NATIONAL REFORM CAMPAIGN.
By K. C. Russell
THE National Reform Association has recently inaugurated a vigorous campaign with the fond hope of securing their long-cherished desire of obtaining "such an amendment to the Constitution of the United States as will declare the nation's allegiance to Jesus Christ, and its acceptance of the moral laws of the Christian religion." This campaign was launched on the public as the result of the instructions which were given to the Judiciary Committee by the United States Senate to report within thirty days after the assembling of the coming session of Congress, a new form of constitutional amendment for the suppression of polygamy. This opportunity was eagerly seized upon by the National Reformers to attach onto the proposed constitutional amendment against polygamy a rider embodying an acknowledgment of the moral laws of Jesus Christ as the basis and standard of legislation regarding the family. It will be readily seen that, if the National Reform Association should succeed in getting this religious feature incorporated into the Constitution of the United States, it will form a basis for all the evil legislation which they have ever sought to obtain. The following is their program for the campaign as outlined in the November number of the Christian Statesman: - To send the petition with accompanying documents to all church courts, and to pastors and churches.
- To print in sufficient quantities the documents needed in the work.
- To make judicious use of the newspapers, religious and secular.
- To arrange for an effective hearing before the Judiciary Committee like our former hearing on the same subject with which the committee was so impressed that they printed five thousand copies of the report of it, or five times the usual number, for the use of the members of Congress and for general distribution.
- To send some one to Washington for the months of December and January for continuous labor with the members of both houses.
Should not every lover of Christian liberty recognize in this wicked movement on the part of the National Reformers a danger signal? While we are unalterably opposed to polygamy, yet we do enter a most solemn protest against the proposed religious feature which the National Reform Association is seeking to secure.