The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-07-18
THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS
DUTIES TOWARD MEN
Sunday School Lesson Tor July 2i.ioo7
Specially Prepsred for This Paper

LESSON TExT.--Exodus 2O:l2-lI. Mem
ory verses, 12-17.
GOLDEN TExT.-"Thou shalt love thy
neghbor as thy self."-Lev. 1918.
Comment and Suggestive Thought.
The fifth commandment belongs to
both tables of the law. Since God Is
our Father we are taught to honor
him as father "If then, be faith
er, where is mine honor? saith
the Lord of hosts unto you" NAL
1:6). To. the young child the parents
are in place of the heavenly Father.
to lead the child up to him. The word
pietas, whence our "piety" mant orig
inally the duty of men to God reflect
ed in their duty towards their parents.
So In 1 Tim. 5:4, the Greek word for
show piety at home, eusebein, and its
Latin equivalent, colere, honor, rever-
ence, worship, is applied both to God
and to parents.
2. I'VE are hidden to honor, because
love is instructive, and can only be
spontaneous. The honor for our pa
rents Is love combined with rever-
ence; the love must be honor touched
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cludes love- for there can be no true
honor without love."-Farar.
8. II applies to both parents. Moth.
er stands out as clear as Sinai itself.
There is no cloud on her majesty.
Such honor as goes to the father goes
to the mother. er."-Caverno.
4. We honor by love, courteous at
tentions, by giving them the best, by
always treating them with honor In
the presence of others, by deferring to
their wishes.
s. The fifth commandment rs the
sanctification of social life" and
the surest basis of all righteous gov.
spects gray hairs everywhere, and
honors all in authority over you, such
as your pastor. teacher. employer or
magistrates. Lack In this respect is
growing evil, full Of mischief to our
nation.
6. The fifth commandment does not
require a child to do wrong at q pa
rents bidding. but II does require a
child to love even unlovely parents
because they hold TO him the sacred
relation of father and mother.
v. 13. "Thou shalt not kill" The
r. v. gives the thought more accurate
, ly, "Thou shalt do no murder" Kill
ing is sometimes justifiable; the bible
itself enjoins the killing Of men fol
punishment Of those who murder, ir
r order to prevent, by the punishment
; of the guilty. the murder of the limo
A cent
Y " Ia. This is the safeguard of the
e home and the family.
l. Primarily, the seventh command
ment forbids adultery, and the sin'
which, under slight differences, arr
cognate with II.
O. 2. It forbids all impure thoughts
and the books and pictures and play
and acts which tend to excite sucl
n thoughts and inspire impure acts. Pla
to would exclude from his ideal repub
. lie everything that would debase th'
: taste, even all poor pictures and poo
p workmanship.
Q 8. blessed are the pure In heart
d for they shall see God" while the i'm
II pure soon lose all sense Of divin
a things. No sin. not even intemperance
q so rapidly ruins man, body, mint
a and soul. as this sin.
4. The way to overcome this evil !
n by the good-true love and happ
A marriage, mind full OF goo
4 thoughts, a life full of good deeds.
q v. is. Is the safeguard Of persona
Il and property rights. and the wall G
n defense against the temptations to Sc
4 fshness and crime.
q The crime of theft Is, of all other!
v the meanest and most despicable.
q Is selfishness incarnate. To gain b
stealing is far worse for the thief tina
"A for the one wronged. A clear col
n science Is worth more than all tn
"a world Plato illustrates the test c
N honesty by the story of Gyges' rinl
n which made the wearer invisible. II
"a that is honest, even when he can
n. dishonest without being found ou
a is truly honest man.
m v. 16. Forbids false statements
No case of law-perjury. 1T is a prob
IN VI oiuuuCi, VI VI SoiOiSoo oPSCS
affecting the good name Of ones fe
!. low man. This is not, as many hay
70 supposed. mere Injunction to trutl
!, full speech on all occasions. "-Trur
- bull
I, The last commandment Is a uniqu
= one. Search all the laws Of the wor
;. and you will not find one which r
sembles II. The sixth. seventh. eight
and ninth commandments you wi
find In all codes. though only as pr
hibitions OF crimes amenable to jud
n cial punishment. The tenth comman
ment is the complement Of all the res
II shows that God requires OF us NJ
Or only outward virtue. but inward no
Of ness; that he demands In US tho sa
~ rifice OF the will. from which Wicks