p. 14 | Rules For All

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 6, 1869

Rules For All.

1. Select the best company in your power to obtain, and let your conversation be on those things you wish to learn. Frequent conversation will elicit much instruction.

2. Select the best books on morality and religion, and particularly those which treat on your own profession. It is not the reading of many books that makes a man wise, but the reading of only those which can impart wisdom.

3. Thoroughly understand what you read, take notes of all that is worth remembering, and frequently review what you have written.

4. Select for your model the purest and greatest characters, and always endeavor to imitate their virtues and to emulate their greatness.

5. Serve God fervently, and endeavor to set an example of piety, charity, and sobriety, to all around you. Treat with kindness your fellow-beings. Let your aim be usefulness to mankind. In a word, think much, act circumspectly, and live usefully.