The Merit Of Persons Is To Be

Let Every Creature Have Your Love. Love, With Its Fruits Of Meekness, Patience, And Humility, Is All That We Can Wish For Ourselves And Our Fellow Creatures. For This Is To Live In God, United With Him, Both For Time And Eternity. To Desire To Communicate Good To Everyone, In The Degree That We Can And To Which Each Person Is Capable Of Receiving From Us, Is A Divine Temper, For Thus God Stands Unchangeably Disposed Towards The Whole Creation.

What Can You Conceive More Silly And Extravagant Than To Suppose A Man Racking His Brains, And Studying Night And Day How To Fly?

My Wife Would Not Speak Evil Of ... Anyone ... Without Cause. Joseph Is A Liar And Not She. That Smith Admired And Lusted After Many Men's Wives And Daughters, Is A Fact, But They Could Not Help That. They Or Most Of Them Considered His Admiration An Insult, And Treated Him With Scorn. In Return For This Scorn, He Generally Managed To Blacken Their Reputations - See The Case Of... Mrs. Pratt, A Good, Virtuous Woman.

Love And Pity And Wish Well To Every Soul In The World; Dwell In Love, And Then You Dwell In God.

The Prophet Had Made Dishonorable Proposals To My Wife... Under Cover Of His Asserted 'revelation.'... Smith Told His Wife Jane The Lord Had Commanded That He Should Take Plural Wives, To Add To His Glory... Joseph Asked Her To Give Him Half Her Love; She Was At Liberty To Keep The Other Half For Her Husband.