MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
Power in the Cradle
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n the year 1809, the whole world was looking at the campaigns of Napoleon. He had been on a mission to conquer the then-known world. He was having great success. He was winning one battle after another. Everywhere, the newspapers were reporting his marches, invasions, and victorious battles. The newspapers were headlining, “Destiny of the world being decided on the battlefields of Europe.” Most people could not give
you the details of those battles anymore. All that people remember is Napoleon's great loss at the Battle of Waterloo. The real history was being rocked in the cradles of the nations at that time. In 1809, several children were
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But as for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you One will go for Me to be ruler in Israel. His origins are from long ago, from the days of eternity.” being rocked in those cradles, whose ideas and lives would markedly change the world. In that year, a young physician named Darwin and his wife named their child Charles Robert. Everyone knows and
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has an opinion about this baby’s ideas that would start a revolution in thinking. In that same year, another child was born by the name of Edgar Allan Poe. His eventful, albeit tragic, life would be studied in schools throughout
the generations to come. Yet another figure of national pride was born in a log cabin in Kentucky by the name of Abraham Lincoln. His life would matter to an entire nation. Yes, on the surface, it seemed the exploits on the battlefield were the essential things of 1809, but the truly great things were being shaped in the cradles of the times.
