THE LAW ON COVETING.

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See that man with a drawn sword in his hand, as
though he would cut that little baby in pieces. The mother
tries to stay his hand, and the king tells him not to strike.
This interesting story you will find in the third chapter of
First Kings. One mother covets the child which belongs
to another. Do you know what is meant by coveting?
It means to want ‘what others have. Let me tell you
about this picture.

Two mothers had little pabies of nearly the same age,
and they slept in the same room. One night one of the
mothers awoke and found that her baby was dead, and she
coveted the babe of the other woman. What do you
think she did? She got up and went very softly to the.
bed, and carefully stole the little baby from its mother,
leaving her dead child in its place. What a wicked.
thing it was for her to do. God saw her do it, and he
has said: “Thou shalt not covet anything that is thy
neighbor's.”

In the morning the mother of the living child founa
the dead babe in her bed, but she knew at once it was not
her's. The woman who had stolen the child thought the