In 1630, John Winthrop, the leader of the Puritan founders who landed in Boston, delivered what would become a famous sermon just before the first group of Massachusetts Bay Colonists departed for America on the ship Arbella. The sermon, titled "A Model of Christian Charity," is one of the most famous documents in American history. One portion in particular has been frequently quoted, including by Presidents John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan:
For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a
In 1630, John Winthrop, the leader of the Puritan founders who landed in Boston, delivered what would become a famous sermon just before the first group of Massachusetts Bay Colonists departed for America on the ship Arbella. The sermon, titled "A Model of Christian Charity," is one of the most famous documents in American history. One portion in particular has been frequently quoted, including by Presidents John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan:
For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a…
