STUDY X
THE FOUNDATIONS OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP.
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.—Ex. 20:1-17.
Parallel Readings.
Hist. Bible I, 194-198. Prin. of Politics, Chap. II. Lowell, _Essay on "Democracy."
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image.
Thou shalt not take the name of Jehovah thy God in vain.
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Honor thy father and thy mother.
Thou shalt not kill.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Thou shalt not steal.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house.—Ex. 20:3-17.
If ye know my commandments, happy are ye if ye do them.—Jesus.
Wherewithal shall I come before Jehovah, and bow myself before the High God? . . . He hath showed thee, Oh man, what is good; and what doth Jehovah require of thee but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?—Micah 6:6, 8.
Most religions are meant to be straight lines connecting two points—God and man. But Christianity has three points—God, man, and his brother—with two lines to make a right angle.—Maltbie D. Babcock.
So many prayers, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
When just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs.
—Eva Wheeler Wilcox.