own family remember with greatest pleasure as an example of his trueness, is this that I have just told you.

And now I wish to say a word about one great promise that you all have made. At your Baptism you promised by your Godparents (1) to neither follow nor be led by any wicked ways; (2) to believe what GOD gives you to know about His love, and work, and will, for you and all mankind; (3) and to be loyal and true to Him your King and your Saviour.

We who try to teach you all that it means, hope that it is no idle promise. It was a great gift to you which came from GOD when that promise was made for you. When you are old enough, you will be called upon to renew this promise. Year by year many do solemnly renew it and receive further supplies of God's grace to enable them to keep it.

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It is a very great gift that you can be allowed to try to keep it.

"Promise unto the LORD your God," says David in the Seventy-sixth Psalm, "and keep it."

You must sometimes think about this, and see if you are really trying to fulfil your promise to GOD. It will be your fault if you fail to please Him therein. He enables you to do what He loves, if you do not reject His grace. Do not think, because you are young, that your service is useless. No single true service does God ever allow to fail. He does not demand that we shall be sinless for He sent His Son to overcome our sins. He does not require us to be great in His service; but He does require us all to be true to Him.

Try and be true in all things. You can learn from His Word to be true to men, to keep your promises, to

be such as all can trust. And if so, by these very lessons of daily life, He will lead you to respect your greater promises made to Himself, and to live truly, being able to say in all things: "As for lies, I hate and abhor them; but Thy Law, O LORD, do I love." "Thy words have I hid within my heart, that I should not sin against Thee."

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OUR NEIGHBOUR.

"But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?"-ST. LUKE x. 29.

I TOLD you when I was last speaking to you from this place about the Ninth Commandment, that I would then con

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your thoughts to one part of it and leave the other part for another time. You will remember that I told you the Ninth Commandment is against "untruth" and "uncharitableness." It forbids us to be "false." It forbids us to do anything" against our neighbour." If we would keep any one of God's Commandments we must not only avoid what it forbids-we must do the

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opposite. So if we would keep the Ninth Commandment we must be truthful in word, must try to be those whose lives are true to GOD and man, as we keep our promises and "do" the truth. About this I spoke to you the other day. I hope you have thought since then about what I said. I hope you have tried to act upon that teaching which you know very well GOD's most holy Word everywhere supports. Now I want to keep your attention on the second part of the Commandment. It also bids us be good and kind "to our neighbour." It bids us be charitable.

I suppose you know what being charitable means. Some people think that it means giving money to or for other people who are poorer than themselves. That may be charity, or it may not be charity at all. And if it is charity, it is only a very small