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THE OBLIGATION TO
, BE TRUTHFUL
Internationa Sunday School Lesson
. For June 15th, 1952. .
Memory iSelection:' "Thou shaft not
bear false witness against tiny neigh
borsExodus 20: 016.
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v Lesson Text: Exodus 20: 16; '
John 18: 15-2T.
'While the Ninth Commandment,
"Thou shalt not bear false witness
against thy neighbor," refers pri
marily to the giving of False evi
dence in court, it naturally follows
that it forbids the giving of false
"testimony against anyone at any time.
This would forbid the practice of gos
siping, of slandering, of adding extra
facts to a story to make it more in
teresting and, in fact, all forms of
untruths. , ,
It is evident that the practice of
lying originates in ia heart that is
unclean.. This Jesus recognized and,
for this reason, he strongly condemn
ed the hypocrisy of the religious lead'
: ere of His day, who strictly adhered
. to all external rituals, such as the
washing of the hands before eating,
, but who were not so careful that their
hearts and lives were correspondingly
ciean. i l ney were examples of "liv
ing Ides" because their outward ap
pearance testified to one thing, while
tneir nearts were not in harmony with
their actions. Lying does not Just
happen, it proceeds through unclean
Hps from an unclean heart.
Lying, perjury and libel were be
setting sins in Israel, from Jacob to
Peter, and they.are our besetting sins
today. The liar is mot always punish
ed, but he is always despised. - In the
early days of the Jews, slander was
considered a cardinal sin, slaying
three persons: "the speaker, the
spoken-to, and the spoken-of.'' It was
held to be worse than the theft of
(money, for money could be restored,
but the results of a lie can never
!be completely wiped out
The sections of . our lesson text deal
ing with Jesus,' John 18: 15-27, cover
the terrible moments when it was
most difficult for Him to stand by
His truth. ' His whole life was a wit
ness to that truth, but here, a few
hours before his crucifixion, the temp
tation to. tell a "white he" would have
overcome' almost any person but Je
bus. If He had compromised the
truth at all, the whole purpose of His
ministry would have been destroyed
and He would have become known to
history just another prophet, who
weakened in a moment of supreme
peril. Standing fast, He became tJie
embodiment of truth and undying
love.
We should not be too hard on the
disciple Peter we are too much like
him to criticize him too severely.
Warming himself by the enemy's fire,
It, the courtyard of the house in which
Jesus was a prisoner, Peter found
it hard to acknowledge the Itruth-
that he knew Jesus and was one of
his followers. He had already lied,
under the . .taunt of the servant-girl,
' now he lies again at the question of a
servant of the high priest. - With the
greatest tragedy of the ages occur
ring before his eyes, Peter stood and
Warmed himself. '
We, too, warm ourselves at the little
fires of the world the fires of greed
while a world starves; we lie for our
own safety when the cause of God is
in peril; we have warm clothes while
the children of the world have noth
ing but rags in which to (protect them
selves against the cold. ' '
We have just to pick up the morn
ing paper to see tihat lying, hyprocrisy,.
untruthfulness, dishonesty and the like
are just as prevalent today as they
were in the time of Moses or of Je
bus. In private and in public, there
'are glaring examples of all forms of
false witnessing. 'Very often we read
of witnesses in court being prose
cuted for, perjury, forgiving false
testimony, f In international affairs,,
we have instances where nations sign
treaties, with apparently no inten
tion of abiding by the provisions con
tained in them. Thus, we witness the
breakdown in private, local, state, nat
ional and international affairs n of
honesty and sincerity. '
When confidence is destroyed, the
very base of civilization is under
mined, for,' whether we realize it or
not, .our everyday ' business trans
actions depend, upon our faith in the
truthiworthiness and honesty of those
with whom we deal. We trust the
merchant from whom wb buy an ar
ticle to sell us worthy merchandise at
a fair price. We mail abetter to a
distant city, confident that it will be
delivered because We believe in the
honesty of the postal employes. We,
follow our doctor's orders because we
have faith in his integrity and con
fidence in his ability. What a ter-
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now. Aa hour once seemed Weal long time.-" That
was when yon were very young.
Today when yon "spend an hour either profitably
or wastefully you are parting with only a tiny fra.'
tion of your life. But, then, you were investing or
squandering a large portion of your most important
.On this obvious truth rests the vital importance of
childhood religious training. Faith and moral char
acter grow most rapidly iir the formative early years.
And the beliefs and habits acquired in those "big"
hours of our childhood are not easily crowded out
by the multiplicity of worldly concerns which over,
flow our later days and years.
Every hour von devote to the religious training of
your child, going to Church with him, reading Bible
stories to him, sending him to Vacation Church.
School, helping him to live and work and play by the
best code, will strengthen your own character and
mold bit!
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