With reference to the subjects about which you wrote to me: It would be well for a man to remain single.

My advice, then, to those who are not married, and to widows, is this: It would be well for them to remain as I am myself.

Indeed, if a woman does not keep her head covered, she may as well cut her hair short. But, since to cut her hair short, or shave it off, marks her as one of the shameless women, let her keep her head covered.

If, however, any one still thinks it right to contest the point-well, we have no such custom, nor have the Churches of God.

What, then, is my conclusion? Simply this-I will pray with my spirit, but with my mind as well; I will sing with my spirit, but with my mind as well.

Of preachers two or three should speak, and the rest should weigh well what is said.

I want you, on your part, to show deference to such men as these, as well as to every fellow laborer and earnest worker.