Today on President Day we will consider a great President, not one who was president of the United States, but one of an institution that provided for the education of a number of presidents and candidates of government.

I am writing of Timothy Dwight president of Yale University (1795-1817). I feel it is apropos to mention the history of Dwight presidency at Yale while we are going through these perilous times.

What perilous time one may ask, not financial as one may seem as current today, no I refer to what was in the first documented pledge of allegiance in the UNITED STATES HISTORY, the one were the founding fathers pledge their lives, their fortunes, and something of greater worth than the former two combined, their honor. Yes fortunes come and go, and so do our lives, how about our honor and the honor of this country.

To sum up what was happening during Timothy Dwight time at Yale, was that the intellectuals were getting caught up with “infidel philosophy” of the French Revolution. Yes it seemed the plight of man to make a difference a change of policy; however it turned into a bloody coup and mass executions.

What he defined was that the new French Philosophy had bought into the Brotherhood of man without the Fatherhood of God. Unfortunately in every single case when man worships mere mankind it always turns into a bloody coup.

Their of course is one Man who we are allowed to worship, The Son of Man, the Son of God Jesus Christ.

Wherever the Gospel of Faith and the fellowship of Truth are brought in to the court of government and countenanced by the people we see the greatest demonstration of peace. Of course when the populace begins to error in that freedom it causes reciprocity in it’s citizenship.

Flash back into principles of truth.

King Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes 1:9

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

Cain toiled in the Garden by the sweat of his brow, growing vegetables and such on the cursed ground which was ordained by God after the fall of man. It was designed by God in order for mankind to realize that their provisions by the efforts of man would not be that which was intended to be, by the (origin of God’s paradise) that which he had provided in the Garden of Eden.

Even though man now could provide for himself, he still knew that a sacrifice to God was needed. Both Cain and Abel felt compelled to make a sacrifice to God. One of course was approved and the other was not.

We need to effectuate the things of God, by exposing the things that are not approved by biblical truths. The very truths of foundation of the Church that was laid by God, and the model which was pointed to by our founding fathers for the formation of the United States of America.

"The rudeness of a student must be laid off, and the quiet, manly deportment of a gentleman put on."  Rutherford B. Hayes Harvard Student

George W. Bush Yale and Harvard graduate.

Education of a President