"Dicta" is a personal comment by a judge in his opinion which is a digression from the matter before the court. The phrase refers to short statements which are "not upon the point or question pending, as if turning aside for the time from the main topic of the case to collateral subjects."
Rohrbach v. Ins Co. 62 NY 47, 58 See Black's Law Dictionary.

2. First, this phrase is a part of the central support of the case, as the case argues several points then states, “But, beyond all these matters, no purpose of action against religion can be imputed to any legislation, state or national, because this is a religious people. This is historically true.” Then Justice David Brewer proceeded with 17 paragraphs listing “organic utterances” proving that the United States is a Christian nation. Next he added a paragraph appealing to proofs beyond the “organic utterances”, and finally states, “These and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation.” concluding that congress could not have intended to have made it illegal for a church to contract with a minister from another nation.

3. Secular Humanist judges have used dicta from Everson vs. Board of Education to secularize the nation since 1947. In this case the court ruled that parents with children in private religious schools could be reimbursed by the state for transportation to and from school. But the majority made an obscure comment about the separation of church and state, which the minority argued should have caused the court to rule otherwise. This statement has been used by Secular Humanist activist judges to convert U.S. Institutions to the religion of Secular Humanism ever since.

III. “Organic utterances”

0. An organic utterance is a statement derived from official documents, rather than from individual opinion.

   Justice Brewer pointed out that his claim reached into the "organic law" of the nation, and every State in the union, thus putting it on the firmest of legal authority. The claim that America is a Christian nation is in "the domain of official action and recognition," not mere "individual acceptance." Brewer, The United States: A Christian Nation (1905) (p 27 in 1996 reprint).

You will notice that I have presented no doubtful facts. Nothing has been stated which is debatable. The quotations from charters are in the archives of the several States; the laws are on the statute books; judicial opinions are taken from the official reports . . . . I could show how largely our laws and customs are based upon the laws of Moses and the teachings of Christ. . . . But I must not weary you. I could go on indefinitely, pointing out further illustrations both official and non-official, public and private. . . .

IV. Further proofs of the Christian nature of the nation from the Supreme Court.

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   a. Following is the first paragraph of the tribute by Hannis Taylor, a leading International law scholar, made at the April 30 tribute: “By a romantic accident [Justice Brewer] was born of American missionary parents in Asia Minor, not so far from that Hellenized Roman province in which St. Paul was born, and in which he passed his boyhood. It is not irreverent to say that the great Apostle of the Gentiles, who was "brought up at the feet of Gamaliel" [Acts 22:3] and who transformed the mystery confided to a despised Jewish sect into a vast Christian theology, has never had a more worthy disciple. While an intellectual fervor very nearly akin to genius lighted the fires of his mind, a deep and tender religious feeling chastened his heart with a softer radiance. Out of the union of those rarely united streams grew the life of an almost perfect man, who was ever mindful of the exhortation of St. Paul to Timotheus: "Charge them to practice benevolence, to be rich in good works, to be bountiful and generous, storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life." [1 Timothy 6:17-19] Fortunate, indeed, it is when the mind that expounds and applies positive law in the midst of vast and conflicting passions and interests is illuminated by the inner light of a noble high-mindedness which spurns all vanities, all prejudices, all revenges.”

1. Justice Brewer died March 28, 1910. On April 30, 1910 a tribute was held for Justice Brewer in the Court Room, and on May 31, 1910 the Supreme Court of the U.S. Met for “proceedings on the death of Mr. Justice Brewer”

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   b. This is the first page of the Attorney General, George Woodward Wickersham's eulogy for Justice Brewer at the May 31 tribute: Justice Brewer's period of service in this court covered twenty years. These two decades brought before this court some of the most important and far-reaching questions which have ever been submitted for its decision, and in the solution of these great problems Justice Brewer took a leading part. In the reports of this period there are to be found 719 opinions written by Justice Brewer, in 157 of which he dissented from the conclusions of the majority of the court. The limitations of this occasion will permit only a brief reference to a few decisions which illustrate the characteristics of his mind and the lucidity of his exposition.

One of the earliest of his recorded opinions was that in the case of the Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 143 U.S. 457, where the court was called upon to decide whether or not the act prohibiting the importation of foreigners and aliens under contract to perform labor in the United States applied to an English Christian minister who had come to the United States pursuant to an agreement with a Protestant Episcopal Church in the city of New York. The opinion is of especial interest, not merely as a fine discriminating construction of the statute, and the application of the principle that laws must receive a sensible construction, and that where a literal construction leads to an absurd conclusion the letter of the law must give way to the presumed intention of the legislature; but because of the enunciation of the principle that "no purpose of action against religion can be imputed to any legislation, state or national, because this is a religious people."

"If we examine the constitutions of the various States," said the learned justice, "we find in them a constant recognition of religious obligations. Every constitution of every one of the forty-four States contains language which either directly or by clear implication recognizes a profound reverence for religion and an assumption that its influence in all human affairs is essential to the well-being of the community.

"There is no dissonance in these declarations. There is a universal language pervading them all, having one meaning; they affirm and reaffirm that this is a religious nation. These are not individual sayings, declarations of private persons; they are organic utterances; they speak the voice of the entire people.

"These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation. In the face of all these, shall it be believed that a Congress of the United States intended to make it a misdemeanor for a church of this country to contract for the services of a Christian minister residing in another nation?"

After considering but three other of Justice Brewer's opinions, The Attorney General concluded:

Justice Brewer was a son of a Christian missionary, and the son's life, like the father's was one of service. For six and forty years he served the people, hearing causes and judging "righteously between every man and his brother and the stranger that is with him." And in the discharge of this great office he did ever obey the injunction laid upon the judges of Israel by their great lawgiver:

"Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man, for judgment is God's." (1 Deut. 17).

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   c. Remarks by Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller May 31: During the years of my occupancy of a seat upon this Bench it has been my sad duty to accept for the court tributes of the Bar in memory of many members of this tribunal who have passed to their reward. As our Brother Brewer joins the great procession, there pass before me the forms of Matthews and Miller, of Field and Bradley and Lamar and Blatchford, of Jackson and Gray and of Peckham, whose works follow them now that they rest from their labors. They were all men of marked ability, of untiring industry, and of intense devotion to duty, but they were not alike. They differed as "one star differeth from another star in glory." [1 Cor. 15:41] Their names will remain illustrious in the annals of jurisprudence. And now we are called on to deplore the departure of one of the most lovable of them all.

He died suddenly, but not the unprepared death from which we pray to be delivered.

d. In an unrelated case the 1844 Supreme Court ruled that no government school could be established which did not teach the Bible.