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The Bishop of Moosonee, whose diocese is in the region of the Hudson's Bay territory, and inhabited chiefly by Ojibbeway Indians and Esquimaux, said, "Let me take you in thought to a place a hundred miles distant from my own home in that country — a place called Rupert's House. One morning I had before me a large congregation of Indians. I knew that among them there were four men who only a month or two before had murdered their fathers and mothers, and I intentionally placed those men directly in front of me. I called attention to the Ten Commandments. I read the Fourth Commandment and explained it, and I also read the sixth and explained it, and when I had done I put questions to the four men to whom I have just alluded. I said to the first, 'Who killed his father?' I said to the second, 'Who killed his mother?' I said to the third, 'Who killed his mother-in-law?' I said to the fourth, 'Who killed his father?' And each of those men replied without blushing, 'It was I who did it.' Of what crime were those poor murdered people guilty? They were guilty of a crime of which we may any of us be guilty, and of which some of us here already begin to be guilty — the crime of growing old. Accordingly the old father and mother were told that they had lived long enough and that it was time for them to die, and the bow-string was speedily placed round their necks, and with one son pulling at one end, and another son or perhaps a daughter at the other, the poor old people were deprived of life, and then hastily flung into a grave. Happily this state of things has now passed away."

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KJV: But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;

WEB: But we know that the law is good, if a man uses it lawfully,