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If Our Life Is Not A Course Of Humility, Self-denial, Renunciation Of The World, Poverty Of Spirit, And Heavenly Affection, We Do Not Live The Lives Of Christians.

You Are To Think Of Yourself As Only Existing In This World To Do God's Will. To Think That You Are Your Own Is As Absurd As To Think You Are Self-created. It Is An Obvious First Principle That You Belong Completely To God.

Devotion Signifies A Life Given, Or Devoted, To God. He Therefore Is The Devout Man, Who Lives No Longer To His Own Will, Or The Way And Spirit Of The World, But To The Sole Will Of God, Who Considers God In Everything, Who Serves God In Everything, Who Makes All The Parts Of His Common Life, Parts Of Piety, By Doing Everything In The Name Of God, And Under Such Rules As Are Conformable To His Glory.

The Prophet Had Made Dishonorable Proposals To My Wife... Under Cover Of His Asserted 'revelation.'... Smith Told His Wife Jane The Lord Had Commanded That He Should Take Plural Wives, To Add To His Glory... Joseph Asked Her To Give Him Half Her Love; She Was At Liberty To Keep The Other Half For Her Husband.

Reading Is Good, Hearing Is Good, Conversation And Meditation Are Good; But Then, They Are Only Good At Times And Occasions, In A Certain Degree, And Must Be Used And Governed With Such Caution As We Eat And Drink And Refresh Ourselves, Or They Will Bring Forth In Us The Fruits Of Intemperance.