Morning of September 10, 1813. The British naval squadron under Commander Robert Harriet Barclay, advanced with the confidence and skill of the world’s most powerful navy.

Facing them that day was a young American naval officer just *27-years-old*... Oliver Hazard Perry.

As the two fleets closed distance near Put-In-Bay, Ohio, Commander Perry’s men braced themselves.

Most were farmers and frontiersmen. Many were boys. Almost all had never seen naval combat. Some were freed African American slaves.

Perry had barely a small cadre of ten experienced naval officers, not hardly enough to man his small fleet without volunteer help. Perry’s flagship, the USS Lawrence, bore the brunt of British fire. Masts splintered, rigging collapsed, and blood flowed on the deck.

Of Commander Perry’s crew totaling 103, nearly 80 were killed or wounded. The deck was a scene of bloody carnage. In such a hopeless situation, most commanders would have surrendered the fleet.

Instead, Commander Perry made a decision that would etch his name forever in the history of this great nation...

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Battle of Lake Erie / “Don’t Give Up the Ship” / War of 1812 / Naval Warfare / Courage / Fortitude / USS Lawrence / USS Niagara / Leadership

The Enlightenment is often painted as an age when cold science triumphed over devotion to God.

This message of today’s Secular-Progressive World is anything but true.

Many of the greatest minds of that age were men whose Christian faith shaped their scientific genius.

They did not see their work as dismantling God’s place in the cosmos but where the veil of creation was peeled back just enough for these men to glimpse the craftsmanship of the Creator.

For heaven’s sake, virtually all scientists of the “Enlightenment” or “Age of Discovery” were solid, practicing Christians. More so, a full 25 percent were clergy members!

Even today, 83 percent of Nobel Peace Prize recipients identify as Christian or come from Christian nations of the West.

For Newton, Boyle, Kepler, Pascal, Linnaeus, and Faraday, the research laboratory and the church were, in truth, identical. Each a house of worship where the glory of God and His love is revealed to bless a struggling world.

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SIR ISAAC NEWTON / ROBERT BOYLE / JOHANNES KEPLER / BLAISE PASCAL / CAROLUS LINNAEUS / MICHAEL FARADAY / CHRISTIANITY / CREATION / FAITH / RELIGION / SECULAR PROGRESSIVISM / JESUS CHRIST

Helmuth Gunther Hubener grew up in Germany during Hitler’s rise to power. Helmuth was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, sometimes called “Mormons.”

Helmuth could see that his beloved Germany was being destroyed systematically from within. He and his friends felt compelled to tell the people of Germany what was really going on.

So, with a borrowed typewriter, they produced short pamphlets and passed them out, warning everyone about the bad things the Nazi secret police and the military were doing. Even at a young age, Helmuth understood that the Nazis were an evil, racist, totalitarian movement bent on world domination.

But the Gestapo, the secret police, was on his trail and it was not likely he and his young friends could escape the terror rushing at them…

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HELMUTH HUBENER / WORLD WAR II / NAZIS / COURAGE / FAITH IN GOD / COUNTERING EVIL / LDS / MORMON / CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS / RESISTANCE / FIGHTING EVIL / FIGHTING PROPAGANDA

We admire Charlie Kirk. He sacrificed himself for his faith.

Two thousand years ago, shortly after the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, a young disciple by the name of Stephen, also spoke for truth and willingly gave his life for the faith.

Both Stephen and Charlie Kirk were young and exceptionally dedicated to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Both spoke truth in the public forum before all who would listen. And in the end, we know, both met violent deaths at the hands of those who passionately hated the truth.

Standing with Jerusalem’s leaders two millennia ago, as Stephen was executed, was a young man named Saul. Saul was struck by the sublime courage that Stephen exhibited. Saul became Paul, the greatest Christian missionary who ever lived.

I am certain that someone, perhaps many, who witnessed Charlie Kirk’s martyrdom will be inspired by the Spirit to help bring a new, and desperately needed, Christian revival to our struggling and divided world.

I’m Rick Robison and this is the HEROES FOR FREEDOM Podcast.

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CHARLIE KIRK / ST. STEPHEN / FREEDOM / FREE SPEECH / TERRORISM / ASSASSINATION / LIBERTY / GOSPEL OF JESUS / MARTYRS / MARTYRDOM / ISRAEL / AMERICA / BOOK OF ACTS / THE BIBLE

Stephen Collins Foster was the creator and author of what many call the American Soundtrack.

We were a young nation at the time, a divided nation, an angry nation. The tunes that escaped his troubled heart offered hope at a time when many thought the United States would fracture and fall.

His music captured America’s sorrows, but also its joys and beauties. His work revealed the mighty paradox in the American soul. One that, in the ancient words of Moses, “proclaimed liberty throughout the land” while nurturing the ugly institution of slavery.

As an avowed Abolitionist, Stephen Foster hoped his music would represent America’s black population sympathetically.

His melodies today remain iconic: Oh! Susanna, Camptown Races, My Old Kentucky Home, Beautiful Dreamer, Old Folks at Home, Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair, Hard Times Come Again No More, and hundreds more.

But behind his timeless assembly of Americana lurked a frail man haunted by inner demons, social turmoil, and deep personal tragedy.

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AMERICAN MUSIC / AMERICANA / STEPHEN FOSTER / FATHER OF AMERICAN MUSIC / CIVIL WAR / SLAVERY / ABOLITION / KENTUCKY HOME

That night in Washington, D.C., towards dawn, Julia Ward Howe could not sleep, so she arose and sat at a nearby writing desk.

She related this pivotal event later:

“I awoke in the early morning twilight; and as I lay waiting for the dawn, the long lines of a poem began to twine themselves into my mind. Having thought out all the stanzas, I said to myself, ‘I must get up and write these verses down, lest I fall asleep again and forget them!’ So, I sprang out of bed and…scrawled the verses almost without looking at the paper.”

And The Battle Hymn of the Republic was born, which brought President Abraham Lincoln to tears.

And from its publication, the Northern Free States began to win.

More so, the Civil War, in the North, became a war to free all men from bondage…the power of a Godly anthem to inspire hearts and minds everywhere.

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CIVIL WAR / JULIA WARD HOWE / LINCOLN / UNION ARMY / AMERICAN ANTHEM / ABOLITIONIST / POET / MOTHER / INSPIRATION

That critical summer of 1787 the delegates to the Constitutional Convention were on the path to failing miserably.

For a month the delegates had argued over a forgettable list of ego-driven proposals, accomplishing nothing.

Benjamin Franklin spoke addressing the head of the Congress:

“I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. …If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable an empire can rise without His aid?

"We seem to be growing further apart as passions rise. There is too much at stake. I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of heaven…be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business...”

God answered that humble acknowledgement of the power of prayer. The Constitution of the United States was born.

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The Battle of Yorktown raged.

A battle that would decide if the new, young United States of America would survive.

Our hero that day, (October 10, 1781), would lead a desperate assault on the British forward position known as Redoubt #10. In bloody hand-to-hand combat, he and his devoted men turned the tide of battle and won one of the greatest victories in American history.

His name was Alexander Hamilton. And odds were that he should have died alone and in despair on the disease-infested island where he was born.

But Alexander showed us that no matter how hopeless our circumstances appear, our future is in our hands. This was the legacy he wanted most to leave behind: That it’s up to each of us to determine what our future will bring.

That’s the miracle, and the Great American Dream of Alexander Hamilton.

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