Happy Father's Day!

As we honor our fathers today, let's take a look at some of our nation's founding fathers, most of whom were also family fathers. Carter Braxton takes the prize for the largest family with 18 children followed by Roger Sherman’s robust household of 15 children. As good fathers, these men led in the care of their children.

John Adams (who spent a good portion of the War for Independence away from his family) outlined to his wife, Abigail, how they should teach their children:

It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to a excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue.

John Quincy Adams, one of John and Abigail's sons, grew up under their purposeful instruction. During his early career as a diplomat in five different countries, he would often spend extended periods away from his own four children. Desiring to stay involved in their nurturing, he wrote a series of letters to his son on how to study the Bible.

I advise you, my son, in whatever you read, and most of all in reading the Bible, to remember that it is for the purpose of making you wiser and more virtuous. I have myself, for many years, made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.

"Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise" (Ephesians 6:2). Happy Father's Day!

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