Sectarian priests cry out concerning me, and ask, "Why is it this babbler gains so many followers, and retains them?" I answer, It is because I possess the principle of love. All I can offer the world is a good heart and a good hand.

The Constitution, when it says, "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America," meant just what it said without reference to color or condition, ad infinitum.

By proving contraries, truth is made manifest.

The Lord gave us power in proportion to the work to be done, and strength according to the race set before us, and grace and help as our needs required.

The things of God are of deep import; and time, and experience, and careful and ponderous and solemn thoughts can only find them out.

The fundamental principles of our religion are the testimony of the Apostles and Prophets, concerning Jesus Christ, that He died, was buried, and rose again the third day, and ascended into heaven; and all other things which pertain to our religion are only appendages to it.

Let us this very day begin anew, and now say, with all our hearts, we will forsake our sins and be righteous.