Bible & Spiritual growth

There were many outspoken proponents of education in the time our nation was established. One was Benjamin Rush. He was a doctor during the Revolutionary War.  He happened to be one of John Adams’ best friends and he was his  physician, as well.

Benjamin Rush-1818

Benjamin Rush said,

“I beg leave to remark, that the only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.”
Benjamin Rush

This quote is encouraging to me. In teaching our children at home, we are seeking to establish that foundation for education from which is yielded the virtues which are more and more lacking in our country. This kind of education with a Biblical basis is our hope for future generations to guard liberty and preserve our Republic.

Benjamin Rush (December 24, 1745 – April 19, 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States. Rush lived in the state of Pennsylvania and was a physician, writer, educator, humanitarian and a devout Christian, as well as the founder of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Benjamin Rush was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and attended the Continental Congress. Later in life, he became a professor of medical theory and clinical practice at the University of Pennsylvania.  Rush was also an early opponent of slavery.

Despite his great contributions to early American society, Rush is probably remembered most for what in did  in 1812. He encouraged John Adams to write to Thomas Jefferson and  thereby helped restore the friendship of the two former presidents whose friendship had languished because of hurtful political endeavors.