A Christian Nation in Name
The National Reformers would fain impress the world with the idea that "this is a Christian nation" by a religious amendment to the Constitution. For many years they have urged that the Preamble be so amended as to contain the name of God, and so make the document a nominally Christian declaration. They insist that to omit such formal acknowledgement of God in the fundamental law is virtual infidelity. According to such argument, the book of Esther is virtually an infidel book; it does not contain the name of God. But the principles and lessons of the book are none the less salutary. Shouting the name of the Lord is not in itself virtue. "Why call ye Me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?" Luke 6:46. "Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of My Father which is in heaven." Matt. 7:21. "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain."