from religious principle, all wicked arts and devices, all base and dishonest actions, all falsehood, fraud, deceit, revenge and hate, all dispositions and actions that tend to separate us from God and heaven and bring us into fellowship with devils. It teaches further, that if we do not, here on earth, strive to do the Heavenly Father's will, and so vanquish within us the loves of hell, we shall carry those loves with us into the other world, where they will burst forth with quenchless rage.
Thus the practical tendency of this doctrine is good, and only good. It tends to make men less regardful of self, and more regardful of God and duty;—more honest and sincere in their conduct, more kind and generous in their feelings, more correct in their principles, more exalted in their aims, more pure in heart and life.
