...out of the constitutional regulations about holding offices, the words " who acknowledges the being of a God, and a future state of rewards and punishments. He staid away from the Senate without any cause for nineteen weeks and four days, so that Pennsylvania,...

...just punishment for his long scepticism and neglect of his duty to his Creator. Being convinced of the existence of a God, and a future state of rewards and punishment, he acquainted his religious friend with the change that had taken place in his mind, and,...

...dmer.Jour.of Medical Sciences fur May,lS31[CummunicaU'd.] LAW I>'TELLIGEIVCE. MICHES on t'. TABOAHT. (Common Pleas of Chester county.) On the trial of...was objected to as incompetent. In support of his adniissibibty, a case was cited from the Massachusetts Ke ports, where it was decided "that disbelief...

...saving witness in a criminal case may chance to be of that persuasion. I think that no one who believes in the existence of a God and a future state of rewards and punishments, should be excluded from giving his testimony in either kind of trial, the power of crediting...

...with Judge Bailey and bis learned brothers ; the same doctrine is advocated by persons, who disbelieve the existence of a God and a future state of rewards and punishments; that such a belief is a necessary delusion, that it restrains man from vicious conduct,...

...— Amer.Jour.of Medical Sciences for May,\83l[Comraunicated.] LAW INTELLIGENCE. MICHENOK v. TACGAHT. (Common Pleas of Chester county.) On the trial of...avowed his disbelief in the existence of a God, and & future state of rewards and punishments. He was objected to as incompetent. In support of his admissibility,...

...motive, or strengthen any existing motive, to veracity. A man of virtuous principles, who believes in the existence of a God, and a future state of rewards and punishments, would not require any ceremony to remind him that in giving his testimony in a court of...

...as a witness, had, within three months before the trial, often, deliberately and publicly, declared his disbelief in the existence of a GOD, and a future state of rewards and punishments, he cannot, on being called to be sworn and objected to, be admitted to deny those declarations, or to...

...inquiry. Atheists. It is a rule of the common law that none shall be sworn as witnesses who do not believe in the existence of a God, and a future state of rewards and punishments. We are inclined to believe that this rule ought to be changed, and that the objection...

...moral maxims they contain. He ascribed philanthropy and benevolence to Christ He plainly acknowledged the existence of a God, and a future state of rewards and punishments. The religion he believed in is free from the authority and dogmas of men. It is built...