Why Christian School? We have come so far away from where we started in this country:
Timothy Dwight IV, who became Yale's president in 1795. He pioneered women's education, and was critical of slavery and encroachment on Indian lands. Originally a Puritan college, Yale students became enticed by France's deistic "cult of reason," which birthed the bloody French Revolution.
Dwight answered their questions on faith and by his death, JANUARY 11, 1817, Yale had grown from 110 to 313 students, a third professing Christians and 30 entering ministry.
Timothy Dwight wrote in 1798:
"Religion and liberty are the meat and drink of the body politic. Withdraw one of them and it dies...
Without religion we may possibly retain the freedom of savages, but not the freedom of New England...
If our religion were gone, our state of society would perish with it and nothing would be left worth defending."
(from American Priorities Foundation)
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