The Ten Commandments Not Popular
By Editor
BISHOP L. H. WELLS, of Spokane (Episcopalian), deprecates the tendency among some clergymen to fail to use the Ten Commandments. He says that one clergyman told him: ‘‘I do not use the Ten Commandments for my lovely congregation. Imagine me telling them, ‘Do not steal; do not kill!’ They do not do that, and they do not need the admonition.’’ But the bishop says that within three months one of the wardens of that church was arrested for stealing $90,000. Another clergyman said: ‘‘We find our lovely girls coming from beautiful homes sometimes stealing each other’s jewelry, and breaking other commandments. I think it is well to have the commandments repeated for them. It is a mistake if you do not have them repeated once a week.’’ We wish that our brethren who are repeating the commandments in their churches would remember the fourth one as well. They would find that the recognition of God as the Creator would tell tremendously in helping to observe the other commandments. Not a few have been brought to the truth of the Sabbath by the repetition of that commandment in the Episcopal service, and the prayer that follows, ‘‘O Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law.’’