 | William Henry Foote - 1850 - 582 pages
...words — " That religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force...forbearance, love and charity towards each other." These declarations breathe the spirit of civil and religious liberty, and spoke the true feelings of... | |
 | California. Constitutional Convention, John Ross Browne - 1850 - 540 pages
...: 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...conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other. Mr. HALLECK remarked that this... | |
 | John Ross Browne - 1850 - 538 pages
...: 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...conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other. Mr. HALLECK remarked that this... | |
 | California. Constitutional Convention, John Ross Browne - 1850 - 528 pages
...conviction, not by force or violence ; therefore, all men are equally entitled to the froe exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience...forbearance, love, and charity towards each other. I acknowledged the full force of the remark made by the gentleman at the tinne ; and for one, I do... | |
 | California. Constitutional Convention, John Ross Browne - 1850 - 534 pages
...reported by the f That religion, or the duty which *— J*'»cted only by reason and convi ,weoIT «qnally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according...conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other. Mr. HALLECK remarked that this... | |
 | George Long - 1850 - 704 pages
...the free i-xtrcise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the mntual duty of all to practise Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other." This goes far beyond the French Declaration, and comes nearer to the true foundations of society. This... | |
 | Protestant Episcopal Historical Society - 1851 - 244 pages
...: '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...forbearance, love, and charity towards each other.' " But this only goes so far as to establish free toleration, by declaring that ' all men are equally... | |
 | Virginia - 1851 - 1348 pages
...our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, ran be directed only bj reason and conviction, not bv force or violence ; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercwe of rrligion, according to the dictates of conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all... | |
 | 1852 - 680 pages
...16. 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...conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity towards each other. CONSTITUTION, king of Great Britain... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1852 - 614 pages
...religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can only be directed by reason and conviction, not by force or violence...entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of con•cience." But the constitution itself, passed June 29th, is silent on the subject... | |
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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... 
