BIBLE PRECEPTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 254, 29 September 1883, Page 2

BIBLE PRECEPTS.

n ( There is, no^weakness/ m them. No c"ne*of them is emasculated by the ,mpdern prefix, "try." . ,The Bible says,- (- --« Cleanse^our hands, 1 yd sinners^ and purify your Kearfe, y e double-minded." " Cease to evil, learn to. do well." ?* Depart from evil and do good." And thus through the whole;. Book, from Genisis to- Revelation, , a moral precept is never prefixed with the enfeebling £try,*vnpw >so universally; commonv Just think of the Bible saying vTry to .^epartfromevU | Try to, cleanse your hands,. ye .sinners! Try to speak the, •*FWih,tp one another 1 A nd instead of ,-ff Dp not kill," "Do not steal/ '< Do not commit adultery," .suppose we had, ,Potrynot to kill! Dp try , no tto iSteal ! ,Dp,-try not to commit adujtery ! It is time, to stop m morals,. Npne of it is from s^qje.. ..'it isalifrom;beneath, a device from the devil, to ; , break down the >;i |prce and •majej-tyipf'the precepts of tho Bible; '4hat glorious Book never uses. the ,wprd ■ ': try " , m - any such connection. , It knows nothing of experimentaLmorals. £ Try » is^ npver used except- where a failure.may be justifiable. A failure m nioralsneyer was and neverjcanbe justified.— -The Kxaminer. „ '. ; ; , ",„','= ,