of the fact that
we are all guilty before God.

QUESTIONS.--What are the different parts of a
chain called? How many links must be broken in
order to break the chain? What did God give to
Moses on Mount Sinai? How many commandments are
there? Who makes the laws for the nation, the
state and the city? Are laws perfect which are
made by men? Do human laws change? Is God's law
perfect? Do moral laws ever change? Was there ever
a time or a place where it was right to lie, or
steal or murder? Will there ever be such a time or
place? How many murders must a man commit before
he is a murderer? How often must he steal before
he is a thief? Are men put into prison for
breaking a single law? Is the entirety of God's
law violated if we break only one commandment?

[Illustration]

LOOKING-GLASS.

SEEING OURSELVES IN GOD'S LAW.

SUGGESTION:--The object used is a looking-glass of
any desired size.

MY DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: In my sermon last Sunday, I showed you that God
had made the law perfect, but that none of us has perfectly kept the
law, that we have all broken the law, and God has said, "Cursed is every
one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of
the law to do them." (Gal. iii:10.)

If the law is perfect, and no one has ever kept it perfectly, but all
have broken the law in some one way or another, and on that account all
are guilty before God, you may ask, what is the purpose of the law? Why
did God make the law? Now, I desire to explain that to you to-day.

I have here a looking-glass. Now the Bible compares the law to a
looking-glass. In the epistle or letter of James, in the first chapter,
we are told, "If any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like
unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass; for he beholdeth
himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of
man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and
continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the
work, this man shall be blessed in his deed." (James i:23-25.)

[Illustration: Seeing Ourselves in the Looking-Glass of God's Law]

In other words, the Bible means to say that the law of God is like a
looking-glass. When we read the law of God, we see just what God
requires that we