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cent actions appear to us insulting or injurious. Then anger fills the mind and clouds the reason; then comes the muttering of suppressed passion; then flashes out the vile word or murderous action — and then? Alas! one soul, perhaps two, stripped of all their graces — blighted — dead. We must be on our guard, I repeat, for with us such temptations are very, very common. Here we are, a mixed people, differing widely in national, political, and religious prejudices, all trying to better our own condition and each bent on getting ahead of his neighbor. The friction is too intense not to strike fire occasionally. The child at school has his competitors, the young man or woman in the world finds a rival at every step, and the old people — well they, too, sometimes forget all men are brothers. Poor fifth commandment! Few of us ever give it a thought; and still fewer but break it often and grievously. Look well to it, my friends, for if we are at variance with one another, we are as the Scribes and Pharisees of old — murderers in the sight of God. " Whosoever hateth his brother," says St. John, " is a murderer, and a murderer, you know, hath not eternal life abiding in him." Uncontrolled anger, therefore, and habitual hate and any venting of them whatsoever by sign, word, or deed — all are sins of murder against the fifth commandment. These are the sins Christ wants us to avoid or correct. These are the sins we must correct if we would keep this commandment better than the Scribes and Pharisees, and so enter into the kingdom of heaven.