Knowing, then, that " God is not mocked," ^ we ought to walk worthy of His commandment and glory. In like manner should the deacons be blameless before the face of His righteous- ness, as being the servants of God and Christ,'' and not of men. They must not be slanderers, double-tongued,^ or lovers of money, but tem- perate in all things, compassionate, industrious, walking according to the truth of the Lord, who was the servant 9 of all. If we please Him in this present world, we shall receive also the future world, according as He has promised to us that He will raise us again from the dead, and that if we live '° worthily of Him, " we shall also reign together with Him," " provided only we believe. In like manner, let the young men also be blame- less in all things, being especially careful to pre- serve purity, and keeping themselves in, as with a bridle, from every kind of evil. For it is well that they should be cut off from '^ the lusts that are in the world, since "every lust warreth against the spirit ; " '^ and " neither fornicators, nor ef-