...State Supreme Court Chief Justice Kent ruled that We stand ... in need, now as formerly, of all the moral discipline, and of those principles of virtue...Christianity, as the rule of their faith and practice .... We are a Christian people, and the morality of the country is deeply engrafted upon Christianity,...

...people, and to destroy good order," and because it affects "the essential interests of civil society." The people of this State, in common with the people...scandalize the author of these doctrines is not only, in a religious point of view, extremely impious, but. even in respect to the obligations due to society,...

...part of the common law. We stand equally in need now, as formerly, of all that moral discipline and those principles of virtue which help to bind society...scandalize the Author of these doctrines, is not only in a religious point of view, extremely impious, but even in respect to the obligations due to society,...

...great commentator on American law, speaking as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New York, said : " The people of this State, in common with the people...scandalize the Author of these doctrines is not only, in a religious point of view, extremely impious, but, even in respect to the obligations due to society,...

...authorities on this point. Chancellor Kent, of New York, delivered, in 1811, the following opinion : "The people of this State, in common with the people...country, profess the general doctrines of Christianity as their faith and practice." True, he went on to say, " The Constitution has discarded religious establishments,"...