In the foreword of McGuffey's Reader, 1836, he wrote:<ref>http://www.amerisearch.net/index.php?date=2004-05-04&view=View</ref>
In the foreword of McGuffey's Reader, 1836, he wrote:<ref>http://www.amerisearch.net/index.php?date=2004-05-04&view=View</ref>
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:The Christian religion is the religion of our country. From it are derived our prevalent notions of the character of God, the great moral governor of the universe. On its doctrines are founded the peculiarities of our free
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:The Christian religion is the religion of our country. From it are derived our prevalent notions of the character of God, the great moral governor of the universe. On its doctrines are founded the peculiarities of our free institutions.
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institutions.
McGuffey's 5th Eclectic Reader (1879) contains a lesson entitled "Religion The Only Basis of Society" by William Ellery Channing: <ref>''id.''</ref>
McGuffey's 5th Eclectic Reader (1879) contains a lesson entitled "Religion The Only Basis of Society" by William Ellery Channing: <ref>''id.''</ref>