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Show Bible Comment: Need Is Great For Christian Way of Life TVOW, as never before, do we need the Guidance of Scripture Scrip-ture to a Christian way of life. The Christian way of life is denned, in Matthew, Mark", and Luke, explicitly, and in the whole New Testament generally, in the two great commandments of love to God and love to man; to love God with all the heart and soul and mind and strength, and to love one's neighbor as one's self. It ought to be noted that this is not the Christian way alone; it is in the highest teaching of Judaism, as one may see by turn-ing turn-ing to Deuteronomy. And in the Shema, the verses from that chapter containing the great commandment were a part of. the worship in the synagogue' every Sabbath. Jesus did not invent these commandments, or the Christian way of life. He asked His questioner ques-tioner what was written in the law; how did he read it? And when the questioner replied re-plied in the words of the two commandments, Jesus approved. "This do," said He, "and thou shalt live." He had come, He said, not to destrov. but to fui- fill. It is by obedience to God's constitution of the universe the Ten Commandments that we may hope to aspire to a truly Christian way c' V |