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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ... shrink, then, from facing one of the first conditions of the American problem, which is this, that our Goverment rests in theory, and must eventually rest in practice, upon a purely secular basis. We are as yet a Christian people, and we have a right to say that we live in a Christian land, simply because the majority of the population are nominally of the Christian faith. But we have no right to say that we live under a Christian government, for Christ and His religion are alike unknown to that instrument which alone gives the government its authority, --the Constitution of the United States. To be sure, there never has been any civil government in the world that has fully deserved the epithet " Christian," for the plain reason that there never has been a government willing to incorporate the golden rule into the law of nations. But then, a great many governments have been anxious to be considered Christian; they have professed allegiance to the Christian faith, and in a degree at least, have lent themselves to the support of Christian ideas. Our government does not even care to be reckoned Christian. It cannot be called an irreligious government, for it permits religions of whatever sort to go on their way unmolested, so that they refrain from molesting others. But a Christian goveminent ours certainly is not, for there is nothing in its structure to prevent either Infidels, Jews, or Mohammedans from administering it throughout. There still linger among the usages of our governmental system some traces of the old concordat between Church and State. Houses of Congress, local legislatures, and courts of justice are opened with prayer. The Bible is more or less read in the public schools. Presidents and Governors issue annual...