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Making Free with the Commandments

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 14, 1862

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 20, No. 20.

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Making Free with the Commandments

MAKING FREE WITH THE COMMANDMENTS.—Dr. Lockhart once, on a journey, stopped to pass the Sabbath at a public house. On entering the parlor one Sabbath morning as he was about setting out for church, he found two gentlemen preparing to play a game of chess.
"Gentlemen," said he, "have you locked up your carpet bags carefully?"
"No. What! are there thieves in this house?" they asked.
"I do not say that," replied the doctor, "only I was thinking if the servants come in and find you making free with the fourth commandment, they may think of making free with the eighth."
The men thought there was something in this, and laid aside their game.