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A Duty Founded ON Love to Both GOD
and Man.

on the two tables OF stone, uuu pre-
served in the ark. were probably all
very short. The specifications and the
reasons attached to them are amplifica-
tIons added In writing the books or
Exodus and Deuteronomy. This APP
pears beyond question by comparison
Of the Fourth Commandment as given
IN these two accounts of the giving OF
the law at Sinai.
The primary command Is the same i'm
both cases; IL Is Remember" or "ob-
serve" "the Sabbath day 20 keep IL
holy" The specifications are the same,
the son, the daughter. the cattle and tho
stranger; all were 20 rest from work.
But the reasons differ. In Exodus IL
reads:
"For In six days the Lord made
Heaven and earth, the sea and all that
in them Is; wherefore the Lord blessed
the Sabbath day and hallowed H."
The reason in Deuteronomy is quite
different:
THAT thy man servant and thy maid
servant may rest as well as thou. And
thou shalt remember that thou vast
servant in the land of Egypt, and the
Lord thy God brought thee out thence
by n mighty hand and by n stretched
out arm; therefore the Lord thy God
commanded thee TO keep the Sabbath
day"
The difference between the two Is
this. thnt one looks Godwnrd. and the
other manward the one has Divine
outlook. while the other Is completely
humanitarian. Both command rest for
man and beast; but one says that this
rest is enjoined because God rested on
the seventh day from the six days work
OF creation, and that the Sabbath COM
memorntes this rest and makes IL the
example for man; the other declares
that servants and slaves, under the VIII
OF master, who cannot command their
times of rest, must be cared for, and
have regular rest day provided for
them; and that the people of Israel
must remember, even the richest OF
them, their mobiles and kings, that they
served with rigor in Egypt, where no
rest was allowed them.
We sometimes distinguish between
the two tables OF the law, as IL one con-
tanned duties 10 superiors, TO our
Heavenly Parent and our earthly pa
rents, while the other has 20 do with
duties TO our fellow man. But the
Deuteronomy version OF the Fourth
Commandment, which Is OF equal nu-
thority with that In Exodus, shows US
that this distinction cannot be sharply
drawn: or may we say, rather, that God
Identifies Himself with the humblest,
even as Jesus identified Himself with
the least OF His disciples; and that an
offense against the meanest day laborer
or household drudge Is an offense
against God2
II may be relief 20 some who have
been troubled by the idea that God
wrote on the table OF stone, with His
own finger, an account OF the creation
In six literal days, 20 discover what care
, full readers have long known, that the
comment wns no part OF the original
: commandment; but the chief lesson TO
l be drawn from the comparison OF the
$ two versions Is the very same which
= our Lord taught when He declared:
. "The Sabbath was made for man, not
: man for the Sabbath" The Fourth
v Commandment is the workngman's
r palladium, his best defense against op
e preston, and was so intended from the
c first. Masters, employers, can take rest
when they please; rest must also be pro
vided, both by law and religion, FOL
those whom constant enforced laboi
- would otherwise imbrute. Every pro
vision TO guard against excessive hours
:. Of labor on the week day Is In the yer,
spirit OF this commandment. We arr
/ 10 maintain rest day equally out o
a t..sr 10 w IN
- out OF mercy TO man, according u
Deuteronomy. The two versions CIV
us illustrated, In concrete duty, Tn
In double command OF love 20 both Coz
and man, on which our Lord tells u
hnng the law and the prophets.
10 THAT thy man servant and thy mai
re servant may rest as well as thou HoN
u this purpose and command of God con
d. dennis the heart!essness. too often tn
te brutality, OF masters OF industry an
lie mistresses OF householdsl For IN
a. workman's sake the wheels and I'll
err hammers and the plows must cease 7
move on the day OF rest. For the SAX
O. OF the servant girl, the slave woman, IN
e. spinning and the weaving and the cool
N ing were 60 cease on the Sabbath dal
% Men may doubt whether an old JEWS
law Is binding now ON Christmas IN
"a they may declare That the world was nc
ne made in six days; but the reason OF III
20 manlty will never grow obsolete, "thf
~ thy man servant and thy maid seryar
mny rest aa we'll az thou. ~. \ lnd'
-, pendent.
an Purifiers OF Life.
% There are some men and some wome
No in whose company we are always at OF
A best. While with them we cannot thin
mean thoughts or speak ungenero'
=. words. Their mere presence Is eley
~ ton, publication, sanctty. All the be-
ye stops In our nature are drawn out !
- their intercourse, and we find mus
70 In o,,r soul that WINS never there bcfor