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 is the object of our Suuday-schools; to illustrate and impress these truths, and to keep them constantly before the mind, are our churches erected, in which the whole people may assemble every seventh day, and hear expositions of different parts of the Revealed Word: and, above all, is it the duty of parents to store the minds of their children with these precious truths, observing the Divine command to "teach them diligently unto their children;"— "thou shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou risest up, and when thou liest down."

By these various means, we are, or should be, well informed, as to what is right and what wrong, as to the true end and purpose of our being, and as to the means necessary to attain that end. We are taught from the Holy Scriptures, that there are two great commandments, on which "hang the law and the prophets," that is, which comprise the substance of the whole Divine Word: these are, to "love the Lord our God above all things, and our neighbor as ourselves." We are then given various and numerous particular commands and directions, teaching what evils we are to shun, as well as what duties to perform. We are forbidden to steal, to lie, to defraud our neighbor; we are forbidden to commit murder or adultery; we are forbidden to utter blasphemies, or "take God's name in vain;" we are forbidden to covet our neighbor's house or other property, and, in general, to do him any wrong whatever. But, on the other hand, we are commanded to love our neighbor as ourselves, to do unto him in all things as we would