:43.486 --> 00:39:46.558 align:center
that has been watered
by the blood of patriots.
00:39:49.215 --> 00:39:51.320 align:center
We did not plant it
for ourselves.
00:39:51.321 --> 00:39:53.219 align:center
We planted it for him...
00:39:55.670 --> 00:39:56.844 align:center
and his children,
00:39:58.708 --> 00:40:00.019 align:center
and their children...
00:40:02.194 --> 00:40:05.404 align:center
that they may have shelter
under its branches.
00:40:08.027 --> 00:40:11.029 align:center
The tree we planted
has hardly grown,
00:40:11.030 --> 00:40:14.068 align:center
and already each state
has taken an ax to its trunk.
00:40:16.588 --> 00:40:19.280 align:center
If the disunity
within the states continues,
00:40:20.246 --> 00:40:21.903 align:center
if this convention fails,
00:40:23.560 --> 00:40:25.734 align:center
the sacrifice of those men
at Valley Forge
00:40:25.735 --> 00:40:27.771 align:center
and so many others
will be in vain.
00:40:30.291 --> 00:40:31.430 align:center
Now, Ben...
00:40:34.916 --> 00:40:36.434 align:center
I greatly admire
that you have been
00:40:36.435 --> 00:40:38.368 align:center
quick to listen
and slow to speak,
00:40:40.197 --> 00:40:42.683 align:center
but that tree we planted
is about to fall.
00:40:46.031 --> 00:40:48.102 align:center
This great experiment
needs you, Ben.
00:40:50.414 --> 00:40:51.484 align:center
I need you.
00:40:53.210 --> 00:40:56.628 align:center
We cannot let the sun set
on this nation.
00:41:03.876 --> 00:41:05.291 align:center
[WIND BLOWING]
00:41:06.948 --> 00:41:08.501 align:center
[THUNDERCLAP]
00:41:12.989 --> 00:41:14.541 align:center
[MUFFLED HORSE SNORTS,
WHINNIES]
00:41:14.542 --> 00:41:16.475 align:center
[HOOVES CLOPPING]
00:41:24.517 --> 00:41:25.588 align:center
Grandfather?
00:41:27.313 --> 00:41:28.418 align:center
Keep reading.
00:41:37.634 --> 00:41:41.119 align:center
George! You haven't eaten
for nearly a month.
00:41:41.120 --> 00:41:42.501 align:center
[DOORKNOB RATTLING]
00:41:45.469 --> 00:41:48.610 align:center
[WEAKLY] "Lord,
search my heart.
00:41:48.611 --> 00:41:51.752 align:center
"See if there is any offensive
way in me." [PANTING]
00:41:53.305 --> 00:41:55.582 align:center
[JOHN COUGHS]
00:41:55.583 --> 00:41:57.446 align:center
What has happened to you?
00:41:57.447 --> 00:41:59.966 align:center
I must crucify
my flesh, John.
00:41:59.967 --> 00:42:01.969 align:center
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
00:42:06.525 --> 00:42:07.664 align:center
JOHN: George!
00:42:10.702 --> 00:42:13.325 align:center
This is not holiness.
This is madness!
00:42:14.360 --> 00:42:15.464 align:center
George!
00:42:15.465 --> 00:42:17.501 align:center
[THUNDERCLAP]
00:42:18.364 --> 00:42:20.470 align:center
[ROUSING MUSIC PLAYING]
00:42:22.990 --> 00:42:24.060 align:center
Search me.
00:42:25.026 --> 00:42:26.200 align:center
Search my heart.
00:42:34.001 --> 00:42:36.348 align:center
[YELLS]
Why isn't this working?
00:42:40.007 --> 00:42:43.010 align:center
[MUSIC CRESCENDOES, FADES]
00:42:49.706 --> 00:42:50.673 align:center
JOHN: [MUFFLED] George!
00:42:51.397 --> 00:42:52.398 align:center
George!
00:42:53.054 --> 00:42:54.159 align:center
George!
00:43:00.890 --> 00:43:01.994 align:center
Keep him fed.
00:43:03.616 --> 00:43:06.136 align:center
He cannot afford to lose
another pound.
00:43:08.829 --> 00:43:10.070 align:center
Had you not intervened,
00:43:10.071 --> 00:43:12.349 align:center
he would most certainly
have died.
00:43:15.180 --> 00:43:16.250 align:center
Thank you, Doctor.
00:43:18.597 --> 00:43:19.736 align:center
[DOOR OPENS]
00:43:21.911 --> 00:43:23.050 align:center
[DOOR CLOSES]
00:43:34.233 --> 00:43:35.648 align:center
GEORGE: Why did you
get in the way?
00:43:38.375 --> 00:43:39.929 align:center
Because you're
killing yourself.
00:43:42.172 --> 00:43:43.415 align:center
GEORGE: I would rather die
00:43:44.657 --> 00:43:46.314 align:center
and be in His Holy Presence
00:43:47.419 --> 00:43:50.491 align:center
than go on living
in this unholy body.
00:43:53.045 --> 00:43:54.737 align:center
You have been deceived
by Satan.
00:43:55.979 --> 00:43:57.428 align:center
You are feasting on a lie.
00:43:57.429 --> 00:43:58.809 align:center
GEORGE: I am focusing on God.
00:43:58.810 --> 00:44:01.397 align:center
- You are focusing on yourself.
- How dare you, John.
00:44:01.398 --> 00:44:03.606 align:center
JOHN: How dare you, George!
00:44:03.607 --> 00:44:05.608 align:center
Insulting the Heavenly Father
in this way!
00:44:05.609 --> 00:44:07.818 align:center
I am making Him proud of me.
00:44:07.819 --> 00:44:09.648 align:center
JOHN:
Making Him proud of you?
00:44:14.170 --> 00:44:15.618 align:center
When Jesus emerged
from the water
00:44:15.619 --> 00:44:17.206 align:center
after He was baptized,
00:44:17.207 --> 00:44:19.278 align:center
what did His Heavenly Father
say to Him?
00:44:20.452 --> 00:44:22.281 align:center
Well, go on,
you know the scripture.
00:44:24.352 --> 00:44:25.664 align:center
"This is my beloved Son."
00:44:28.840 --> 00:44:29.944 align:center
What else?
00:44:31.118 --> 00:44:32.671 align:center
"In whom I am well pleased."
00:44:36.675 --> 00:44:41.576 align:center
"In whom I am well pleased."
00:44:43.302 --> 00:44:46.581 align:center
Did Jesus perform any mighty
works before that moment?
00:44:49.861 --> 00:44:51.103 align:center
Not a single one.
00:44:52.208 --> 00:44:54.486 align:center
So, why then
was His Father so proud?
00:44:57.489 --> 00:44:59.146 align:center
Because He was His Son.
00:45:03.806 --> 00:45:06.291 align:center
Because He loved His child.
00:45:07.395 --> 00:45:09.293 align:center
Don't you see?
00:45:09.294 --> 00:45:12.124 align:center
It's not you, it's...
it's Christ in you!
00:45:15.231 --> 00:45:17.474 align:center
You must either receive it
as a gift
00:45:18.890 --> 00:45:20.512 align:center
or reject it altogether.
00:45:22.203 --> 00:45:25.137 align:center
So choose, George.
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
00:45:28.382 --> 00:45:30.142 align:center
[JOHN SIGHS, PATS ON BACK]
00:45:34.319 --> 00:45:36.839 align:center
[ENTHRALLING MUSIC PLAYING]
00:45:41.878 --> 00:45:44.535 align:center
You are George Whitefield,
00:45:44.536 --> 00:45:47.435 align:center
in whom the Lord
is well pleased.
00:45:53.441 --> 00:45:55.271 align:center
[LAUGHING]
00:46:01.898 --> 00:46:03.866 align:center
Speak from the Word.
00:46:04.936 --> 00:46:06.799 align:center
Enlightening speak.
00:46:08.042 --> 00:46:10.355 align:center
Cry out and thunder
from the Word.
00:46:14.946 --> 00:46:16.739 align:center
[LAUGHTER]
00:46:16.740 --> 00:46:18.017 align:center
What are you doing?
00:46:18.018 --> 00:46:19.226 align:center
[ALL LAUGHING]
00:46:22.194 --> 00:46:24.541 align:center
[LAUGHTER CONTINUES, FADES]
00:46:25.957 --> 00:46:27.372 align:center
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
00:46:29.374 --> 00:46:34.516 align:center
Your great-grandfather
owned a candle shop.
00:46:34.517 --> 00:46:36.932 align:center
- I worked there as a boy.
- [MATCHSTICK STRIKES]
00:46:36.933 --> 00:46:38.451 align:center
He used to say,
00:46:38.452 --> 00:46:43.388 align:center
"One tiny candle
illuminates a thousand."
00:46:44.492 --> 00:46:46.598 align:center
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
What do you mean?
00:46:48.565 --> 00:46:53.431 align:center
I mean, the Church of England
was not ready
00:46:53.432 --> 00:46:56.227 align:center
for an awakened
Reverend George Whitefield.
00:46:56.228 --> 00:46:57.264 align:center
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
00:46:59.438 --> 00:47:01.094 align:center
[ORGAN MUSIC PLAYING]
00:47:01.095 --> 00:47:02.958 align:center
PRIEST:
"Spare thou them, O God,
00:47:02.959 --> 00:47:05.547 align:center
"restore thou those
that are penitent,
00:47:05.548 --> 00:47:08.930 align:center
"that we may live hereafter
a godly and sober life
00:47:08.931 --> 00:47:11.035 align:center
"to the glory
of Thy holy name."
00:47:11.036 --> 00:47:12.347 align:center
[CHURCHGOERS COUGH]
00:47:12.348 --> 00:47:15.798 align:center
"O God,
make speed to save us."
00:47:15.799 --> 00:47:19.838 align:center
CHURCHGOERS: "O Lord,
make haste to help us."
00:47:22.220 --> 00:47:23.980 align:center
[SNICKERS]
00:47:24.947 --> 00:47:26.292 align:center
[BABY CRYING]
00:47:26.293 --> 00:47:27.639 align:center
- [BOOK THUDS]
- Amen.
00:47:30.262 --> 00:47:33.333 align:center
The congregation
has grown quite large.
00:47:33.334 --> 00:47:38.407 align:center
Presumably in anticipation
of our guest speaker
00:47:38.408 --> 00:47:41.341 align:center
who has excited many
of late and created
00:47:41.342 --> 00:47:44.138 align:center
not a little following
for himself.
00:47:45.795 --> 00:47:49.660 align:center
I'm very sorry to
see you here, Mr. Whitefield.
00:47:49.661 --> 00:47:52.180 align:center
PRIEST:
So without further ado...
00:47:52.181 --> 00:47:53.871 align:center
So is the devil.
00:47:53.872 --> 00:47:57.358 align:center
PRIEST: ...the Reverend
George Whitefield.
00:47:59.636 --> 00:48:02.398 align:center
[SOFTLY] Adjust your wig,
Mr. Whitefield.
00:48:23.557 --> 00:48:25.766 align:center
[INDISTINCT WHISPERS]
00:48:30.150 --> 00:48:34.394 align:center
In 1675,
the Archbishop of Canterbury
00:48:34.395 --> 00:48:36.293 align:center
became acquainted
with a certain actor
00:48:36.294 --> 00:48:39.986 align:center
of some renown, Mr. Betterton.
00:48:39.987 --> 00:48:43.714 align:center
One day, the archbishop said,
"Mr. Betterton,
00:48:43.715 --> 00:48:49.099 align:center
"pray, tell me, how is it
that you actors on the stage
00:48:49.100 --> 00:48:50.997 align:center
"can so move your audiences
00:48:50.998 --> 00:48:53.620 align:center
"whilst speaking
of things imaginary,
00:48:53.621 --> 00:48:57.521 align:center
"while we, in the pulpit,
speak of things real,
00:48:57.522 --> 00:48:59.454 align:center
"which our
congregations receive
00:48:59.455 --> 00:49:03.078 align:center
"as if they were
but imaginary things?"
00:49:03.079 --> 00:49:06.633 align:center
"Why, my lord,"
Mr. Betterton replied,
00:49:06.634 --> 00:49:08.395 align:center
"the answer is quite plain.
00:49:09.465 --> 00:49:12.329 align:center
"We actors
speak of things imaginary
00:49:12.330 --> 00:49:14.296 align:center
"as if they were real,
00:49:14.297 --> 00:49:17.920 align:center
"while you, in the pulpit,
00:49:17.921 --> 00:49:21.959 align:center
"speak of things real
as if they were imaginary."
00:49:21.960 --> 00:49:23.892 align:center
[SOFT MURMURS]
00:49:23.893 --> 00:49:26.032 align:center
- Therefore...
- [ROUSING MUSIC PLAYS]
00:49:26.033 --> 00:49:29.554 align:center
...I will not be
a velvet-mouthed preacher.
00:49:30.658 --> 00:49:32.245 align:center
[EXHALES]
00:49:32.246 --> 00:49:34.178 align:center
[IMPASSIONEDLY]
Do not be deceived!
00:49:34.179 --> 00:49:35.869 align:center
You may have
a religious head
00:49:35.870 --> 00:49:37.699 align:center
and yet have
the devil in your heart!
00:49:37.700 --> 00:49:40.081 align:center
Our Lord speaks
the same words to you
00:49:40.082 --> 00:49:42.876 align:center
as surely as He spoke them
to Nicodemus of old,
00:49:42.877 --> 00:49:44.638 align:center
"You must be born again!"
00:49:46.157 --> 00:49:49.366 align:center
Nicodemus,
respected, religious,
00:49:49.367 --> 00:49:51.230 align:center
renowned as righteous,
00:49:51.231 --> 00:49:52.921 align:center
and still
the Master commanded,
00:49:52.922 --> 00:49:54.510 align:center
"You must be born again!"
00:49:55.269 --> 00:49:56.649 align:center
Like the church at Sardis,
00:49:56.650 --> 00:49:58.478 align:center
he had a reputation
for being alive,
00:49:58.479 --> 00:50:00.273 align:center
and yet was dead inside.
00:50:00.274 --> 00:50:02.241 align:center
How many of our congregations
are dead,
00:50:02.242 --> 00:50:04.829 align:center
because they have dead men
preaching to them?
00:50:04.830 --> 00:50:07.591 align:center
How can dead men
beget living children?
00:50:07.592 --> 00:50:10.559 align:center
Therefore, Christ says to you,
"Because you are lukewarm,
00:50:10.560 --> 00:50:12.251 align:center
"neither hot nor cold,
00:50:12.252 --> 00:50:15.806 align:center
"I'm about to spit you
out of my mouth!"
00:50:15.807 --> 00:50:18.636 align:center
Do not trust in your
good works for salvation,
00:50:18.637 --> 00:50:21.950 align:center
or that your name is written
in the church registry.
00:50:21.951 --> 00:50:23.227 align:center
I tell you,
there is only one book
00:50:23.228 --> 00:50:24.815 align:center
where your name
must be written,
00:50:24.816 --> 00:50:27.024 align:center
and that is
the Lamb's Book of Life!
00:50:27.025 --> 00:50:28.681 align:center
Is your name written there?
00:50:28.682 --> 00:50:29.958 align:center
- Is it there?
- CHURCHGOERS: Yes.
00:50:29.959 --> 00:50:31.097 align:center
- Do you know?
- [DOOR THUDS]
00:50:31.098 --> 00:50:32.134 align:center
CHURCHGOERS: Yes!
PRIEST: Stop this!
00:50:33.997 --> 00:50:35.619 align:center
GEORGE: Come! Come!
00:50:35.620 --> 00:50:38.587 align:center
Come just as you are
to Christ! For in Him,
00:50:38.588 --> 00:50:41.487 align:center
there is neither religious
nor irreligious,
00:50:41.488 --> 00:50:44.593 align:center
slave nor free,
male nor female!
00:50:44.594 --> 00:50:46.181 align:center
All are one in Christ Jesus!
00:50:46.182 --> 00:50:49.011 align:center
PRIEST 2: Rebuke this
riotous crowd immediately!
00:50:49.012 --> 00:50:50.496 align:center
PRIEST: Stop this!
00:50:50.497 --> 00:50:53.326 align:center
I know not what sorcery or
witchcraft you invoked today,
00:50:53.327 --> 00:50:56.295 align:center
but it will not be tolerated
in my house of God!
00:50:56.296 --> 00:50:57.675 align:center
Your house of God?
00:50:57.676 --> 00:50:59.125 align:center
PRIEST: You are banned
from preaching
00:50:59.126 --> 00:51:01.714 align:center
in His Majesty King George's
church again!
00:51:01.715 --> 00:51:03.509 align:center
If I cannot preach inside,
00:51:03.510 --> 00:51:05.718 align:center
then I will go outside
into the streets
00:51:05.719 --> 00:51:09.377 align:center
and the fields to the orphans,
the slaves, the widows,
00:51:09.378 --> 00:51:11.379 align:center
and compel them
to come into the house
00:51:11.380 --> 00:51:14.175 align:center
of the one true king,
Jesus Christ!
00:51:14.176 --> 00:51:16.832 align:center
It is prohibited
for an Anglican minister
00:51:16.833 --> 00:51:20.008 align:center
to... to preach outside
to the ignorant masses!
00:51:20.009 --> 00:51:21.596 align:center
PRIEST:
I will see you defrocked
00:51:21.597 --> 00:51:23.978 align:center
as an Anglican minister!
00:51:24.738 --> 00:51:25.979 align:center
Blind guides!
00:51:25.980 --> 00:51:27.567 align:center
Let the dead
preach to the dead.
00:51:27.568 --> 00:51:30.536 align:center
But I will proclaim freedom
and Christ to all who believe,
00:51:30.537 --> 00:51:32.538 align:center
and the gates of hell
will not prevail!
00:51:32.539 --> 00:51:34.056 align:center
PRIEST: Get out!
00:51:34.057 --> 00:51:36.852 align:center
MAN: Yes!
WOMAN: Yes!
00:51:36.853 --> 00:51:38.303 align:center
CHURCHGOERS: Amen!
MAN 2: Amen.
00:51:40.719 --> 00:51:43.239 align:center
ALL: Amen. Amen.
MAN 2: Amen.
00:51:44.378 --> 00:51:46.068 align:center
ALL: Amen.
00:51:46.069 --> 00:51:48.210 align:center
[INSPIRATIONAL MUSIC PLAYING]
00:51:52.317 --> 00:51:53.284 align:center
Ha!
00:52:38.156 --> 00:52:40.020 align:center
Fastest pulpit on four legs.
00:52:42.298 --> 00:52:43.505 align:center
Let's try something new.
00:52:43.506 --> 00:52:44.507 align:center
[HORSE WHINNIES]
00:53:03.285 --> 00:53:06.115 align:center
- [BELL CLANGING]
- [CROW CAWING]
00:53:34.454 --> 00:53:36.870 align:center
Hey, now go.
00:53:37.664 --> 00:53:39.010 align:center
Stop starin', you rat!
00:53:42.013 --> 00:53:43.186 align:center
[HORSE WHINNIES]
00:53:46.535 --> 00:53:47.914 align:center
What's this?
00:53:47.915 --> 00:53:50.158 align:center
A priest with a pulpit
but no church?
00:53:50.159 --> 00:53:52.816 align:center
[MINERS LAUGH]
00:53:52.817 --> 00:53:54.750 align:center
You come to look down on us,
Priest?
00:53:55.544 --> 00:53:56.579 align:center
It's for the crowd.
00:53:57.546 --> 00:53:58.684 align:center
The crowd?
00:53:58.685 --> 00:54:00.479 align:center
MINER 1: It's for the crowd,
he says!
00:54:00.480 --> 00:54:01.721 align:center
- [LAUGHTER]
- GEORGE: Did you know
00:54:01.722 --> 00:54:03.171 align:center
that Jesus said,
00:54:03.172 --> 00:54:05.415 align:center
"Let the children come to me,
00:54:05.416 --> 00:54:08.350 align:center
"for theirs is
the Kingdom of Heaven"?
00:54:10.455 --> 00:54:11.594 align:center
MINER 1:
You're not wanted here.
00:54:12.699 --> 00:54:14.252 align:center
No, but needed.
00:54:17.428 --> 00:54:19.119 align:center
MINER 1: I told you to go!
00:54:19.947 --> 00:54:21.223 align:center
Now, go! [GRUNTS]
00:54:21.224 --> 00:54:22.501 align:center
[GRUNTS]
00:54:22.502 --> 00:54:24.366 align:center
[ALL GRUNTING]
00:54:29.854 --> 00:54:31.648 align:center
- MINER 2: Off you go then.
- [GRUNTS]
00:54:31.649 --> 00:54:34.134 align:center
[BREATHING HEAVILY, SPITS]
00:54:35.584 --> 00:54:37.688 align:center
Must I tell you
00:54:37.689 --> 00:54:40.761 align:center
of the bitter fruit
of the deeds of darkness?
00:54:43.419 --> 00:54:46.388 align:center
Nay, I think not,
00:54:47.734 --> 00:54:49.701 align:center
for I see you to be as I was,
00:54:51.289 --> 00:54:55.534 align:center
acquainted with grief,
with lack,
00:54:55.535 --> 00:54:58.607 align:center
with unrelenting sorrow
in your soul,
00:55:00.229 --> 00:55:03.922 align:center
ever anxious and fearful
of what may happen.
00:55:05.717 --> 00:55:08.513 align:center
Longing to be pure,
00:55:09.894 --> 00:55:13.414 align:center
but hopelessly defiled,
00:55:13.415 --> 00:55:17.072 align:center
- then fly! Fly, my brothers!
- [SENTIMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING]
00:55:17.073 --> 00:55:20.248 align:center
Fly for your lives
to Jesus Christ!
00:55:20.249 --> 00:55:22.458 align:center
Fly to the bleeding God!
00:55:23.804 --> 00:55:26.910 align:center
Fly to the throne of mercy
00:55:26.911 --> 00:55:31.156 align:center
and beg Him,
beg Him to preach your heart!
00:55:32.157 --> 00:55:35.401 align:center
Beg Him to show you your sin!
00:55:35.402 --> 00:55:39.820 align:center
Beg Him to give you faith
to close with Christ!
00:55:41.684 --> 00:55:44.204 align:center
For He, too,
was a man of sorrows,
00:55:45.516 --> 00:55:47.034 align:center
acquainted with grief.
00:55:52.108 --> 00:55:53.730 align:center
[INHALES SHARPLY]
00:55:53.731 --> 00:55:56.112 align:center
[LOUDLY] Awake, O sleeper!
00:55:56.803 --> 00:55:58.943 align:center
Arise from the dead!
00:56:00.841 --> 00:56:05.466 align:center
Can you hear Him calling
as Lazarus did?
00:56:05.467 --> 00:56:07.469 align:center
[ECHOING]
Buried deep in the earth!
00:56:08.539 --> 00:56:10.472 align:center
Darkness all around!
00:56:11.334 --> 00:56:13.026 align:center
Arise!
00:56:16.547 --> 00:56:19.826 align:center
Arise! Come forth!
00:56:22.173 --> 00:56:23.691 align:center
- What was that?
- [SHUSHES]
00:56:23.692 --> 00:56:25.037 align:center
Listen.
00:56:25.038 --> 00:56:26.348 align:center
GEORGE: [ECHOING]
In the beginning,
00:56:26.349 --> 00:56:28.420 align:center
darkness covered
the face of the deep.
00:56:30.388 --> 00:56:34.703 align:center
And the voice of the ancient
of days called forth,
00:56:35.566 --> 00:56:37.499 align:center
"Let there be light!"
00:56:39.224 --> 00:56:40.916 align:center
And in the fullness of time,
00:56:42.538 --> 00:56:45.230 align:center
Christ proclaimed
for all the world to know,
00:56:46.646 --> 00:56:48.095 align:center
"I am the light of life.
00:56:49.683 --> 00:56:51.340 align:center
"If anyone follows me,
00:56:52.859 --> 00:56:54.688 align:center
"he will never walk
in darkness,
00:56:56.103 --> 00:56:57.864 align:center
"but will have
the light of life."
00:57:09.669 --> 00:57:10.670 align:center
[GROANS SOFTLY]
00:57:16.745 --> 00:57:19.679 align:center
Though your sins
are black as coal,
00:57:21.266 --> 00:57:24.856 align:center
His blood will wash you
white as snow.
00:57:26.064 --> 00:57:27.203 align:center
He knows you.
00:57:28.377 --> 00:57:29.758 align:center
And He loves you.
00:57:34.763 --> 00:57:35.971 align:center
He won't have me.
00:57:40.216 --> 00:57:42.391 align:center
- He created you.
- [MINER 1 SOBS]
00:57:45.221 --> 00:57:46.222 align:center
[WHIMPERS]
00:57:46.947 --> 00:57:48.880 align:center
[CRYING]
00:57:56.060 --> 00:57:57.958 align:center
My... My children.
00:57:59.891 --> 00:58:01.479 align:center
My children, forgive me.
00:58:09.004 --> 00:58:11.247 align:center
Forgive me, please. [SOBBING]
00:58:13.284 --> 00:58:14.596 align:center
[WOMAN SOBS]
00:58:24.536 --> 00:58:28.092 align:center
Will you surrender
your life to Christ
00:58:29.162 --> 00:58:30.749 align:center
as this man has done?
00:58:30.750 --> 00:58:32.303 align:center
ALL: Yes.
00:58:33.200 --> 00:58:34.615 align:center
Will you trust Him?
00:58:34.616 --> 00:58:36.271 align:center
ALL: Yes.
00:58:36.272 --> 00:58:39.654 align:center
GEORGE: Will you let His blood
seep into your hardened heart
00:58:39.655 --> 00:58:42.415 align:center
and transform you
from the inside out?
00:58:42.416 --> 00:58:44.659 align:center
ALL: Yes.
GEORGE: Will you trust Him?
00:58:44.660 --> 00:58:45.764 align:center
ALL: Yes.
00:58:45.765 --> 00:58:47.800 align:center
MINER 3: Yes.
MINER 4: Yes.
00:58:47.801 --> 00:58:49.250 align:center
GEORGE: Thank you, Father.
00:58:49.251 --> 00:58:50.286 align:center
MINERS: Thank you, Jesus.
00:58:55.567 --> 00:58:57.673 align:center
[CAPTIVATING MUSIC PLAYING]
00:59:22.387 --> 00:59:24.113 align:center
BENJAMIN:
The people embraced him.
00:59:25.045 --> 00:59:28.116 align:center
The Church of England did not.
00:59:28.117 --> 00:59:31.223 align:center
And not only did they kick him
out of their parishes,
00:59:31.224 --> 00:59:33.329 align:center
they kicked him
out of their country.
00:59:34.848 --> 00:59:36.194 align:center
Well, where did he go?
00:59:37.023 --> 00:59:39.681 align:center
[THRILLING MUSIC PLAYING]
01:00:02.565 --> 01:00:04.256 align:center
Arriving from England,
01:00:04.257 --> 01:00:06.603 align:center
the Reverend George Whitefield,
01:00:06.604 --> 01:00:11.471 align:center
to preach repentance
in New York, Pennsylvania,
01:00:12.610 --> 01:00:15.267 align:center
Massachusetts, Rhode Island.
01:00:15.268 --> 01:00:16.682 align:center
[EXCITED CHATTER]
01:00:16.683 --> 01:00:17.994 align:center
Arriving from England,
01:00:17.995 --> 01:00:20.238 align:center
the Reverend George Whitefield.
01:00:26.106 --> 01:00:28.281 align:center
[THRILLING MUSIC CONTINUES]
01:00:40.949 --> 01:00:42.018 align:center
Sir!
01:00:42.019 --> 01:00:43.054 align:center
Not even a good morning,
young lady?
01:00:43.986 --> 01:00:45.124 align:center
Father.
01:00:45.125 --> 01:00:47.264 align:center
Mr. Franklin,
a reverend named George...
01:00:47.265 --> 01:00:49.439 align:center
BENJAMIN: Whitefield,
yes, I am aware of him
01:00:49.440 --> 01:00:51.786 align:center
and his departure from England
for our colonies.
01:00:51.787 --> 01:00:53.615 align:center
He's been drawing
tremendous crowds.
01:00:53.616 --> 01:00:55.790 align:center
- Crowds as large as...
- BENJAMIN: Twenty-five thousand.
01:00:55.791 --> 01:00:58.379 align:center
You know, since my youth,
01:00:58.380 --> 01:01:00.726 align:center
I have struggled to believe
that a single voice,
01:01:00.727 --> 01:01:02.417 align:center
say that of an army general,
01:01:02.418 --> 01:01:04.557 align:center
could be heard
by thousands of his soldiers
01:01:04.558 --> 01:01:07.596 align:center
without significant aid
in volume amplification.
01:01:09.080 --> 01:01:10.494 align:center
Yes, sir.
01:01:10.495 --> 01:01:11.633 align:center
Anyway, he...
01:01:11.634 --> 01:01:12.911 align:center
Now, I am not doubting
01:01:12.912 --> 01:01:14.982 align:center
Whitefield's skill
as a powerful orator.
01:01:14.983 --> 01:01:16.259 align:center
I am doubting, however,
01:01:16.260 --> 01:01:18.502 align:center
the unfounded claim
that he can be heard
01:01:18.503 --> 01:01:20.194 align:center
and understood by so many.
01:01:20.195 --> 01:01:22.679 align:center
There's simply not enough data
to support such a claim.
01:01:22.680 --> 01:01:25.095 align:center
And without evidence,
I won't believe it.
01:01:25.096 --> 01:01:28.236 align:center
You don't believe the stories
from London are true?
01:01:28.237 --> 01:01:29.928 align:center
I believe that
fish grow larger
01:01:29.929 --> 01:01:32.413 align:center
as they cross the Atlantic.
01:01:32.414 --> 01:01:33.932 align:center
- Hmm? [CHUCKLES]
- [CLAMORING OUTSIDE]
01:01:33.933 --> 01:01:37.625 align:center
But fish tale or not,
religion sells papers.
01:01:37.626 --> 01:01:40.421 align:center
And printers all over
the colonies, myself included,
01:01:40.422 --> 01:01:43.804 align:center
have already made a profit
from this English preacher.
01:01:43.805 --> 01:01:47.290 align:center
So, we shall see how long
Pennsylvania Gazette
01:01:47.291 --> 01:01:50.156 align:center
can ride the Whitefield wave.
[CHUCKLES]
01:01:50.846 --> 01:01:52.675 align:center
[CLAMORING CONTINUES]
01:01:55.057 --> 01:01:57.404 align:center
What is the matter
with the three of you?
01:01:58.543 --> 01:02:00.959 align:center
Reverend Whitefield is...
is here.
01:02:00.960 --> 01:02:02.305 align:center
BENJAMIN: Here? As in?
01:02:02.306 --> 01:02:04.377 align:center
- Philadelphia, sir.
- When?
01:02:05.205 --> 01:02:06.274 align:center
Now.
01:02:06.275 --> 01:02:08.830 align:center
Well,
why didn't you say so, girl?
01:02:12.040 --> 01:02:13.626 align:center
WILLIAM: Make way!
01:02:13.627 --> 01:02:14.974 align:center
Excuse me.
01:02:15.664 --> 01:02:16.940 align:center
Please, sir.
01:02:16.941 --> 01:02:18.529 align:center
What is that balcony
right there?
01:02:19.150 --> 01:02:21.463 align:center
Uh, the courthouse.
01:02:22.153 --> 01:02:23.464 align:center
That's the place.
01:02:23.465 --> 01:02:25.260 align:center
Thank you, sir.
God be with you.
01:02:26.986 --> 01:02:29.851 align:center
[CROWD CHEERING
AND APPLAUDING]
01:02:44.866 --> 01:02:47.696 align:center
I guess we're about to find out
how big this fish really is.
01:03:00.778 --> 01:03:02.814 align:center
The spirit of the Lord
is here, George.
01:03:04.023 --> 01:03:05.403 align:center
Their hearts are ready.
01:03:07.129 --> 01:03:08.959 align:center
- Are you?
- [EXHALES SHARPLY]
01:03:12.479 --> 01:03:16.551 align:center
Father, tear down
the name of Whitefield
01:03:16.552 --> 01:03:18.589 align:center
if it means Your name remains.
01:03:19.970 --> 01:03:21.040 align:center
Amen.
01:03:21.903 --> 01:03:22.938 align:center
Amen.
01:03:25.665 --> 01:03:27.839 align:center
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
01:03:30.256 --> 01:03:31.326 align:center
[GEORGE EXHALES]
01:03:34.467 --> 01:03:35.570 align:center
WOMAN: That's him!
01:03:35.571 --> 01:03:37.020 align:center
MAN: Welcome to Philadelphia,
Reverend!
01:03:37.021 --> 01:03:38.298 align:center
MAN 2: Bless you, Reverend!
01:03:40.266 --> 01:03:42.612 align:center
GEORGE: The spirit of the Lord
is upon me!
01:03:42.613 --> 01:03:44.234 align:center
For He has anointed me
01:03:44.235 --> 01:03:46.892 align:center
to preach the gospel
to the poor!
01:03:46.893 --> 01:03:49.619 align:center
To proclaim freedom
to the captives!
01:03:49.620 --> 01:03:52.588 align:center
And to set at liberty
those who are oppressed!
01:03:54.349 --> 01:03:56.557 align:center
City of Brotherly Love,
01:03:56.558 --> 01:03:58.317 align:center
the words of Christ,
our Savior,
01:03:58.318 --> 01:04:00.492 align:center
ring out to you this day!
01:04:00.493 --> 01:04:04.048 align:center
Whom the Son sets free
is free indeed.
01:04:04.704 --> 01:04:06.808 align:center
Dear God.
01:04:06.809 --> 01:04:08.603 align:center
GEORGE:
Why does Christ set free?
01:04:08.604 --> 01:04:10.364 align:center
Why does He bring new life?
01:04:10.365 --> 01:04:11.917 align:center
Because without Him,
01:04:11.918 --> 01:04:14.989 align:center
you're a condemned prisoner
of your sin.
01:04:14.990 --> 01:04:20.408 align:center
Market Street. 100 feet by
260 feet per block.
01:04:20.409 --> 01:04:21.996 align:center
Plus, 40 feet
on the side streets
01:04:21.997 --> 01:04:23.066 align:center
around to the wharf.
01:04:23.067 --> 01:04:25.068 align:center
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
01:04:25.069 --> 01:04:26.173 align:center
Let's see.
01:04:26.174 --> 01:04:29.279 align:center
Plus... A printer
without paper and ink.
01:04:29.280 --> 01:04:31.661 align:center
Excuse me. Pardon me.
[CHUCKLES]
01:04:31.662 --> 01:04:33.628 align:center
Pardon me. Excuse me.
01:04:33.629 --> 01:04:34.665 align:center
[DOOR OPENS]
01:04:39.635 --> 01:04:40.981 align:center
Where's my graphite stick?
01:04:40.982 --> 01:04:42.224 align:center
[SIGHS]
01:04:47.160 --> 01:04:49.680 align:center
Blasted, Joseph, have you seen
my graphite stick?
01:04:51.509 --> 01:04:54.133 align:center
GEORGE: Behold!
Old things have become new.
01:04:55.375 --> 01:04:57.307 align:center
JOSEPH: Have you ever heard
a voice like that?
01:04:57.308 --> 01:04:58.791 align:center
GEORGE: How many souls
are kept from Christ
01:04:58.792 --> 01:05:00.207 align:center
for fear of reproach?
01:05:00.208 --> 01:05:01.484 align:center
Of being marked with...
01:05:01.485 --> 01:05:03.796 align:center
Like a trumpet blast
from Heaven.
01:05:03.797 --> 01:05:06.454 align:center
GEORGE: We have a living hope
within us.
01:05:06.455 --> 01:05:09.251 align:center
And yet we fear to proclaim
that which we know is true!
01:05:10.666 --> 01:05:13.323 align:center
Are we in truth
ashamed of Christ?
01:05:13.324 --> 01:05:15.223 align:center
This is it, Mr. Franklin.
01:05:16.086 --> 01:05:17.707 align:center
Yes.
01:05:17.708 --> 01:05:20.055 align:center
- A real experiment.
- [GEORGE CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY]
01:05:22.678 --> 01:05:24.922 align:center
Discredit... [SIGHS]
01:05:26.924 --> 01:05:30.617 align:center
Either a rumor or fact.
01:05:31.411 --> 01:05:33.033 align:center
Yes. [LAUGHS]
01:05:33.034 --> 01:05:36.346 align:center
I ask you, ye men of letters,
01:05:36.347 --> 01:05:41.075 align:center
whether your great Lycurgus
or Solon, Pythagoras or Plato,
01:05:41.076 --> 01:05:42.766 align:center
Aristotle, Seneca, Cicero,
01:05:42.767 --> 01:05:44.768 align:center
all the heathen
moralists combined
01:05:44.769 --> 01:05:46.770 align:center
ever produced
a system of ethics
01:05:46.771 --> 01:05:49.566 align:center
any way comparable
with so long-lasting,
01:05:49.567 --> 01:05:51.534 align:center
so widespread in effect
01:05:51.535 --> 01:05:52.983 align:center
as the shining wisdom
01:05:52.984 --> 01:05:56.332 align:center
given by the one
they call Jesus of Nazareth.
01:05:56.333 --> 01:05:58.437 align:center
Divided by four,
01:05:58.438 --> 01:05:59.922 align:center
- plus another five.
- [SEAGULLS SQUAWKING]
01:06:00.578 --> 01:06:03.892 align:center
[SIGHS] Yeah, 6,000.
01:06:04.582 --> 01:06:05.756 align:center
How many, Mr. Franklin?
01:06:08.241 --> 01:06:10.794 align:center
According to my calculations,
01:06:10.795 --> 01:06:14.453 align:center
his voice can be heard
by 30,000.
01:06:14.454 --> 01:06:17.180 align:center
You say 30,000?
01:06:17.181 --> 01:06:19.872 align:center
- Philadelphia only has...
- Twenty thousand residents.
01:06:19.873 --> 01:06:22.565 align:center
[SLOW INSPIRATIONAL
MUSIC PLAYING]
01:06:22.566 --> 01:06:25.326 align:center
What if there be mysteries
in His religion?
01:06:25.327 --> 01:06:27.708 align:center
Are they not mysteries
of godliness?
01:06:27.709 --> 01:06:30.952 align:center
Are they not worthy of the God
who reveals them?
01:06:30.953 --> 01:06:35.267 align:center
Is it not the greatest mystery
that men who pretend to reason
01:06:35.268 --> 01:06:38.546 align:center
and search into the very
science of nature itself,
01:06:38.547 --> 01:06:40.238 align:center
and consequently
find a mystery
01:06:40.239 --> 01:06:42.032 align:center
in every blade of grass,
01:06:42.033 --> 01:06:44.138 align:center
should then be
so irrational as to decry
01:06:44.139 --> 01:06:46.382 align:center
all mysteries in religion?
01:06:46.383 --> 01:06:49.695 align:center
Where is the scribe?
Where is the wise?
01:06:49.696 --> 01:06:51.145 align:center
Where among you
is the disputer
01:06:51.146 --> 01:06:52.974 align:center
against
the Christian revelation?
01:06:52.975 --> 01:06:54.907 align:center
I ask you.
01:06:54.908 --> 01:06:56.978 align:center
Does not everything
without and within us
01:06:56.979 --> 01:06:59.912 align:center
conspire to prove
their divine origin?
01:06:59.913 --> 01:07:03.226 align:center
Was Christ Himself
not styled the Word of God?
01:07:03.227 --> 01:07:04.538 align:center
WOMAN: Lord, thank you.
01:07:04.539 --> 01:07:07.542 align:center
The fear of Him
is the beginning of knowledge.
01:07:08.681 --> 01:07:10.614 align:center
It's not a fish tale,
Mr. Franklin.
01:07:12.374 --> 01:07:15.618 align:center
Do not let
the flat, lifeless,
01:07:15.619 --> 01:07:17.275 align:center
stained-glass
reverence you see
01:07:17.276 --> 01:07:20.105 align:center
keep you a cool distance
from His fiery heart!
01:07:20.106 --> 01:07:21.969 align:center
For it is
the kindness of the Lord
01:07:21.970 --> 01:07:23.971 align:center
that leads us to repentance.
01:07:23.972 --> 01:07:26.180 align:center
And what does it
mean to repent,
01:07:26.181 --> 01:07:28.527 align:center
but to turn another way?
01:07:28.528 --> 01:07:32.255 align:center
What way shall we turn
in naught but darkness?
01:07:32.256 --> 01:07:33.498 align:center
What way shall we turn
01:07:33.499 --> 01:07:35.293 align:center
if not toward
the inextinguishable light
01:07:35.294 --> 01:07:37.122 align:center
of the risen sun?
01:07:37.123 --> 01:07:38.882 align:center
Who, though we reject Him,
01:07:38.883 --> 01:07:40.884 align:center
still pursues us
all our days?
01:07:40.885 --> 01:07:44.371 align:center
Oh! Does not your dead heart
quicken to life
01:07:44.372 --> 01:07:47.477 align:center
at the thought that you were
fashioned for such purpose,
01:07:47.478 --> 01:07:48.996 align:center
and have yet a part to play
01:07:48.997 --> 01:07:51.378 align:center
in the unfolding
Kingdom of God?
01:07:51.379 --> 01:07:53.207 align:center
Stand therefore, brethren,
01:07:53.208 --> 01:07:56.348 align:center
in the liberty wherewith
Christ hath made you free.
01:07:56.349 --> 01:07:58.281 align:center
Be not entangled
under the yoke
01:07:58.282 --> 01:07:59.594 align:center
of the bondage of sin.
01:08:00.388 --> 01:08:02.699 align:center
I commend you now all
01:08:02.700 --> 01:08:05.185 align:center
to Christ
in His infinite mercy,
01:08:05.186 --> 01:08:08.222 align:center
to whom, with the Father
and the Spirit,
01:08:08.223 --> 01:08:11.881 align:center
be all glory,
all honor, all power,
01:08:11.882 --> 01:08:14.401 align:center
now and forevermore!
01:08:14.402 --> 01:08:15.678 align:center
Amen!
01:08:15.679 --> 01:08:17.231 align:center
CROWD: Amen!
01:08:17.232 --> 01:08:19.613 align:center
GEORGE: Amen!
CROWD: Amen!
01:08:19.614 --> 01:08:20.890 align:center
GEORGE: Amen!
01:08:20.891 --> 01:08:22.650 align:center
CROWD: Amen!
01:08:22.651 --> 01:08:24.445 align:center
GEORGE: Awake, O sleeper.
01:08:24.446 --> 01:08:25.515 align:center
[CROWD CHEERING
AND APPLAUDING]
01:08:25.516 --> 01:08:27.069 align:center
The sun has risen.
01:08:32.799 --> 01:08:34.766 align:center
[EXCITED CHATTER]
01:08:34.767 --> 01:08:35.870 align:center
MAN 1: Please, Reverend.
01:08:35.871 --> 01:08:37.182 align:center
- Reverend!
- BENJAMIN: Excuse me.
01:08:37.183 --> 01:08:39.219 align:center
- Pardon me. Please, excuse me.
- MAN 2: Reverend.
01:08:39.220 --> 01:08:43.671 align:center
Please, excuse me. Pardon me.
Thank you. [PANTING]
01:08:43.672 --> 01:08:45.846 align:center
Excuse me, sir! It's me!
01:08:45.847 --> 01:08:47.054 align:center
Thank you for the help,
01:08:47.055 --> 01:08:49.090 align:center
but as you can see,
I have no time to speak.
01:08:49.091 --> 01:08:51.852 align:center
Is it possible to have
a word with the Reverend?
01:08:51.853 --> 01:08:53.025 align:center
WILLIAM: Not now.
01:08:53.026 --> 01:08:54.544 align:center
BENJAMIN: [SIGHS]
Perhaps tonight?
01:08:54.545 --> 01:08:56.891 align:center
Mr. Whitefield is engaged to
minister and preach
01:08:56.892 --> 01:08:57.961 align:center
well into the evening.
01:08:57.962 --> 01:08:59.204 align:center
I'm sorry.
01:08:59.205 --> 01:09:00.585 align:center
Oh, Mr. Franklin.
01:09:00.586 --> 01:09:03.071 align:center
Looks like Whitefield
gave you tomorrow's headline.
01:09:04.072 --> 01:09:06.591 align:center
- Are you Benjamin Franklin?
- I am.
01:09:06.592 --> 01:09:08.282 align:center
Proprietor of
the Pennsylvania Gazette?
01:09:08.283 --> 01:09:09.352 align:center
Yes.
01:09:09.353 --> 01:09:10.526 align:center
- William Seward.
- Oh.
01:09:10.527 --> 01:09:11.975 align:center
Mr. Whitefield was hoping
to meet with you.
01:09:11.976 --> 01:09:13.253 align:center
This must be providence.
01:09:13.254 --> 01:09:14.771 align:center
Ah. Or coincidence.
[CHUCKLES]
01:09:14.772 --> 01:09:16.704 align:center
It'll be late,
but we could visit you
01:09:16.705 --> 01:09:18.016 align:center
at your shop
when he is through.
01:09:18.017 --> 01:09:20.156 align:center
Uh, yes.
Very good. Thank you.
01:09:20.157 --> 01:09:21.295 align:center
Thank you.
01:09:21.296 --> 01:09:22.607 align:center
God bless you, Mr. Franklin.
01:09:22.608 --> 01:09:24.056 align:center
MAN 3: Please,
Reverend, please.
01:09:24.057 --> 01:09:26.231 align:center
All right.
01:09:26.232 --> 01:09:32.617 align:center
♪ From the oceans
through the valleys
01:09:32.618 --> 01:09:38.208 align:center
CROWD: [SINGING ALONG] ♪ From
the mainland to the shore
01:09:38.209 --> 01:09:44.456 align:center
♪ Let Your Kingdom
be awakened
01:09:44.457 --> 01:09:50.807 align:center
♪ In the hearts of men
once more
01:09:50.808 --> 01:09:56.951 align:center
♪ Call Your children
into freedom
01:09:56.952 --> 01:10:03.061 align:center
♪ Captive souls to liberty
01:10:03.062 --> 01:10:09.274 align:center
♪ Come awaken, Holy Spirit
01:10:09.275 --> 01:10:16.937 align:center
♪ Come awaken us today
01:10:16.938 --> 01:10:23.115 align:center
♪ I will serve
Thee, precious Jesus
01:10:23.116 --> 01:10:29.467 align:center
♪ Unto Thee I give my all
01:10:29.468 --> 01:10:35.921 align:center
♪ Lay my hands
unto Thy service
01:10:35.922 --> 01:10:42.618 align:center
♪ And my heart unto Thy call
01:10:42.619 --> 01:10:49.038 align:center
♪ Perish every fond ambition
01:10:49.039 --> 01:10:55.320 align:center
♪ Lay aside our selfish gain
01:10:55.321 --> 01:11:01.878 align:center
♪ All forsaken for Thy glory
01:11:01.879 --> 01:11:08.921 align:center
♪ Come awaken us today
01:11:12.303 --> 01:11:14.408 align:center
The whole world
has gone religious, Joseph.
01:11:14.409 --> 01:11:17.585 align:center
- [CROWD CHATTERING OUTSIDE]
- Yes, sir.
01:11:22.452 --> 01:11:24.211 align:center
[JOSEPH SIGHS]
01:11:24.212 --> 01:11:25.247 align:center
BENJAMIN: Well...
01:11:26.559 --> 01:11:28.699 align:center
tomorrow's Gazette shall read,
01:11:29.631 --> 01:11:33.565 align:center
"November 8th, 1739.
01:11:33.566 --> 01:11:36.535 align:center
"The Reverend George Whitefield
has arrived from England
01:11:37.881 --> 01:11:39.503 align:center
"to awaken the colonies."
01:11:41.298 --> 01:11:42.403 align:center
[CHUCKLES FAINTLY]
01:12:03.769 --> 01:12:06.253 align:center
You both may retire
for the night.
01:12:06.254 --> 01:12:08.359 align:center
Thank you for your endurance.
01:12:09.464 --> 01:12:11.396 align:center
And what about you, sir?
01:12:11.397 --> 01:12:15.814 align:center
Oh, I will plow deep
while sluggards sleep,
01:12:15.815 --> 01:12:20.199 align:center
so I will have corn to sell
and to keep. [CHUCKLES]
01:12:21.338 --> 01:12:22.339 align:center
Of course.
01:12:24.583 --> 01:12:26.585 align:center
[SOFTLY] Sweet pea, wake up.
01:12:28.034 --> 01:12:29.139 align:center
We must get going.
01:12:38.907 --> 01:12:42.358 align:center
- Mr. Franklin?
- BENJAMIN: Hmm?
01:12:42.359 --> 01:12:44.637 align:center
What did you make of Reverend
Whitefield's message today?
01:12:45.189 --> 01:12:46.983 align:center
Oh...
01:12:46.984 --> 01:12:48.779 align:center
I plan to make a lot from it.
01:12:53.612 --> 01:12:54.923 align:center
Goodnight, sir.
01:12:55.786 --> 01:12:57.201 align:center
Goodnight.
01:12:58.099 --> 01:12:59.133 align:center
Goodnight, Joseph.
01:12:59.134 --> 01:13:00.170 align:center
[KNOCK AT DOOR]
01:13:06.038 --> 01:13:07.141 align:center
Good evening.
01:13:07.142 --> 01:13:09.281 align:center
I'm looking for
a Mr. Benjamin Franklin.
01:13:09.282 --> 01:13:10.318 align:center
Uh...
01:13:11.388 --> 01:13:13.010 align:center
Yes, please.
01:13:15.426 --> 01:13:17.428 align:center
[SIGHS] What is your name?
01:13:18.015 --> 01:13:19.050 align:center
I'm Samuel.
01:13:19.051 --> 01:13:20.880 align:center
Samuel? That's a strong name.
01:13:21.398 --> 01:13:22.778 align:center
Who is this?
01:13:22.779 --> 01:13:24.296 align:center
Samantha, sir.
01:13:24.297 --> 01:13:27.541 align:center
Samantha, you are a great
blessing to your father.
01:13:27.542 --> 01:13:29.370 align:center
God bless you both.
01:13:29.371 --> 01:13:30.718 align:center
- SAMUEL: Bye.
- Good evening.
01:13:32.513 --> 01:13:35.654 align:center
Excuse me, sir,
what is your name?
01:13:37.172 --> 01:13:38.173 align:center
Me?
01:13:40.900 --> 01:13:42.176 align:center
Joseph.
01:13:42.177 --> 01:13:43.902 align:center
GEORGE: Joseph.
01:13:43.903 --> 01:13:45.664 align:center
That, too, is a strong name.
01:13:46.423 --> 01:13:47.424 align:center
Suits you.
01:13:50.289 --> 01:13:53.223 align:center
The Lord whom I serve
sees you.
01:14:01.196 --> 01:14:02.335 align:center
[EXHALES]
01:14:07.030 --> 01:14:08.583 align:center
Mr. Franklin.
01:14:09.688 --> 01:14:10.896 align:center
Reverend Whitefield.
01:14:11.828 --> 01:14:14.346 align:center
Please, call me "George."
01:14:14.347 --> 01:14:16.901 align:center
It is an honor
to finally meet you.
01:14:16.902 --> 01:14:18.593 align:center
Your reputation precedes you
in England.
01:14:19.594 --> 01:14:20.561 align:center
Oh?
01:14:22.252 --> 01:14:24.219 align:center
- Which one?
- [GEORGE CHUCKLING]
01:14:25.566 --> 01:14:28.429 align:center
Many there regard
your Poor Richard's Almanack
01:14:28.430 --> 01:14:30.431 align:center
as one of the lost books
of the Bible.
01:14:30.432 --> 01:14:32.917 align:center
Ah, you flatter me.
01:14:32.918 --> 01:14:34.712 align:center
But a man
wrapped up in himself
01:14:34.713 --> 01:14:36.438 align:center
makes a very small bundle.
01:14:36.991 --> 01:14:38.716 align:center
Indeed.
01:14:38.717 --> 01:14:40.752 align:center
Do you belong to
a local parish?
01:14:40.753 --> 01:14:44.136 align:center
I am a friend to every church,
but a member of none.
01:14:45.586 --> 01:14:46.587 align:center
I see.
01:14:47.518 --> 01:14:48.588 align:center
Yes.
01:14:48.589 --> 01:14:50.590 align:center
GEORGE: Hmm.
BENJAMIN: Hmm.
01:14:50.591 --> 01:14:52.557 align:center
- [DOOR OPENS]
- [CROWD CHATTERING]
01:14:52.558 --> 01:14:55.457 align:center
You will have to wait
until morning. [SIGHS]
01:14:59.185 --> 01:15:00.738 align:center
Do you mind if I...
01:15:00.739 --> 01:15:02.533 align:center
- [GRUNTS FAINTLY]
- WILLIAM: Ah. [CHUCKLES]
01:15:03.742 --> 01:15:04.776 align:center
Thank you.
01:15:04.777 --> 01:15:06.606 align:center
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
01:15:06.607 --> 01:15:07.710 align:center
- I am interested in...
- I am interested in work...
01:15:07.711 --> 01:15:08.780 align:center
...working with you.
01:15:08.781 --> 01:15:10.748 align:center
Oh.
[CHUCKLES] Please proceed.
01:15:10.749 --> 01:15:12.128 align:center
[CHUCKLES]
01:15:12.129 --> 01:15:15.166 align:center
The Pennsylvania Gazette
is the leading newspaper
01:15:15.167 --> 01:15:17.409 align:center
in His Majesty's 13 colonies.
01:15:17.410 --> 01:15:19.101 align:center
It would be
extremely effective
01:15:19.102 --> 01:15:20.965 align:center
in communicating
your whereabouts
01:15:20.966 --> 01:15:23.484 align:center
to ensure
the largest crowds possible.
01:15:23.485 --> 01:15:27.661 align:center
And with it, the largest
possible offerings.
01:15:27.662 --> 01:15:29.490 align:center
GEORGE: Well, that is
very thoughtful of you.
01:15:29.491 --> 01:15:30.802 align:center
I am endeavoring
to raise funds
01:15:30.803 --> 01:15:32.218 align:center
for an orphanage in Georgia.
01:15:33.116 --> 01:15:35.324 align:center
I'm sure you are. [CHUCKLES]
01:15:35.325 --> 01:15:36.981 align:center
Partnering with me
would guarantee
01:15:36.982 --> 01:15:39.536 align:center
the maximum benefit
to your cause...
01:15:41.780 --> 01:15:43.816 align:center
and mine. [CHUCKLES]
01:15:44.817 --> 01:15:47.129 align:center
A match made in heaven.
01:15:47.130 --> 01:15:49.373 align:center
Or just a deal
made in a print shop.
01:15:51.928 --> 01:15:53.583 align:center
[BENJAMIN CHUCKLES]
01:15:53.584 --> 01:15:54.861 align:center
Now, as business partners,
01:15:54.862 --> 01:15:57.829 align:center
whenever you're in my city
and you need lodging,
01:15:57.830 --> 01:15:59.969 align:center
my home will be made
available to you.
01:15:59.970 --> 01:16:02.316 align:center
That is a very kind offer
for the sake of Christ.
01:16:02.317 --> 01:16:03.593 align:center
Well, it's not
for Christ's sake.
01:16:03.594 --> 01:16:05.561 align:center
It's for yours. [CHUCKLES]
01:16:05.562 --> 01:16:06.770 align:center
Shall we dunk the papers then?
01:16:07.391 --> 01:16:08.529 align:center
Tonight?
01:16:08.530 --> 01:16:09.910 align:center
Wasn't it Poor Richard
who said,
01:16:09.911 --> 01:16:11.705 align:center
"One today
is worth two tomorrows"?
01:16:11.706 --> 01:16:13.845 align:center
Yes, I know what
Poor Richard said.
01:16:13.846 --> 01:16:15.295 align:center
All right,
let's get on with it.
01:16:15.296 --> 01:16:17.055 align:center
GEORGE: I want to start
by publishing this.
01:16:17.056 --> 01:16:18.092 align:center
[BENJAMIN GRUNTS]
01:16:19.852 --> 01:16:22.198 align:center
Hmm. "To the inhabitants
of Maryland,
01:16:22.199 --> 01:16:24.753 align:center
"Virginia, North
and South Carolina,
01:16:24.754 --> 01:16:26.720 align:center
"God has a quarrel
to pick with you
01:16:26.721 --> 01:16:30.760 align:center
"for your abuse of
and cruelty to slaves,
01:16:31.899 --> 01:16:33.832 align:center
"and for keeping
the gospel from them."
01:16:35.696 --> 01:16:38.870 align:center
You are lighting a powder keg,
my friend.
01:16:38.871 --> 01:16:42.253 align:center
I do not cross the Atlantic
to tickle ears, Mr. Franklin.
01:16:42.254 --> 01:16:44.427 align:center
[BENJAMIN GRUNTS SOFTLY,
CHUCKLES]
01:16:44.428 --> 01:16:46.360 align:center
- Soothe or stoke.
- I'm sorry?
01:16:46.361 --> 01:16:48.605 align:center
Soothe or stoke
the hearts of the people.
01:16:49.606 --> 01:16:51.538 align:center
Both sell papers
01:16:51.539 --> 01:16:53.989 align:center
and save souls, apparently.
[CHUCKLES]
01:16:53.990 --> 01:16:55.749 align:center
Well, let's get started.
01:16:55.750 --> 01:16:57.544 align:center
[ALL LAUGH]
01:16:57.545 --> 01:16:59.511 align:center
- You were business partners?
- [THUNDER RUMBLING]
01:16:59.512 --> 01:17:02.066 align:center
And I sold a lot of these.
01:17:02.067 --> 01:17:05.759 align:center
"Whitefield preaches to 17,000
in Providence, Rhode Island..."
01:17:05.760 --> 01:17:07.071 align:center
Rogue Island.
01:17:07.072 --> 01:17:09.556 align:center
BENNY: "And 30,000 in Boston."
01:17:09.557 --> 01:17:10.661 align:center
BENJAMIN: Look at the date.
01:17:11.801 --> 01:17:13.733 align:center
- These were on the same day.
- Mm-hmm.
01:17:13.734 --> 01:17:17.702 align:center
But Pr... Providence
and Boston are 50 miles apart.
01:17:17.703 --> 01:17:21.948 align:center
He spent more time on a horse
than on the ground,
01:17:21.949 --> 01:17:24.434 align:center
and he preached and prayed
more than he slept.
01:17:25.746 --> 01:17:28.402 align:center
[SIGHS] I have to admit,
in the beginning,
01:17:28.403 --> 01:17:30.025 align:center
I did not believe
that level of response
01:17:30.026 --> 01:17:31.095 align:center
could be maintained.
01:17:31.096 --> 01:17:32.131 align:center
Well, was it?
01:17:32.994 --> 01:17:33.995 align:center
No.
01:17:35.894 --> 01:17:37.102 align:center
It increased.
01:17:39.587 --> 01:17:41.692 align:center
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
01:17:46.767 --> 01:17:48.802 align:center
Reverend George Whitefield
to preach repentance
01:17:48.803 --> 01:17:50.322 align:center
at Rhode Island,
Massachusetts.
01:17:52.496 --> 01:17:54.808 align:center
GEORGE: Let there be
no divisions in the church.
01:17:54.809 --> 01:17:58.812 align:center
But rather be of one mind,
united in thought and purpose.
01:17:58.813 --> 01:17:59.951 align:center
CROWD: Yes!
01:17:59.952 --> 01:18:01.815 align:center
- [CROWD APPLAUDING]
- Therefore,
01:18:01.816 --> 01:18:03.334 align:center
let us not be asleep,
01:18:03.335 --> 01:18:04.887 align:center
- but awake.
- CROWD: Yes.
01:18:04.888 --> 01:18:08.511 align:center
And sober-minded,
because we belong to the day.
01:18:08.512 --> 01:18:10.824 align:center
Let us be dressed
in the raiment of light!
01:18:10.825 --> 01:18:13.069 align:center
[CROWD CHEERING
AND APPLAUDING]
01:18:14.829 --> 01:18:18.039 align:center
- [HORSE GALLOPING]
- [DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES]
01:18:23.838 --> 01:18:25.184 align:center
[MACHINE CLICKING]
01:18:33.572 --> 01:18:35.022 align:center
Nathan! Nathan!
01:18:36.886 --> 01:18:39.059 align:center
Reverend Whitefield preached
at Hartford yesterday.
01:18:39.060 --> 01:18:40.129 align:center
And he's to preach
at Middletown
01:18:40.130 --> 01:18:41.407 align:center
this morning at 10:00.
01:18:46.827 --> 01:18:48.829 align:center
[INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING]
01:18:51.003 --> 01:18:52.970 align:center
- NATHAN: Molly!
- Nathan?
01:18:52.971 --> 01:18:54.040 align:center
NATHAN: Molly!
01:18:54.041 --> 01:18:56.352 align:center
- [CHICKENS CLUCKING]
- Molly.
01:18:56.353 --> 01:18:58.699 align:center
Reverend Whitefield.
01:18:58.700 --> 01:19:01.324 align:center
And on His head
are many crowns.
01:19:02.394 --> 01:19:04.914 align:center
On His head are many crowns.
01:19:08.055 --> 01:19:10.988 align:center
Lord, speak through me.
01:19:10.989 --> 01:19:13.405 align:center
- Draw them with Your Word.
- [HORSE WHINNIES]
01:19:14.233 --> 01:19:15.925 align:center
Let them hear Your voice.
01:19:17.374 --> 01:19:18.409 align:center
Set them on a path
01:19:18.410 --> 01:19:20.550 align:center
from which
they will never depart.
01:19:21.862 --> 01:19:24.691 align:center
Though You are
a God of justice,
01:19:24.692 --> 01:19:29.006 align:center
show them that Your heart
resounds with mercy.
01:19:29.007 --> 01:19:32.389 align:center
Show them the kindness
that You have always shown me.
01:19:33.770 --> 01:19:37.600 align:center
As I speak from the Word
like lightning speak,
01:19:37.601 --> 01:19:39.879 align:center
cry out in thunder
from the Word.
01:19:39.880 --> 01:19:41.328 align:center
[MUSIC SWELLS]
01:19:41.329 --> 01:19:43.089 align:center
He has a name written on Him
01:19:43.090 --> 01:19:45.885 align:center
that no one knows
but He Himself,
01:19:45.886 --> 01:19:48.889 align:center
and his name
is the Word of God!
01:19:50.373 --> 01:19:51.581 align:center
Use me, Lord,
01:19:52.962 --> 01:19:54.135 align:center
- whatever the cost.
- [WIND WHISTLING]
01:19:56.517 --> 01:19:59.623 align:center
Let them receive
Your gift of salvation,
01:20:01.936 --> 01:20:03.662 align:center
and set us free.
01:20:06.665 --> 01:20:08.459 align:center
BENJAMIN: "And I saw
that my righteousness
01:20:08.460 --> 01:20:10.288 align:center
"would not save me.
01:20:10.289 --> 01:20:14.293 align:center
"Nathan Cole.
October 23rd, 1740."
01:20:15.570 --> 01:20:17.364 align:center
Nearly 13 years ago,
01:20:17.365 --> 01:20:20.195 align:center
and the reports
remain the same.
01:20:20.196 --> 01:20:23.923 align:center
Mr. Nathan Cole would never
have experienced the new birth
01:20:23.924 --> 01:20:25.959 align:center
if you had not
published my whereabouts.
01:20:25.960 --> 01:20:29.066 align:center
[CHUCKLES] Well, Poor Richard
would still be poor
01:20:29.067 --> 01:20:30.136 align:center
had I not published
01:20:30.137 --> 01:20:31.654 align:center
- your whereabouts.
- [BOTH CHUCKLE]
01:20:31.655 --> 01:20:33.967 align:center
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
01:20:33.968 --> 01:20:38.351 align:center
I see the church has, uh,
greeted you warmly today.
01:20:38.352 --> 01:20:43.459 align:center
[SIGHS] My dear friend,
John Wesley, once said,
01:20:43.460 --> 01:20:47.947 align:center
"You must be willing to preach,
pray or die at any moment."
01:20:47.948 --> 01:20:49.983 align:center
[CHUCKLING]
He forgot to tell you
01:20:49.984 --> 01:20:51.606 align:center
to also duck and dodge.
01:20:56.922 --> 01:20:58.096 align:center
We lost Seward.
01:21:02.514 --> 01:21:03.618 align:center
I'm sorry.
01:21:04.688 --> 01:21:07.139 align:center
He was preaching
in South Wales
01:21:08.796 --> 01:21:11.557 align:center
when an angry mob
began to throw stones.
01:21:14.422 --> 01:21:15.906 align:center
He died three days later.
01:21:18.047 --> 01:21:20.118 align:center
In his final letter to me,
he said,
01:21:21.050 --> 01:21:22.189 align:center
"Fear not, George,
01:21:23.535 --> 01:21:25.019 align:center
"we are immortal
01:21:26.020 --> 01:21:27.988 align:center
"until our work on Earth
is done."
01:21:29.679 --> 01:21:34.476 align:center
What compels one
back into angry mobs?
01:21:34.477 --> 01:21:37.928 align:center
The same thing that compelled
Christ onto a cross of wood.
01:21:40.034 --> 01:21:41.208 align:center
When you follow Him,
01:21:42.899 --> 01:21:44.349 align:center
you are led by love,
01:21:45.695 --> 01:21:46.834 align:center
no matter the cost.
01:21:49.837 --> 01:21:52.045 align:center
Those who follow
dead religion
01:21:52.046 --> 01:21:54.704 align:center
are led by a desire
to be right.
01:21:57.086 --> 01:21:58.810 align:center
Eventually,
they will throw stones
01:21:58.811 --> 01:22:00.537 align:center
at those they believe
are wrong.
01:22:04.093 --> 01:22:08.269 align:center
I grow weary in the work, Ben,
but never of the work.
01:22:10.202 --> 01:22:12.997 align:center
And like you... [CHUCKLES]
01:22:12.998 --> 01:22:15.621 align:center
...I would rather wear out
than rust out.
01:22:19.556 --> 01:22:24.699 align:center
[INHALES] Seward also said
that I should give you these.
01:22:27.461 --> 01:22:28.738 align:center
My personal journals.
01:22:29.773 --> 01:22:32.085 align:center
He said
you should publish them,
01:22:32.086 --> 01:22:34.295 align:center
that many would see
the goodness of God.
01:22:35.779 --> 01:22:39.541 align:center
I needed a new press
just to publish your sermons.
01:22:39.542 --> 01:22:42.061 align:center
Well, I suppose
you'd better get a third.
01:22:42.062 --> 01:22:44.236 align:center
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
01:22:45.306 --> 01:22:46.445 align:center
[BENJAMIN SIGHS]
01:22:47.722 --> 01:22:50.069 align:center
[SNIFFLES, CLEARS THROAT]
01:22:50.070 --> 01:22:53.348 align:center
My, your print shop
01:22:53.349 --> 01:22:55.384 align:center
has become
a rather strange laboratory
01:22:55.385 --> 01:22:56.696 align:center
since my last visit.
01:22:56.697 --> 01:22:57.904 align:center
[BENJAMIN CHUCKLES]
01:22:57.905 --> 01:22:59.043 align:center
Yes.
01:22:59.044 --> 01:23:01.183 align:center
His Majesty's Royal Society
01:23:01.184 --> 01:23:04.255 align:center
has taken special interest
in my research
01:23:04.256 --> 01:23:06.913 align:center
on the mysteries
of electric fire.
01:23:06.914 --> 01:23:08.915 align:center
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
01:23:08.916 --> 01:23:10.399 align:center
GEORGE:
And what about you, Ben?
01:23:10.400 --> 01:23:12.264 align:center
- Hmm?
- What is your source?
01:23:12.920 --> 01:23:14.162 align:center
My source?
01:23:14.163 --> 01:23:16.233 align:center
What compels you?
01:23:16.234 --> 01:23:20.307 align:center
A-ha, I thought
you'd never ask. [CHUCKLES]
01:23:24.656 --> 01:23:27.003 align:center
[CHUCKLES] Follow me.
01:23:28.004 --> 01:23:30.592 align:center
[GEORGE CHUCKLING]
01:23:30.593 --> 01:23:33.871 align:center
I fail to see
what is so humorous.
01:23:33.872 --> 01:23:36.425 align:center
It's a virtue chart.
You actually use this?
01:23:36.426 --> 01:23:38.427 align:center
Oh, dear,
he's showing him the chart.
01:23:38.428 --> 01:23:40.222 align:center
GEORGE: Good evening,
Mrs. Franklin.
01:23:40.223 --> 01:23:42.121 align:center
Allow me to expound.
01:23:42.122 --> 01:23:43.570 align:center
First, on a small card,
01:23:43.571 --> 01:23:45.952 align:center
I write the virtue
I am to focus on for the week.
01:23:45.953 --> 01:23:47.919 align:center
Currently, it's humility.
01:23:47.920 --> 01:23:50.681 align:center
Which he just added because
he bragged about the first 12.
01:23:50.682 --> 01:23:53.132 align:center
"Imitate Jesus and Socrates."
01:23:53.133 --> 01:23:54.926 align:center
BENJAMIN:
I refer to it frequently,
01:23:54.927 --> 01:23:57.101 align:center
and then I replace it
with a new virtue
01:23:57.102 --> 01:23:58.930 align:center
every week for 13 weeks,
01:23:58.931 --> 01:24:01.692 align:center
so that the series is repeated
four times a year.
01:24:01.693 --> 01:24:03.797 align:center
Then I assess
how I'm doing on the chart.
01:24:03.798 --> 01:24:05.868 align:center
Our assessments
do not always align.
01:24:05.869 --> 01:24:08.975 align:center
Oh, well, whatever
achievements I have made,
01:24:08.976 --> 01:24:10.908 align:center
I credit to the ethical,
01:24:10.909 --> 01:24:14.049 align:center
intellectual and physical
discipline of these virtues.
01:24:14.050 --> 01:24:15.292 align:center
Upon them, I founded
01:24:15.293 --> 01:24:18.433 align:center
the most successful newspaper
in the colonies,
01:24:18.434 --> 01:24:20.952 align:center
the first public library,
firehouse,
01:24:20.953 --> 01:24:23.541 align:center
and Philadelphia's
first hospital.
01:24:23.542 --> 01:24:25.129 align:center
DEBORAH:
Says the man who states,
01:24:25.130 --> 01:24:26.648 align:center
"He who falls in love
with himself
01:24:26.649 --> 01:24:28.063 align:center
"will have no rivals."
01:24:28.064 --> 01:24:30.341 align:center
BENJAMIN: I say this
not to boast, Deborah,
01:24:30.342 --> 01:24:32.723 align:center
but to prove the merit
of my system.
01:24:32.724 --> 01:24:34.483 align:center
Had someone else taken up
this discipline,
01:24:34.484 --> 01:24:35.622 align:center
it might be their name
01:24:35.623 --> 01:24:36.968 align:center
- on the Franklin stove.
- DEBORAH: Hmm.
01:24:36.969 --> 01:24:38.315 align:center
BENJAMIN: Lightning rods,
01:24:38.316 --> 01:24:40.109 align:center
swim fins
and a flexible catheter.
01:24:40.110 --> 01:24:41.214 align:center
- [CHUCKLES]
- DEBORAH: Benjamin Franklin.
01:24:41.215 --> 01:24:42.629 align:center
I think the flexible catheter
01:24:42.630 --> 01:24:43.837 align:center
will be your
highest achievement.
01:24:43.838 --> 01:24:45.045 align:center
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
01:24:45.046 --> 01:24:46.737 align:center
- What's a catheter?
- DEBORAH: Never mind.
01:24:46.738 --> 01:24:48.359 align:center
[LAUGHS]
01:24:48.360 --> 01:24:52.639 align:center
It is the zeal for improvement
in self, society and science
01:24:52.640 --> 01:24:54.572 align:center
that drove me to prove that
01:24:54.573 --> 01:24:56.367 align:center
storms can move
in an opposite direction
01:24:56.368 --> 01:24:58.024 align:center
than the direction
from the wind.
01:24:58.025 --> 01:24:59.853 align:center
And of course,
you invented the wind.
01:24:59.854 --> 01:25:00.923 align:center
BENJAMIN: Absolutely, I did.
01:25:00.924 --> 01:25:02.511 align:center
I needed to fly my kites.
01:25:02.512 --> 01:25:04.686 align:center
[ALL LAUGHING]
01:25:04.687 --> 01:25:06.343 align:center
Well,
he is certainly responsible
01:25:06.344 --> 01:25:08.724 align:center
for all of the hot air
blowing through here.
01:25:08.725 --> 01:25:10.485 align:center
- Hear, hear.
- [BENJAMIN LAUGHS]
01:25:10.486 --> 01:25:11.658 align:center
- DEBORAH: Goodnight, George.
- [LAUGHS]
01:25:11.659 --> 01:25:12.763 align:center
YOUNG SARAH:
Goodnight, Mr. Whitefield.
01:25:12.764 --> 01:25:14.558 align:center
Goodnight, Sally,
Mrs. Franklin.
01:25:14.559 --> 01:25:15.663 align:center
Goodnight, Father.
01:25:16.285 --> 01:25:17.251 align:center
Goodnight.
01:25:22.291 --> 01:25:23.913 align:center
[BENJAMIN CHUCKLES]
01:25:26.053 --> 01:25:27.916 align:center
Oh, no.
You're doing it again.
01:25:27.917 --> 01:25:29.607 align:center
- GEORGE: What?
- There, stop that.
01:25:29.608 --> 01:25:31.851 align:center
Are you mocking
my bad eye, Ben?
01:25:31.852 --> 01:25:34.267 align:center
[SIGHS] No,
not the blasted eye.
01:25:34.268 --> 01:25:35.820 align:center
That look.
01:25:35.821 --> 01:25:38.824 align:center
You got some pseudo-spiritual
gaze upon me.
01:25:40.309 --> 01:25:43.381 align:center
I tried this, Ben,
and it nearly killed me.
01:25:44.623 --> 01:25:46.279 align:center
It's the same
religious spirit
01:25:46.280 --> 01:25:48.248 align:center
that leads men
to throw stones.
01:25:49.249 --> 01:25:50.732 align:center
You must be born again.
01:25:50.733 --> 01:25:53.942 align:center
[CHUCKLES]
I trust my good works
01:25:53.943 --> 01:25:56.393 align:center
from a good heart
will go before me.
01:25:56.394 --> 01:25:58.533 align:center
Getting to Heaven
on your own strength.
01:25:58.534 --> 01:26:00.293 align:center
You might as well
climb to the moon
01:26:00.294 --> 01:26:01.708 align:center
on a rope of sand.
01:26:01.709 --> 01:26:05.505 align:center
I have too much to do on Earth
to worry about the moon.
01:26:05.506 --> 01:26:07.162 align:center
Even if I were to experience
01:26:07.163 --> 01:26:09.129 align:center
this new birth
you so often speak of,
01:26:09.130 --> 01:26:11.235 align:center
I would never give you
or anyone else
01:26:11.236 --> 01:26:12.651 align:center
the satisfaction
of knowing it.
01:26:14.274 --> 01:26:15.654 align:center
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
01:26:16.276 --> 01:26:17.967 align:center
[THUNDERCLAP]
01:26:19.279 --> 01:26:20.313 align:center
Let's go.
01:26:20.314 --> 01:26:21.935 align:center
[ROUSING MUSIC PLAYING]
01:26:21.936 --> 01:26:23.283 align:center
- I'm sorry?
- BENJAMIN: Grab your coat.
01:26:24.698 --> 01:26:26.285 align:center
I want to show you something.
01:26:26.286 --> 01:26:28.459 align:center
GEORGE: Now?
You can't be serious.
01:26:28.460 --> 01:26:30.944 align:center
BENJAMIN: Do not squander time,
Georgie. [CHUCKLES]
01:26:30.945 --> 01:26:33.775 align:center
- It's the stuff life is made of.
- All right.
01:26:33.776 --> 01:26:36.641 align:center
BENJAMIN:
I'm going to need this, and...
01:26:37.987 --> 01:26:39.332 align:center
- What is that?
- BENJAMIN: Huh?
01:26:39.333 --> 01:26:40.471 align:center
- Okay.
- [BENJAMIN CHUCKLES]
01:26:40.472 --> 01:26:42.888 align:center
- [THUNDER RUMBLING]
- [BELLS TOLLING]
01:26:44.614 --> 01:26:46.547 align:center
[WOMAN SCREAMS]
01:26:48.515 --> 01:26:50.309 align:center
Why are they ringing
church bells?
01:26:50.310 --> 01:26:51.827 align:center
Superstition.
01:26:51.828 --> 01:26:53.415 align:center
They believe
it will appease God
01:26:53.416 --> 01:26:54.830 align:center
- so his wrath won't strike...
- [HORSE WHINNIES]
01:26:54.831 --> 01:26:56.211 align:center
...and burn their homes.
01:26:56.212 --> 01:26:57.626 align:center
That's not scriptural.
01:26:57.627 --> 01:27:01.768 align:center
[LAUGHS] Finally, somebody
who agrees with me.
01:27:01.769 --> 01:27:04.703 align:center
[LAUGHS]
These are perfect conditions.
01:27:06.360 --> 01:27:08.361 align:center
Is madness
one of your virtues?
01:27:08.362 --> 01:27:09.880 align:center
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
01:27:09.881 --> 01:27:11.365 align:center
[LAUGHS]
01:27:13.747 --> 01:27:16.370 align:center
When the thunderclouds
come over the kite,
01:27:17.164 --> 01:27:18.509 align:center
this pointed wire
01:27:18.510 --> 01:27:20.649 align:center
will draw all
the electric fire from them.
01:27:20.650 --> 01:27:24.135 align:center
The kite and all of the twine
will become electrified.
01:27:24.136 --> 01:27:26.034 align:center
Then the loose
filaments of the twine
01:27:26.035 --> 01:27:27.863 align:center
will stand up every way
01:27:27.864 --> 01:27:30.452 align:center
and be attracted
by an approaching finger.
01:27:30.453 --> 01:27:32.420 align:center
- [THUNDER RUMBLING]
- [LAUGHS]
01:27:32.421 --> 01:27:34.905 align:center
Oh, thank you,
my little friend.
01:27:34.906 --> 01:27:37.666 align:center
- [UPLIFTING MUSIC PLAYING]
- [BENJAMIN GRUNTS]
01:27:37.667 --> 01:27:39.842 align:center
[LAUGHS HEARTILY]
01:27:41.982 --> 01:27:43.672 align:center
Ha-ha!
01:27:43.673 --> 01:27:46.468 align:center
When the moisture has wet
the kite and twine
01:27:46.469 --> 01:27:49.264 align:center
so that it conducts
the electric fire freely,
01:27:49.265 --> 01:27:51.473 align:center
you will find it stream out
plentifully from the key
01:27:51.474 --> 01:27:52.647 align:center
on the approach
of your knuckle.
01:27:52.648 --> 01:27:54.407 align:center
Here, try it.
01:27:54.408 --> 01:27:55.684 align:center
No, I'd... I'd rather not.
01:27:55.685 --> 01:27:58.273 align:center
I've done this
many times before. It works.
01:27:58.274 --> 01:27:59.861 align:center
Precisely.
01:27:59.862 --> 01:28:03.693 align:center
[LAUGHS] First time, I had
my son William hold the line.
01:28:04.418 --> 01:28:05.729 align:center
Boom!
01:28:05.730 --> 01:28:09.422 align:center
The lightning struck
and surged through his hands.
01:28:09.423 --> 01:28:12.908 align:center
He shook like a leaf.
It was incredible.
01:28:12.909 --> 01:28:15.532 align:center
- He's never helped me since.
- I should think not.
01:28:15.533 --> 01:28:19.363 align:center
[LAUGHS]
That's when I learned,
01:28:19.364 --> 01:28:23.092 align:center
I needed to ground the line
to disperse the power.
01:28:24.611 --> 01:28:28.027 align:center
So, I invented
my lightning rod.
01:28:28.028 --> 01:28:30.409 align:center
GEORGE:
You're an amazing man, Ben.
01:28:30.410 --> 01:28:32.722 align:center
- Wait, do you feel that?
- Feel what?
01:28:33.896 --> 01:28:36.276 align:center
[THUNDERCLAP]
01:28:36.277 --> 01:28:38.313 align:center
Touch the lighting charge
to the key.
01:28:38.314 --> 01:28:40.420 align:center
- No, I don't think so.
- Ah, here.
01:28:43.906 --> 01:28:46.149 align:center
[CRACKLES]
01:28:47.012 --> 01:28:50.188 align:center
[LAUGHS TRIUMPHANTLY] Yes.
01:28:51.361 --> 01:28:53.950 align:center
- Fire from heaven.
- [BOTH LAUGH]
01:28:56.090 --> 01:28:59.646 align:center
- [THUNDER RUMBLING]
- [LAUGHS]
01:29:05.583 --> 01:29:07.654 align:center
You are the lightning bolt,
George.
01:29:09.345 --> 01:29:11.795 align:center
I am just the lightning rod.
01:29:11.796 --> 01:29:13.453 align:center
And who is the source, Ben?
01:29:15.696 --> 01:29:19.113 align:center
[LAUGHS] I see
what you did there.
01:29:19.804 --> 01:29:21.770 align:center
Very clever, Reverend.
01:29:21.771 --> 01:29:23.048 align:center
Very clever.
01:29:23.704 --> 01:29:25.430 align:center
[THUNDERCLAP]
01:29:27.674 --> 01:29:28.812 align:center
Confirmation!
01:29:28.813 --> 01:29:30.434 align:center
Evacuation!
01:29:30.435 --> 01:29:32.367 align:center
We need to leave now!
01:29:32.368 --> 01:29:33.852 align:center
- [LAUGHING]
- [GEORGE SHOUTS]
01:29:40.894 --> 01:29:42.965 align:center
[GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING]
01:29:44.207 --> 01:29:45.863 align:center
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
01:29:45.864 --> 01:29:49.522 align:center
GEORGE: April 21st, 1770.
01:29:49.523 --> 01:29:52.837 align:center
My dear friend,
Dr. Benjamin Franklin,
01:29:53.838 --> 01:29:55.010 align:center
I have embarked upon
01:29:55.011 --> 01:29:57.255 align:center
my seventh pilgrimage
to the colonies.
01:29:58.394 --> 01:29:59.774 align:center
And although difficult,
01:29:59.775 --> 01:30:02.985 align:center
Christ's presence allows me
to smile through pain,
01:30:03.813 --> 01:30:05.607 align:center
and the fire of His love
01:30:05.608 --> 01:30:07.886 align:center
burns up
all fevers whatsoever.
01:30:09.336 --> 01:30:11.061 align:center
I was sorry to have missed
01:30:11.062 --> 01:30:13.304 align:center
the christening
of your city bell,
01:30:13.305 --> 01:30:17.377 align:center
proclaiming God's liberty
throughout all the land.
01:30:17.378 --> 01:30:19.310 align:center
The people of America
seem more eager
01:30:19.311 --> 01:30:22.210 align:center
- after the Word than ever.
- [CROWD CHEERING IN UNISON]
01:30:22.211 --> 01:30:25.248 align:center
May their voices ring
in harmony with that bell.
01:30:26.698 --> 01:30:28.837 align:center
I find you grow more
and more famous
01:30:28.838 --> 01:30:30.736 align:center
- in the learned world.
- [CRACKLES]
01:30:30.737 --> 01:30:33.152 align:center
As you have made
considerable progress
01:30:33.153 --> 01:30:35.430 align:center
in the mysteries
of electricity,
01:30:35.431 --> 01:30:38.191 align:center
I now humbly
recommend the study
01:30:38.192 --> 01:30:40.436 align:center
of the mystery
of the new birth,
01:30:40.954 --> 01:30:42.368 align:center
for without it,
01:30:42.369 --> 01:30:44.544 align:center
we cannot enter
the Kingdom of Heaven.
01:30:46.028 --> 01:30:47.580 align:center
You will be pleased to know
01:30:47.581 --> 01:30:50.859 align:center
I have raised
700 pounds sterling
01:30:50.860 --> 01:30:52.896 align:center
for my orphanage in Georgia.
01:30:52.897 --> 01:30:54.725 align:center
I hope to grow rich in Heaven
01:30:54.726 --> 01:30:56.935 align:center
by taking care
of the orphans on Earth.
01:30:58.178 --> 01:31:01.111 align:center
I subscribe myself, dear sir,
01:31:01.112 --> 01:31:05.598 align:center
your very affectionate friend,
and obliged servant,
01:31:05.599 --> 01:31:07.049 align:center
George Whitefield.
01:31:07.774 --> 01:31:10.604 align:center
[BELL TOLLING]
01:31:20.096 --> 01:31:23.721 align:center
"Proclaim liberty
throughout all the land
01:31:25.619 --> 01:31:28.449 align:center
"unto all
the inhabitants thereof."
01:31:30.279 --> 01:31:32.038 align:center
What a glorious verse
to ring out
01:31:32.039 --> 01:31:34.213 align:center
over
the City of Brotherly Love.
01:31:34.214 --> 01:31:35.595 align:center
BENJAMIN: Hmm?
01:31:36.492 --> 01:31:37.630 align:center
Oh, yes.
01:31:37.631 --> 01:31:40.633 align:center
Well, apparently,
the inhabitants thereof
01:31:40.634 --> 01:31:43.913 align:center
are ringing just as loudly
in the ears of our king.
01:31:45.259 --> 01:31:46.984 align:center
Parliament would
like to influence
01:31:46.985 --> 01:31:48.815 align:center
our definition of liberty,
01:31:49.919 --> 01:31:52.196 align:center
and because
I am fully acquainted
01:31:52.197 --> 01:31:55.475 align:center
with the temper
and disposition of the colonies,
01:31:55.476 --> 01:31:57.305 align:center
the Continental Congress
has chosen me
01:31:57.306 --> 01:31:59.825 align:center
to act on their behalf.
01:31:59.826 --> 01:32:02.622 align:center
I sail for London
the day after tomorrow.
01:32:04.382 --> 01:32:06.522 align:center
GEORGE: Blood will be shed
for that liberty.
01:32:09.629 --> 01:32:12.113 align:center
Whereas blood
was already shed
01:32:12.114 --> 01:32:13.978 align:center
for the liberty
proclaimed by that bell.
01:32:17.291 --> 01:32:20.122 align:center
- You will have my prayers.
- [BENJAMIN CHUCKLES]
01:32:22.400 --> 01:32:23.401 align:center
Prayers?
01:32:24.333 --> 01:32:27.542 align:center
- [SIGHS]
- [GEORGE COUGHS]
01:32:27.543 --> 01:32:31.374 align:center
An appeal to a distant God
cannot resolve these issues.
01:32:32.065 --> 01:32:33.962 align:center
[GEORGE COUGHS]
01:32:33.963 --> 01:32:36.828 align:center
It's going to take a lot more
than prayer, I'm afraid.
01:32:39.072 --> 01:32:41.452 align:center
GEORGE: So that's it then?
01:32:41.453 --> 01:32:45.733 align:center
A distant God uninvolved
in the affairs of man?
01:32:45.734 --> 01:32:47.838 align:center
[BENJAMIN CHUCKLES]
01:32:47.839 --> 01:32:50.670 align:center
I am quite certain he was
never involved in my affairs.
01:32:53.811 --> 01:32:55.398 align:center
Does my confession shock you?
01:32:59.092 --> 01:33:00.127 align:center
No.
01:33:01.611 --> 01:33:03.683 align:center
Your idea of virtue does.
01:33:04.614 --> 01:33:05.754 align:center
I beg your pardon?
01:33:07.445 --> 01:33:09.826 align:center
What do you make
of Jesus Christ?
01:33:09.827 --> 01:33:13.553 align:center
[SCOFFS] I made a lot
from Him.
01:33:13.554 --> 01:33:16.073 align:center
And how long will you
hide behind your wit
01:33:16.074 --> 01:33:18.179 align:center
and make light of the truth?
01:33:18.180 --> 01:33:20.146 align:center
Not again, not now.
01:33:20.147 --> 01:33:22.702 align:center
Ben, our time grows short.
01:33:23.875 --> 01:33:25.911 align:center
There is a Judgment Day coming
01:33:25.912 --> 01:33:28.845 align:center
when all will stand
before the Lord,
01:33:28.846 --> 01:33:31.607 align:center
and only faith
in Jesus Christ,
01:33:32.435 --> 01:33:35.161 align:center
not your wit, will save you.
01:33:35.162 --> 01:33:37.439 align:center
Your frequent wishes
for my eternal happiness
01:33:37.440 --> 01:33:38.786 align:center
are very enlightening,
but...
01:33:38.787 --> 01:33:40.373 align:center
[VEHEMENTLY] It is your life,
Benjamin Franklin,
01:33:40.374 --> 01:33:42.582 align:center
your eternal life at stake
01:33:42.583 --> 01:33:43.998 align:center
that keeps me begging you
01:33:43.999 --> 01:33:46.034 align:center
to consider the truth
of the gospel!
01:33:46.035 --> 01:33:48.727 align:center
I choose evidence over faith.
01:33:48.728 --> 01:33:51.731 align:center
Evidence?
How much more do you need?
01:33:52.973 --> 01:33:54.836 align:center
For 30 years now,
01:33:54.837 --> 01:33:57.114 align:center
you have promoted
the greatest awakening
01:33:57.115 --> 01:33:58.945 align:center
these colonies have ever seen.
01:34:00.498 --> 01:34:05.260 align:center
That wasn't me or the Wesleys
or Jonathan Edwards.
01:34:05.261 --> 01:34:07.780 align:center
It was an intervention
by our most powerful friend.
01:34:07.781 --> 01:34:10.231 align:center
I have never attempted
to change you,
01:34:10.232 --> 01:34:11.750 align:center
and I would
greatly appreciate it
01:34:11.751 --> 01:34:12.854 align:center
if you would stop
01:34:12.855 --> 01:34:14.097 align:center
- trying to change me.
- [STICK THUDDING]
01:34:14.098 --> 01:34:17.100 align:center
I don't understand
how thousands of strangers
01:34:17.101 --> 01:34:19.792 align:center
can melt at the sound
of this truth,
01:34:19.793 --> 01:34:23.209 align:center
but you, my dearest friend,
01:34:23.210 --> 01:34:25.315 align:center
why can't I
get through to you?
01:34:25.316 --> 01:34:26.730 align:center
Because I've heard it all before
01:34:26.731 --> 01:34:29.043 align:center
and I've seen it all before,
George.
01:34:29.044 --> 01:34:31.356 align:center
[GEORGE COUGHS, CLEARS THROAT]
01:34:32.875 --> 01:34:36.740 align:center
Born the 10th son
of a Puritan father,
01:34:36.741 --> 01:34:41.262 align:center
set apart as his holy tithe
in service to the church.
01:34:41.263 --> 01:34:44.335 align:center
He wanted me
to be a preacher. Me!
01:34:45.301 --> 01:34:47.889 align:center
But never in 50 lifetimes
01:34:47.890 --> 01:34:49.753 align:center
would I ever
have anything to do
01:34:49.754 --> 01:34:53.757 align:center
with my father's overbearing,
hypocritical clergy,
01:34:53.758 --> 01:34:55.483 align:center
who spent so much
of their time praying
01:34:55.484 --> 01:34:57.623 align:center
and very little time
doing good.
01:34:57.624 --> 01:34:58.693 align:center
[COUGHING]
01:34:58.694 --> 01:35:00.315 align:center
As a devout
and thorough deist,
01:35:00.316 --> 01:35:03.318 align:center
I have done more good to
better the lives of this city
01:35:03.319 --> 01:35:06.114 align:center
than all the collective
clergy combined.
01:35:06.115 --> 01:35:09.014 align:center
I do believe in a deity,
01:35:09.015 --> 01:35:11.464 align:center
but I believe
He has given us rights,
01:35:11.465 --> 01:35:14.916 align:center
resources and reason
to do good,
01:35:14.917 --> 01:35:17.160 align:center
and now He waits and watches
to see if we will.
01:35:17.161 --> 01:35:19.610 align:center
It's not enough
to do good, Ben.
01:35:19.611 --> 01:35:21.509 align:center
It's not enough
to believe in God.
01:35:21.510 --> 01:35:24.477 align:center
Even the devil believes in God.
[BREATHING LABORIOUSLY]
01:35:24.478 --> 01:35:25.962 align:center
Everything,
01:35:25.963 --> 01:35:30.968 align:center
everything comes down to what
you make of Jesus Christ.
01:35:33.246 --> 01:35:34.350 align:center
Tell me,
01:35:36.042 --> 01:35:37.628 align:center
what have I lacked
01:35:37.629 --> 01:35:41.494 align:center
by not experiencing
this new birth? Hmm?
01:35:41.495 --> 01:35:44.532 align:center
Living my life
on the back of a horse,
01:35:44.533 --> 01:35:48.606 align:center
being pelted with rocks,
dung and dead animals.
01:35:49.987 --> 01:35:51.021 align:center
Sleeping on the ground
01:35:51.022 --> 01:35:53.507 align:center
or a stranger's floor
every night,
01:35:55.716 --> 01:35:58.028 align:center
being led into the hands
of an angry mob
01:35:58.029 --> 01:35:59.203 align:center
and an early grave?
01:36:01.032 --> 01:36:02.240 align:center
You have no money,
01:36:03.414 --> 01:36:06.279 align:center
no family, failing health...
01:36:07.556 --> 01:36:10.006 align:center
your failing orphanage.
01:36:10.007 --> 01:36:12.181 align:center
My orphanage
is no longer failing,
01:36:13.148 --> 01:36:14.252 align:center
by the grace of God.
01:36:15.564 --> 01:36:16.909 align:center
By the grace of God,
01:36:16.910 --> 01:36:19.739 align:center
or by resorting to slave labor
to keep it running?
01:36:19.740 --> 01:36:21.950 align:center
[SLOW TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
01:36:34.203 --> 01:36:35.618 align:center
[GEORGE SIGHS SOFTLY]
01:36:40.589 --> 01:36:41.901 align:center
It was the only way.
01:36:43.972 --> 01:36:48.044 align:center
Those orphans
would have become homeless
01:36:48.045 --> 01:36:50.218 align:center
if we had not intervened.
01:36:50.219 --> 01:36:51.565 align:center
Is that providence?
01:36:53.050 --> 01:36:56.570 align:center
Is that God being involved
in the affairs of man?
01:36:58.434 --> 01:36:59.952 align:center
You've made
that orphanage an idol
01:36:59.953 --> 01:37:02.092 align:center
and a stain on your name.
01:37:02.093 --> 01:37:04.268 align:center
[CHUCKLES] Oh, the irony.
01:37:05.131 --> 01:37:06.786 align:center
Proclaiming liberty
01:37:06.787 --> 01:37:08.547 align:center
while standing on
the backs of slaves.
01:37:08.548 --> 01:37:10.825 align:center
[RAISES VOICE] Then tear down
the name of Whitefield
01:37:10.826 --> 01:37:14.070 align:center
if it means
the name of Christ remains.
01:37:14.071 --> 01:37:17.453 align:center
Do not base your faith
upon my flawed life.
01:37:18.765 --> 01:37:20.421 align:center
Do not base your faith
01:37:20.422 --> 01:37:22.631 align:center
upon the cold religion
of your father.
01:37:24.150 --> 01:37:28.326 align:center
Base it upon what He has done
on a cross of wood.
01:37:29.189 --> 01:37:30.569 align:center
[STRAINED GASP]
01:37:30.570 --> 01:37:32.468 align:center
- George?
- [GASPS]
01:37:33.676 --> 01:37:34.987 align:center
- Georgie?
- [WHEEZING]
01:37:34.988 --> 01:37:36.127 align:center
What?
01:37:36.956 --> 01:37:37.957 align:center
Georgie.
01:37:39.337 --> 01:37:41.339 align:center
[WHEEZING]
01:37:50.624 --> 01:37:52.972 align:center
[CHORUS SINGING IN DISTANCE]
01:37:54.525 --> 01:37:56.354 align:center
[CONTINUES WHEEZING]
01:38:05.053 --> 01:38:07.814 align:center
[GEORGE GRUNTING]
01:38:09.298 --> 01:38:11.749 align:center
[GASPING RASPILY]
01:38:16.340 --> 01:38:19.273 align:center
- [GRUNTS]
- [SINGING CONTINUES]
01:38:19.274 --> 01:38:21.379 align:center
[SIGHS, BREATHING RASPILY]
01:38:30.664 --> 01:38:31.838 align:center
[GEORGE GRUNTS]
01:38:35.083 --> 01:38:36.222 align:center
They're waiting for me.
01:38:38.051 --> 01:38:39.672 align:center
[GRUNTS, WHEEZES]
01:38:39.673 --> 01:38:41.848 align:center
You're more fit to go to bed
than to preach.
01:38:43.539 --> 01:38:44.609 align:center
I must preach.
01:38:45.748 --> 01:38:47.854 align:center
[SHUDDERS] A dying man...
01:38:49.269 --> 01:38:50.374 align:center
is a dying man.
01:38:51.720 --> 01:38:54.067 align:center
- [WHEEZES]
- [SINGING CONTINUES]
01:38:57.760 --> 01:38:59.107 align:center
[GRUNTS]
01:39:04.974 --> 01:39:06.045 align:center
Georgie.
01:39:10.394 --> 01:39:16.433 align:center
CHORUS: ♪ Breaking darkness
with new light
01:39:16.434 --> 01:39:22.336 align:center
♪ Rise up on us
King of glory
01:39:22.337 --> 01:39:28.895 align:center
♪ Come awaken us today
01:39:31.725 --> 01:39:34.556 align:center
[CHORUS HUMMING]
01:39:41.321 --> 01:39:43.323 align:center
[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]
01:39:57.648 --> 01:40:00.960 align:center
GEORGE: Do not base your faith
upon my flawed life.
01:40:00.961 --> 01:40:03.032 align:center
[HUMMING CONTINUES]
01:40:04.689 --> 01:40:06.587 align:center
Do not base your faith
01:40:06.588 --> 01:40:08.659 align:center
upon the cold religion
of your father.
01:40:11.869 --> 01:40:15.942 align:center
Base it upon what He has done
on a cross of wood.
01:40:22.466 --> 01:40:24.847 align:center
- [LAUGHTER]
- [SLOW DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
01:40:25.434 --> 01:40:27.125 align:center
WOMAN: No!
01:40:27.126 --> 01:40:30.162 align:center
It is the great and terrible
01:40:30.163 --> 01:40:34.305 align:center
- Reverend George Preachfield!
- [AUDIENCE LAUGHING]
01:40:37.481 --> 01:40:39.310 align:center
[LAUGHTER CONTINUES]
01:40:52.737 --> 01:40:54.912 align:center
[LAUGHTER CONTINUES]
01:41:00.297 --> 01:41:02.436 align:center
[AUDIENCE APPLAUDING]
01:41:02.437 --> 01:41:05.197 align:center
[LAUGHTER INTENSIFIES]
01:41:05.198 --> 01:41:08.167 align:center
- [UNEASY MUSIC PLAYING]
- [CHORUS SINGING INDISTINCTLY]
01:41:12.171 --> 01:41:14.173 align:center
[MUSIC AND SINGING FADE]
01:41:15.760 --> 01:41:16.761 align:center
BENJAMIN: Admiral Howe.
01:41:18.246 --> 01:41:21.144 align:center
You do not know
the heart of these people.
01:41:21.145 --> 01:41:24.010 align:center
They are a sturdy,
independently-minded kind.
01:41:25.253 --> 01:41:26.771 align:center
Moral, self-governing.
01:41:27.565 --> 01:41:29.015 align:center
They have been awakened.
01:41:30.085 --> 01:41:31.224 align:center
Awakened?
01:41:33.916 --> 01:41:34.917 align:center
How?
01:41:36.056 --> 01:41:37.367 align:center
They believe that
01:41:37.368 --> 01:41:40.784 align:center
once they dealt with
the tyrant within themselves,
01:41:40.785 --> 01:41:43.616 align:center
they now have eyes to see
the tyrant across the sea.
01:41:44.272 --> 01:41:45.755 align:center
Oh, do they?
01:41:45.756 --> 01:41:47.308 align:center
Oh, so they found it necessary
01:41:47.309 --> 01:41:50.450 align:center
to send you to rebuke
this tyrant across the sea?
01:41:51.796 --> 01:41:53.832 align:center
I would've thought
your sturdy colonists
01:41:53.833 --> 01:41:55.213 align:center
would've at least equipped you
01:41:55.214 --> 01:41:58.044 align:center
with a shovel or a tomahawk
to face such a tyrant.
01:41:59.252 --> 01:42:02.047 align:center
Perhaps a sling
and a few smooth stones
01:42:02.048 --> 01:42:03.567 align:center
are all that is necessary.
01:42:07.778 --> 01:42:11.091 align:center
Do you know how many men
are on just one of my ships?
01:42:13.577 --> 01:42:14.647 align:center
Eight hundred.
01:42:15.924 --> 01:42:19.133 align:center
My Royal Navy
has over 250 ships.
01:42:19.134 --> 01:42:21.273 align:center
And you're a man
of calculations.
01:42:21.274 --> 01:42:22.378 align:center
You're going to need more than
01:42:22.379 --> 01:42:24.588 align:center
a few smooth stones,
Dr. Franklin.
01:42:26.590 --> 01:42:29.626 align:center
There is no need
to escalate this to a war.
01:42:29.627 --> 01:42:31.594 align:center
Oh, I don't know.
01:42:31.595 --> 01:42:35.045 align:center
Make for a wonderful story
for your little newspaper.
01:42:35.046 --> 01:42:37.427 align:center
Farmers with slings and stones
01:42:37.428 --> 01:42:39.981 align:center
versus the most powerful army
on Earth.
01:42:39.982 --> 01:42:41.949 align:center
It would be a good little war.
01:42:41.950 --> 01:42:43.676 align:center
Short-lived, but...
01:42:44.573 --> 01:42:46.298 align:center
exhilarating.
01:42:46.299 --> 01:42:50.129 align:center
There never was a good war,
nor a bad peace.
01:42:50.130 --> 01:42:51.752 align:center
Then may I suggest
you refrain from threats
01:42:51.753 --> 01:42:54.720 align:center
you're not able to fulfill?
01:42:54.721 --> 01:42:57.586 align:center
We have petitioned
the King exhaustively.
01:42:58.725 --> 01:43:00.312 align:center
We have appealed
to the royal governors
01:43:00.313 --> 01:43:02.556 align:center
within the colonies to no avail.
01:43:02.557 --> 01:43:05.041 align:center
We have sought participation
in trade agreements,
01:43:05.042 --> 01:43:06.939 align:center
taxation, and governance
01:43:06.940 --> 01:43:09.114 align:center
without even a response
from His Majesty.
01:43:09.115 --> 01:43:11.081 align:center
Well, the King has
far greater concerns
01:43:11.082 --> 01:43:13.981 align:center
than distant dirt workers
crying for attention.
01:43:13.982 --> 01:43:15.155 align:center
Admiral Howe,
01:43:15.811 --> 01:43:17.571 align:center
across that ocean,
01:43:17.572 --> 01:43:19.745 align:center
an entire generation
of Americans
01:43:19.746 --> 01:43:21.609 align:center
have been awakened to believe
01:43:21.610 --> 01:43:25.268 align:center
that liberty is not a gift
given to them by a king,
01:43:25.269 --> 01:43:27.685 align:center
but a right
given to them by God.
01:43:28.962 --> 01:43:32.655 align:center
God? Hmm.
01:43:32.656 --> 01:43:37.038 align:center
Well, perhaps, if I match your
surprisingly religious tone,
01:43:37.039 --> 01:43:38.524 align:center
you might understand.
01:43:39.801 --> 01:43:41.767 align:center
When the prodigal son
01:43:41.768 --> 01:43:43.769 align:center
received his
inheritance prematurely,
01:43:43.770 --> 01:43:46.739 align:center
he too thought he could handle
his newly found freedom.
01:43:48.154 --> 01:43:50.293 align:center
He was shamefully deluded.
01:43:50.294 --> 01:43:53.020 align:center
He squandered it and came
crawling back to Daddy
01:43:53.021 --> 01:43:56.230 align:center
with empty hands
and an empty belly.
01:43:56.231 --> 01:43:58.577 align:center
You Americans
are exactly the same,
01:43:58.578 --> 01:44:02.305 align:center
utterly incapable
of handling freedom.
01:44:02.306 --> 01:44:05.032 align:center
A virtuous people
can handle freedom.
01:44:05.033 --> 01:44:06.724 align:center
[LAUGHS]
01:44:08.416 --> 01:44:11.556 align:center
Oh, and you,
as a model citizen.
01:44:11.557 --> 01:44:13.247 align:center
Would Mrs. Franklin find you
01:44:13.248 --> 01:44:15.940 align:center
and last night's
theater guest virtuous?
01:44:17.701 --> 01:44:19.702 align:center
Oh, Dr. Franklin.
01:44:19.703 --> 01:44:22.152 align:center
Need I remind you
that for over a century,
01:44:22.153 --> 01:44:25.363 align:center
our kings have
emptied their poorhouses
01:44:25.364 --> 01:44:28.089 align:center
and drained
the vagrants from our streets
01:44:28.090 --> 01:44:29.988 align:center
by sending them
to your colonies?
01:44:29.989 --> 01:44:32.749 align:center
[INHALES SHARPLY]
And now you think
01:44:32.750 --> 01:44:35.511 align:center
these indentured servants
01:44:35.512 --> 01:44:39.032 align:center
can be self-governed?
[CHUCKLES]
01:44:43.416 --> 01:44:45.106 align:center
You know
you're not on the same level
01:44:45.107 --> 01:44:47.557 align:center
as these rats you represent.
01:44:47.558 --> 01:44:50.422 align:center
British society
is greatly enamored by you
01:44:50.423 --> 01:44:53.529 align:center
and think you
delightfully entertaining.
01:44:53.530 --> 01:44:55.254 align:center
If you would simply drop this
01:44:55.255 --> 01:44:56.773 align:center
notion of
independent government,
01:44:56.774 --> 01:44:58.707 align:center
you'd be greatly rewarded
by the King.
01:44:59.915 --> 01:45:01.433 align:center
I cannot be bought.
01:45:01.434 --> 01:45:03.124 align:center
You would die on the vine
without us!
01:45:03.125 --> 01:45:04.403 align:center
[KNOCK AT DOOR]
01:45:10.892 --> 01:45:12.513 align:center
SERVANT: Pardon
the interruption, Admiral.
01:45:12.514 --> 01:45:15.205 align:center
I have just been informed
of news from the colonies.
01:45:15.206 --> 01:45:19.072 align:center
Hmm, they're requesting more
shovels, plows, and stones?
01:45:19.901 --> 01:45:21.349 align:center
The Reverend George Whitefield
01:45:21.350 --> 01:45:22.454 align:center
has died in Newburyport,
01:45:22.455 --> 01:45:23.869 align:center
- Massachusetts.
- [HIGH-PITCHED RINGING]
01:45:23.870 --> 01:45:25.802 align:center
[MUFFLED] Being a friend
of England and her colonies,
01:45:25.803 --> 01:45:27.701 align:center
the consulate thought
you both should know.
01:45:27.702 --> 01:45:29.497 align:center
[RINGING FADES]
01:45:30.498 --> 01:45:32.154 align:center
- Is that all?
- Yes, sir.
01:45:32.810 --> 01:45:34.812 align:center
[MOURNFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
01:45:40.162 --> 01:45:44.339 align:center
Speaking of dying on the vine,
and rather young, wasn't he?
01:45:47.135 --> 01:45:49.827 align:center
- [CHAIR CREAKS]
- Did you know him?
01:45:53.003 --> 01:45:54.762 align:center
Well...
01:45:54.763 --> 01:45:58.973 align:center
your colonies had
their awakening, Dr. Franklin.
01:45:58.974 --> 01:46:01.321 align:center
Now, it's time
they have their reckoning.
01:46:05.464 --> 01:46:06.499 align:center
Checkmate.
01:46:09.571 --> 01:46:11.815 align:center
- [DOOR OPENS]
- [FOOTSTEPS DEPART]
01:46:15.612 --> 01:46:17.510 align:center
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING
IN DISTANCE]
01:46:23.482 --> 01:46:25.725 align:center
[MOURNFUL MUSIC CONTINUES]
01:46:42.708 --> 01:46:44.399 align:center
[RAIN PATTERING SOFTLY]
01:46:52.994 --> 01:46:55.203 align:center
[MOURNFUL MUSIC CONTINUES]
01:47:19.468 --> 01:47:21.609 align:center
[SLOW DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
01:47:26.096 --> 01:47:28.098 align:center
- [BELL TOLLING]
- [THUNDER RUMBLING]
01:47:29.237 --> 01:47:31.550 align:center
- [DOOR SLAMS OPEN]
- [WIND BLOWING]
01:47:32.378 --> 01:47:33.931 align:center
[THUNDER CRASHING]
01:47:43.700 --> 01:47:44.908 align:center
BENNY: Where are you going?
01:47:46.150 --> 01:47:47.738 align:center
[THUNDER CRASHING]
01:47:49.153 --> 01:47:50.429 align:center
[MUFFLED] Grandfather,
what are you doing?
01:47:50.430 --> 01:47:51.604 align:center
The storm is here!
01:47:52.640 --> 01:47:53.986 align:center
This is unsafe!
01:47:55.125 --> 01:47:56.816 align:center
[WIND GUSTING]
01:47:59.647 --> 01:48:01.580 align:center
Grandfather, put this on!
01:48:02.304 --> 01:48:03.477 align:center
Grandfather!
01:48:03.478 --> 01:48:05.791 align:center
[INSPIRATIONAL MUSIC PLAYING]
01:48:10.899 --> 01:48:12.314 align:center
[THUNDER CRASHING]
01:48:16.422 --> 01:48:18.182 align:center
[THUNDERCLAP]
01:48:25.604 --> 01:48:26.777 align:center
[THUNDERCLAP]
01:48:30.609 --> 01:48:32.541 align:center
[RAIN TEEMING]
01:48:40.170 --> 01:48:41.930 align:center
And who is the source, Ben?
01:48:49.973 --> 01:48:51.663 align:center
[PANTING]
01:48:51.664 --> 01:48:52.941 align:center
Dunk the papers, Benny.
01:48:55.116 --> 01:48:56.289 align:center
I have something to say.
01:48:58.291 --> 01:49:00.017 align:center
[CONTINUES PANTING]
01:49:02.123 --> 01:49:04.401 align:center
[INSPIRATIONAL MUSIC CONTINUES]
01:49:09.544 --> 01:49:10.959 align:center
[LIQUID SLOSHES]
01:49:24.732 --> 01:49:26.734 align:center
[SORTS CLINKING]
01:49:57.350 --> 01:49:58.904 align:center
[CRANKING]
01:50:02.286 --> 01:50:03.391 align:center
Grandfather.
01:50:04.495 --> 01:50:05.565 align:center
Care to do the honors?
01:50:07.533 --> 01:50:09.638 align:center
[INSPIRATIONAL MUSIC
CONTINUES]
01:50:19.787 --> 01:50:21.789 align:center
[MACHINE CLICKING]
01:50:50.231 --> 01:50:51.301 align:center
Grandfather.
01:50:53.303 --> 01:50:54.960 align:center
Why didn't you
tell me this before?
01:50:55.892 --> 01:50:57.100 align:center
The story of Whitefield.
01:50:58.895 --> 01:51:03.692 align:center
[SIGHS] I...
I didn't think I needed to.
01:51:07.420 --> 01:51:08.490 align:center
You needed to.
01:51:12.978 --> 01:51:14.151 align:center
[BENNY SIGHS]
01:51:15.325 --> 01:51:17.809 align:center
[PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING]
01:51:17.810 --> 01:51:19.432 align:center
[BENJAMIN SNIFFLES]
01:51:41.558 --> 01:51:44.941 align:center
One tiny candle
illuminates a thousand.
01:51:59.852 --> 01:52:02.027 align:center
[CAPTIVATING MUSIC PLAYING]
01:52:18.629 --> 01:52:20.597 align:center
- [INDISTINCT ARGUING]
- [GAVEL BANGING]
01:52:21.425 --> 01:52:22.426 align:center
Order!
01:52:23.738 --> 01:52:24.843 align:center
Order!
01:52:26.327 --> 01:52:28.880 align:center
- Proceed, Mr. Read.
- [ARGUING FADES]
01:52:28.881 --> 01:52:30.744 align:center
The states formed
this confederation
01:52:30.745 --> 01:52:34.299 align:center
in 1776 on equal terms.
01:52:34.300 --> 01:52:36.094 align:center
The states being equal
01:52:36.095 --> 01:52:38.303 align:center
must have equal influence
and equal votes.
01:52:38.304 --> 01:52:39.511 align:center
MEMBERS: Aye!
01:52:39.512 --> 01:52:43.170 align:center
If... If this convention
grants large states
01:52:43.171 --> 01:52:45.034 align:center
more votes than the small,
01:52:45.035 --> 01:52:46.587 align:center
the large states will
01:52:46.588 --> 01:52:49.176 align:center
naturally combine
and form a tyranny
01:52:49.177 --> 01:52:51.040 align:center
- over the smaller states.
- MEMBERS: Hear, hear!
01:52:51.041 --> 01:52:54.043 align:center
Nowhere in the history
of men or nations
01:52:54.044 --> 01:52:57.012 align:center
has such a thing occurred,
Mr. Read.
01:52:57.013 --> 01:52:59.497 align:center
Carthage and Rome
tore one another to pieces
01:52:59.498 --> 01:53:00.774 align:center
instead of
uniting their forces
01:53:00.775 --> 01:53:02.811 align:center
to devour the weaker nations
of the Earth.
01:53:03.640 --> 01:53:05.434 align:center
Sparta, Athens, and Thebes
01:53:05.435 --> 01:53:07.919 align:center
never combined
to oppress their neighbors.
01:53:07.920 --> 01:53:11.234 align:center
Instead, they were rivals
and fought each other.
01:53:12.545 --> 01:53:14.753 align:center
Anarchy and discord await us
01:53:14.754 --> 01:53:17.929 align:center
if we fail to unite
under a central authority.
01:53:17.930 --> 01:53:19.620 align:center
[MEMBERS CHEER]
01:53:19.621 --> 01:53:23.417 align:center
When man or nations
are strong and equal,
01:53:23.418 --> 01:53:24.626 align:center
they become rivals.
01:53:25.627 --> 01:53:28.181 align:center
Jealousy prevents their union.
01:53:28.182 --> 01:53:30.079 align:center
MEMBER 1: This convention
might as well go on then
01:53:30.080 --> 01:53:31.943 align:center
and dissolve the union now.
01:53:31.944 --> 01:53:33.876 align:center
[MEMBERS CLAMORING]
01:53:33.877 --> 01:53:35.015 align:center
MEMBER 2: How dare you.
01:53:35.016 --> 01:53:36.915 align:center
[GAVEL BANGING]
01:53:38.226 --> 01:53:40.745 align:center
MEMBER 3: If partial
confederates take place,
01:53:40.746 --> 01:53:43.230 align:center
then the present plan
on the table, Mr. Madison.
01:53:43.231 --> 01:53:44.645 align:center
[MEMBERS ARGUING]
01:53:44.646 --> 01:53:46.475 align:center
[GAVEL BANGING]
01:53:46.476 --> 01:53:49.029 align:center
- PRESIDENT: Order!
- [GAVEL BANGING]
01:53:49.030 --> 01:53:51.894 align:center
- Order.
- [ARGUING STOPS]
01:53:51.895 --> 01:53:53.345 align:center
This chair recognizes...
01:53:54.760 --> 01:53:56.313 align:center
Dr. Benjamin Franklin.
01:54:03.182 --> 01:54:04.287 align:center
Mr. President.
01:54:05.944 --> 01:54:07.910 align:center
The small progress
we have made
01:54:07.911 --> 01:54:11.396 align:center
after four or five weeks'
close attendance
01:54:11.397 --> 01:54:14.917 align:center
and continual reasonings
with each other,
01:54:14.918 --> 01:54:18.438 align:center
our different sentiments
on almost every question,
01:54:18.439 --> 01:54:21.856 align:center
several of the last producing
as many noes as ayes,
01:54:22.788 --> 01:54:25.341 align:center
is methinks a melancholy proof
01:54:25.342 --> 01:54:28.104 align:center
of the imperfection
of the human understanding.
01:54:29.968 --> 01:54:33.142 align:center
We indeed seem to feel
01:54:33.143 --> 01:54:36.835 align:center
our own want
of political wisdom,
01:54:36.836 --> 01:54:39.805 align:center
since we've been running about
in search of it.
01:54:40.979 --> 01:54:44.084 align:center
We have gone
back to ancient history
01:54:44.085 --> 01:54:46.536 align:center
for models of government.
[GRUNTS]
01:54:47.399 --> 01:54:50.332 align:center
And having examined
01:54:50.333 --> 01:54:53.438 align:center
those forms
of those republics,
01:54:53.439 --> 01:54:55.475 align:center
which having been formed
01:54:55.476 --> 01:54:57.512 align:center
with the seeds
of their own disillusion...
01:54:58.858 --> 01:55:00.412 align:center
now no longer exist.
01:55:02.345 --> 01:55:07.556 align:center
We have viewed modern states
all around Europe,
01:55:07.557 --> 01:55:10.145 align:center
but find none
of their constitutions
01:55:10.146 --> 01:55:12.079 align:center
suitable to
our circumstances.
01:55:13.666 --> 01:55:16.910 align:center
In this situation
of this assembly,
01:55:16.911 --> 01:55:19.223 align:center
groping as it were
01:55:19.224 --> 01:55:21.673 align:center
in the dark
for political truth
01:55:21.674 --> 01:55:23.675 align:center
and scarce able
to distinguish it
01:55:23.676 --> 01:55:26.023 align:center
when presented to us,
01:55:26.024 --> 01:55:30.372 align:center
how has it happened, sir,
that we have not hitherto
01:55:30.373 --> 01:55:32.650 align:center
once thought of humbly
01:55:32.651 --> 01:55:34.859 align:center
applying to
the Father of lights
01:55:34.860 --> 01:55:36.862 align:center
to illuminate
our understandings?
01:55:39.071 --> 01:55:40.485 align:center
In the beginning
of the contest
01:55:40.486 --> 01:55:41.522 align:center
with Great Britain,
01:55:42.557 --> 01:55:44.352 align:center
when we were
sensible of danger,
01:55:45.353 --> 01:55:48.321 align:center
we had daily prayer
in this room
01:55:48.322 --> 01:55:49.702 align:center
for the divine protection.
01:55:51.221 --> 01:55:53.533 align:center
Our prayers, sir, were heard.
01:55:53.534 --> 01:55:55.569 align:center
And they were
graciously answered.
01:55:55.570 --> 01:55:58.124 align:center
[SOFT INSPIRATIONAL
MUSIC PLAYING]
01:55:58.125 --> 01:56:02.576 align:center
All of us who were engaged
in the struggle
01:56:02.577 --> 01:56:05.959 align:center
must have observed
frequent instances
01:56:05.960 --> 01:56:08.825 align:center
of a superintending providence
in our favor.
01:56:10.654 --> 01:56:14.105 align:center
To that kind providence,
we owe this happy opportunity
01:56:14.106 --> 01:56:16.383 align:center
of consulting in peace
01:56:16.384 --> 01:56:20.423 align:center
on the means of establishing
our future national felicity.
01:56:23.909 --> 01:56:25.807 align:center
And have we now forgotten...
01:56:27.775 --> 01:56:29.017 align:center
that powerful friend?
01:56:31.227 --> 01:56:32.261 align:center
Or do we imagine that
01:56:32.262 --> 01:56:34.471 align:center
we no longer need
His assistance?
01:56:36.749 --> 01:56:39.269 align:center
I have lived, sir,
a long time.
01:56:40.615 --> 01:56:42.409 align:center
And the longer I live,
01:56:42.410 --> 01:56:45.965 align:center
the more convincing proofs
I have seen of this truth...
01:56:47.415 --> 01:56:50.591 align:center
that God governs
in the affairs of man.
01:56:52.455 --> 01:56:55.527 align:center
And if a sparrow cannot fall
without His notice,
01:56:57.425 --> 01:57:01.429 align:center
is it probable that an empire
can rise without His aid?
01:57:04.156 --> 01:57:07.125 align:center
We have been assured, sir,
in the sacred scriptures,
01:57:08.264 --> 01:57:11.162 align:center
that unless
the Lord built the house,
01:57:11.163 --> 01:57:12.923 align:center
they labor in vain
that build it.
01:57:15.271 --> 01:57:17.031 align:center
I firmly believe this.
01:57:18.688 --> 01:57:22.449 align:center
And I also believe that
without His concurring aid,
01:57:22.450 --> 01:57:25.832 align:center
we shall succeed
in this political building
01:57:25.833 --> 01:57:27.697 align:center
no better than
the builders of Babel.
01:57:30.044 --> 01:57:34.703 align:center
We shall be divided by our
little partial local interest,
01:57:34.704 --> 01:57:36.533 align:center
our projects
shall be confounded,
01:57:37.638 --> 01:57:40.502 align:center
and we ourselves
shall become a reproach
01:57:40.503 --> 01:57:42.850 align:center
and a byword
down to future age.
01:57:43.885 --> 01:57:46.059 align:center
And what is worse...
01:57:46.060 --> 01:57:50.443 align:center
mankind may hereafter
these unfortunate instances,
01:57:50.444 --> 01:57:54.757 align:center
despair of establishing
governments on human wisdom,
01:57:54.758 --> 01:57:59.832 align:center
and leave it to chance,
war... and conquest.
01:58:03.250 --> 01:58:06.770 align:center
I, therefore,
beg leave to move...
01:58:08.565 --> 01:58:10.912 align:center
that henceforth prayers...
01:58:12.120 --> 01:58:14.329 align:center
imploring the assistance
of Heaven
01:58:14.330 --> 01:58:17.366 align:center
and its blessings
on our deliberations
01:58:17.367 --> 01:58:19.989 align:center
be held in this assembly
every morning
01:58:19.990 --> 01:58:22.027 align:center
before we proceed
to business.
01:58:24.132 --> 01:58:27.721 align:center
And let one or more
of the clergy of this city
01:58:27.722 --> 01:58:30.242 align:center
be requested
to officiate in that service.
01:58:38.285 --> 01:58:39.769 align:center
[ALEXANDER CLEARS THROAT]
01:58:44.946 --> 01:58:47.603 align:center
However proper such
a resolution might have been
01:58:47.604 --> 01:58:50.089 align:center
at the beginning
of the convention,
01:58:51.781 --> 01:58:54.161 align:center
it might, at this late day,
lead the public to believe
01:58:54.162 --> 01:58:56.336 align:center
that the embarrassments
of disunity
01:58:56.337 --> 01:58:57.717 align:center
and dissensions
within the convention
01:58:57.718 --> 01:58:59.409 align:center
have suggested this measure.
01:59:01.929 --> 01:59:03.275 align:center
It would make us look weak.
01:59:09.143 --> 01:59:10.902 align:center
MEMBER 4: And...
01:59:10.903 --> 01:59:13.457 align:center
the true cause of the omission
01:59:13.458 --> 01:59:18.013 align:center
of clergy-led prayer
must not be mistaken.
01:59:18.014 --> 01:59:21.983 align:center
This convention has no funds
to pay a clergyman.
01:59:24.158 --> 01:59:25.917 align:center
I propose, in order to give
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a favorable aspect
to this measure,
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that a sermon be preached
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at the request
of the convention
01:59:31.959 --> 01:59:33.132 align:center
on 4th of July.
01:59:34.479 --> 01:59:35.618 align:center
And henceforward,
01:59:36.826 --> 01:59:39.518 align:center
prayers be offered
in this convention...
01:59:41.348 --> 01:59:42.418 align:center
every morning.
01:59:43.591 --> 01:59:44.627 align:center
Second.
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MEMBER 5:
Shall we take a vote?
01:59:54.119 --> 01:59:57.742 align:center
I request a postponement
due to adjournment.
01:59:57.743 --> 01:59:58.951 align:center
Second.
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Dr. Franklin's recommendation
02:00:04.094 --> 02:00:06.545 align:center
of Mr. Randolph's motion
for daily prayer
02:00:07.650 --> 02:00:09.721 align:center
is postponed
due to adjournment.
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I, for one, will be in
attendance on July the 4th...
02:00:21.180 --> 02:00:22.665 align:center
observing a day of prayer.
02:00:25.253 --> 02:00:29.257 align:center
I would welcome
any and all of you...
02:00:30.535 --> 02:00:31.639 align:center
to join me.
02:00:34.193 --> 02:00:35.850 align:center
- Adjourned.
- [GAVEL BANGS]
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[SOFT INSPIRATIONAL
MUSIC PLAYING]
02:01:15.131 --> 02:01:16.891 align:center
[MUSIC SWELLS]
02:01:22.034 --> 02:01:24.657 align:center
GEORGE: The Father of lights
says in His Word,
02:01:24.658 --> 02:01:27.349 align:center
"For you who honor my name,
02:01:27.350 --> 02:01:28.557 align:center
"the Sun of Righteousness
02:01:28.558 --> 02:01:30.802 align:center
"will rise
with healing in its wings."
02:01:32.459 --> 02:01:33.563 align:center
My friends.
02:01:34.461 --> 02:01:35.634 align:center
Do you want to be free?
02:01:36.980 --> 02:01:38.775 align:center
Liberty is found in Him alone.
02:01:40.156 --> 02:01:41.260 align:center
Do you want to live?
02:01:42.123 --> 02:01:44.540 align:center
He alone gives eternal life.
02:01:46.093 --> 02:01:49.060 align:center
Because of the tender mercy
of our God,
02:01:49.061 --> 02:01:51.891 align:center
the rising sun
will come to us from Heaven
02:01:51.892 --> 02:01:53.997 align:center
to shine on those
living in darkness.
02:01:55.551 --> 02:01:57.137 align:center
I beseech you,
02:01:57.138 --> 02:01:59.762 align:center
do not reject so great a gift.
02:02:02.558 --> 02:02:04.145 align:center
A great awakening has come.
02:02:06.113 --> 02:02:07.632 align:center
Arise, O sleeper!
02:02:08.771 --> 02:02:09.841 align:center
Awaken!
02:02:11.429 --> 02:02:12.602 align:center
[MUSIC FADES]
02:02:14.949 --> 02:02:17.262 align:center
[GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING]
02:03:15.216 --> 02:03:16.355 align:center
[MUSIC FADES]
02:03:17.495 --> 02:03:18.667 align:center
[ AWAKEN US TODAY PLAYING]
02:03:18.668 --> 02:03:23.776 align:center
♪ From the oceans
through the valleys
02:03:23.777 --> 02:03:30.403 align:center
♪ From the mainland
to the shore
02:03:30.404 --> 02:03:36.961 align:center
♪ Let your Kingdom be awakened
02:03:36.962 --> 02:03:43.416 align:center
♪ In the hearts of men
once more
02:03:43.417 --> 02:03:50.009 align:center
♪ Call Your children
into freedom
02:03:50.010 --> 02:03:56.671 align:center
♪ Captive souls to liberty
02:03:56.672 --> 02:04:03.229 align:center
♪ Come awaken, Holy Spirit
02:04:03.230 --> 02:04:10.271 align:center
♪ Come awaken us today
02:04:20.040 --> 02:04:26.424 align:center
♪ Love unending,
praise unyielding
02:04:26.425 --> 02:04:32.879 align:center
♪ Tender mercies
from Thy throne
02:04:32.880 --> 02:04:39.472 align:center
♪ Brings the lost soul
into families
02:04:39.473 --> 02:04:46.065 align:center
♪ Calls the wayward
sinner home
02:04:46.066 --> 02:04:52.623 align:center
♪ Bring salvation,
Great Redeemer
02:04:52.624 --> 02:04:59.216 align:center
♪ Holy fire,
fan to flame
02:04:59.217 --> 02:05:05.947 align:center
♪ Come restore us,
come revive us
02:05:05.948 --> 02:05:12.437 align:center
♪ Come awaken us today
02:05:22.447 --> 02:05:28.901 align:center
♪ I will serve Thee,
precious Jesus
02:05:28.902 --> 02:05:35.493 align:center
♪ Unto Thee I give my all
02:05:35.494 --> 02:05:42.086 align:center
♪ Lay my hands
unto Thy service
02:05:42.087 --> 02:05:48.679 align:center
♪ And my heart unto Thy call
02:05:48.680 --> 02:05:55.134 align:center
♪ Perish every fond ambition
02:05:55.135 --> 02:06:01.692 align:center
♪ Lay aside our selfish gain
02:06:01.693 --> 02:06:08.457 align:center
♪ All forsaken for Thy glory
02:06:08.458 --> 02:06:14.843 align:center
♪ Come awaken us today
02:06:14.844 --> 02:06:16.881 align:center
[INSTRUMENTAL INTERLUDE]
02:06:55.367 --> 02:07:02.373 align:center
♪ Wake, O sleeper,
from your slumber!
02:07:02.374 --> 02:07:09.760 align:center
♪ Saints awaken, come to life!
02:07:09.761 --> 02:07:16.871 align:center
♪ Christ will rise
and shine upon you
02:07:16.872 --> 02:07:24.050 align:center
♪ In His heav'nly light divine
02:07:24.051 --> 02:07:31.368 align:center
♪ Like the sunrise
in its dawning
02:07:31.369 --> 02:07:38.409 align:center
♪ Breaking darkness
with new light
02:07:38.410 --> 02:07:45.451 align:center
♪ Rise upon us, King of glory
02:07:45.452 --> 02:07:51.802 align:center
♪ Come awaken us today
02:07:51.803 --> 02:07:53.667 align:center
[MUSIC SOFTENS]
02:07:55.980 --> 02:07:59.810 align:center
♪ For Your Kingdom
02:07:59.811 --> 02:08:05.299 align:center
♪ For Your glory
02:08:07.129 --> 02:08:14.101 align:center
♪ Come awaken us
02:08:14.792 --> 02:08:21.729 align:center
♪ Today!
02:08:25.975 --> 02:08:27.079 align:center
[SONG ENDS]
02:08:27.080 --> 02:08:29.496 align:center
[CAPTIVATING ORCHESTRAL
MUSIC PLAYING]
02:09:17.751 --> 02:09:18.752 align:center
[MUSIC ENDS]