American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

New Jersey Constitution (1844): <PREAMBLE. We, the people of the State of New Jersey, grateful to Almighty God for the civil and religious liberty which He hath so permitted us to enjoy, and looking to Him for a blessing upon our endeavors to secure and transmit the same unimpaired to succeeding generations, do ordain and establish this constitution. ARTICLE 1, SECTION 3. No person shall be deprived of the inestimable privilege of worshipping Almighty God in a manner agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience; nor under any pretense whatever be compelled to attend any place of worship contrary...

Connecticut Court (1844) Jewitt v. Thomas Bank, 16 CONN. 511: <All ecclesiastical bodies are private rather than public corporations, thus they cannot access state action to compel compliance with Church regulations and discipline.> 1844CT001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1844CT001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Connecticut Court, 1844, Jewitt v. Thomas Bank, 16 CONN. 511.

Gerard Manley Hopkins (July 28, 1844-June 8, 1889) was an English poet and artist. He was professor of classics at the University College in Dublin. The death of five nuns in a shipwreck in 1875 inspired him to composed The Wreck of the Deutschland, in which he stated in No. 28: <Thou mastering me God! giver of breath and bread; World's strand, sway of the sea; Lord of the living and dead; Thou hast bound bones and veins in me, fastened me flesh, And after it almost unmade, what with dread, Thy doing: and dost thou touch me afresh? Over again...

Alexander MacAlister (April 9, 1844-1919) was a professor of Anatomy at Cambridge, and an author of textbooks in physiology and zoology. He related: <I think the widespread impression of the agnosticism of scientific men is largely due to the attitude taken up by a few of the great popularizers of science, like Tyndall and Huxley. It has been my experience that the disbelief in the revelation that God has given, in the life and work, death and resurrection of our Savior, is more prevalent among what I may call the camp followers of science than amongst those to whom scientific work...

United States Supreme Court (1844) in the case of Vidal v. Girard's Executors, 43 U.S. (How. 2) 126, 127, 132, Justice Joseph Story delivered the Court's opinion. The case concerned one Stephen Girard, a deist from France, who had moved to Philadelphia and later died. In his Last Will and Testament, he left his entire estate, valued at over $7 million, to establish an orphanage and school, with the stipulation that no religious influence be allowed. The city rejected the proposal, as their lawyers declared: <The plan of education proposed is anti-christian, and therefore repugnant to the law....The purest principles of...