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 as if they were innocent beings. But the Lord knows them, and when they awake in the other world, they will know themselves. Let no one call himself a Newchurchman who thus lives and acts. He may be constant in attendance on the services of public worship, he may read the Works of the Church and have his memory stored with their truths, so as to be able to talk eloquently of the beauties and glories of the New Dispensation: but it will all avail him nothing. He has "laid up his treasures on earth, not in heaven;" his truths are in his memory only, not in his heart; and "thieves will break through and steal them, and moth and rust corrupt them:" after death he will lose them all.

This Commandment extends also to "unlawful gains," gains which are made by acting against the laws either of God or man. If, for instance, a person engages in any business which is contrary to the law of the land, and still more if it be such as is calculated to injure his fellow-men, and is thus contrary to the laws of God,—he breaks this Commandment. The selling of lottery tickets, for instance, would come under this rule; as also the keeping of gaming-tables, and gaming itself. No true Newchurchman,—no one who understands the laws of Divine Providence would engage in such occupations and practices. The order of Divine Providence is, that every man should perform some use to society, and, in return, society recompense him, and thus he gain a livelihood. Consequently, to seek to gain money through a lottery, or by means of gaming, thus without performing any