- Let's take a walk back in history.

In 1783, George Washingtondelivered his farewell address

to his troops.

He said their victory was, quote,

"nothing short of a standing miracle."

Washington attributed itto God's intervention,

and that's just one miraculous story

of many from American history.

Take a look.

- [Andrew] Best-selling author, historian,

and nationally knownspeaker William Federer

has dedicated his life toresearching American history

with God at the center of it.

- God turns the courseof nations when we pray

and we just have to rest in His will.

- [Andrew] In "Miracles inAmerican History: Volume 2,"

William and his wife, Susie,focus on the amazing faith

of people who obeyed God andbecame part of the foundation

that shaped our great nation.

- Well joining us viaSkype is William Federer.

He is the host of,quote, "American Minute"

and co-author of a new book

called "Miracles inAmerican History: Volume 2."

Bill, it's so good tohave you with us again.

This book is fantastic.

You're telling aboutthe way God intervened

throughout history in America.

Can you give us a few of those examples?

- Well, sure.

One is Molly Pitcher.

During the RevolutionaryWar, the men fought

and the wives followed thearmy scavenging for food,

cooking, washing, andtaking care of the wounded,

and one of those was Molly Pitcher.

At the Battle of Monmouth, 1778,

her husband was manning a cannon,

but she was taking a pitcher of water

from one dugout to another,

giving the soldiers a drink of water.

Well, her husband faints of heat stroke

and she puts her pitcherdown and she takes his place

loading the cannon.

And one of the other soldiers observed

how she had bent overto pick up a cartridge

to put in the cannonand a British cannonball

flew right between her legs

and actually tore off thebottom of her petticoat.

She stood up and said, "Well,that could've been worse,"

and she got back to loading the cannon.

She finished the rest of the battle.

And even George Washingtongave her a commendation

and she was called Sergeant Molly.

But this is just one of the stories

of people of faith andcourage in times of crises,

and that encourages usin our time of crises.

- You have a, I mean, Iwent to Yale, as you know

and you have a story aboutTimothy Dwight at Yale.

What was the status ofAmerican universities

at that particular time in our history?

- While we had a revolution,France had a revolution.

We drew closer to God.

France drew away from God.

And they had the anarchist Jacobins

and they not only choppedoff the king's head

but they ended up choppingoff the heads of the royalty

and businessmen, and out of this chaos,

it began to infiltrate intoAmerica, into the universities,

and you had it becoming anin thing on college campuses

to be skeptics, and so this came across.

Well, Timothy Dwight, President of Yale,

instead of sitting in his office,

he goes down and sits at the lunch table

and he hears the kids telltheir skeptic arguments,

and when they're done, hesays, "I listened to you.

"Now you listen to me," and one by one,

he refutes their arguments and it ends up

the kids convert to Christ.

His son was a student and he said

that Yale was a chapel of prayer

and it begins to spreadto other universities.

So just an amazing part

of the Second Great AwakeningRevival that took place,

and this actually feda missionary movement

that, from these universitiesin the early 1800s,

missionaries were sent to China and Burma

and the Caribbean and evenHawaii, so it impacted the world.

- Well you also have a story in your book

that's very fascinatingabout the Oregon Territory

and, I believe, the Nez Perce Indians.

And there was this rough-hewn looking guy

who was out there and he said,

"Please don't let Oregongo to some foreign country.

"It needs to be incorporated in America."

Can you tell us about him?

- Right, so the British had Canada

and they were going to takethe Northwest Territory.

Well, Lewis and Clark,when they went up there,

they must have mentionedsomething about a Bible,

and several years later,four Indian chiefs

left the Northwest Territory,came all the way down

to St. Louis, Missouri,and they would just happen

to have a Methodist Bible conference.

And these Indians are walking around

looking for the Book to Heaven.

Well that story's printedin the "Methodist Magazine,"

which was the largest distributed magazine

in the country at the time,and a doctor, Marcus Whitman,

in Massachusetts, heand his wife, Narcissa,

leave Massachusetts, go to St. Louis,

go all the way outpioneering the Oregon Trail

and they get out toWalla Walla, Washington

and they start a missionary movement.

Well when word comesthat America's thinking

of giving away this Northwest Territory,

he goes all the way fromWalla Walla, Washington

down to Santa Fe, New Mexico,

comes across the Santa FeTrail 'cause it was wintertime,

to St. Louis all the way to Washington DC,

and he begs the president not to give away

the Northwest Territory to the British

and he begins to lead the Oregon Trail.

And it's the largest non-emergency

human migration in history,

where you have thousandsand thousands of people

populating what becameWashington and Oregon

and Montana and these different states.

The president, Warren G. Harding, said,

"Never in history is there a finer example

"of civilization following Christianity,

"that the patriots under the flag

"followed the missionariesthat were following the Bible."

- We would've lost that territory

if it hadn't been forthose Christian people.

Is that right?

- Yes, yes, exactly.

There are other storesthat follow that as well.

There's one of a guy named John Stewart.

If you'd like, I can sharehis story real quick.

- [Pat] Yeah, go ahead, please.

- So he's a free black, it's early 1800s,

he's in Powhatan, Virginia,

and he dyes clothes, it's his trade,

and he takes his life savings

and he's going to go to Ohio.

Along the way, he's robbedof his life savings.

He's so distraught, he wantsto go to the nearest town,

Marion, Ohio, and drink himself to death.

One day, he decides to commit suicide,

throw himself in the river,and right before he jumps in,

he hears someone call his name.

He stops, no one's around,and he's taken back,

and going back, he hears singing

and it's a camp meeting revival.

He goes in there and he getssaved and he's so excited.

Well, a couple days later,his drinking buddy says,

"Hey, one more lastnight of binge drinking,"

and he says, "Okay."

Well that very day, hisdrinking buddy dies,

so not going back to that lifestyle.

Then he prays all night atthis camp meeting awake,

and then the nextmorning, he feels the Lord

impress on his heart to walk northwest,

so he just starts walking,wading across rivers and streams,

and finally reaches theWyandotte Indian tribe.

It had never been reached by the gospel.

They're about to do an Indian dance

and he starts singing in hisdeep bass voice gospel songs.

The Indians get quiet.

When he stops, one of them says, "More,"

and so he sings more.

Eventually, they find an interpreter,

the whole tribe gets saved, hestarts churches and schools.

He dies.

The next couple years,there's an Indian Removal Act

and the Wyandotte Tribe has to move.

So they go to the Missouri River

and they start a citycalled Wyandotte City.

A few years later, the namewas changed to Kansas City.

Kansas City, Missouri was founded

by Christian Wynadotte Indians

that were all saved by ablack man, John Stewart,

who had a tragedy of being robbed

but got saved in a camp meeting.

Great stories of faith thatwe need to be reminded of,

that God, in times of crises,will use little nobodies

with faith and courage.

- Bill, this book is so fascinating.

It's called "Miracles in America."

And you've got volume one

that talked about Seward and Alaska.

How do you get these books?

These are so good.

- Oh, well thank you.

AmericanMinute.com is mywebsite, AmericanMinute.com.

We even have a storyon Eddie Rickenbacker,

the World War I fighting ace.

During World War II,

he's out inspecting bases in the Pacific

and the plane gets off courseand crashes into the ocean,

and for 24 days in three rafts,he has seven of the sailors

and he keeps them alive.

One of them had a pocket New Testament

and Eddie Rickenbacker had him read it.

They're starving, and so they pray

and a seagull lands on his head

and he quietly reaches up, grabs it,

they kill it and eat it, andthen they use the innards

with a key ring as a fishinghook and they catch fish.

And then they're dying of thirst.

They pray after someonereads, "O ye of little faith,"

you know, God takes care of the birds,

He'll take care of you.

There's a rain shower about 100 yards away

and they can see it butthey're so weak and tired.

And they pray and the entire rain shower

comes over their little dingy boats

and they all get to their parched tongues

and they get the waterand they ring it out

and they survive.

So he wrote a book called"Seven Came Through."

He said, "God didn't save me'cause I'm somebody special.

"He saved me because He has a plan for me

"and a plan for each of us."

And that's what we need toremember in our time of crises.

God has a plan to use you tohelp meet the needs of people.

- Amen.

Bill Federer.

These books, ladies and gentlemen,

are called "Miracles in American History."

Susie Federer adapted itfrom his "American Minute,"

"Federer American Minute,"

and you can check it out onyour internet, wherever it is.

It's fascinating.- Those stories,

I could listen to those

all day long,- Oh, you could just

- They're so good.- one after the other.

They're fascinating.

- Great book.- Thank you, Bill.

God bless you.

William Federer.- Thank you.

- Wow, I gotta.