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typo

s/b “worthy”

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“...The phrase entered the American lexicon early in its history, in the Puritan John Winthrop’s 1630 sermon “A Model of Christian Charity”. Still aboard the ship Arbella, Winthrop admonished the future Massachusetts Bay colonists that their new community would be “as a city upon a hill”, watched by the world — which became the ideal the New England colonists placed upon their hilly capital city, Boston.[1] The Puritans’ community in New England would set an example of communal charity, affection, and unity to the world, or if the Puritans failed to uphold their covenant of God, “we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world” of God’s judgement. Winthrop’s sermon gave rise to the widespread belief in American folklore that the United States of America is God’s country because metaphorically it is a Shining City upon a Hill, an early example of American exceptionalism...”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_upon_a_Hill

And look at it now!:(