Volume 2 	            Lawrence, Kansas            	February 1962	  	       Number 2

A nation would be truly happy if it were governed by no other laws than of this blessed book.

It contains everything needful to be known or done.

It gives instruction to the senate, authority and direction to the magistrate.

It cautions a witness, requires an impartial verdict of a jury, and furnishes the judge with his sentence.

It besets the husband as the Lord of his household, and the wife as mistress of the table: it tells him how to rule and her how to manage.

It entails honor to parents, and enjoins obedience to the children.

It preserves and limits the sway of the sovereign, the rule of the ruler, and the authority of the master.

It commands the subjects to honor and the servants to obey, and the blessings and protection of the Almighty will be to all who walk by this rule.

It gives directions for weddings and burials.

It promises food and raiment, and limits the use of both.

It points out a faithful and eternal guardian to the departing husband and father, tells him with whom to leave his fatherless children, and whom his widow is to trust; and promises a father to the former and a husband to the latter.

It teaches a man to set his house in order and to make his will; it appoints a dowry for his wife, and entails the rights of the first born, and shows the young conscience all their scruples.

It reveals the only living and true God, and shows the way to him, and sets aside all other gods, and describes the vanity of them and all that trust in such, in short it is a book of laws to show right and wrong wisdom that condemns folly, and makes the foolish wise, a book of truth that detects all lies, and confronts all error, and as a book of life that shows the way to escape everlasting death.

It contains the most ancient antiquities and strange events, wonderful occurrences, heroic deeds, and unparalleled wars.

It describes the celestial, terrestrial, and infernal worlds; and the origin of the angelic hosts, the human tribes, and the devilish legions.

It will instruct the accomplished mechanic and the most profound critic.

It teaches the best rhetoricians and exercises every power of the most skillful arithmetician, puzzles the wisest anatomist and exercises the wisest critic.

It is the best covenant ever agreed upon; the best deed that ever was sealed, and the best that ever will be signed.