The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-02-27

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Thou shalt not KILL"
| I may never kill and yet not be
humane.
Chou shalt not commit adultery. !"
| I may not commit adultery and yet
not be pure,
Thou shalt not steal"
I may never steal and yet not be
/ honest.
Thou shalt not bear false witness
against thy reighbor."
| I may never bear false witness
against my neighbor and yet be an
nveter1te liar.
SO may remember the seventh
day to keep it holy-that is, set apart
by itself-and in 1t / may do no man
ner of work, neither /. nor my man
servant, nor my maid servant. nor
my cattle, nor the stranger that is
within my gates, and yet not observe
! the Sabbath Of the Lord my God.
The Ten Commandments are not
| .en statutes which must be carefully
! studied and strictly construed and
literally obeyed- They are concrete IL
lustraticns OF general principals in
accordance with which one should
I regulate his conduct, and will regu-
late his conduct provided the right
spirit dwells within him. The princi-
pies of the four commandments / have
quoted are: Regard for the rights Of
my neighbor-his right to his person,
his right to his family, his right to
his property, his right to his reputa-
ton. So the general principles involv-
ed in the fourth commandment is the
necessity. for the welfare of the in
dividual and for the welfare of the
community, of keeping some stated
time free from the toll and drudgery
Of the world for rest, recreation, and
ministry to the higher life.
That the particular hour of the
day or day of the week is of no i'm
portance is evident from single fact.
When men are going to morning ser
vice in New York they are about
going to bed in Calcutta and about
getting up In San Francisco. If two
men who observed the same day
should start from New York at the
same time for tour round the world,
one going east, the other west, they
would find, when they reached New
York again, that they were observing
different days. One would have gained
and the other would have lost day
~ the journey.
The principle that obedience to an
external law, however scrupulous, is
not the Christian religion. Jesus
makes very clear: 1T was said by
them Of old time, Thou shalt not com
nit adultery: but I say unto you,
That whatsoever looketh on a woman
to lust after her hath committed adul-
terry with her already in his heart"
John, his beloved disciple, applies
the same principle to the sixth com
mandment: whatsoever hateth his
brother is a murderer"
Paul applies it in explicit terms to
the Sabbath: Let no man therefore
judge you in meat, or in drink, or in
respect of an holy-day, or of the new
moon. or of the Sabbath days: which
are a shadow of things TO come; but
the body is of Christ"
The motorman or Grug clerk who
is compelled by the exigencies of our
modern civilization to work on thej
first day or the seventh day as on
other days, but who strives to get
some fragments of time every week
for rest and spiritual refreshment.
may be complying with the fourth
commandment better than the Phari-
see who employs coachman or foot
man to drive him to church and
thanks God that he is not a Sabbath
breaker, as other men are
Jesus Christ came to fulfill the law
and the prophets; that is, to fill those
that love him and follow him SO full
of the divine spirit that they would
spontaneously live the divine life:
that they would obey the law without
considering the law.
The whole law, he said, is summed
up In one word-love. He that loves
God with all his heart and soul and
strength and loves his neighbor as
himself obeys all the Ten Command
ments, including the fourth.
My father In one OF his writings
describes father and his son going
out into the garden. They see a bird
sitting on a bush II the father says.
See that bird; let US see If we can hit