THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT.

Otago Witness, Issue 1242, 18 September 1875, Page 18

THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT.

At a convention of ministers, lately held in Kansas, the following resolution concerning the proposed amendment recognising God in the Constitution was considered :—: —

" Resolved, That in this movement we ' come under the banner of One whose name is the synonym of all that is wise - and good, generous and kind, merciful' and gracious ; a name under which the highest human progress has been made ; a name above every name, his enemies themselves being judges, and that in the Lord Jesus Christ we recognise the' Governor of nations, to whom all power belongs."

Nearly all the members of the Convention favoured this resolution, but there was one man who opposed it, the Rev Mr Green, of Fort Scott. He said :— "What we want is not amendments in the Constitution of the United States, but amendments in the hearts of the people. He thought one Christian man in Con- ' gress, who could not be corrupted, and whom Credit Mobilierites and Pacific Mail schemers would not dare to approach, would do more toward reforming the country and advancing the' cause of Christianity, than forty thousand recognitions of God in the Constitution. At°a time like this (said the speaker), when misery and want stare us in the face' on ' every hand — when hundreds of fellowcitizens in our own State are perishing for ' necessaries of life, it seems to me that for Christian people to waste time and money in the agitation of such a cause as .this, in the name of Christianity, is a supremo' farce."