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114 peace to our minds, peace with God and peace with each other. When God created man, He made all his spiritual and natural affections and thoughts in sweet agreement with each other. What was it that set them at variance? It was disobedience to the divine command. You remember what discord, and labour, and trouble, and anguish the Creator told Adam and Eve they had brought upon themselves by having disobeyed His command? The discord and trouble have continued to this day; and all outward discord and trouble arise from discord and trouble in our own minds. If this unhappy state of discord, and strife, and trouble came by disobedience, how can it be removed but by obedience? God originally wrote His holy law upon the heart, and when that law was effaced from the heart. He wrote it with His own fingers upon tables of stone. This is the law of the ten commandments which we have in the Bible, and which every child is taught to remember and to understand. Since the time the law was given from Mount Sinai, the Lord has come into the world, and we know