The Sabbath

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17976, 22 March 1930, Page 6 (Supplement)

The Sabbath

LOVE UPHOLDING. Underneath are the everlasting arms.— Deut. 33; 27. Lean hard, the Everlasting Arms Are underneath to safe up-gird, | And though some sudden shock alarms j Find comfort in the Master’s word, | “My peace I give!” j He giveth not as doth the world, 1 With passing thought or empty word, But speaks unto the inmost soul That lisL’ning hath his message heard, j Ills “Peace, be still!” in quietness and confidence, Best in a love that ne’er forgets; ; His tender grace gives recompense ■; For all life’s woes and vain regrets—- “ Walt patiently for him!” —Fred Scott Shepard. THE SOCWL DECOLOGUE. MODERN COMMANDMENTS. A number of the leading men of thought in the churches of America, as the result of a recent talk amongst j themselves, have contributed to a ! volume, “Whither Christianity,” edited !by Dr. Lynn Harold Hough. it is i stated too that in America many arc \ concerned with the problems of life I as they affect the community as well i as the churohes. We hope to deal with ! this side of the book later on, but in | the meantime quote from the conlri--1 bution of the Rev. Albert W. Palmer, j whose proposed modern Ten Com- ! mandments are a feature of his essay. “If our Ten Commandments of Exo • : dus 20; i-20, with their high standard ; of personal conduct, are a product of | evolution,” he asks, “has that evolu- ! lionary process stopped? Not so! Do ; we not find in the quickened conI science or our own day a new social ten commandments growing up to ! supplement, not to supersede, the in- ! dividual code of the past? Put into 1 vivid concrete form are not these new social commandments something like : this: ; I—l am the Lord thy God, but thou shaft remember that I am also the God '■ of all the earth. I have no favourite j children. The Negro and the Hindu, the Chinese, Japanese, Russian and Mexican are all my beloved children. ! II. —Thou shalt not measure a city’s : greatness by its population or its bank clearings alone, but also by its low infant mortality, its homes, play-

! grounds, libraries, schools, and hospitals, and its low record for boot- ; legging, prostitution, robbery and mur--1 dcr. in.—'Thou shalt remember that no i civilisation can rise above the level of j ns respect for, and ideals of, wo mani hood. , iv.—Thou shall remember thine ; own sins and therefore build no pris- ; ons for revenge and punishment, but I make thy courts clinics of the soul ! and thy goals hospitals for moral dis--1 eases. ; v.—Thou shall remember that the end-product of industry is not goods or dividends, hut the kind of men and women whose fives are moulded bv that industry. VI. —Thou shalt press on from political democracy toward industrial I democracy, remembering that no man j is good enough or wise enough to gov- | era another man without his consent, ! every man craves a reasonable share and that, in addition to a living wage, determining the conditions under which be labours. Vi I.—Thou shalt outlaw war and realm no threatening gestures either v’lb greater navies or | vast military preparations against thy neighbour. Vill. —Thou shall honour men for i her actor and service alone, and dishonour none or handicap l-hein because of race, colour, or previous con- ■ dition or. servitude. IN. —Thou shalt not hear false wit--1 ness against Uiy neighbour by malic- ■ ions propaganda or coloured news or i i-)v calling him contemptuous names ’ such as Dago, Chink, JaP, Nigger, or I rheeney. | x.—Thou shalt remember that when j thine own ancestors were savages and j barbarians, other men brought, to them ! [he saving and civilising Christian gosj pel. Now that thou art rich and prosperous beware lest thou export to I Asia and Africa only thy science and

efficiency, thy warships, goods and moving-picture films, and forget to export the Christian message and the Christian spirit also.