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How Noah Webster’s Dictionary Helped Reinforce America As A Christian Nation

How Noah Webster’s Dictionary Helped Reinforce America As A Christian Nation

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NewBostonPost is publishing a regular weekly column by local religious leaders on Friday. This week's article is below. On April 14, 1828, Noah Webster, age 70, had his long-awaited American Dictionary of the English Language copyrighted and ready for publication.  The year before, when finishing the work, he wrote from Cambridge, England:  "When I had come to the last word, I was seized with a trembling which made it somewhat difficult to hold my pen steady for writing.  The cause seems to hav

NewBostonPost is publishing a regular weekly column by local religious leaders on Friday. This week's article is below. On April 14, 1828, Noah Webster, age 70, had his long-awaited American Dictionary of the English Language copyrighted and ready for publication.  The year before, when finishing the work, he wrote from Cambridge, England:  "When I had come to the last word, I was seized with a trembling which made it somewhat difficult to hold my pen steady for writing.  The cause seems to hav…