The Ten Commandments of God and the Lord's Prayer

The author explains: “Thou shalt have no other gods!”Many a man reads far too little into these words. He has made it too easy for himself! In the first place he probably thinks of idolaters only as those people who kneel before a row of wooden figures, each one of which represents a particular god; ……, but he does not think of himself among them. Just take a look at yourselves calmly for once, and examine yourselves as to whether perchance you belong to them after all! One has a child who really means more to him than anything, …. Another sets earthly pleasure far above everything … a third again loves money, a fourth power, a fifth a woman, another earthly distinction, and again in all these things they all ultimately love only … themselves.”