Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-02-22 | Page 4 | Ten Commandments Are Rules of Life

TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE RULES OF LIFE. Back of the moral law is something more than religion Whoever violates the commands delivered at Sinai, suffers, suf-fers, not in the future, but now. What a powerful sermon on right conduct is to be drawn out of the story of the hearing at Price, involving two Ogden families, which appears in today's Standard! The man in the case, in dying, said: "The wages of sin is death. When I did right, fortune favored me. when I did wrong, I was afflicted." The commandments are not only to be accepted as coming from on high, but they concisoly measure man's responsibility, re-sponsibility, as seen by the greatest philosophers and studentR of human nature. Those who would live long and get the most nut of life, must obey the teu commandments, which aro rules conducive to health and mental contentment, and make for tho brotherhood of man. Worldly men indulge themselves, but eventually, and quite often too late, thev find their energies dissipated, dissi-pated, and, looking hacki regret their early indiscretions. They invade forbidden for-bidden precincts and flatter them-solves them-solves as capable of escaping the penalty. pen-alty. But always the unexpected happens, as though au inexorable judge, noting every violation, had inflicted in-flicted the full sting of retribution.