Let's celebrate our fathers today!
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<[link removed]> followed by Roger Sherman’s robust household of 15 children<[link removed]>. As good fathers, these men led in the care of their children.
John Adams<[link removed]><[link removed]><[link removed]> (who spent a good portion of the War for Independence away from his family) outlined<[link removed]> to his wife, Abigail<[link removed]>, how they should teach their children<[link removed]>:

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<[link removed]>, 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<[link removed]>.

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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