Christian Convention

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 6, 1869

Christian Convention.

A CONVENTION of Christians, who are endeavoring to secure a recognition of Almighty God and the Christian Religion in the Constitution of the United States, is called to meet in Columbus, on Tuesday, February 2d. All the friends of Christian influences in civil government, are requested to attend.

It is claimed by those who favor this change in our National Constitution, that nations are moral persons, and therefore bound to acknowledge God; that, since Jesus Christ is the King of Nations and Moral Governor of the World, nations are bound to recognize him as such; that the holy Scriptures are a Higher Law, above all Statutes and Constitutions, and should be so acknowledged; and that in its utter silence on these points, in its exclusion of the name of God even from the form of oath which it prescribes, in its failure to require any moral qualifications of civil officers, in its neglect to provide for the observance of the Sabbath by the departments of Government, so that Congress has ventured twice within two years, to sit unnecessarily on that day, the Constitution of the United States is unworthy of a Christian people, and calls imperatively for amendment. Any attempt to blend Church and State, or to give State aid or endorsement to any sect is emphatically disclaimed, but it is maintained that some such changes in our fundamental law are necessary to relieve our government of the charge of a disregard of its obligations to the Almighty and to the Christian religion.