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1 | 01 – A Model of Christian Charity | A Founder's Keeper | 41:32 |
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Artwork
Cover: Portrait of Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor John Winthrop, 17th century, American Antiquarian Society.
Inset: Postcard of The Arbella - Gov. Winthrop's Flagship, The Pioneers' Village, Salem, Mass., 1930-1945, Tichnor Bros. Inc., Boston, Mass.
Inset: Engraving portrait of an early governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, John Winthrop by Anthony van Dyck, Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
Political commentators often refer to
an image of a shining “city on a hill” as a metaphor for the
American experiment. Ronald Reagan used it in his Election Eve
address in 1980 and again in his farewell address in 1989. The phrase
originates in the parable of Salt and Light in Jesus’ Sermon on the
Mount in Matthew 5:14. Its significance in the American political
context refers to a passage in “A Model of Christian Charity”, a
sermon by Puritan leader John Winthrop given at Holyrood Church in
Southampton to his first group of Massachusetts Bay colonists just
prior to embarking on the ship Arabella to cross the Atlantic
to settle Boston. Winthrop warned that their new community would be
“as a city on upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us”,
meaning, if they dealt “falsely with our God in this work we have
undertaken and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, we
shall be made a story and a byword through the world". The
sermon was largely forgotten until published by the Massachusetts
Historical Society in 1838. It then languished until the Cold War
era, when it became thought of as a foundational document in the idea
of American Exceptionalism. Winthrop’s aim was to establish
nothing less than a new kind of model community based on the highest
principles, and his words make clear the exceptional behavior needed
to bring that mission to life.
“We must love brotherly without dissimulation, we must love one another with a pure heart fervently. We must bear one another’s burdens. We must not look only on our own things, but also on the things of our brethren… we must be knit together, in this work, as one man. We must entertain each other in brotherly affection.”
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Item Info | |
EAN - DVD case | 0682550991436 |
EAN - CD jacket | 0682550992228 |
Media | MP3 CD |
Package | CD jacket |
Author | John Winthrop |
Year | 1630 |
Recording | |
Read by | A Founder's Keeper |
Length | 42 minutes |
Type of Reading | Solo reading |
A Model of Christian Charity
- Author: John Winthrop
- Product Code: DB-5007
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