A Comparison

This week somebody sent me this in an email. Thought it was interesting.

Al Sanders, in his book Crisis in Morality, compares the descendants of two men who lived in the United States about 150 years ago.

Max Jukes was an atheist. He did not believe in Christ or in Christian training. He married an ungodly girl and refused to take his children to church, even when they asked to go. At the time of this research, there were approximately 1200 descendants from this union.
Of these…
• 310 died as paupers,
• at least 150 were criminals,
• 7 were murderers,
• 100 were drunkards,
• and more than half of the women were prostitutes.

Jonathan Edwards lived at the same time as Max Jukes, but he married a godly woman. He loved the Lord and saw that his children were in church every Sunday as he served the Lord to the best of his ability. An investigation was made of 1,394 of his known descendants.

Thirteen of his offspring became college presidents,
• 65 became college professors,
• 100 lawyers,
• 30 judges,
• 60 physicians,
• 76 army and navy officers,
• 100 preachers and missionaries,
• 60 authors of prominence,
• 3 United States Senators,
• one Vice President of the United States,
• 80 public officials in other capacities, and
• 295 college graduates, among whom were governors of states and ministers to foreign countries.