Moody and the Ten Commandments
By Editor
MR. MOODY preached a sermon New Year's eve at the Howard-street Presbyterian church, San Francisco, in which he took strong grounds in behalf of the ten commandments. His text was, "Tekel" (thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting), and he told his hearers that this law was the balance in which they would be weighed. He put the commandments into one scale, and asked them to step into the other. He then went over the commandments one by one, showing wherein the people were found wanting. Of the fourth commandment he said, "This is not a command for one place or one time, but for all places and times. No man is obliged to work on the Sabbath in order to support his family; his duty is to obey God, and then to trust God." He said nothing about any change of day, for the very good reason, we suppose, that there is nothing in the commandment or the whole Scriptures about it. It is indeed encouraging to hear this acknowledged leading evangelist vindicating the law of God, and we hope that his words upon this subject will have due weight with the people, and not be made wanting through prejudice or indifference.