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There are some things which can be shared with our neighbours, and some which cannot, in the religious life. In securing the "means of grace" we can go halves with our next-door neighbours; but not so in the great fact of personal salvation. We can join with a neighbour in taking a pew in church, or in getting a waggon to carry us to church, or in subscribing for a religious paper — and paying for it too; but we can share no neighbour's seat in heaven; his team will never carry us there; the truths which benefit him from the weekly paper do not, because of their gain to him, do us any good. And if our nextdoor neighbour's family is a household of faith, that doesn't make ours so. The members of his family may be saved and ours lost. Neighbourliness is commanded and commended of God; but God doesn't want you to leave your salvation in the hands of your next-door neighbour. The blood above your neighbour's doorpost will not save your household from death.

(H. C. Trumbull.)

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KJV: Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:

WEB: Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, 'On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household;