DEUTERONOMY.

Behold the second, or repeated law,
Which Moses spoke, and Israel heard with awe!
Some thirty days' adventures briefly given,
The great Lawgiver then ascends to heaven.

PRAYER OF MOSES DENIED.

"I besought the Lord at that time, saying, I pray thee, let me go over and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.

"The Lord said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more to me of this matter. Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes. westward and northward, and southward and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes; for thou shalt not go over this Jordan." DEUT. 3:23-27.

Moses was resigned to the will of God, sorrowful, but believing.

See aged Moses, Israel's setting sun,
His glory leaving to the son of Nun:
"Go on, be strong, lead over Jordan's tide;
Possess the land: Jehovah is thy guide."

THE REPEATED LAWS.

What was the argument of Moses against the worship of images?

"The Lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire; ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude." DEUT. 4:12.

"Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves, lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female. For ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb." DEUT. 4:15, 16.

These precepts not only forbid the worship of false gods, but also the worship of the true God through the medium of visible images and symbols.

When Moses repeats the Ten Commandments, what additional words of Jehovah are given?

"O that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!"

SUMMARY OF THE LAW.

"Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord.

"And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." DEUT. 6:4, 5.

How are the precepts and commands of God to be maintained in the heart and in the family?

By meditation on God's word.

By the religious instruction of children.
By conversation on divine things.
By frequent review of God's commands.
All these points are enumerated by Moses:
"These words shall be in thy heart.

"Thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children.

"Thou shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

"Thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.

"And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates." DEUT. 6:6-9.

The ancient Jews were in the habit of binding upon their wrists and their foreheads, pieces of parchment on which passages of Scripture which they desired to remember were written. These were called signs, and frontlets.

There is no necessity for this at the present day. It is obviated by the art of printing and the diffusion of Bibles. These great blessings of the present age, were unknown to the ancients.

What special benevolent precepts are enjoined by Moses? To remember with kindness and assistance, the Levite, the stranger, the poor, the widow, and the fatherless.

To be merciful to brutes.

To restore lost animals to their owners.

To be careful of human life. DEUT. 22:8. To be kind and just towards hired servants, avoiding all oppression.

MAGICAL ARTS.

These were practised by idolatrous nations, but forbidden by the laws of Moses.

"When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, there shall not be found among you any that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar