...these United States, the great mass of the population profess an attachment to CHRISTIANITY, and, asa people, avow themselves to be CHRISTIAN. There is...agreeing in their respect for a common Christianity, that thoy have withdrawn their support, confidence and patronage, and left them to drag a miserable existence,...

...devoid of any sectarian forms and peculiarities, so essential. not only as the most efficient policy, but also for the development and formation of the...the college, have only rendered them the sectarian of an atheistical or infidel party or faction, and so offended and disgusted the majority of the population...

...character, and qualifications for future usefulness. Experiments made in other States, by catering to morbid prejudices of sectarians, have only embarrassed...made to exclude all religious influence whatever from college, have only rendered them the sectarian engines of an atheistical or infidel party or faction,...

...character, and qualifications for future usefulness. Experiments made in other States, by catering to morbid prejudices of sectarians, have only embarrassed...made to exclude all religious influence whatever from colleges, have only rendered them the sectarian engines of an atheistical or infidel party or faction,...

...devoid of any sectarian forms and peculiarities, so essential, not only as the most efficient policy, but also for the development and formation of the...the college, have only rendered them the sectarian of an atheistical or infidel party or faction, and so offended and disgusted the majority of the population...

...commonplace to point out, as the Presbyterians had in Virginia, that, as the Michigan Regents put it in 1841, "Attempts made to exclude all religious influence...the college, have only rendered them the sectarian of an atheistical or infidel party or faction." Since, on the other hand, "the great mass of the population...