[Dorian by Nephi Anderson]@TWC D-Link bookDorian CHAPTER ELEVEN 10/17
He grows by the exercise of his faculties and powers for the benefit of others.
Dorian, hand me the 'Pearl of Great price'." Dorian found the book and handed it to the old man, who, finding the passage he wanted, continued: "Listen to this remarkable statement by the Lord: 'For behold, this is my work and my glory--to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.' Just think what that means." "What does it mean ?" "It means, my boy, that the way of progress is the way of unselfish labor.
'This is my work,' says the Lord, to labor for those who are yet on the lower rungs of the ladder, to institute laws whereby those below may climb up higher; (note I used the word climb, not float); to use His greater experience, knowledge, and power for others; to pass down to those in lower or primary stages that which they cannot get by self-effort alone.
Let me say this in all reverence, they who attain to All Things do not greedily and selfishly cling to it, but pass it on to others.
'As one lamp lights another nor grows less, So kindliness enkindleth kindliness.' Yes; through great stress and sacrifice, they may do this, as witnessed in what our Father has done by endowing His Beloved Son with eternal life, and then giving Him to us.
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