St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-10
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
Some Minneapolis People Seem to Have
Rather Vague Ideas Of Them.
AMENDMENTS TO THE LAWS.
Early Teachings That Seem to Have
Slipped From Memory's
Grasp.
oxODus. CHAPTER Xxx.

i. And God spake all these words,
saying:
2. / am the Lord thy God, which
have brought thee out of the land of
Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3. Thou shalt have no other gods be-
fore me.
q. Thou shalt not make unto thee
any craven image. or any likeness OF
any thing that is in heaven above, or
that's in the earth beneath, or that is in
the water under the earth;
5. Thou shalt not bow down thyself
to them nor serve them; for the Lord
thy God am jealous God, visiting the
iniquity of the father upon the child
rem unto the third and fourth generation
of them that hate me;
6. And showing mercy unto thousands
of them that love me, and keep my COM
mandments.
z. Thou shalt not take the name of
the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord
will not hold him guiltless that taketh
his name in vain.
8. Remember the Sabbath day to keep
it holy.
9. Six days shall thou labor and do all
| thy work;
10. But the seventh day is the Sabbath
| of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not
| do any work, thou, nor thy sou, nor thy
daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy
maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy
stranger that is within thy gates:
IL. For in six days the Lord made
| heaven and earth, the sea, and all that
| in them is, and rested the seventh day;
wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath
day and hallowed it.
| IL. Honor thy father and thy mother;
| that thy days may be long upon the
land which the Lord thy God giveth
| thee.
13. Thou shalt not kill.
IA. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Is. Thou shall not steal.
Is. Thou shall not bear false witness
against thy neighbor.
IL. Thou shalt not covet thy neigh
| boris house, thou shalt not covet thy
| neighbours wife, nor his man servant,
| nor his maid servant, nor his OK, nor his
| ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor'S.
The portion of the twentieth chapter
| of Exodus reproduced above contains
| the ten commandments. While making
| his rounds yesterday, GLOBE reporter
questioned number of well-known
| gentlemen in regard to the ten COM.
mandmen.s. All were more or less.
principally less, familiar with them, as
will be seen from the following short
| interviews:
| 81 cannot repeat the commandments,
| but | can swear that l have kept them
ALL" said Byron Sutherland.
"Well, what's the eleventh command
ment?"
There is none-oh, yes; it's Love
thy neighbor as thyself;' l remember
now. You cannot catch me with any of
! your funny questions. The command
ments are in the New Testament, in
the book of Genesis"
-.
whats the first commandment, Mr.,
Plummer?' was the question asked w.
/ A. Plummer, the deputy register of
deeds.
s'Holy smoke, how do you expect me
| to knoW?" was the reply. ''All l know
about the commandments is that they
| are in the Bible. ! did know them once,
but that was long ago. Now, if you
| will repeat them I'll set up the cigars"
/ Five minutes later Mr.. Plummer and
| his tormentOr were smoking at the
deputy's expense.
C. N. Dickey looked wild when lasked
to repeat the commandments. He said
he knew them all right enough, but he
did not have time to repeat them. He
was perfectly sure they were in the New
| Testament, and that the eleventh pre-
| cept was something about obeying the
golden rule.
s'What's the fourth commandment"
was the question fired at Henry Alt
| now.
why, the fourth commandment is
is-let me see-oh, yes, its something
about obeying the man you work for.
Its been so long since heard them that
have nearly forgotten them. They
are in the book of-of-Well, never
mind, I'll give that up, but am sure
they are in the Old Testament. can
not tell you what the twelfth COM
mandment is-yes, can-there is none
| ten is all.''
"What is the first commandment, Mr..
Lovejoy?"
Poor S. B. grew pale for a moment.
and then replied: "Why. it's some
| thing about not doing murder, is it
not?''
he then went on to say that the COM
! mandments were in the New Testament,