In the early days of the American Revolutionary War an expedition was launched against British forces in Quebec When the expedition passed through Newburyport Massachusetts on the way to Canada they visited the tomb of the renowned evangelist George Whitefield Whitefield rsquo s coffin was opened and his clerical collar and cuffs were removed The clothing was cut in pieces and distributed in the mistaken belief that it could somehow give the soldiers success The expedition failed But what the soldiers did demonstrates our human tendency to trust in something less than a relationship with God mdash money or human
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