By the Message of Truth, and by the power of God; by the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;

Let every one give as he has determined before hand, not grudgingly or under compulsion; for God loves 'a cheerful giver.'

For I am afraid that perhaps, when I come, I may find that you are not what I want you to be, and, on the other hand, that you may find that I am what you do not want me to be. I am afraid that I may find quarreling, jealousy, ill-feeling, rivalry, slandering, back-biting, self-assertion, and disorder.