the strongest safeguard of both the civil and religious liberties of all
citizens."
It is apparently necessary for that party to constantly "re-affirm"
that this movement does not tend to a union of church and State; for
as their actions and writings all betray that very tendency, a blind
must be kept up by each convention re-affirming that it does not so
tend. That such is its direct tendency we propose to prove.
Mr. W. J. Coleman, one of the chief speakers in the movement, in
explaining to "Truth Seeker" the change that will have to be made in
the existing Constitution when the proposed amendment shall have
been adopted, says:–
"The first sentence of Article I. of Amendments reads, 'Congress
shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof.' This would be made
consistent with the proposed amendment by substituting the words
'a church' for 'religion,' making it read, 'Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of a church.' This is what the Reform
Association believes should be the rule in a rightly constituted
State. There should be religion, but no church."
"There shoulthe strongest safeguard of both the civil and religious liberties of all
citizens."
It is apparently necessary for that party to constantly "re-affirm"
that this movement does not tend to a union of church and State; for
as their actions and writings all betray that very tendency, a blind
must be kept up by each convention re-affirming that it does not so
tend. That such is its direct tendency we propose to prove.
Mr. W. J. Coleman, one of the chief speakers in the movement, in
explaining to "Truth Seeker" the change that will have to be made in
the existing Constitution when the proposed amendment shall have
been adopted, says:–
"The first sentence of Article I. of Amendments reads, 'Congress
shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof.' This would be made
consistent with the proposed amendment by substituting the words
'a church' for 'religion,' making it read, 'Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of a church.' This is what the Reform
Association believes should be the rule in a rightly constituted
State. There should be religion, but no church."
"There should be religion, but no church." Wh