THE whole tendency of the times is to make us act by the standard of what others do. If they play cards, we play cards. If they dance, we dance. If they read certain styles of books, we read them. We throw over the walls of our character the tangled plumb-line of our lives and reject the infallible test which Amos saw. Amos 7: 8. The question for me should not be what you think is right, but what God thinks is right. This perpetual reference to the behavior of others, as though it decided anything but human fallibility, is a mistake as wide as the world. There are 10,000 plumb-lines in use, but only one is true and exact, and that is the line of God's eternal right. There is a mighty attempt being made to reconstruct and fix up the ten commandments. To many they seem too rigid. The tower of Pisa leans over about thirteen feet from the perpendicular; . . . why not have the ten granite blocks of Sinai set a little aslant? Why not have the pillars of truth a leaning tower? My friends, we must have a standard; shall it be God's or man's? —T. De Witt Talmage's Sunday Sermon. That's it exactly; why not put first-day in the fourth granite block of Sinai instead of seventh? Most people do, even Dr. Talmage. The perpendicular is, "The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God, in it thou shalt not do any work." How does it read when, "according to the tendency of the times," it is "set a little aslant"?