By Bill D. Whittaker | Pastor of Glasgow Baptist Church in Glasgow, Kentucky
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After staying his first night in the new "President’s House, Washington City, Nov. 2, 1800," Adams "wrote Abigail a simple benediction: I pray heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof." (p. 551)
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In his retirement years, Adams wrote in a letter to physician friend Benjamin Rush, "This phrase ‘rejoice ever more’ shall never be out of my heart, memory or mouth again as long as I live, if I can help it." (p. 591)
McCullough states, "His faith in God and the hearafter remained unshaken. His fundamental creed, he had reduced to a single sentence: "He who loves the Workman and his work, and does what he can to preserve and improve it, shall be accepted of Him." (p. 650)
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1. www.infoplease.com, 11/27/07
2. Quoted in Robinson & Larson, eds.
The Art & Craft of Biblical Preaching (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005), 487.
3. Terry G. Carter, J. Scott Duvall, J. Daniel Hays,
Preaching God’s Word (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005), 137
4. Robinson & Larson, 118.
5. James Cox,
Preaching (San Francisco Harper & Row, 1985), 76.
6. Bob St. John,
Landry: The Legend and the Legacy (Nashville: Word, 2000), 6.
7. Joseph Pearce,
Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2001), 328.
