The Christian at Work commenting on some over-zealous utterances of those who seek a religious amendment to the Constitution, says:— “Some folk ought to read history and teach it to their children, if they have any. To think that the Synod of the Reformed Covenanter Presbyterian Church, at its late meeting in Philadelphia, should have affirmed that— “Nearly all the delegates chosen to frame the Constitution were deeply tinged with infidelity. The Constitution partook of the character of its framers—it was infidel and Godless and had only for its basis the theory of social compact, ‘We, the people.’ There was no security for the sanctity of the Sabbath. No religious or moral qualifications were required of candidates for office. The infidelity and irreligion of the Constitution no longer need demonstration. The fact is admitted by Christian and infidel alike.” “Now this is conspicuous for being the very reverse of the truth. Skeptics in the Constitutional Convention of 1787, no doubt there were; but the great majority not only were not ‘deeply tinged with infidelity,’ but believed in Christianity and recognized the Christian religion as the corner-stone of the commonwealth. Let us retrospect a bit. The first Continental Congress was opened with prayer, and Congress attended church in a body. In 1777 it favored the importation of 20,000 Bibles, and in 1782 indorsed the publication of an American edition of the Scriptures. In 1778 a Thanksgiving proclamation called for ‘Supplication for pardon through the merits of our Saviour,’ and in 1779, in a like proclamation, gratitude is expressed for ‘the glorious light of the gospel’ shed ‘through the merits of our gracious Redeemer, and the blessing of the Holy Spirit.’ Furthermore, in the Constitutional Convention thanks were returned to God that ‘above all, he hath been pleased to continue to us the light of the gospel truth, and secured to us in the fullest manner the rights of conscience in faith and worship.’ The convention was opened and closed with prayer, and a sermon was preached before it. If that Convention was ‘deeply tinged with infidelity,’ it is pretty clear that it was deeply tinged with something else—even a religious and devotional spirit. Some philanthropic brother ought to send our ‘Covenanter’ friends a supply of some trustworthy History of the United States.”