“This much ought a Christian people to do, namely, acknowledge the God of Revelation to be the only living and true God, require all oaths of government to be administered in His name — He alone being the Judge of all the earth, and able to reward every man according to his works — and acknowledge Him as the God of the nation, by invoking His blessing in all national councils and legislatures. His Holy Scriptures should be regarded as the only and all-sufficient rule of faith and practice, their free circulation encouraged among all classes, and their introduction permitted into schools of public instruction for the children and youth of the land. Religious biblical instruction should be furnished to all citizens employed in the public service; the Sabbath preserved as a day of rest from ordinary labor, and a day of sacred worship; the marriage relation regulated; and the manner of legalizing the same; adultery, polygamy, incest, sodomy, and bestiality should be punished; and the establishment of idolatry prevented, with its loose morals and abominations. All these great principles of religion and morality owe their clearness and authority to Revelation, and demand an acknowledgment in Christian governments. All laws and institutions of government should have their foundation in some standard of right and wrong, whether that standard be the light of nature, or the light of Revelation. Heathen governments adopt the former, and Christian governments the latter.” — Charles Colcock Jones, Sr., The History of the Church of God During the Period of Revelation (1867), p. 374