Presbyterians : a popular narrative of their origin, progress, doctrines, and achievements . onal Reform Movement the Church contributed, in1891, $4520. That Movement seeks to add to thePreamble of the Constitution of the United States, asthe source of its civil authority some acknowledg-ment of-God and the Nations accountability to present the Preamble of the Constitution simplysays We, the people of the United States, as if thepeople were- independent of the Almighty. The Na-tional Reform Association seeks to have that Pream-ble amended by inserting after the words just quoted, recogn
Presbyterians : a popular narrative of their origin, progress, doctrines, and achievements . onal Reform Movement the Church contributed, in1891, $4520. That Movement seeks to add to thePreamble of the Constitution of the United States, asthe source of its civil authority some acknowledg-ment of-God and the Nations accountability to present the Preamble of the Constitution simplysays We, the people of the United States, as if thepeople were- independent of the Almighty. The Na-tional Reform Association seeks to have that Pream-ble amended by inserting after the words just quoted, recognizing the dominion of Jesus Christ over thenations, and this nations subjection to the Divine F. R. Brunot, an Episcopalian, of Allegheny, Pa.,is President of the Association ; Rev. T. P. Stevenson, 422 PRESBYTERIANS. D. D., of Philadelphia, a Covenanter, is its Secretary,and The Christian Statesman its newspaper organ. Alexander, of Philadelphia, is the largest individualcontributor. Almost all denominations are representedin its Board of Officers and workine Br p* GENEVA COLLEGE, BEAVER FALLS, PA. A peculiar question with reference to voting wasraised when, in various States, amendments to the Con-stitution were submitted to the vote of the people pro-hibiting the traffic in liquor. Voting has always beenlooked upon by the denomination as the most definiteact of incorporation with the government ; and yet the REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 423 desire of the people was unanimous for the passage ofthese prohibitory amendments. The Synod of theChurch, in 1884, passed a resolution that the simpleact of voting- for such an amendment to the StateConstitution as will secure some important principlesof moral right and reform, such as the prohibitoryamendments recently submitted to the people ofKansas, Iowa and Ohio, belongs to the class of actsconsistent with the principles and position of the Re-formed Presbyterian Church. The wisdom andprudence of this a
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