(_Works_, VIII., p. 139, condensed.) Keep down all Uncleanness. Keep your meetings in the power of the Lord God ... that all uncleanness whatsoever may, by the power of the Lord, be brought down and rooted out; and that such have no rule nor authority amongst you, though they be never so fair or excellent of speech. (_Works_, VII., p. 128.) They had Spoken Themselves Dry. Now they had had great meetings. So I told them that after they had had such meetings they did not wait upon God to feel his power to gather their minds together, to feel his presence and power and therein to sit to wait upon him, for they had spoken themselves dry and spent their portions and not lived in that which they spoke, and now they were dry. They had some kind of meetings but took tobacco and drunk ale in them and so grew light and loose. But my message unto them was from the Lord that they might all come together again and wait to feel the Lord's power and spirit in themselves to gather them to Christ, and to be taught of him who says, learn of me. For after when they had declared that which the Lord had opened to them then the people was to receive it, and the speakers, and they was to live in that themselves. But when they had no more to declare but to go to seek forms without life, that made themselves dry and barren, and the people. And thence came all their loss. For the Lord renews his mercies, and his strength if they would wait upon him. But the heads of them all came to nothing. But most of the people came to be convinced. (C. J., I., pp. 22, 23.) Before Utterance. Let all live in the seed and wisdom and fear, and consider before they utter, that the light be up whereby all may be settled and they themselves be washed. (_Works_, VII., p. 129.) After Utterance. So if anyone have a moving to any place and have spoken what they were moved of the Lord, return to their habitation again and live in the pure life of God and fear of the Lord. And so will you in the life and in the sober and seasoned spirit be kept and preach as well in life as with words. (C. J., I., p. 319.) And when any have spoken forth the things of the Lord by his power and spirit, let them keep in the power and spirit, that keeps them in the humility that when they have spoken forth the things of God they are neither higher nor lower, but still keep in the power, before and after. (_Works_, VIII., p. 21.) Elders. And ye that are led forth to exhort or to reprove, do it with all diligence, taking all opportunities, reproving that which devours the creation and thereby destroys the very human reason. For the truth doth preserve every thing in its place.