Welcome to the intersection of faith and culture.

This is The Wall Builder Show, taken on the hot topics of the day from a biblical, historical, and constitutional perspective.

And today we're going to get the second half of week two, or episode two, in rebuilding liberty.

It's called Restoring Religious Liberty. We're going to

jump right back in where we left off yesterday with rebuilding liberty. So when you look at Benjamin

Rush, one of the things that makes him significant, there's a whole lot of stuff, by the way. He is

an awesome guy. But one of the things is he's called the Father of Public Schools under the

Constitution. And that's because in 1790,

he did this piece. He said, you know, we used to be 13 nations. Now we're one nation. What do we need

to be teaching in our schools for us all to remain one nation? What do we have to teach to keep us unified

rather than having 13 different nations? And so he goes through and lays out in this. And he says,

and this, he says,

the only foundation for a useful education in republic is to be laid in religion. Without this,

there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty. And liberty is the object in life of all Republican governments. He gave a dozen reasons why we would never take

the Bible out of schools in America. And this piece, he explains the Bible contains more knowledge to man in his present state

than any other book in the world.

And it has all the stuff you need to know about medicine, about science, about ethics, about

law, about business, or whatever.

And that's what we believed about the Bible.

That's why we taught it for so long.

Go to 1816.

And in 1816, what you have is the report from New Jersey. Now, all the schools have reports every year, just like we still do today. You can go online and see the reports annually. If you want to see the report for New Jersey in 1816, they're talking about how the kids have done in the first and second classes, or what we would call the first and second grades.

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