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Discerning Moment: Remembering our Past Safeguards our Future, April 11, 2007
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Discerning Moment
Timeless Truth Today from America's Treasury
A Love for the Scripture
Honoring Great Men Who Served as Commander-In-Chief
of the United States of America
It is essential, my son, in order that you may go through life with comfort to yourself, and usefulness to your fellow-creatures, that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless you have such rules and principles, there will be numberless occasions on which you will have no guide for your government and passions. . . . you must soon come to the age when you must govern yourself. . . . It is in the Bible, you must learn them, and from the Bible how to practice them. Those duties are to God, to your fellow-creatures, and to yourself. ‘Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength, and thy neighbor as thyself.’ On these two commandments, Jesus Christ expressly says, ‘hang all the law and prophets;’ that is to say, the whole purpose of Divine Revelation is to inculcate them efficaciously upon the minds of men.
Letter from John Quincy Adams to His Son, September 1811
quoted in The Christian History of the American Revolution: Consider & Ponder.
Chesapeake, VA: Foundation for American Christian Education,
1976 and subsequent printings, pp. 615–616.
The sixth president passed on a love of the Scriptures to his son—is our generation developing in children the character required for a Christian Republic?
Rosalie Slater, co-founder of FACE, referred to the education of John Quincy Adams as a role model of character for a Christian Republic. John Quincy Adams loved his country, history, literature, travel, his family, and the Bible. “The Education of John Quincy Adams: the Character for a Christian Republic” written and compiled by Rosalie Slater is found in Consider & Ponder on pages 602–616.