Welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church history.

A few weeks ago, we were talking about Noah Webster in his dictionary.

And then I think we went way back to 401.

But I want to go back to Noah Webster again and think about his dictionary a little bit more

and explore some more words with you. There are 70,000 words in his 1828 dictionary, the American

dictionary of the English language. Just for a trivial fact, there are 6,000 biblical references

that he uses to illustrate those words, and he introduced many, many new words into the vocabulary

and the dictionary. But I want to look at some fun theological words.

So we ended last time we were with him with conversion. How about his definition of truth?

He starts off with conformity to fact or reality. And then he adds, Jesus Christ is called

the truth.

Or education.

His definition of education includes this.

To give children a good education and manners, arts and sciences is important.

To give them a religious education is indispensable.

And along the lines of his definition of conversion, a religious education is indispensable.

And along the lines of his definition of conversion, here is Webster on transformation.

Initially, his first sort of basic definition is changing form or external appearance. Then he adds a spiritual or theological change, a profound change in the

soul, from enmity to holiness, conforming to God's image. And then Webster quotes Romans 122. Be transformed

by the renewing of your mind.

Well, what does Webster think about history?

He defines history as knowing and to inquire,

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