Big Block of Cheese Day
This is for all of my friends who are enamoured of The West Wing.
A quote from The Democratization of American Christianity by Nathan O. Hatch, p. 96:
"On a national level [the Baptist itinerant preacher John] Leland was best known for the 1235-pound 'Mammoth Cheese' he presented to President Thomas Jefferson. In New York and Baltimore crowds flocked to see this phenomenal creation, molded in a cider press supposedly from the milk of nine hundred cows and bearing the motto 'Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.' Leland made the presentation to Mr. Jefferson at the White House on New Year's Day, 1802, as a token of esteem from the staunchly Republican citizens of Cheshire. Two days later, at the president's invitation, he preached before both houses of Congress on the text, 'And behold a greater than Solomon is here.'"
'Cause I know you were dying to hear of this reference.
A quote from The Democratization of American Christianity by Nathan O. Hatch, p. 96:
"On a national level [the Baptist itinerant preacher John] Leland was best known for the 1235-pound 'Mammoth Cheese' he presented to President Thomas Jefferson. In New York and Baltimore crowds flocked to see this phenomenal creation, molded in a cider press supposedly from the milk of nine hundred cows and bearing the motto 'Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.' Leland made the presentation to Mr. Jefferson at the White House on New Year's Day, 1802, as a token of esteem from the staunchly Republican citizens of Cheshire. Two days later, at the president's invitation, he preached before both houses of Congress on the text, 'And behold a greater than Solomon is here.'"
'Cause I know you were dying to hear of this reference.