Show GOD IN THE constitution says an exchange it Is reported that thousands of petitions liace gone the bialla brorn religious societies and ethers interested asuno that favorable action bo taken abe joint resolution before the judiciary committee to insert ther of the deity in the federal constitution some of abe petitions are several yards lone and all are numerously signed they come principally from the states of ohio and pennsylvania the movement Is an evidence of relic ious blindness such people need to have their pictures labeled this is a horse or this is a waterfall broad landscape stretching away over earth and sea here a range of mountains there a blinding desert of sand yonder a belt of dense settlement here a river threading its way tt abe sea the far away ocean tenanted ten anted avith the white winced messengers of eom marce the mighty panorama abe azure vault of heaven 1 this nature temple of god how can abe puny words of man make its language plainer its speech more eloquent so with eur constitution purpose as a chart of liberty as a perm of all national policy a guide to all national welfare if it shall be this and do this no words written upon it will enable it more fully to testify of the supreme liene science what need of writing on a rock or a tree or a chemical substance there Is a god while its very existence is a standing testimony of the great fact if our government ls carried on in accordance with the laws of life and environment if it takes into itself and expresses the whole truth tt will be an abiding and potent witness to the highest truth and it is no less true that any creed formula engrafted upon the constitution will be wrested to the support of some form of narrow sectarianism ism |