elp admitting
that the commandments are right. Renan said that they are for all
nations, and will remain the commandments of God during all the
centuries.

If God created this world, He must make some laws to govern it. In
order to make life safe we must have good laws; there is not a country
the sun shines upon that does not possess laws. Now this is God's law.
It has come from on high, and infidels and skeptics have to admit that
it is pure. Legislatures nearly all over the world adopt it as the
foundation of their legal systems.

"The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of
the Lord is pure, making wise the simple: the statutes of the Lord are
right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure,
enlightening the eyes."

Now the question for you and me is--are we keeping these commandments?
Have we fulfilled all the requirements of the law? If God made us, as
we know He did, He had a right to make that law; and if we don't use
it aright it would have been better for us if we had never had it, for
it will condemn us. We shall be found wanting. The law is all right,
but are we right?

AN INFIDEL'S TESTIMONY.

It is related of a clever infidel that he sought an acquaintance with
the truths of the Bible, and began to read at the books of Moses. He
had been in the habit of sneering at the Bible, and in order to be
able to refute arguments brought by Christian men, he made up his
mind, as he knew nothing about it, to read the Bible and get some idea
of its contents. After he had reached the Ten Commandments, he said to
a friend:

"I will tell you what I _used_ to think. I supposed that Moses was the
leader of a horde of banditti; that, having a strong mind, he acquired
great influence over a superstitious people; and that on Mount Sinai
he played off some sort of fireworks to the amazement of his ignorant
followers, who imagined in their fear and superstition that the
exhibition was supernatural. I have been looking into the _nature_ of
that law. I have been trying to see whether I could add anything to
it, or take anything from it, so as to make it better. Sir, I cannot!
It is perfect!

The first commandment directs us to make the Creator the object of our
supreme love and reverence. That is right. If He be our Creator,
Preserver, and Supreme Benefactor, we ought to treat Him, and _none
other_, as such. The second forbids idolatry. That certainly is right.
The third forbids