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saving. This has been done so much by you that it has become second
nature, and you do not realize how your course appears to others. True
godliness must mark all your future life and course of action if you
would counteract the influence you have exerted to scatter from Christ
and the truth.
Your relation to God and your fellow men demands a change in
your life. In the Sermon on the Mount the injunction of the world’s
redeemer was: “All things whatsoever ye would that men should do
to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.”
These words are of the highest value to us, a golden rule given us by
which to measure our conduct. This is the true rule of honesty. Very
much is comprehended in these words. We are here required to deal
with our neighbors as we would wish them to deal with us were we in
their circumstances.
Plano, Texas,
Nov. 24, 1878
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