The inspired utterances are for the most part admonitory to a holier life; warnings, often in the severest language, against selfishness, stubbornness, coldness of heart, pride, hatred toward God, grieving the Spirit; with threats of the wrath of God, of punishment, etc. Humility and obedience are continually inculcated. "Lukewarmness" appears to be one of the prevailing sins of the community. It is needless to say that to a stranger these homilies are dull reading. Concerning violations of the Ten Commandments or of the moral law, I have not found any mention here; and I do not doubt that the members of the society live, on the whole, uncommonly blameless lives. I asked, for instance, what punishment their rules provided for drunkenness, but was told that this vice is not found among them; though, as at Economy and in other German communities, they habitually use both wine and beer. When any member offends against the rules or order of life of the society, he is admonished (_ermahnt_) by the elders; and if he does not amend his ways, expulsion follows; and here as elsewhere in the communities I have visited, they seem vigilantly to purge the society of improper persons. The following twenty-one "Rules for Daily Life," printed in one of their collections, and written by one of their older leaders, E. L. Gruber, give, I think, a tolerably accurate notion of their views of the conduct of life: "I. To obey, without reasoning, God, and through God our superiors. "II. To study quiet, or serenity, within and without. "III. Within, to rule and master your thoughts. "IV. Without, to avoid all unnecessary words, and still to study silence and quiet. "V. To abandon self, with all its desires, knowledge, and power. "VI. Do not criticize others, either for good or evil, neither to judge nor to imitate them; therefore contain yourself, remain at home, in the house and in your heart. "VII. Do not disturb your serenity or peace of mind--hence neither desire nor grieve. "VIII. Live in love and pity toward your neighbor, and indulge neither anger nor impatience in your spirit. "IX. Be honest, sincere, and avoid all deceit and even secretiveness. "X. Count every word, thought, and work as done in the immediate presence of God, in sleeping and waking, eating, drinking, etc., and give him at once an account of it, to see if all is done in his fear and love. "XI. Be in all things sober, without levity or laughter; and without vain and idle words, works, or thoughts; much less heedless or idle. "XII. Never think or speak of God without the deepest reverence, fear, and love, and therefore deal reverently with all spiritual things. "XIII. Bear all inner and outward sufferings in silence, complaining only to God; and accept all from him in deepest reverence and obedience. "XIV. Notice carefully all that God permits to happen to you in your inner and outward life, in order that you may not fail to comprehend his will and to be led by it.