The Religious Amendment Is Unchristian
By Editor
The Christian Statesman of February 3 says in respect to the proposed religious amendment to the Constitution, now before Congress, and which we have noted elsewhere:— "The Christian people of the land have now the opportunity to secure a clear and permanent basis in the fundamental law of the land, for all 'our Christian laws, institutions, and usages.' Prayer to God should be made continually by all Christians on this behalf. Petitions will be prepared and distributed for signature, that our national legislators may know that this is the desire of the best portion of our citizenship." We know this, and every other soul who knows Jesus Christ will also know, that the measure is most unchristian, because Christianity is not a matter of civil law, nor can it be. Civil law can set up its counterfeit, but the genuine can be set up only as it is set up in each individual heart,—by the power of the Spirit of God. Religious laws can only make counterfeit Christians or hypocrites. Many sincere souls will be deceived by the measure, but let the friends of the truth undeceive and instruct as many as possible. Says the Statesman, "Some of the leading members of both Houses [of Congress] have already given assurance of their earnest support." And so Constantine and the bishops of Rome found their vassals. Truly the time has come to "cry aloud, and spare not," to blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in the church of God. Christ is rejected for the world. As of old, "Who is on the Lord's side?" Christ's kingdom is not of this world.