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THE TWO WAYS.
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from their youth up shalt thou teach them the fear of God.

"Thou shalt not in thy bitterness lay commands on thy man-servant or thy maid-servant, who hope in the same God, lest they should not fear him who is God over you both; for He cometh not to call men according to the outward appearance, but to those whom the Spirit hath prepared.

"But ye, servants, shall be subject to your masters as to a figure of God in reverence and fear.

"Thou shalt hate all hypocrisy, and everything which is not pleasing to the Lord.

"Thou shalt not forsake the commandments of the Lord, but shalt keep what thou hast received, neither adding thereto nor taking away from it.

"Thou shalt confess thy transgressions, and shalt not come to thy prayer with an evil conscience. This is the way of life.

"But the way of death is this. First of all, it is evil and full of curse; murders, adulteries, lusts, fornications, thefts, idolatries, witchcrafts, sorceries, robberies, false-