Let us turn now to the first of the Ten Commandments: "I am the Lord Thy God; thou shalt have none other gods but me," This is the familiar Prayer Book version of the commandment which we use in the service of the Holy Communion, In these few words we have set before us the object, the inspiration and the focus of religion and when we add the qualifying clause from the Exodus account we have in three brief sentences summed up all that man has learnt before or since of God, God is a person, not a force. A spiritual being, apart from and above the world which He has created, distinct from and yet capable of entering into definite and individual relation with His creatures. These are the truths which make religion possible and worship which is man's appropriation of the truths thus revealed, And in passing, I would premise that we shall find the key to the proper understanding: of all that is explicit and implicit in this commandment may be summed up in the one word—"Worship."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.