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Show 356 TEAVELS AND ADVENTUEES IN THE FAE WEST. We seek not to build our hopes upon things that are evanescent, fleeting and transitory. It is not he that can play the best game at checkers, that can take the most advantage of his neighbor, that can grasp the most earthly good, or that can put himself in possession of anything his heart desires pertaining to time, that is the most happy ; but it is he who does to that which will last, live and continue to abide with him while "immortality endures" and still be on the increase, worlds without end. If we can possess principles of this kind, then we are safe, everything else amounts to an illusion or a delusion, which cannot satisfy the desires of the mind, but, as the prophet says, it is like a thirsty man who dreams he js drinking, but when he awakes, he is faint, and his soul is thirsty; he dreams that he is eating, and when he awakes his soul is empty. This is the true situation of all men who are without God in the world; and nothing but a knowledge of eternal principles, of eternal laws, of eternal governments, of eternal justice and equity, and of eternal truth, can put us right, and satiate the appetite of the immortal soul. If we make not a just estimate of these things, it is ii vain that we attempt to say, " Lord, Lord," because we do not the things which he says. Every- '"1-''ng associated with the Gospel of salvation is ete:-»* >r it existed before the " morning stars sang together, joy," or thi-world rolled into existence. It existed tuen, just as J exists now with us, and it will exist the same wlhe*" time with us is no more. It is an eternal principle, and every thing associated with it is everlasting. It is liki the priesthood of the Son of God, " without beginning of days or end of years." It lives and abides for ever. |