The Position of Christianity in the United States: In Its Relations with Our Political Institutions, and Specially with Reference to Religious Instruction in the Public SchoolsLippincott, Grambo, 1854 - 175 頁 |
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... light on this subject . Believing , as we do , that this is a Christian country , inhabited by a Christian people , that our political institutions are the work of a Christian people , de- signed to be administered in a Christian spirit ...
... light on this subject . Believing , as we do , that this is a Christian country , inhabited by a Christian people , that our political institutions are the work of a Christian people , de- signed to be administered in a Christian spirit ...
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... light and influences ; it teaches us to offer you the largest Christian liberty ever enjoyed by a civilized people— the largest possible consistent with the existence of Christianity itself 20 THE POSITION OF CHRISTIANITY.
... light and influences ; it teaches us to offer you the largest Christian liberty ever enjoyed by a civilized people— the largest possible consistent with the existence of Christianity itself 20 THE POSITION OF CHRISTIANITY.
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... light of Christianity which enables us to offer this boon to all people , but while we make the boon great we can never permit the light to be extinguished which disposes and enables us to confer this signal favor . The right of private ...
... light of Christianity which enables us to offer this boon to all people , but while we make the boon great we can never permit the light to be extinguished which disposes and enables us to confer this signal favor . The right of private ...
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... light of Christianity . It may not take any notice of the homage which men owe to God , but it cannot wholly overlook the duties which men owe to one another . It may restrain selfishness and promote within the range of its action ...
... light of Christianity . It may not take any notice of the homage which men owe to God , but it cannot wholly overlook the duties which men owe to one another . It may restrain selfishness and promote within the range of its action ...
第 55 頁
... light upon this neglected subject . SECTION VII . Judicial Decisions touching Christianity . IN 1822 , a man was indicted in Pennsylvania for blasphemy , under an act of Assembly dated in 1700 . He was convicted , and the case was ...
... light upon this neglected subject . SECTION VII . Judicial Decisions touching Christianity . IN 1822 , a man was indicted in Pennsylvania for blasphemy , under an act of Assembly dated in 1700 . He was convicted , and the case was ...
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第 42 頁 - That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence, and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience, and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other.
第 47 頁 - No religious test shall be required as a qualification for office, nor shall any person be incompetent to be a witness on account of his religious belief; but nothing herein shall be construed to dispense with oaths and affirmations.
第 66 頁 - The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty Gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
第 40 頁 - The free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship, without discrimination or preference, shall forever be allowed in this State to all mankind; and no person shall be rendered incompetent to be a witness on account of his opinions on matters of religious belief; but the liberty of conscience hereby secured shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness, or justify practices inconsistent with the peace or safety of this State.
第 33 頁 - III. [As the happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend upon piety, religion and morality ; and as these cannot be generally diffused through a community, but by the institution of the public worship of God, and of public instructions in piety, religion and morality...
第 41 頁 - That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences ; that no man can of right be compelled to attend, erect, or support any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry against his consent; that no human authority can in any case whatever control or interfere with the rights of conscience; and that no preference shall ever be given by law to any religious establishments or modes of worship.
第 26 頁 - The real object of the [First] [A]mendment was not to countenance, much less to advance, Mahometanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects, and to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment which should give to a hierarchy the exclusive patronage of the national government.
第 33 頁 - No person shall be deprived of the inestimable privilege of worshipping Almighty God in a manner agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience...
第 37 頁 - And no subject shall be hurt, molested, or restrained, in his person, liberty, or estate, for worshipping GOD in the manner and season most agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience; or for his religious profession or sentiments ; provided he doth not disturb the public peace, or obstruct others in their religious worship.
第 51 頁 - The Commonwealth shall not make any law for establishing any religion, or for imposing any religious observance, or for prohibiting the free exercise of any religion, and no religious test shall be required as a qualification for any office or public trust under the Commonwealth.