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" The gospel is a message of peace. Christianity is a system which, received and obeyed, would spread peace, harmony, and happiness throughout the earth. "

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

" Flesh-meats will depreciate the blood. Cook meat with spices, and eat it with rich cakes and pies, and you have a bad quality of blood. "

" All spiritual things are to be treated with sacred dignity. Humility and meekness are in accordance with the life of Christ, but they are to be shown in a dignified way. "

" Every merciful act to the needy, the suffering, is as though done to Jesus. "

" Deal faithfully and truly with your own soul. "

" Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth. "

" God is love, and His law is love. Its two great principles are love to God and love to man. "

" No persons professing to be Christians should enter the marriage relation until the matter has been carefully and prayerfully considered from an elevated standpoint, to see if God can be glorified by the union. "

" Do not sit down in Satan's easy chair of do-little, but arise and aim at the elevated standard which it is your privilege to attain. "

" All the food that is put into the stomach that the system cannot derive benefit from, is a burden to nature in her work. "

" If you are suffering from your intemperance in eating or in drinking, we that are around you, or associated with you, are affected by your infirmities. We have to suffer on account of the course you pursue, which is wrong. If it has an influence to lessen your powers of mind or body, we are affected by it. "

" All our words and acts are passing in review before God. "

" All the riches of the world are not of sufficient value to redeem one perishing soul. "

" It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them. "

" 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. "

" When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to sing, and, although professed Christians, frequently dishonor God and their faith by their frivolous conversation and their choice of music. "

" The death of Christ proclaimed the justice and perpetuity of his Father's law in punishing the transgressor, in that he consented to suffer the penalty of the law himself, in order to save fallen man from its curse. "

" Love begets love; and thus the love of Christ displayed upon the cross woos and wins the sinner and binds him repenting to the cross, believing and adoring the matchless depths of a Saviour's love. "

" It is important that we relish the food we eat. If we cannot do this, but eat mechanically, our food does not do us that good it should, and we fail to be nourished and built up by it as we otherwise would be, if we could enjoy the food we take into the stomach. "

" The perfection of Christian character depends wholly upon the grace and strength found alone in God. "

" I lift my voice of warning against praising or flattering your ministers. I have seen the evil, the dreadful evil, of praising ministers. Never, never speak a word in the praise of ministers to their faces. Exalt God. "

" The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite. "

" Music is made one of Satan's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls; but, when turned to a good account, it is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly. "

" God requires his servants to walk in the light, and not cover their eyes that they may not discern the working of Satan. "

" Why the Christian life is so difficult to many is because they have a divided heart. They are double-minded, which makes them unstable in all their ways. "

" Who can measure the love Christ felt for a lost world, as he hung upon the cross, suffering for the sins of guilty men? This love was immeasurable. It was infinite. "

" Through the grace of Christ we shall live in obedience to the law of God written upon our hearts. Having the Spirit of Christ, we shall walk even as He walked. "

" I prize my seamstress, I value my copyist; but my cook, who knows well how to prepare the food to sustain life, and nourish brain, bone, and muscle, fills the most important place among the helpers in my family. "

" If Christians will obey the instructions given to them by Christ and his inspired apostles, they will adorn the religion of the Bible, and save themselves much perplexity and severe trials, which they attribute to their afflictions in consequence of believing unpopular truth. "

" The young among us are, as a general thing, allied to the world. But few maintain a special warfare against the internal foe. But few have an earnest, anxious desire to know and do the will of God. "