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→Statement of Faith: Throughout his life, Stockton was a deeply devoted Christian.
== Statement of Faith ==
== Statement of Faith ==
Throughout his life, Stockton was a deeply devoted Christian. Early on, he did not show much interest in serving the public. He told Joseph Reed:
:The publick is generally unthankful, and I will never become a servant of it, till I am convinced that by neglecting my own affairs, I am doing more acceptable service to God and Man.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=-gbWCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA23 A House Called Morven: Its Role in American History, 1701-1954]</ref>
After he had put everything on the line including his own life, he requested the following in his Will:
:As my children ... may be peculiarly impressed with the last words of their father, I think proper here, not only to subscribe to the entire belief of the great leading doctrine of the [[Christian]] religion ... but also in the heart of a father's affection, to exhort them to remember 'that the fear of the [[Lord]] is the beginning of wisdom.'
:As my children ... may be peculiarly impressed with the last words of their father, I think proper here, not only to subscribe to the entire belief of the great leading doctrine of the [[Christian]] religion ... but also in the heart of a father's affection, to exhort them to remember 'that the fear of the [[Lord]] is the beginning of wisdom.'