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[This chapter is for older children. See also page 147.]

1. The Shema’, so called from the first word of the Hebrew text, is recited by us on rising and on retiring every day, because it declares our confession of Faith and our religious duty.

2. The declaration or confession of our faith is that the Lord is our God and that He is the One and Only God.

3. Our chief religious duty is to love Him with a whole-hearted, whole-souled and mighty love.

4. This love is to inspire our hearts (verse 4, page 175); we are to teach it to our children most impressively (v. 5); it must influence our speech at all times (v. 5); it must guide the acts of our hands (v. 6); it must direct our very thoughts (v. 6); it must pervade our home life (v. 7), and it must rule our social, business or public life (v. 7).

5. If we love God with such a perfect love, we will never do anything to displease Him, we will try always to please Him, and we will thus obey Him willingly, joyously and enthusiastically.

[For Bible quotations, see Appendix page 175.]