110 TENETS OF THE CHILDREN OF PEACE. 



&quot; The Son of God hath plainly shown us how we shall 

 gain admittance to the blessed purposes of the creation, for 

 this is the kingdom prepared from the foundation of the 

 world. 



&quot; We have built a house for the purpose of offering to God 

 Israelite fashion ; we purpose to commence the last Saturday 

 in October, at twelve o clock, and continue to offer to God 

 for the purposes contained in the text, once in the month 

 throughout the year, and so on successively until the year we 

 die, leaving this example and precept to our children always ; 

 this we perform without the direction of a priest, or any officer 

 in the church, for we are brethren. 



&quot; Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, 

 Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared 

 for you from the foundation of the world. Then he begins 

 to justify, showing cause of mercy and of favour; (and when 

 the harvest is ripe, and the wheat shall be gathered, and the 

 tares burned ;) I was hungry and ye gave me meat ; here is 

 the power and glory of religion, here teaching comes to an 

 end. Can a priest preach to a man, when his heart is to do 

 the deeds justified of God? As a doctor to a man in good 

 health, so is a literal teacher to these. I was thirsty and ye 

 gave me drink ; various favours continue from the human 

 mind, throughout all the excellent deeds contained in the 

 text ; the whole amount is this ; Loving God, and the salva 

 tion of the world. (We have no written creed, and therefore 

 we have no image to quarrel about, or literal rule to argue 

 for, we are against nobody, but for all.) The answer of these 

 souls shall be this, When saw we thee an hungered, and fed 

 thee ; or thirsty, and gave thee drink ? When saw we thee 

 a stranger, and took thee in ; or naked, and clothed thee ? 

 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee ? 

 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say 

 unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least 

 of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. 



&quot; I now leave the text, and turn to the practice of life, to 

 show cause for a change of system ; and we are required to 

 give a reason for the hope that we possess. The priests are 

 as despotic in their several congregations, as the potentates 



