Benjamin Rush signed the Declaration of Independence. He also served in the Presidential administrations of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. Each came from a different political party. How could Benjamin Rush serve Presidents from three different parties, and what was his own party affiliation? He once proclaimed:
I have been alternately called an aristocrat and a democrat. I am now neither. I am a Christocrat. I believe all power . . . will always fail of producing order and happiness in the hands of man. He alone who created and redeemed man is qualified to govern him.”
Rush made his choice of candidates based on which one better stood for Godly principles, no matter what party affiliation. As Proverbs 29:2 states:
When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan.”
What legacy will we leave the next generation?
President James A. Garfield, a Christian minister, reminded Americans: ” . . . [T]he people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature . . . [I]f the next centennial does not find us a great nation . . . it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.”
Source: Original Intent by David Barton
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