Article November 13, 1943 Issue

The Name of the Lord

ALFREDA AGNES BOUCHARD BEAN

Asked to explain the meaning of the third commandment, a mother pondered before replying. Heretofore she had considered the commandment, "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain," to mean nothing more than a warning that no one may profanely use the name of God. It had seemed unlikely that she would break, or be tempted to transgress, this law and she had given it little thought.

Now, however, she began to search for another, perhaps deeper meaning to help the child, who had been brought up to reverence and hallow the name of God.

In the Bible we read how inharmonious conditions were overcome, how God's power was proved, when spiritually-minded individuals called upon the name of the Lord. With divine authority they cast out erroneous suggestions of ill-health, of sin or of lack, just as a judge may pass sentence on a lawbreaker in the name of justice. They proved that whenever one sincerely called upon the name of God, with prayer and understanding, harmony was realized; in other words, no one called in vain.

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