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American Sentinel for 1890 Equal and exact justice to all alert, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political.—Thomas jelerson. VOLUME 5. NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 20, 1890. NUMBER 46. paternal ruler has taken his cue from the contradict truth. For two thousand years the as- he American Sentinel, dethroned Pope, who secured uniformity tronomers had been making almanacs, and calcu- lating eclipses and other movements of the heavenly PUBLISNED WEEKLY, /3Y TEE of religion and language by the same bodies. What would become of astronomy, he tyrannical, oppressive means. By the PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISilliNG COMPANY, asked, if some Joshua could take hold of the spokes way, the Czar is, head of the Greek of the wheel of time and stop the revolution of the No. 4g BOND Sr., Nicw :YORK. Church. This is another fact that illus- earth ? ' Entered at The New York Post Office as Second Class Matter. trates the folly, or, more properly, the Now we do not deny Mr. Treuthart's crime of uniting Church and State. Pol- right to say just what he pleases about EDITOR, - - - ALONZO T. JONES.' itics and religion, when mixed in a ruler, the story of Joshua; but why he should ASSOCIATE EDITORS, bring misery and poverty to the people. address a " strictly -unsectarian." Congress C. P. BOILMAN; ,- W. H. Mc BEE. —Loyal American. in that manner does not seem clear. Nor do we understand what it has to do with OUR public schools are secular, and the separation of Church and State. How- must ever remain so if religious freedom Is It Unsectarian? ever, this was unofficial, and we will leave is to abide. Let the churcheS look to the PRESIDENT WESTBROOK'S call for the it for something from one of the officers matter of religious education; we Presby- Congress of the American Secular Union, of the Union. In her official address, the terians will do our part to it, and we ask recently held at Portsmouth, Ohio, con- Corresponding Secretary, Miss Ida Crad- no subsidy. Let. the fathers and mothers tained the following statement, which we dock, said :— do their part; "an ounce of mother is wish to examine a little in the light of the At this time the American Secular Union is con- worth a pound of priest." And let the Congress itself, and of the official utter- fronted with two distinct lines of policy from State attend to its own business in the ances •made there :— which to choose. One is the policy which it has non-sectarian education of the children of steadily maintained during the past year, of strict The American Secular Union is strictly unsecta- the'land.---Rev. Dr. Burrell. non-partisanship in religious matters, and open- rian and non-partisan in both religion and politics. handed hospitality to all who believe in total sep • It is not, either publicly or privately, committed to oration. of Church and State, whether the applicant the advancement of any system of religious belief A OHinwil known to be the slave of the for membership be Deist or Atheist, Freethinker or or disbelief, but heartily welcomes all persons, of Churchman. State would not have much 'influence with whatever faith, to its membership, on the basis of The other policy looks further than the mere the mass of the people in restraining an- " no union of Church and State." The word " sea separation of Church and State. It demands per- archy and making them good citizens, and ular" is here used in the broadest sense, as applied to petual and unflinching 'hostility to the Christian re- politicians would ever be tempted to turn the State, and not to any system of religious phi- ligion, and an aggressive warfare whose aim is losophy. aside the Church from its proper spiritual finally to cripple the Church, if not to kill it off entirely. work. The heresy, for it is a heresy, of The object of the Union is thus stated, , making the Church subservient to the by Mr. Westbrook, in the same call:— This states that there are two lines of State, is called Erastianism because incul- Its object is to secure the total separation of policy, but is non-committal as to which cated by Erastus, a learned physician in Church and State, in fact and in form, to the end one the Union has adopted; nor does it that equal rights in religion, genuine morality in Heidelberg toward the end of the sixteenth say which one Miss Craddock herself politics, and freedom; virtue, and brotherhood be thinks the better one. The following century, who claimed for the civil magis- established, protected, and perpetuated. from the same address, however, supplies trate the power of exercising discipline With this we have no fault to find. On and of etcommunication in the Church.— the lack, and is a declaration of war on the contrary we hold that this is a worthy religion.:— James llfcCosh, D.D., LL.D., Princton, object. We fear, however, that instead New Jersey. But my great concern is: How shall we reach of being the object it is only an object, the young ? How shall we save them from falling and possibly a secondary object at that. into that religious superstition which puts the cross THE 'Czar of Russia, in the exercise of In giving an account of the opening of higher than their moral duty as good citizens, and pis. paternal sovereignty, has ordered the the Portsmouth Congress, the Truth Seeker which teaches them to consider what the Church Protestant missionaries to leave Russia, says :— sneeringly calls "mere morality" as of little ac- count in the sight of the Deity whom they worship? to cease proselyting. He has also ordered The hail was filled to hear J. L. Treuthart wel- . How shall we fit them to take the all Jews to leave his dominions, and the come his fellow - Freethinkers. The Portsmouth vacant places in the Liberal ranks — places left order is being carried out with great se- Union, he said, welcomed the Congress as a child vacant almost monthly by the death of our gray- receives a visit of a parent. There was also a large haired veterans? verity. In the Baltic provinces he is public sentiment favoring the objects of the Union. crushing out Lutheranism and the Ger- He also welcomed the Union on behalf of the school That is, " How shall we" (the Secular man language. It is evident that the children who were entitled to know that facts never Unions of course) " make infidels of the 362 Pri=i_h; AIVIEDRICA_N- children ? " And this in the face of the State recognition of religion because they their God-given time for conscience' sake. statement of the President that the Union do not believe in religion is only to say But in any event the non-religious are is ,unsectarian and " not either publicly or that did they believe in religion they forced to observe, to some extent, a relig- privately committed to the advancraent of would favor such recognition. They thus ious institution in which they have no any system of religious belief or disbe- abandon the broad principle of religious faith. C. P. B. lief." liberty, the common ground upon which Nor is this all; Miss Craddock's subject the purest Christians and the most pro- Memorials of 1829-30. No. 1. was " Organization," and she not only nounced infidels have in the past fought pointed out work to be done by the Union, side by side for their God-given rights, A MEMORIAL FROM SENATOR BLAIR'S STATE. but she prOposed plans. The following is and assent that the question instead of IN the interesting Sunday agitation of one of them being one of inalienable human rights is 1829-30, petitions, both.for and against the Personally, I should like to see established through- one of fact. But to this we can never discontinuance of Sunday mails, were sent out the country Freethought Sunday-schools, where agree. We maintain that the truth or to Congress from all parts of the country. children could be saved on Sunday from the allure- falsity of the Christian religion has noth- Considerable interest was aroused, and ments of the Church. We may be quite sure that, ing whatever to do with this question. even in Congress politicians were found to if we don't look out for our children on that day, the Church will draw them in. This we believe to be the only consistent champion both causes. Several reports position, and to take any other is to aban- were written ; but the most influential, Now we have no fault to find with this don the principle of religious liberty and and the ones receiving the approbation of plan, nor with Miss Craddock for pro- concede that the whole matter is only a Congress, were those written by Colonel posing it. The Secular Union has just question of majorities. Johnson, of Kentucky, afterwards Vice- the same right to teach infidelity that we We hope to say more upon this subject President of the United States. have to teach Christianity; but they have next week; at which time we shall exam- As the same question has been again in- no right to do it and at the same time ine some of President Westbrook's reasons troduced in our National Assembly by insist that the Union is unsectarian, and for opposing the reading of the Bible in Senator Blair, of New Hampshire, whose that it " is not committed to the advance- schools supported by the State. We shall Sunday Bill is now in the committee rooms ment of any system of belief or unbelief." likewise have something to say about the of Congress, perhaps some of the old docu- We are surprised at the attitude of the proposed manual for the teaching of mo- ments which aided so materially in the Secular Union, and especially are we sur- rality in the public schools.
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