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the stake, and actual murderers unparalleled torments in the next. Oh, as Christians, subjects of Christ's law, let us bring this truth well home to ourselves. Let not the example of others persuade us "Thou shalt not kill" means simply: "Thou shalt not murder." For there are in our midst those whose only God is Nature, and Nature's law their only religion, who, though they practise the bare letter, boast they are more peaceful citizens than we who profess the Christian spirit of this commandment. Well, if they are, thank God for it; but I fear much they are no better than Scribes and Pharisees. They do not kill their brother, it is true, but do they ever hate him or despise him or call him names? Charity bids us hope they do not, but duty demands that we look well into our own conduct. And what do we find? Downright murder? No, but secret jealousies, yes, and individual squabbles, and ill-feeling among neighbors, and bitter family feuds, and a thousand and one quarrels arising from differences of party, of nationality, or of religion. These, my brethren, are what we must avoid if we would keep well the fifth commandment. And to do this we must be constantly on our guard, for anger and hate are subtle vices and temptations are not rare. Over and above the innate selfishness, and pride, and general irritability of our nature, each of us has some specially sensitive point — some hobby. Now the devil loves a row and so, knowing our characters thoroughly, he often hides from us our own unchristian treatment of others, and makes their most inno-