The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-07-21
PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTIONS
Adopted by the Quarterly Conference
OF seesburg ,ircuit, N. Il. Church,
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Adopted by the Quarterly Conference
OF eesburg ,ircuit, M. 4. Church,
south.
PREAMBLE.
Whereas, the people of the state of Texas
do, in their constitution, invoke "the blessing
of Almighty God" (preamblt] do declare
that no man shall hold Office under the
authority oftheir constitution and laws unless
she acknowledge the EXISTENCE of Supreme
Being" Particle /, section ! and do pro-
pibit legislative discrimin-iion for or
against religious society rtcn l, section Z;
article VII, section 81: A.
Whereas the governor -, 1 the legsla-
lure-mere creatures of the constitution and
servants of the people-hsve, through the
public school law, violated the rights of
conscience and of worship guaranteed by
the constitution, and have Disseminated
against all reliAi ion by bsnishlng Gods word
and God himself from the public free
schools. And,
Whereas, The aboard of education, con-
sis,ing Of the governor, comptroller and the
O. cretary of state, have, in the Honey Grove
case, interpreted, in defiance of the constitu
ton, the public school law in its most often
sively athei.tIc doctrine, the decision being
expsrte. And,
Whereas, The fundamental principles Of
all our Laws, moral and municipal, are based
upon the bible, G, de woid, as their only
sure foundation. And,
Whereas. The public school law OF
Texas, in its irreligious and atheistic pro-
visions, and the decision Of the "bosrd OF
education" in the Honey Grove case, are
blows at the fundamental principles of oil
law and society. And,
Whereas, under the decision in the Honey
Grove case, the constitution of the state OF
Texas can not DO taught in the free schools
Of Texas, because said constitution teaches,
in the language of the board, ''sectarian
religion, '-the creature actually rebelling
sgainst and dethronirg its creator.
Resolved, That all men of every name and
order should protest against the irreliglon
and atheism of tho public school law OF
Texas, and should combine for the purihcs-
ton Of her legislation aid administration,
insisting that governors, Legislatures and
boards Of education shall not be permitted
to Danish God, the great teacher, from the
masters chair in the public free school,
nor the Bible, Gods word, from its
curriculum, but that the religious
question shall be lett, where 1t belongs, to
the authorities of each school, God and His
word being free from the ban Of the law or
Of any "brief authority"
2. That God and the bible should be free,
lie the sunshine, the rain and the breez
free t. enter every house and heart that will
open Tor their reception, the law placing no
guard before door or breast 10 say, "Ye shall
not enter here"
8 That tie various UNCONVENTIONAL and
other moral and christian schools be invited
to unite in an effort to get hearing before
the aboard of education" on the question in
tho Honey Grove case or before q
court of Jurisdiction competent to compel
the aboard of education" to interpret the
public school law in the true light of the
provisions of the constitution.
4. That the Texas Christian Advocate, the
Galveston journal, the Galveston News, the
Austin Statesman. the Dallas Herald. the
Sulphur Springs g zette, the North Texas
Journsl, the Hopkins Coua.y Echo and the
Pittsburg Magnet, be requested to publish
the foregoing preamble anu resolutions, and
that every other paper in the state be in
vited to copy the same, and to bring the
matter to the attention of the people.
JOHN NJ RICHARDSON. Secretary.
LEEsBURG, Ca npCo., Texas, July, l6, 1851.