In Review

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 24, 1870

IN REVIEW, No. 15, an article was copied from the N. Y. Independent, in which strong ground was taken against the proposed religious amendment of the Constitution of the United States, showing that it was the very doctrine adopted by the Pope of Rome and his cardinals, and one which would tend toward the despotism of the dark ages. But we do not predict many such articles, even from the Independent. Public opinion is changing too rapidly, and seeking utterance too freely, in favor of the proposed change. In the Independent of May 12, 1870, is an article from Prof. T. Lewis, speaking in quite a different strain. He argues that the implied and tacit acknowledgment of Christianity in the Constitution is not now sufficient; that the enemies of good government and religion have forced the issue upon us; and that now there must be a formal and public assertion of the nation's Christianity, or we must “submit to a series of never-intermitting aggressions, which can only end in wholly dechristianizing and dereligionizing our political being.”

Let any considerable number of the American people become thoroughly possessed with this idea, and the constitutional recognition of Christianity, with all that it involves, will soon be secured.