 | Virginia - Law - 1867 - 598 pages
...recurrence to fundamental principles. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only...conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love andf haritV towards each other. CONSTITUTION OF VIRGINIA. Whereas,... | |
 | New York (State) - Constitution - 1867 - 254 pages
...our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, riot by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men are...conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity towards each other. Va., 532. — That no person within... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1868 - 940 pages
...recurrence to fundamental principles. 18. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only...conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity towards each other. 19. That neither slavery nor involuntary... | |
 | Louis John Jennings - United States - 1868 - 316 pages
...never be exercised. The declaration of rights prefixed to the Constitution of Virginia declares that " all men are equally entitled to the free exercise...forbearance, love, and charity towards each other." In this State, as in six others, Ministers of the Gospel are ineligible to sit in either House of Assembly,... | |
 | Education - 1868 - 806 pages
...a manner most agreeable to his own conscience." The Constitution of Virginia adopted in 1851 says, "All men are equally entitled to the free exercise...conscience, and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity, towards each other." The Constitution of Indiana... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1868 - 490 pages
...temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. "Religion can be directed only by reason and conviction, not...all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of it, according to the dictates of conscience ; and it is the mutual duty of all to practise Christian... | |
 | William Read Staples - Constitutional law - 1870 - 778 pages
...inserted merely for greater caution. 4. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only...not by force or violence ; and therefore, all men have an equal, natural and inalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates... | |
 | Caspar Thomas Hopkins - History - 1872 - 324 pages
...support and maintenance." 3. Virginia says: "That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only...conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity toward each other."* 4. In what respect does consistent... | |
 | Caspar Thomas Hopkins - United States - 1873 - 396 pages
...and maintenance." 162. Virginia says: " That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only...conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity toward each other."* 163. In what respect does consistent... | |
 | William Stevens Perry (bp. of Iowa.) - 1874 - 572 pages
...provided in the words following, viz. — " That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only...conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all, to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity towards each othe," — which said Article is now... | |
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That religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according... 
