[Is Life Worth Living? by William Hurrell Mallock]@TWC D-Link bookIs Life Worth Living? CHAPTER IV 26/33
This must be so far known by the theist, that he knows its connection with himself.
He must know, too, that if this connection is to have any effect on him, it must be not merely temporary, but permanent and indissoluble.
Such a connection he finds in his two distinctive doctrines--the existence of a personal God, which _gives_ him the connection; and his own personal immortality, which _perpetuates_ it. Thus the theist, upon his own theory, has an eye ever upon him.
He is in constant relationship with a conscious omnipotent Being, in whose likeness he is in some sort formed, and to which he is in some sort kin. To none of his actions is this Being indifferent; and with this Being his relations for good or evil will never cease.
Thus, though he may not realise their true nature now, though he may not realise how infinitely good the good is, or how infinitely evil the evil, there is a day in store for him when his eyes will be opened, and what he now sees only through a glass darkly, he will see face to face. The objectivity of the moral end--or rather the objective standard of the subjective end--is explained in the same way.
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