National Reform Movement.
This is what the Religious Amendment party call their work. The Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian (Covenanter) Church, recently held in Allegheny City, Pa., voted $10,000 to aid in the work, and also voted that three of their ministers be continued in that special work the coming year, and four others for three months each. A letter was read from a lady in Chicago asking how to bequeath $3,000 or $4,000 worth of property to that cause. The Covenanters make a specialty of religionizing the Constitution of the United States. By this means they expect to make this a Christian nation—one of the kingdoms of the Lord and his Christ, and thus help to fulfill Rev. 11:15! It seems singular that people can have such ideas of the prophecy. If they would mark the connection they would see that, at the time of the fulfillment of that prophecy, the nations are angry and the wrath of God is come. It all lies under the "third woe," not in the fabled millennium for which they are looking. It is the same event that is spoken of in Ps. 2:8, 9, where Jehovah says to his Son, "Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession." Are they converted? Are they Christ's in the sense of their having become his loyal subjects? Not at all. Verse 9 says: "Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel." Jesus sits at his Father's right hand until the nations and kingdoms are thus given to him—put under his feet. Ps. 110:1. And our Amendment friends think this and more may all be accomplished by a popular vote!