Subject:  American Minute - Mar. 22 - Jonathan Edwards, Timothy Dwight, and Voltaire
Date:  Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:53:56 -0500
American Minute with Bill Federer

March 22

On MARCH 22, 1758, Princeton University President Jonathan Edwards
died as a result of a smallpox inoculation.

A Yale graduate, being valedictorian of his class, Jonathan Edwards'
preaching helped begin the Great Awakening, a revival of such
proportions that history credits it with uniting the colonies prior
to the Revolution.

Of this awakening, Benjamin Franklin wrote:

"It was wonderful to see...From being thoughtless or
indifferent...it seemed as if all the world were growing religious,
so that one could not walk thro' the town in an evening without
hearing psalms sung in...every street."

Edwards' grandson was Yale President Timothy Dwight, who wrote July
4, 1798:

"Voltaire...formed a systematical design to destroy Christianity and
to introduce...atheism."

Dwight described Voltaire's plan:

"The fabrication of books of all kinds against Christianity,
especially such as excite doubt...written as to catch the feelings,
and steal upon the approbation, of every class of men...

Books were formed, altered, forged, imputed as posthumous to
deceased writers of reputation, and sent abroad with the weight of
their names. These were printed and circulated at the lowest price
through all classes of men in an uninterrupted succession."



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