THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 106, 26 June 1911, Page 5

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.

SUGGESTED ABBREVIATION. Dr. 0. Douglas, cation of the cathcdial of St. John the Divine, New York,' astonished tin Congress of the Protestant Episcopal Church at Washington by declaring that the tin e had come for abbreviating the Ten Commandments. Ibe ’“meaningless and inflated clauses,” a« he deschbed them, of the Commandments weie i ot in accordance with the spirit of the age, and ho proposa l the following revision : i 1. God snake these words, and said: I am the "Lord thy God; fhou shalt have none other gods but n e 2. Thou shalt not ma'o thyself avy graven imago to worship it and serve it. 3. Thou shalt hot take t'.e name of the Lord thy God in vain. 4. Remember that thou holy the Sabbath day. Six days shalt thou labour. 5. Honour thy father and thy mother. 6. Thou shalt do no murder. 7 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. 8. 1 Iron shalt not commit adultery, 9. Thou shalt not steal. 10. Thou shalt net covet thy neighbour’s goods.