The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-07-03
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A Card from Rev. Marcus Or

Wet ALEXANDER, Pa, June %.
Edltors IntellGeneer
In your daily OF the 2Sd Of June. you
published cali for the National Reform
Convention 10. meet in Philadelphia On
the 18th and .S0th of JUNE. j You also!
published areport Of my doings In the
reform work for the past few weeks. The
above publications were made at my re-
quest, Tor which j am much Obliged. !n5 V
You also speak Of the work 10 which
| am engaged Us being q hopelesstask. Also
YOU say that the "the United States 10 not
4 Christian Nation, nor aJeRish Nation,
nor a Mohammeton Nation, II Is amply
and only a Nation" We admitthat it q .
Very easy task, to bring objections and
difficulties against any good cause, and \
am glad you have presented the ditfclAties
which in your mind stand in the way Of
our work. One part OF my work has
been to remove objections as far as lean;
and have all 10 upderstand the reform in
which we are engaged. a - sabs!.Fi
Allow me to answer your objections
very briefly. First-"L am engaged IN q
homeless tdlE.n In answer i Wonh asay
that the work Is progressing have
given between twenty and thirty lectures
on the subject Of reform, and the people
where I 90 to lecture, as a general thing,
give good attention. We have appointed
about one hundred delegates within a dis
lance Of sixty miles from our place 70 at
Tend the National Convention at Phila-
delphia, many Of whom, I know, are now
at that convention. l have met withvery
little opposition, and what ] did meet
with arose more from the fact that the
people did not understand the subject
than from any disposition to oppose the
movement 1t is not many years since
HE reform movement was first inaugura-
ted. From very few Il has grown 10
thousands and hundreds Of thousands.
Among The friends Of this reform we
find many honorable and honored names,
without any regard t6church or party
such men as Bishop Simpson, Of the NJ.
E. Church; Henry Green, d. d., IL. D.,
Of the Presbyterian Church; Jonathan
Edwards, D. b., Daniel Rice, D. D., Solo.
mon Pool, D. D., OF North Carolina. We
find men Of all political parties among
the friends Of this reform. We are much
encouraged, because where the cause has
been presented in the proper way, the
sympathies Of the people have been en-
listed. In this way the cause is becoming
more and more popular. So We think,
with the blessiug Of God upon our work,
we are not engaged in q hopeless task.
The second objection which you mem
ton is: "This is not & christian govern
ment, &C." 4
Our fathers who founded the nation
were christian men, not all, but tue ma
| iority Of them believed in the christian
religion. They established all the insti-
tutions Of this country on christian prin.
ciples. The Congress Of Its declared
that "True religion and good morals are
the only solid foundations Of public lib
eriy and happiness"
George Washington in his farewell i'd
dress recorded the truth "That Of all the
dispositions and habits which lead TO po-
litical prosperity, religion and morality
are indispensable supports" And again
he says:r "Reason and experience both
| forbid us to expect that national morality
can prevail in exclusion Of religious
principles,
John Adams in his. first message to
Congress, says: "a calm but steady de-
terminationto support our sovereignty,
as well as our moral and religious prin-
ciples, against all open andsecret tricks"
Again, the same President says, in anoth.
er message: "Here and throughout our
country, may simple manners, pure NOR
ais and true religion flourish. %
Is not the. Christian religion inter-
woven with all our Institutions? II ours
ia not Christian Government, then what
it? It 10 said: n@Re are simply and
oaiy Nation" ! never knew nation
ton that did not claim some religion, and
If ours is without religion we are then an
exception to all other nations, the treaty
with Tripoli notwithstanding. ~ u,
Facts arc not wanting to show that ours
is Christian nation. Did not the Com
tinental Congress at one time purchase
10000 copies Of the Bible and have them
brought from, Europe and distributed
among the inhabitantsaof the States
What does this show? It is an evi.
dence that our fathers understood
that this is n Christian nation,
and that they were 'sgoing TO- make
all due effort 70 maintain tbs religious
aspect Of the Nation.
We are christian nation, but the Con.
stimtion OF the United States does not &c.
knowledge that God is the anthor oteiyl
government. The reform has forits OBJ
jects the making Of the written Constitu-
ton as truly christian rs the people are,
tho maintaining Of the Biblein our,oom.
mon schools and also in our Sabbath
schools, In short Relwant 70 ,harmonize
the government with the gonstitutidn.S .
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