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sav w hat we think of them and
T his W orld of O urs.
him.
In the first place, he was a tribal
BY ALONZO L . KICK.
g°d. He did not want other n a ­
I know ’tis sw eet to th in k of those
tions to worship him. “ I am the
Ear valleys b ath e d in heavenly lig h t,
Lord, thy god, which brought thee
Where neverm ore th e su m m er rose
Will know th e a u tu m n ’s b light,
out of the land of E n y p t.”
NO. 28.
household utensil, an ornam ent or shall stone him with stones th a t he
piece of arm or, of Israelite m ake, die.” (Deut. xxi. 18-21.)
which can give us the least concep­ ' T his is the way God told his
tion of the m anners or outw ard a p ­ chosen people to dispose of their
pliances of the nation before the sons. W ith a d au g h ter it was dif­
date of the destruction of Je ru sa ­ ferent. S m ith ’s Bible D ictionary
lem hv T itus” (A. D. 70),
says:
“ The exercise of p atern al
1. “ Thou sh alt have no other
All mementoes of Israel before au th o rity was lim ited to the sale
An«l pee the h ills’ high, sculptured dom es ,
With paths of tossing verdure crossed, gods before m e.”
the C hristian era are a few coins of of a d au g h ter of tender ago to be a
And know th e y are th e peaceful hom es j “ If thy brother, the son of thy
the time of the Maccabees, about m aid-servant (slave), with the u l­
m other, or th y son, or th y daugh-
165 B. C.
terior view of her becoming the
And know th ey walk by azure seas,
te r, o r th e w ife of thy bosom, or thy
And press the shores of gleam ing sand, fr ie n d which is as t h in e o w n soul,
3. “ Thou sh alt not take the concubine of th e p u rch aser.” (E x.
And feel the kisses of th e breeze
entice thee secretly, saying, let us name of the Lord thy God in vain.” xxi. 7.)
We cannot u n d e rsta n d !
“ And he th a t blaspherneth the
go and serve other gods, . . . thou
So much for the first five com­
shalt not consent unto him nor nam e of the Lord shall surely be m andm ents. The rest tell the Is­
But still, w ith th is, I love to (ding,
To hold to th is old world of o u rs;
hearken unto him ; neither shall put to d eath ; and all the congrega­
I love to h ear th e robins sing,
thine eye pity him , neither shalt tion shall surely stone him ; as well raelites not to steal from, rob nor
And smell th e w ayside flowers.
thou spare, neither shalt thou con­ the stranger as he that is born in m urder those of their own tribes;
ceal him ; but thou shalt surely kill the land. Whoso blaspherneth the but as to all other peoples, the com­
A lack of faith, or som ething, holds
My sp irit to th is e a rth ly scene,
him. Thine hand shall be the first name of the Lord shall be put to m and was, “ W hen thou cornest
From rills whose c ry stal beauty rolls
upon him to put him to death, and d eath .” (Lev. xxiv. 1 6 )
nigh unto a city to fight against it,
Through fields of fadeless green !
afterw ard the hand of all the peo­
Many states still have blasphem y then proclaim peace unto it. And
ple.” (D eut. xiii. 6-10.)
The friend T lost long years ago,
law's, but they have become greatly if it m ake thee an answ er of peace,
I long to know in olden guise—
How7
closely
this
resembles
the
T<> hear his ry th m ic lau g h te r flow,
diluted from w hat they were when and open unto thee, then it Hhall
And look in to his eves.
first am endm ent to the federal con­ the Lord made them . Some years
he th a t all the people found therein
“ Congress shall m ake
Could “ A uld Lang Syne’ our tongues stitution!
ago the statu te of N ebraska ran shall be trib u taries unto thee and
em ploy,
no law7 respecting religion or abridg­ like this: “ Any person speaking
shall serve thee.
And if it sh all
W here su m m er m akes h e r festal
ing the free exercise thereof.”
th ro n e,
disrespectfully the name of God, of make no peace w ith thee, then thou
I wonld not give th a t certain joy
2. “ Thou sh alt not m ake unto Jesus C hrist or of the Holy Ghost sh alt besiege it; and when the Lord
For worlds of bliss unknow n.
thee any graven image, or any like­ shall be subject to a fine not exceed­
thy God sh alt deliver it into thine
Ray’s C rossing, In d .
ness of an y th in g that is in the hea-
ing
one
dollar
nor
less
than
tw
en­
hands thou sh a lt sm ite every male
vans above or th a t is in the earth
beneath, or th a t is in the water u n ­ ty -tv e cents.”
w ith the edge of the sword. But
The Ten C o m m a n d m e n ts.
der the e a rth .”
4 ‘ Remem ber the sabbath day the women, and the little ones, and
P unishm ent for m aking the gold- to keep it holy.”
th e cattle, and all th a t is in the
BY I). P R IE S T L E Y .
“
And
while
the
children
of
Israel
: en calf:
city, even all the spoil thereof,shalt
were
in
the
wilderness
they
found
When you point out to a person : „ Thug ggith lh „ L()r(, God ()f Jg.
a man th a t gathered sticks upon thou take unto thyself; and thou
who professes to accept the bible as rael, P ut every m an his sword by the sabbath day. And they th a t shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies
a divine revelation, the u tte r sav- his side, and go in and out from found him gathering sticks brought which the Lord thy God h ath giv­
agerv of alm ost the entire old tes-
to
throughout the camp, him to Moses and A aron and unto en thee. T hus sh alt thou do unto
taroe'nt, he will fall back upon t h e ! 8,1,1 bI“ -t <‘ver-v m8n ''¡sb ro th er,an .l all the congregation.
And they
.
,
, . every man his com panion, and ev- put him in ward, because it was not all the cities which are very far off
ten com m andm ents as
as the
the basis pry lnan p,js neighbor. . . . And
declared what should he done with from thee; but of these cities which
and foundation of all moral and there fell of the people th a t day him. And the Lord said unto Mo­ the Lord th y God doth give thee
civil law7. H e will tell you th a t all about three thousand m en.” (Ex. ses, The man shall surely he put to for an inheritance, thou sh alt save
death; all the congregation shall alive nothing th a t b re a th e th .”
our laws are based upon the I)eca- XXX1L
stone
him with stories w ithout the (Deut. xx. 10-20.)
logue. He is willing to stake upon
T his com rnandm ct am ounted to
it the reputation of the en tire book. a prohibition of all art. . Sm ith’s cam p. And all the congregation
The plain fact is, Jehovah knew
brought him w ithout the cam p and
fhe subject m ay be looked at in Bible D ictionary, article Palestine, stoned him with stones, and he no more about ethics th an he did
about astronom y and geology. The
this way. The Decalogue was the says: “ When com pared with other died.” (N um . xv. 32-36.)
Israelites were savages. They wor­
constitution of Israel, and the laws nations of equal a n tiq u ity —Egypt,
No wonder he died! Stoned by shipped a horrid m onster. They
given to the Israelites, by Moses, Greece, A ssyria — the contrast is all the congregation 1 There were
made their god like unto th em ­
were the statu tes which God gave tru ly rem arkable. In Egypt and six hundred thousand able-bodied selves.
for the purpose of p u ttin g these Greece, and also in A ssyria, as far men. W hen they had all stoned
Newberg, Ore.
laws into effect.
W ith us the con- back as our knowlege extends, we him he would not only be dead and
The Rev. W. Berle Sm ith th in k s
stitulion is considered of highest find a series of buildings reaching buried> bul furnished with a mon-
authority, as com ing directly from down from tha most remote and um ent. Jesus, who was God, came th a t “ w hat th e church a t large
needs is a rousing revival of sys­
the people, while the acts of the m ysterious an tiq u ity , a chain of down to visit his chosen people, tem atic giving” . U ndoubtedly the
legislature m ust be tested by the which hardly a link is wanting,and violated his own sabbath and got Rev. Sm ith would highly appreci­
constitution, an d if they do not which records the progress of the hanged.
ate such a m anifestation of the
Holy G host am ong the laity of the
agree with it they are pronounced people in civilization, art and relig-
5. “ H onor thy father and th y church “a t large” , not to m ention
invalid. B ut, if we had direct leg- ion, as certainly as the buildings of m other.”
th a t inconsiderable portion of the
islation, any statu te, when ratified the m edieval architects do th at of
“ If a man have a stubborn a r d church th a t is not at large, but, on
by the people, would be as autbori- the various nations o f modern Eu- rebellious son, which will not obey the contrary, enjoys sequestration
tative as the constitution. So with rope. But in Palestine, it is not too ^be voice of his father, or the voice at the expense of th e state. T he
the ten com m andm ents. God gave m uch to sav th a t there does not exist “ 1’i m other, and th a t, when they fact th a t a rousing penchant for sys­
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have chastened him , will not liear-
ttie com m andm ents and also the a single edifice or part of an edifice ¡i6fJ unto t jlpIn. t h e n s h a l l h i s f a - tem atic tak in g has alw ays existed
am ong the clergy a t large (resulting
-pecific directions for carrying them of which we can l>e sure th at it is of ther and his m other lay hold on in sequestration not as often as
into detail. The au th o rity , coming a date anterior to the C hristian era. him, and bring him unto the elders m ight be wished) gives fu rth er col­
directly from God, is th e 's a m e in And as with the buildings, so with of the city, and unto the gate of his or to the assum ption th a t the Rev.
one case as in the other; and it the other memorials. W ith one ex-
And thev shall say unto the S m ith ’s wish is fath er to the th o ’t
^ em s to be worth while to let God ception, m useum s of Europe do not rebellious; he will not obey our —of gain. “ C hrist our K londike!”
is doubtless the private slogan of
explain his own com m andm ents, possess a single piece of pottery or voice; he is a glutton and a drunk- more clergym en th an the Rev. Berle
and then we inay be prepared to m etal work, a single weapon or ard. And all the men in his city Sm ith.— [Investigator.