“4. A desire for personal ease and comfort, and a reluctance to suffer inconvenience.
“5. Unwillingness to bear contradiction.”
Rules of Life.
“Rules adopted on Sunday, April 4, 1819, the era of commencing public ministrations among the Burmans; revised and re-adopted on Saturday, December 9, 1820, and on Wednesday, April 25, 1821:
“1. Be diligent in secret prayer, every morning and evening.
“2. Never spend a moment in mere idleness.
“3. Restrain natural appetites within the bounds of temperance and purity. ‘Keep thyself pure.’
“4. Suppress every emotion of anger and ill will.
“5. Undertake nothing from motives of ambition or love of fame.
“6. Never do that which, at the moment, appears to be displeasing to God.