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WMRU Week 14
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Wise Men Raised Up Week 14
Where is the Hand of the Lord?
Andrew Jackson
So long, Era of Good Feelings. Hello, Civil War (almost).
Episode 1
Andrew Jackson
It's a lot of work being so popular.
Openers
Projects/Quizzes
Deadline is Saturday at midnight.
Admin Stuff
Project purposes--i.e. this is not a crafts class
Quiz #7 (Week 13) will be up this afternoon
Points?
One Minute of Light
"Everything turns out to be valuable that one does for one’s self without thought of profit."
-- Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
Mormon 9:3
Scripture
And now, my beloved brethren, after ye have gotten into this strait and narrow path, I would ask if all is done? Behold, I say unto you, Nay...
20 Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life.
Real People
“It’s hard for us to relate to historical figures when all we have to go by is flat portraits wearing outdated period era garments. We don’t connect with them. But they were real people, with real feelings.”
— Becca Saladin
Quotation
https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/an-artist-created-lifelike-photos-of-the-wives-of-king-henry-viii-bdb99cd35155
Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the US
Born 1767--Died June 8, 1845
Reading for Jackson: pp 199-230
The History
Teenage soldier--captured
Married Rachel Donelson Robards in 1791 and 1794
Battle of New Orleans
President (lost in 1824, won in 1828 and 1832)
Fun Facts
Captured but refused to submit
Lost his mother and brother
Won a plurality in 1824
The Stories
Paid off the national debt
Became a Christian late in life
Andrew Jackson, complicated fellow
Trump is often compared to him
Episode 2
God can use you. In fact, He will. The key for us is to be willing.
Even the best men have flaws.
Openers
Keep Going
One Minute of Light
"Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure."
-- George Eliot, Middlemarch
The Story of Mara Abbott
Alma 40:23-25
23 The soul shall be restored to the body, and the body to the soul; yea, and every limb and joint shall be restored to its body; yea, even a hair of the head shall not be lost; but all things shall be restored to their proper and eperfect frame.
24 And now, my son, this is the restoration of which has been aspoken by the mouths of the prophets—
25 And then shall the righteous shine forth in the kingdom of God.
Scripture
You keep using that word...
The man who is right is a majority.
--Frederick Douglass
Quotation
"Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there."
--Andrew Jackson
Four Big Things in the Life of Andy Jack
Old Hickory and his duels
Indian Removal Act https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SosZ2ZRJymU
Four Big Things
National Banks https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/andrew-jackson-shuts-down-second-bank-of-the-u-s
Nullification
What if every state decided its own rules?
Nullification
Nullification and the Trail of Tears
And so it begins. Or, you know, continues.
Episode 3
The truth can be hard.
But it's better to know it than not.
Openers
John 8:32
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Scripture
Truth
“For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it.”
--Patrick Henry
Quotation
On Dreams
One Minute of Light
"Yes, I’ve always been a dreamer, and yes, I have always tried. And dreams are special things. But dreams are of no value if they’re not equipped with wings and feet and hands and all that. If you’re going to make a dream come true, you’ve got to work with it. You can’t just sit around. That’s a wish. That’s not a dream."
-- Dolly Parton
The Trail of Tears
Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, and Seminole
Trail of Tears
46,000 natives moved over 20 years (1830-1850)
Nullification
South Carolina vs. The US Government
Nullification
Tariffs of 1828
Raising a State
The Beginnings of New York
Episode 4
There are stories everywhere.
So let's start with one.
Openers
1 Nephi 17:9-10
Scripture
9 And I said: Lord, whither shall I go that I may find ore to molten, that I may make tools to construct the ship after the manner which thou hast shown unto me?
10 And it came to pass that the Lord told me whither I should go to find ore, that I might make tools.
The Erie Canal
"Why sir, here is a canal of a few miles, projected by General Washington, which, if completed, would render this a fine commercial city, which has languished for many years...and you talk of making a canal of 350 miles through the wilderness - it is little short of madness to think of it at this day."
--Thomas Jefferson, 1809
Quotation
It's a skill, not a miracle.
One Minute of Light
"Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance."
-- James Baldwin, Paris Review Interviews II
The Erie Canal
Travel and shipping difficulties
Jesse Hawley
The History
DeWitt Clinton
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
"If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."
--Obi-Wan Kenobi
Never
Give Up
Therefore, what DOES kill you ALSO makes you stronger.
All things work together for good to those who love God,
who are called to his purpose. --Romans 8:28