Welcome to Call to Decision 

 American Minute with Bill Federer

 October 5

 He entered Yale College at age 13 and graduated with honors.

 He became a pastor, and his sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of An Angry
 God," started the Great Awakening, a revival that swept America,
 uniting the colonies prior to the Revolution.

 He became President of Princeton College.

 His name was Jonathan Edwards and he was born OCTOBER 5, 1703.

 Jonathan Edwards married Sarah Pierrepont, and according to A Study
 in Education and Heredity by A.E. Winship (1900), their descendants
 included a U.S. Vice-President, 3 U.S. Senators, 3 governors, 3
 mayors, 13 college presidents, 30 judges, 65 professors, 80 public
 office holders, 100 lawyers and 100 missionaries.

 This same study examined a family known as "Jukes."

 In 1877, while visiting New York's prisons, Richard Dugdale found
 inmates with 42 different last names all descending from one man,
 called "Max."

 Born around 1720 of Dutch stock, Max was a hard drinker, idle,
 irreverent and uneducated.

 His descendants included 310 paupers, who, combined spent 2,300 years
 in poorhouses, 50 women of debauchery, 400 physically wrecked by
 indulgent living, 7 murderers, 60 thieves, and 130 other convicts.

 The "Jukes" descendants cost the state more than $1,250,000.