Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-08-26
A CHRISTIAN NATION,
The Great Moral Power That Underlies
Hll Our institutions.

The Great Moral Power That tndcrles
Hl Our :Instit utions.
The reEg taught in the Scriptures
of the Old and New Testament, of
which JESUS .Christ--the wonderful
Man of 'Galilee, and, at the-same time.
God manifest in the tiesh-is the CEN
trail sun. and which came into this
world by supernatural revelation, is,
by an Overwhelming :prepunderance,
theE'eligiGn recognized and,established
in ahe, corrections Of the American peo-
Pile. Such it has been ever since the
first settlement Of this land by civilized
men. Not all the. people! profess to be
Christians: yet,~ SO far as they have any
religious faith at all. that faith, rs eX-
isting i'll toe great mass. of the people,
tnyns its aye toward Christianity.
Che growth of the Christian Church
Inithe United States has been proper
ticnately fully equal to the growth of
population. There's not the slightest
danger that Christianity wiz ever be
superseded in this country BY any 9TH
sergeligicrs system, or that it will be-
.some obsolete by its. own feebleness
ita.yilI ,staE to the end of time
alt ise a:iite true that the american
people. haze not adooted the theory of
cChureh and State. and are a OF likely
ito do SO: and that they do not add the
command and sanctions Of the civil
;pewer 1t. those ,sof religion. thus
:abridging The rightseof the isdividual
Conscience Both the Church-and the
State in III s country are too wise to
commit SO great an error.
1T is no. The less TIVE, however,, that
Enthusiastically, as emhGdied ana realized
rln:g .ndiviGI al souls, % and as OF ganizcd
tcn N aintenance ans propagation by
christian denominations, lis TIE great
moral pnxsnr that undarlies ALI pnur in
Stirltions- that, more than any thing
else hasia lade them what thxy are,
..andS1hat snntains thai- most reliable
promise for the future. In this sense
the American people may be justly
Gale a Clr istian nation TheE form
a.nGtion that owes maTeto Christianity
thar to any other cause, and, iRieed,
to al otfertcauses pat: together. The
conscience of this country il il
lumIed wish the ethics of the
Bible; and tie practice of Tie people is,
in. ! thousand ways, nodded and affect
ed by its aSthority. The people are
, certainly nos what taaey ,aould have
besL if Christ anity had never visa ed
theses hores. Cnd established peraa-
Ineut somicile among them. No fOem
of pasnniSm er did or ever will pao-
,duce Srch nation as that @fe-hc Un;t-
ed States. II fidelity can INST do it.
.Socialis m can,I OF do it. Acre iatcllecs-
rual culture will not do it SUCH a Gre
:ation demands moral power tina.
purities~ the heat. and hance reforms
Ithe life; and Il is power we sind in
1.-the glorious Gospel of the blessed
God" .as preached by Christ and His
apostles
Let Ged be praa ed, then. for; the re-
1isiOn ef:ihis couasry. 1t came down
from Heaven to bless maakinJ. and
has pre-eslinently blessed this land.
Let all the people raise Coz for the
Heavenly zyift. let rulers in high |
places and the hNnblest citizen .p-
men,ber that the slrest patk to IA
tionl safety is to ho,or God. Let the
Church, by the pulpit, by the Sabbath, |
by the missionary organization. by the |
printed Bible and the Christian sract- |
yea, .by all the ageGcies withis her {
pOwer-do her utmost TO bring Chris |
tianity into dinect and living contact |
with the conscience eof the people |
This VIII serve fheir interests alike for
both wacds.-N ]. Independent.