Love And Pity And Wish Well To

Wherever Thou Goest, Whatever Thou Dost At Home, Or Abroad, In The Field, Or At Church, Do All In A Desire Of Union With Christ, In Imitation Of His Tempers And Inclinations, And Look Upon All As Nothing, But That Which Exercises, And Increases The Spirit And Life Of Christ In Thy Soul.

Perhaps There Cannot Be A Better Way Of Judging Of What Manner Of Spirit We Are Of, Than To See Whether The Actions Of Our Life Are Such As We May Safely Commend Them To God In Our Prayers.

Read Whatever Chapter Of Scripture You Will, And Be Ever So Delighted With It - Yet It Will Leave You As Poor, As Empty And Unchanged As It Found You Unless It Has Turned You Wholly And Solely To The Spirit Of God, And Brought You Into Full Union With And Dependence Upon Him.

Perfection Does Not Consist In Any Singular State Or Condition Of Life, Or In Any Particular Set Of Duties, But In Holy And Religious Conduct Of Ourselves In Every State Of Life.

My Wife Would Not Speak Evil Of ... Anyone ... Without Cause. Joseph Is A Liar And Not She. That Smith Admired And Lusted After Many Men's Wives And Daughters, Is A Fact, But They Could Not Help That. They Or Most Of Them Considered His Admiration An Insult, And Treated Him With Scorn. In Return For This Scorn, He Generally Managed To Blacken Their Reputations - See The Case Of... Mrs. Pratt, A Good, Virtuous Woman.