Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.

God has a church upon the earth, who are His chosen people, who keep His commandments. He is leading, not stray offshoots, not one here and one there, but a people. The truth is a sanctifying power, but the church militant is not yet the church triumphant.

Abstemiousness in diet and control of the passions, will preserve the intellect and give mental and moral vigor, enabling men to bring all their propensities under the control of the higher powers, and to discern between right and wrong, the sacred and the common.

Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.

God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the chapters of the heart.

The most important part of the daily ministration was the service performed in behalf of individuals. ... By his own hand the animal was then slain, and the blood was carried by the priest into the holy place and sprinkled before the veil, behind which was the ark containing the law that the sinner had transgressed. By this ceremony the sin was, through the blood, transferred in figure to the sanctuary

Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.