Proceedings of the National Convention to Secure the Religious Amendment of the Constitution of the United States: Held in New York, Feb. 26 and 27, 1873 : with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the MovementJohn Polhemus, printer, 102 Nassau St., 1872 - 78 páginas |
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... recognition of God , the Lord Jesus Christ , and the Holy Scriptures , as proposed in the memorial of this Association to Congress , is clearly a scriptural duty , which it is national peril to disregard . Resolved , That , in ...
... recognition of God , the Lord Jesus Christ , and the Holy Scriptures , as proposed in the memorial of this Association to Congress , is clearly a scriptural duty , which it is national peril to disregard . Resolved , That , in ...
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... recognition of inter - State comity and her obligations in the sis- terhood of Commonwealths , she greets every son of the republic who enters upon her broad domain . I congratulate you that we are here in the heart of our own great ...
... recognition of inter - State comity and her obligations in the sis- terhood of Commonwealths , she greets every son of the republic who enters upon her broad domain . I congratulate you that we are here in the heart of our own great ...
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... recognition on the part of the State of an obligation as binding upon the mal conscience as upon that of its individual members . nations and each nation is of God . The State is not only an organism , sspeak - even Hobbes arguing ...
... recognition on the part of the State of an obligation as binding upon the mal conscience as upon that of its individual members . nations and each nation is of God . The State is not only an organism , sspeak - even Hobbes arguing ...
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... recognition of their respective obligations , they are each responsible to God . For , without a moral personality , there can be no accountability . The State can sin ; and it can reap the harvest of its viola- tion of conscience in ...
... recognition of their respective obligations , they are each responsible to God . For , without a moral personality , there can be no accountability . The State can sin ; and it can reap the harvest of its viola- tion of conscience in ...
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... recognition of God as over all in our fundamental law is making more and more an impression upon the public mind . Even the misrepresentations of the purposes of its friends , and the violence of the opposition it encounters , attest ...
... recognition of God as over all in our fundamental law is making more and more an impression upon the public mind . Even the misrepresentations of the purposes of its friends , and the violence of the opposition it encounters , attest ...
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Página xiv - I have lived, sir, a long time ; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that GOD governs in the affairs of men. And, if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid ? We have been assured, sir, in the Sacred Writings, that, ' ' except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
Página xiv - I firmly believe this, and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel; we shall be divided by our little, partial, local interests, our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a' byword down to future ages. And, what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing government by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and conquest.
Página ii - As the government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion...
Página xiv - PRESIDENT: The small progress we have made, after four or five weeks' close attendance and continual reasonings with each other, our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes as ayes, is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding.
Página 49 - And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites : and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them...
Página xv - I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business, and that one or more of the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in that service.
Página 15 - For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even to the west, so shall the coming of the Son of man be.
Página 2 - Faith, etc., having undertaken for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do, by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and of one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic...
Página 53 - And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do. Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness, and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.