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> Sir, I'm trying to track down a quote by the Great Man in > which I remember him saying something along the lines of: > > "one day, the teachings of Christ will sweep this country." > > Do you recall anything similar. I would be deeply grateful for > any assistance in this regard. I am not familar with a passage in which Jefferson made such a statement. But he did write about Unitarianism, "That this will, ere long, be the religion of the majority from North to South, I have no doubt." --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 1822. ME 15:405 He also wrote, "Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christian." --Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Waterhouse, 1822. ME 15:385 and later on the same page: "I trust that there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die an Unitarian." --Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Waterhouse, 1822. ME 15:385 Jefferson was not a traditional Christian, and I do not believe he would have written anything that might suggest he thought some kind of revivalistic fervor would sweep the nation. His emphasis was on the moral teachings of Jesus.