You know, my Lord, who has said, “Whosoever therefore shall break one of these _least_ commandments, and shall teach men so, the same shall be called _least_ in the kingdom of heaven; but whosoever shall do and teach them, shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” I need not say that the precepts here referred to are the ten commandments; because Christ came to abolish the ceremonial law; but to fulfil and establish the laws of the decalogue. Of these “one jot or tittle was not to be abolished”; for “on them hang all the law and the prophets.” The period also in which they were to be observed and kept is the Gospel dispensation, here emphatically called “the kingdom of Heaven.” The kingdom of Victoria is the kingdom where her laws are to be observed, and “the kingdom of Heaven,” or “kingdom of God,” is the Gospel kingdom in which the laws of God are to be carefully taught and devoutly obeyed. Your Lordship will hardly assert that the divine law of the Sabbath is one of “the least of the commandments”; because an injunction which is intended to preserve human life, and give the soul leisure to prepare for a better world, can scarcely be called _little_, and certainly not the “_least_”; but if it was “_the least_,” yet even then the Earl of Derby, if he broke it, or taught men to break it, or gave them a royal charter to do so, would incur the wrath of “The Lord of the Sabbath.” It would be easy to show that the Fourth Commandment, far from being the “_least_” is one of the very “_greatest_” of the laws of the decalogue; for without it the other precepts would be to a great extent unheeded; man’s life would be shortened, and his soul lost. Many have separated the ten commandments into two classes—the first four referring to Jehovah, and the remaining six to our fellow man. The Lord Jesus evidently sums up the whole under the two ideas of “Love to God,” and “Love to our neighbour.” We have therefore the authority of the Divine Lawgiver himself for this twofold division; and a very little reflection will show us that the Fourth Command is the bond or _vinculum_ which unites the two tables of the law together. “Remember the day of rest to keep it holy,” refers to the worship of God, and consequently to the first table. “In it thou shalt do no manner of work, thou, nor thy son, thy daughter, thy man servant, thy maid servant, thy cattle, nor the stranger that is within thy gates, or jurisdiction,” embraces our neighbour or universal man as far as our influence or legislative power may extend; for your Lordship knows very well that the words, “_within thy gates_,” include political and magisterial dominion. The Fourth Commandment, then, is a Janus—it has two faces and looks both ways: it regards what is due to our heavenly Father, and what is due to our brethren and sisters. It teaches the worship which must be paid to the former, and the rest from labour which is needed by the latter. Abolish