Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth.

Believers are not to rest in suppositions and ill-defined ideas of what constitutes truth. Their faith must be firmly founded upon the Word of God.

Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.

Jesus alone cleanses from sin; He only can forgive our transgressions.

As we lay hold upon the truth of God, its influence must affect us. It must elevate us. It must remove from us every imperfection.

But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.