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Our modern world defined God as a "religious complex" and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter, came the shattering thunder of the World War And now a blood-drenched, bitter world -no longer laughing- cries for a way out
There is but one way out. It existed before it was engraven upon Tablets of Stone. It will exist when stone has crumbled. The Ten Commandments are not rules to obey as a personal favor to God. They are the fundamental principles without which mankind cannot live together They are not laws - they are the LAW.
"AND THE EGYPTIANS MADE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TO SERVE WITH RIGOUR. AND THEY MADE THEIR LIVES BITTER WITH HARD BONDAGE, IN MORTAR AND IN BRICK, AND IN ALL MANNER OF SERVICE IN THE FIELD." (Exodus 1:13-14)
MIRIAM - THE SISTER OF MOSES.
"KNEEL TO THE KING OF KINGS, THE CONQUEROR OF CONQUERORS! KNEEL TO THE MIGHTY PHARAOH - DOGS OF ISRAEL!"
DATHAN, THE DISCONTENTED.
RAMESES, THE MAGNIFICENT - PHARAOH OF EGYPT.
"IF A MAN CLOG THE WHEELS OF THE PHARAOH - HE SHALL BE GROUND INTO THE DUST!"
"LORD GOD OF ISRAEL - SEE THE AFFLICTION OF THY PEOPLE WHICH ARE IN EGYPT AND HEAR OUR CRY!" (Exodus 3:7)
AND GOD SAW THE AFFLICTION OF HIS PEOPLE, AND HE SENT INTO EGYPT, MOSES, THE GREAT LAWGIVER - COMMANDED TO FREE ISRAEL FROM THE CHAINS OF THE OPPRESSOR.
AARON, BROTHER OF MOSES - ISRAEL PRIEST OF.
"MIGHTY PHARAOH, MY FATHER - THIS MAN HAS TORMENTED US ALREADY WITH NINE PLAGUES! LET US SLAY HIM, BEFORE A TENTH!"
"I KNEEL BUT TO ONE, THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL - WHO HATH SMITTEN THE EGYPTIANS WITH NINE PLAGUES, BECAUSE THOU DOST NOT LET HIS PEOPLE GO!"
"THESE ISRAELITES BE IDLE, CRYING, 'LET US GO', THEREFORE, LET MORE WORK BE LAID UPON THEM." (Exodus 5:8-9)
"BE WARNED, 0 PHARAOH, LET ISRAEL DEPART. OR GOD WILL COME INTO THE MIDST OF EGYPT, AND ALL THE FIRSTBORN SHALL DIE - FROM THE FIRSTBORN OF PHARAOH, EVEN UNTO THE FIRSTBORN OF THE CAPTIVE IN THE DUNGEON." (Exodus 12:29)
"THINKEST THOU THE CURSE OF THY GOD CAN DESTROY THE SON OF PHARAOH - WHOSE GOLDEN SANDALS HAVE BEEN BEATEN FROM THE CROWNS OF CONQUERED KINGS?"
"AND IT CAME TO PASS THAT AT MIDNIGHT, THE LORD SMOTE ALL THE FIRSTBORN IN THE LAND OF EGYPT. AND THERE WAS A GREAT CRY IN EGYPT - FOR THERE WAS NOT A HOUSE WHERE THERE WAS NOT ONE DEAD." (Exodus 12:29-80)
"MIGHTY PHARAOH - THY SON IS DEAD!"
"THIS NIGHT THE LORD HATH SMITTEN ALL THE FIRSTBORN IN THE LAND OF EGYPT, AND AGAINST THE GODS OF EGYPT HATH HE EXECUTED JUDGMENT. NOW, THEREFORE, O PHARAOH, WILT THOU LET HIS PEOPLE DEPART?" (Exodus 12:12)
"GET YOU FORTH FROM AMONG MY PEOPLE, BOTH YE AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, TO SERVE YOUR LORD. TAKE YOUR FLOCKS AND YOUR HERDS - AND BE GONE!" (Exodus 12:31-32)
"HEARKEN YE GODS OF EGYPT! SHOW THAT YE ARE STRONGER THAN THIS GOD OF ISRAEL - AND CALL BACK LIFE INTO THE BODY OF MY SON."
"AND IT CAME TO PASS, EVEN THE SELF SAME NIGHT, THAT ALL THE HOSTS OF THE LORD WENT OUT FROM THE LAND OF EGYPT. AND THEY DESPOILED THE EGYPTIANS OF JEWELS OF SILVER, JEWELS OF GOLD, AND RAIMENT." (Exodus 12:41-36)
AND IT CAME TO PASS, WITH THE COMING OF THE DAY, THAT PHARAOH'S ANGER WAXED HOT AGAINST ISRAEL - FOR HIS GODS COULD NOT PUT LIFE INTO THE BODY OF HIS SON.
"MY FIRSTBORN, WHOM I HAVE LOVED, HEAR ME! THIS DAY SHALL ISRAEL BE GROUND UNDER THE CHARIOTS OF EGYPT! THUS SHALT THOU BE AVENGED UPON THEIR GOD!"
"SOUND THE TRUMPETS! LET THE CHARIOTS BE MADE READY - FOR WE SHALL BE AVENGED A THOUSAND FOLD UPON THESE DOGS OF ISRAEL!"
"AND THEY GATHERED BEFORE THE GREAT GATES OF RAMESES - SIX HUNDRED CHOSEN CHARIOTS, AND ALL THE CHARIOTS OF EGYPT, AND CAPTAINS OVER EVERY ONE OF THEM." (Exodus 14:7)
"AND THE EGYPTIANS PURSUED AFTER THEM. ALL THE HORSES AND CHARIOTS OF PHARAOH AND HIS HORSEMEN, AND OVERTOOK THEM BY THE RED SEA." (Exodus 14:9)
"AND WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL LIFTED UP THEIR EYES, AND SAW THE HOSTS OF PHARAOH BEHIND THEM - THE PEOPLE WERE SORE AFRAID." (Exodus 14:10)
"BECAUSE THERE WERE NO GRAVES IN EGYPT - HAST THOU TAKEN US AWAY TO DIE IN THE WILDERNESS!" (Exodus 14:11)
"FEAR AND DREAD SHALL FALL UPON THEM! BY THE GREATNESS OF THINE ARM, O LORD, THEY SHALL BE AS STILL AS A STONE - TILL THY PEOPLE PASS OVER." (Exodus 15:16)
"AND THE PILLAR OF FIRE WENT FROM BEFORE THEIR FACE AND STOOD BEHIND THEM - AND IT CAME BETWEEN THE EGYPTIANS AND THE CAMP OF ISRAEL." (Exodus 14:19-20)
"AND MOSES STRETCHED OUT HIS HAND OVER THE SEA; AND THE LORD CAUSED THE SEA TO GO BACK, AND MADE THE SEA DRY LAND, AND THE WATERS WERE DIVIDED." (Exodus 14:21)
"FEAR NOT TO PASS THROUGH THE DEEP WATERS - FOR THE LORD FIGHTETH ON OUR SIDE!"
"AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WENT INTO THE MIDST OF THE SEA UPON DRY GROUND - AND THE WATERS WERE A WALL UNTO THEM ON THEIR RIGHT HAND, AND ON THEIR LEFT." (Exodus 14:22)
"FEAR NOT THIS GOD OF ISRAEL - FOLLOW AND DESTROY THEM!"
"WITH HIS STRENGTH HE GUIDED ISRAEL - AND THEY CAME SAFELY UNTO THE OTHER SHORE."
"AND THE EGYPTIANS PURSUED AND WENT IN AFTER THEM TO THE MIDST OF THE SEA - EVEN ALL PHARAOH'S HORSES, HIS CHARIOTS, AND MIS HORSEMEN." (Exodus 14:23)
"THOU HAST BETRAYED US, AND WE ARE LOST! FOR BEHOLD, THE EGYPTIANS ARE UPON US!"
"FEAR YE NOT, STAND STILL, AND SEE THE SALVATION OF THE LORD!" (Exodus 14:13)
"THE LORD IS OUR STRENGTH AND SONG, AND HE IS BECOME OUR SALVATION." (Exodus 15:2)
"IN THE THIRD MONTH, CAME THEY INTO THE WILDERNESS OF SINAI, AND CAMPED BEFORE THE MOUNT. AND MOSES WAS WITH THE LORD ON THE MOUNT FOR FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS." (Exodus 19:1-2, 24:18)
"AND THE THUNDERINGS, AND THE LIGHTNINGS, AND THE NOISE OF THE TRUMPET, AND THE MOUNTAIN SMOKING, AND THE SIGHT OF THE GLORY OF THE LORD - WAS LIKE DEVOURING FIRE." (Exodus 20:18, 24:17)
"AND HE GAVE UNTO MOSES, TWO TABLES OF TESTIMONY, TABLES OF STONE - WRITTEN WITH THE FINGER OF GOD." (Exodus 31: 18)
THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME
THOU SHALT NOT MAKE UNTO THEE ANY GRAVEN IMAGE
"AND WHEN THE PEOPLE SAW THAT MOSES DELAYED, THEY MURMURED AND CAME UNTO AARON, SAYING: UP, MAKE US GODS WHICH SHALL GO BEFORE US! AND AARON TOOK THEIR GOLD AND CAST IT INTO THE FIRE AND FASHIONED A GOLDEN CALF." (Exodus 32:1)
THOU SHALT NOT TAKE THE NAME OF THE LORD THY GOD IN VAIN
REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY TO KEEP IT HOLY
HONOR THY FATHER AND THY MOTHER
THOU SHALT NOT KILL
"SEEMETH IT A SMALL THING TO YOU, THAT YE WORSHIP IDOLS - FORSAKING THE GOD THAT BROUGHT YOU UP OUT OF BONDAGE?"
THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY
THOU SHALT NOT STEAL
BUT THE PEOPLE HAD FORGOTTEN THEIR GOD, AND WERE SET ON MISCHIEF AND CORRUPTION. AND WITH NOISE OF SINGING AND CLASHING OF CYMBALS, THEY STRIPPED THEMSELVES - AND BOWED DOWN AND WORSHIPPED THE GOLDEN CALF.
THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS
THOU SHALT NOT COVET
GET THEE DOWN FOR THY PEOPLE WHICH THOU BROUGHTEST OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT HAVE CORRUPTED THEMSELVES
"COME WORSHIP YE THE GOLDEN GOD OF PLEASURE! FOR THE GOD OF ISRAEL HEARETH NOT - NEITHER DOTH HE SEE!"
"THE PEOPLE SHALL WORSHIP THY GOLDEN GOD - AND CALL THEE QUEEN!"
"BEHOLD THY HANDS! THOU ART BECOME A LEPER - UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN!"
"SAVE THY PEOPLE, I BESEECH THEE! FOR THEY HAVE DONE AN ABOMINATION - AND AARON HATH MADE THEM NAKED UNTO THEIR SHAME! (Exodus 32:25)
"WOE TO THEE, O ISRAEL! THOU ART UNDONE, FOR THOU PROVOKEDST THY GOD TO WRATH!" (Deuteronomy 9:7)
"YE HAVE MADE YOU GODS OF GOLD - THEREFORE, YE ARE NOT WORTHY TO RECEIVE THE TABLETS OF THE ONE GOD!"
"AND MOSES' ANGER WAXED HOT, AND HE CAST THE TABLES OUT OF HIS HANDS, AND BRAKE THEM BENEATH THE MOUNT." (Exodus 32:19)
"CLEANSE ME, I PRAY THEE, FOR I HAVE WORSHIPPED IDOLS, AND BECOME A LEPER."
"AND ALL ISRAEL THAT WERE ROUND ABOUT, FLED AT THE CRY OF HIM, AND FELL UPON THEIR FACES." (Numbers 16:34-45)
"THOU HAST BROUGHT DESTRUCTION UPON US, WITH THY GODS OF GOLD!"
"- and there fell of the Children of Israel that day, about three thousand men." (Exodus 32:28)
"All that's the bunk, Mother! The Ten Commandments were all right for a lot of dead ones - but that sort of stuff was buried with Queen Victoria!"
"I'd like your Ten Command ments better if they could mend this sole - instead of the one Mom's worried about!"
"If you're setting a pair of shoes above your God, Dan McTavish - you'll get just what the Children of Israel got, when they worshipped the Golden Calf!"
"I'm a little hazy on the Golden Calf, Mom - but When the Golden Eagle on this little $5.00 'sinker' flaps his wings - papa gets down and prays!"
"Nice Golden Eagle - hatch lots of little eagles, and bring them all to Papa!"
"Laugh at the Ten Commandments all you Want, Danny - but they pack an awful wallop!"
"Hire a hall, Johnny, and tell them all about it!"
"Oh forget it! How do I know there is a God? And as for the Ten Commandments, they never got me anything, and they can go plumb to -!"
"You can't blaspheme God in this house! You must ask His forgiveness - or leave!"
"You're holding a Cross in your hand, Mom - but you're using it like a Whip!"
"I'll apologize to you, Mom, but not to God - because I don't believe there is one!"
Fortune plays no favorites And MARY LEIGH, alone and "broke" finds she has to choose between hunger and the "sheiks"
LUNCH QUICK LUNCH
"I beat it from home, because I'm fed up on a lot of religious stuff that's so cold - I came out into the rain to get warm!"
"Come on back, Kid - you forgot the pickle!"
"I tink dere was a murder in Dugan's lunch wagon!"
JOHN McTAVISH CARPENTER WALK IN
CARPENTER WALK IN
"I haven't eaten since yesterday! And as I Was passing Dugan's lunch Wagon - a hot dog ran out and bit me!"
"This kid hasn't a cent in the world, Mom! Won't you invite her to stay for supper, and spend the night with us?"
"Wait for me, While I get my coat. Mom threw me out tonight, so I won't be long!"
"Before you leave home, Danny - let me show you what the storm blew in!"
Thou Shalt Dot Steal
"Nobody believes in these Commandment things nowadays - and I think Elinor Glyn's a lot more interesting!"
"John, you and the young lady may come to supper."
"Come on, Danny - tell Mom you're sorry!"
"- and bless the Stranger Within our gates - and guide her feet in the straight and narrow path!"
Sunday Afternoon shows what an astonishing effect laughing Brown Eyes can have upon a Household
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"Mary - I'm crazy about you! Only, I haven't got the nerve to tell you What I'm thinking!"
"Why, Johnny - orange blossoms mean a Wedding!"
"They're from a man who's crazy about you - but hasn't got the nerve to speak!"
"He loves you, Mary, and Wants you to marry him - but he doesn't know if you care."
"I think he's just Wonderful!"
"Why didn't Danny give it to me himself?"
"Danny, I told Mary that you didn't have nerve enough to give it to her - but she wouldn't take it from me!"
6. Remember the sabbath-day, To keep it holy
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