76 The Fifth Commandment. LESSON XXIV. MONDAY.-Ex. xx. 12.-Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee. TUESDAY.-Lev. xix. 32.-Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the Lord. WEDNESDAY.-Matt. xv. 4.-For God commanded, saying, Honor thy father and mother: and he that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. THURSDAY.-Matt. xv. 5.-But ye say, Whosover shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; FRIDAY.-Matt. xv. 6.-And honor not his father and his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your traditions. SATURDAY.-Rom. xiii. 1.-Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. SABBATH.-Rom. xiii. 7.—Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor. Deut. v. 16. 1 Kings ii. 19. John xix. 27. Eph. vi. 5. Eph. vi. 9. Heb. xiii. 17. 1 Pet. ii. 17. MIGDOL. L. M. PSALM CI. Let wisdom all my actions guide, No wicked thing shall dwell with me, Coniugal Duties. LESSON XXV. 77 MONDAY.-Gen. ii. 24.-Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh, TUESDAY.-Heb. xiii. 4.-Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. WEDNESDAY.-Eph. v. 28.—So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. THURSDAY.-Eph. v. 33.-Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband. FRIDAY.-1 Cor. vii. 16.-For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife? ། SATURDAY.-Titus ii. 4.-That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children. SABBATH.-Prov. xv. 1.—A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. 1 Pet. iii. 1. 1 Pet. iii. 2. 1 Pet. iii. 3. 1 Pet. iii. 4. 1 Pet. iii. 5. 1 Pet. iii. 6. 1 Pet. iii. 7. PROVERBS XVI. 24.-Pleasant words are as an honey-comb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. YORK. C. M. PSALM CI. Of justice and of grace I sing, Thy grace and justice, heavenly King, 78 Parental Duties. LESSON XXVI. MONDAY.-Gen. xvii. 18.-And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee! TUESDAY.-Gen. xviii. 19.-For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. WEDNESDAY.-Isa. xlix. 15.-Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. THURSDAY.-Prov. xxix. 15.-The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame. FRIDAY.—Eph. vi. 4.—And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. SATURDAY.-Heb. xi. 23.-By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment. SABBATH.-2 Cor. xii. 14.-Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. Our lips shall tell them to our sons, That generations yet unborn Filial Duties. LESSON XXVII. 79 MONDAY.-Mal. iv. 6.—And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. TUESDAY.-Lev. xix. 3.-Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God. WEDNESDAY.-Eph. vi. 1.-Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right. THURSDAY.—Eph. vi. 2.-Honor thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise. FRIDAY.-Eph. vi. 3.—That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. SATURDAY.-Gen. xlvi. 29.-And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. SABBATH.-Prov. xxx. 17.—The eye that mocketh at his father, and despisest to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it. SECOND SERIES. 21. Prov. xxiii. 22. Luke ii. 51. 1 Tim. v. 4. MENDON. L. M. PSALM XXXIV. Children, in years and knowledge young, H |