The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-04
CHURCH POLITICS.
Baptists Oppose Diversion
of Public Money to
Church Schools.
WORKS CORRUPTION TO RELIGION
Education Society Denounees Par
tiality to Religious En-
terprises.
WORKS CORRUPTION TO RELIGION

When the Baptists of this country met IN
annual convention at Saratoga in May last
a committee of that branch of the
church known as the Education Society
considered an addition or amendment
to the State Constitution of New York IN re-
gard to the public schools. After long a
earnest discussion that committee has made
its report suggesting the following which
has been drafted to apply to New Jerseys
Constitution likewise:-
mo law shall be passed respecting an es-
Enlistment of religion, or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof; nor shall the State, or
any county, city, town, village, sor other
civil division of the State, use It's property
OF credit, or any money raised by taxation
or otherwise, Or authorize such property,
credit, or money to be used iorf the purpose
of founding, maintaining, or aiding, by APP
preparation, payment for services, expenses,
or in any other manner, n church, re
ligious denomination, or religious society, or
ally institution, society, or undertaking
which is wholly or in part under sectarlan
or ecclesiastical CONTROL ~
THE REASONS FOR THE CHANGE.
Messrs. Augustus II. Strong, Charles. h.
Tavlor and E. B. Andrews, OF that special
committee, lave just published their reasons
why the amendment should be made Which
they propose shall be forwarded tOthe Legls-
lature in the fall. Among the principal rea-
sons are that it is desired by atgreat majority
of the people, and that it is the particular
application of the great American principle
of church and State.
Secondly, because the appropriation Of
public funds for such purposes, presents
temptation to ecclesiastical politicians to re-
4. 81 ,In out anUnDlianfS Tn croft fha la Vr
est amounts possible, and SO works corrup-
tion.and degradation 10 religion.
Finally the report says:-.The peace and
we'll being Of society demand this amend
inenU. Eeclesiastic politics have been the
pane of many lands and of some coinmunl-
ties in our own land, leading to fierce an
tagonlsms attended with deplorable re-
sults.
STRENGTH OF H SOCIETY.
THE American Baptist Education So
| ciety represents three and one-halr millions
of Baptists in the United States, and a con-
| stituency of more than twenty millions OF
people. We have nearly Two hundred in
| situations of learning whose property valua-
tion, iinciuding endowment funds is more
| than $4,000, 600.
This society is deeply interested in the
| struggle that is now waging against the di-
! version of public money to sectarian insti-
~tutions, and we appeal to our denomination
al Journals. to the pastors OF ouf .cnufenes,
and to our people generally, to make this the
subject of discussion and use their influence
in every proper manner to secure the adop-
| uion of a proper amendment to the consti-
buttons Of our several States, and in due
time, the adoption OF a similar amendment
to the Constitution Of the United States
CAMP MEETING REPORTS.
:Duringitle coming camp meeting at Mt.
Tabor a daily'aeeount' of the. interesting pro
aaaJi,oc will anpaar in the At Tabor D0jfU
Record, a most excellent journal, which, be-
sides contains all the religious, social and
current events of the Newark conference.
The meeting begins August Is.