“ It was not only necessary that they should abstain from evil, but that they should be exercised with love to God and one another, for the good reason that charity, or love, was the bond of perfectness. ”

“ It necessarily opens up that intercourse with the upper world, that enables the saint, though he live in this world, to live above it.
Under the influence of this grace, the peace of God will rest with them, rule in and reign over them, to which the apostle says to his brethren they were called, in one body: and from a consideration that the peace, the joy and consolation, that the saints enjoy, and that they flow from him, from whom emanates light and life, he exhorts them to be thankful. ”

“ Our own observation in our intercourse with the world has verified what the same apostle said in his epistle to Timothy should be in the last days. Men shall be unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce-breakers, &c. with all the train of vices and evil propensities, incident to a heart void of that charity which he commends so highly, calling it the bond of perfectness. ”

“ That distress and anxiety to relieve a fellow creature in pain which we often see manifested is by no means charity—therefore, can no person claim the peculiar favor of heaven for the exercise or influence of it. ”

“ That no official member in this church is worthy to hold an office after having the words of wisdom properly taught to him, and he, the official member, neglecting to comply with, or obey them, after which the counsellors voted according to the same. ”