1. Children towards their Parents.—“Honour thy father and thy mother” is one of the Ten Words which God spoke to the Israelites on Mount Sinai. The child honours his parents by considering them as his superiors, as endowed with authority over him, and entitled by experience to be his guides and instructors; by listening respectfully when they speak to him, and by speaking with reverence when he speaks of or to them. The love of parents towards their child should find an echo in the heart of the latter. The child’s love of his parents finds expression in willing, cheerful obedience; in the endeavour to do everything that pleases them, in the sacrifice made for the purpose of giving them pleasure, in the assistance given them when, through age, sickness, or misfortune, they are in need of aid. The parents’ duty towards the child is to do everything that true love demands, for his physical, moral, and intellectual well-being. With regard to the child’s duty towards his parents the following verses from Proverbs may be noticed:— “The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it” (xxx. 17). “Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression, the same is the companion of a destroyer” (xxviii. 24). “Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness” (xx. 20). “He that wasteth his father and chaseth away his mother is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach” (xix. 26). “The glory of children are their fathers” (xvii. 6). 2. All other special duties towards our fellow-men may be divided into (i.) Duties towards our equals; (ii.) Duties towards our superiors and towards our inferiors. (I.) DUTIES TOWARDS OUR EQUALS. (1.) A bond of friendship frequently exists between equals. Friends have certain duties to fulfil towards each other. It is expected that friends should have faith in their mutual friendship. “As in water face answereth to face, so in the heart man answereth to man” (Prov. xxvii. 19). As the water reflects the face of him who looks into it, so the heart of man reflects the friendship and faithfulness of him who has penetrated into it. Our estimation of our friend’s feeling toward us is the measure of the genuineness and value of our own friendship towards him.