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🗓️ 21 May 2022
⏱️ 76 minutes
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0:00.0 | There's something so romantic about winter and I don't know whether that's just because |
0:05.4 | I'm a bit of a homebody and I love a 5th. |
0:08.0 | But I think it's just the holiday period. |
0:10.2 | It's just for me, it's the most romantic period. |
0:14.2 | And I think anyone who's listened to my records will know that I'm quite a big fan of romance. |
0:18.8 | Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks. |
0:26.6 | Before we start talking to our guest. |
0:29.4 | It was 1858. |
0:31.5 | It was the Republican State Convention and Abraham Lincoln was getting up to speak. |
0:38.9 | Now he wasn't even thought about as the next president. |
0:43.0 | And he looked to Christ for answers. |
0:44.6 | And he told the delegates at the convention that America was about to collapse. |
0:49.8 | And he chose the words of Christ, the metaphor about how a house divided against itself |
0:54.3 | can't stand. |
0:56.2 | Lincoln's friends, his advisors, everybody said, you can't say that it's too radical, too |
0:59.9 | politically incorrect as if they would have said that back then. |
1:04.1 | But Lincoln said, and if I can quote, I want it to strike home to the minds of men in |
1:10.7 | order to rouse them to the peril of the times. |
1:16.3 | So he gave the speech house divided. |
1:18.6 | And after he gave that line, he said, I do not expect the union to be dissolved. |
1:25.2 | I do not expect the house to fall. |
1:29.1 | But I do expect that it will cease to be divided. |
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