SHORTER COMMANDMENTS.

Mataura Ensign, 9 November 1916, Page 7

SHORTER COMMANDMENTS.

n A proposal 10 revise and -horten the s'Tcn Commaiulmenis will be'submitted d j 10 ihe next general eonventi f the -. : I'rotesiani lOjiiscopal '.'hiirch in the ■_ ; I'tii'ted State,- .-laics a .New York . (Heuier telegram, dated September S). d 'I no propo-M'-d change- are reeomniended liy a couiinission of bishops, eiergv, o and laymen, which has been eonsitle; - || ing Ihe project. ihe ei.itnua 1 1011 is suggested of jiorri.iis of the lir.- live ( oniiiian<liiieiiion the grounds thai argumeni.- lor the ._ < 11.-1 1 v a.ice in the Ih'v.iio La.\' are no! essential to. the law- themselves. The . revised version of the Commandments I- ;i> pro|)osed is a--, follows:th I's: : Thou -hah havo 110 other gods - but Me. 11 Second : Thou -hah no! make un'c. , thyself any graven image uoi the likei>: ness of anything that is in I lie Heavens , [ above, the earth bencaih, ■■»■ liie wate,- , under the earth. Thou -halt not boi\ '. j down unto them nor woivdiip them. ;• , I'-ru- I'l.on shal; run ( ake the Name .' ; <ii tin- Lord Thy God in vain. .'I Fourth: Remember ihar, ihou kee-) ) ; holy the .-sabbath Day. >i i'Mih: ilonor thy father and Ihv s ' mother. ■ 1