Anonymous

“ You may riot in vice for a while and try to believe religion a lie, but the time will come when you will not be able to shield yourself from conviction, evil company may represent religion dull, gloomy and deformed but all who have tried it have declared its yoke to be easy and its burden light; and though many who walk in the ways of religion suffer affliction, the Lord is at hand that loves them. ”

“ God hath given us six days to follow our secular employment, and when he reserved one day for himself, he never intended it to be spent in folly or play, he hath given it for our own good, for our improvment in virtue and piety; how singular it that man should choose to incur his Maker's frown, to gain the applause of a deceiving world. ”

“ Should this little work meet the eye of any who have been blessed with a religious education, and who are in danger of having the good seed plucked away, let them beware of the first step to vice however small it may seem, and learn to resist the temptations of designing men. Thomas Graham was once all could be wished, and had he guarded against the company which proved so fatal, we should not have had the painful task of recording his premature death among those whose death we have also related. ”