"I am the living bread which came down from heaven."

MEMORY HYMN [325]

_"Break thou the bread of life."_




GOD'S MEASURE


Here I have some measures. This is a rule, we call it a folding foot
rule. Here is a square. And here is a tape measure. There are other
measures, quarts and pecks and bushels. Then there are liquid measures,
quarts and gallons and barrels. There are also measures of weight,
ounces, pounds and tons. Now these different measures are the same all
over the United States. A pound of butter in New York is the same as a
pound of butter in California. There are other countries that do not
have measures like ours. France, for example, has the metric system.
Should you go into a dry goods store in Paris you would not ask for a
yard of cloth, but for a meter.

God's measures are the same. God has a measure for girls and boys, and
that measure is the same in Ohio, Mexico, England or Spain. If it is
wrong to steal in Germany, it is wrong to steal in Brazil. If it was
wrong to commit murder in the first century, it is wrong to take life
in this century. The Ten Commandments are some of God's measures for us.