Bremer, Francis J. 2003. John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

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Bremer, Francis J. 2003. John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

This is a very well documented source. Bremer includes an "interlude" describing his interpretation of Winthrop's "Model of Christian Charity" speech (173-4) complete with endnotes explaining his citations and their credibility (431-433). Unlike other sources on the topic, Bremer suggests that Winthrop made this speech, not on the Arabella sometime during the passage to America, but rather in the Church of the Holy Rood before leaving England (173). During the pages following the descriptive interlude, Bremer notes that, despite being held one of the most important works of colonial literature by today's scholars, the "Model of Christian Charity" was not remarked upon by Winthrop's contemporaries (174). Bremer suggests that this is because the ideas within the speech were commonplace for the time (175). Most of the rest of the interlude focuses on a comparison of Winthrop's "Model of Christian Charity" with the two other famous statements about the purpose of the voyage by John Cotton: "God's Promise" and the "Humble Request" (175-184).

Clinton, William Jefferson. 1994. Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Vol. 30: April-July, Nos. 14-27, 1994. Washington, DC: Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration.

In his April 12, 1994 Proclamation for a Day of Prayer, Clinton quotes Micha 6:8 as he discusses the need for all people, particularly presidents, to pray (794).

Leech, Mararet. 1959. In the days of McKinley. New York, NY: Harper & Brothers.

The title listed in your draft citation was given as "In the days of William McKinley." The page number of your citation (132), however, checks out.

Mather, Cotton. 1967. Magnalia Christi Americana, Vol I. New York, NY: Russell & Russell.

Mather does not mention the "Model of Christian Charity" speech anywhere (that...