We have before us a circular, very respectably signed, proposing to form an Association “for the purpose of securing such an amendment to the Constitution [of the United States] as will indicate that this is a Christian nation, and place all Christian Laws, Institutions, and Usages, in our Government on an undeniable legal basis in the fundamental law of the nation.” Mauger the doubtful English of this statement, we think, in the light of what has already been done in the premises, that we know what it means, and we desire to go on the record, as unqualifiedly and unalterably opposed to all such foolishness. For, 1. Very few people have ever known that the words proposed to be inserted are not already in the instrument; and the absence of them has produced no effect whatever on the real piety of the nation. 2. Having been omitted in the beginning, they clearly could not now be supplied without more conflict and ill blood, and more eventual injury to the cause of religion, a thousand times, than any good that could possibly accrue from the success of the project. 3. Suppose you triumph in the inevitable and desperate struggle with all the infidels, and all the politicians, and all the nothingarians, what will you have accomplished? You will have added to the document in question three letters: just G. O. D.; nothing more. Is that “God in the Constitution?” Perhaps so, but God knows there would be no more God in the country for all that; and we don’t believe he would accept this poor compliment in lieu of that practical service which he demands at the hands of the people. 4. The friends of the measure are not likely ever to agree among themselves. The Convention which met in Philadelphia on the 18th inst. to consider this subject, refused to accept a phraseology which simply recognizes the Deity, and insisted upon including in the emendation the name of Jesus Christ as well. A party in behalf of the Holy Spirit, who is so conspicuously slighted, will be next in order; and then the way will be open for a proposition to recognize the “Vicegerent of Christ on earth,” as the true source of power among the nations! 5. If the proposed amendment is anything more than a bit of sentimental cant, it is to have a legal effect. It is to alter the status of the non-Christian citizen before the law. It is to affect the legal oaths and instruments, the matrimonial contracts, the sumptuary laws, &c., &c., of the country. This would be an outrage on natural right, sure to arouse not only infidels, Jews, Unitarians, &c., but thousands of others, to fight it to the death. We sincerely hope that the good men who have busied themselves in this movement will devote their energies to something more practical and more promising. Our danger is not in the absence of a name from this or that document, but in the absence of religion and virtue from the lives of the people. Let us expend our efforts in this direction, and not waste them in trying to secure a superficial loyalty, which may only subject us, in the end, to the reproach, “This people with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me.”—Christian Union.