If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves.

[God] never will institute an ordinance or give a commandment to His people that is not calculated in its nature to promote that happiness which He has designed, and which will not end in the greatest amount of good and glory to those who become the recipients of His law and ordinances.

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

Blessed be the memory of those few brethren who contended so strenuously for their constitutional rights and religious freedom, against such an overwhelming force of desperadoes!

I never told you I was perfect; but there is no error in the revelations which I have taught.

Shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward and not backward. Courage, brethren; and on, on to the victory!

Governor Ford is sworn to support the Constitution of the United States and also of this State Illinois, and these constitutions guarantee religious as well as civil liberty to all religious societies whatever.