Excerpt from Correspondance de Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 1: Traduite de l'Anglais Et Annotee; 1757-1773
Aujourd'hui que les etats-unis prennent une Si grande place dans le monde, l'histoire de leur ori gine a peut-etre plus d'interet pour nous qu'elle n'en avait il y a un siecle. En lisant les lettres de Franklin en y trouvera les plus curieux renseigne ments, et on y apprendra en meme temps que ce nouvel empire doit sa grandeur non pas a la for tune, mais ala Sagesse, au talent et au courage de ses premiers fondateurs. C'est une lecon morale qui seule suffirait pour recommander la correspondance de Franklin.
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Benjamin Franklin was an important conservative figure in the American Restoration Movement, especially as the leading antebellum conservative in the northern United States branch of the movement. He is notable as the early and lifelong mentor of Daniel Sommer, whose support of the 1889 Sand Creek Declaration set in motion events which led to the formal division of the Churches of Christ from the Disciples of Christ in 1906.
According to contemporary biographies "His early religious training was according to the Methodist faith, though he never belonged to any church until he united with the Disciples."
In 1856, Franklin began to publish the ultra-conservative American Christian Review, which he published until his death in 1878. Its influence, initially considerable, was said to have waned following the American Civil War. Franklin undertook a rigorous program of publication correspondence, and traveling lectures which took him to "many" U. S. states and Canada.
Franklin's last move was to Anderson, Indiana, where he lived from 1864 until his death.
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