EXTRACTS

Now it is the word of God alone which should guide me, and my conscience ought not to be satisfied unless I am assured that everything I teach and adhere to is scripturally true. To say that this or that is the definition given to any doctrine by the most devoted man is really no warrant to my conscience. Such comments may help me to understand the doctrine, but I am bound to understand it in the light of Scripture before I teach it. Scripture must be my guide, and not my conscience or the comments of my brethren.

J.B.Stoney

Volume 9, page 76

I have thought that the intention in speaking at a funeral is to encourage the hearers in a heavenly course.

J.B.Stoney

Letters, Volume 3, page 191