alarm.

If they had had more of the love of God in their hearts

I do not think they would have been so afraid. After all these things had come to pass, God called Moses to come up to Him quite alone, at the top of the mountain. So Moses went up, and he stayed at the top of Mount Sinai forty days and forty nights, for God had many other things to say to him, and many other laws to give him, that he might teach the people. At the end

of the forty days, God gave him something. What do you think it was? It was a book. But it was not made of paper like our books. It was made of stone, and had only two leaves. Upon these two leaves, or tables, as they are called in the Bible, God himself had written the Ten Commandments with His own finger.

W. Do you mean the same Ten Commandments which we see written up in the church, Mamma, and which He had spoken in

that loud voice, from the top of the mountain?

Mamma. Yes, my dear. God was so good as to write down the Ten Commandments upon two tablets of stone, and to give them to Moses, that he might read them to the children of Israel, from time to time, so that they might not forget them. But, alas! although they had said they would obey God, and do all that He wished them to do, they soon forgot their promise, and did some