THE GLORY OF AMERICA
Peter Marshall & David Manual
March 8
As the Great Revival of 1800 spread beyond the Yale campus, one of its converts was New Haven resident Noah Webster. In 1807 he would write:
“In my view, the Christian religion is...one of the first things in which all children, under a free government, ought to be instructed…. No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.”
MARSHALL & MANUEL, FSSS, 412
