in the Herald. He and all men should know that decency, virtue, honesty, sobriety and truth are among the most precious essentials of life, and especially in matters relating to eternity. There is a quidproquo in pure religion, by which pretentions are weighed as well as actions and works; and so the promiseis, that God will bring every man into judgement, with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil: and it is written in another place, that they shall be rewarded according to their works.
Your goodly expressions: ‘go ahead,’ &c, will, as has been the case, be fully verified while the Lord goes with me. And if you have a notion to join me, Count the cost, as Jesus says, and go for an eternal reward in the of God, independent of mobs, persecutions, this world’s goods, or the highest honors of the mam[m]on of unrighteousness. Were I to labor for gold, or for conquest, or for empire, like thousands who have flourished and fell, in all ages, before me, I might amass means; gather hosts; extend power, and gratify ambition, like an Alexander, or Neapoleon; and the world in its ordinary course, would soon leave me a wide waste for future conjecture, and desecration; but I stand up in the midst of this crooked and perverse generation, for a general reformation of all: by the voice of truth; by the accomplishments of virtue; by the blessings of pure religion; and by the holy [p. [3]]