This is its destiny; and our destiny, under God, is to make it so.

Prophecy is given to encourage and nourish our hopes and feed our joys, so that we may say with Job, 'I know that although worms shall eat this flesh, and my bones become dust, yet at the latter day I shall see my Redeemer face to face.'" The sentences which follow can be paralleled by words taken from all who have truly interpreted the doctrine of Christ by their lives or their writings: "To him that has faith all things are possible, for faith is an act of the soul; thy faith is the measure of thy power." "If men would act from the present inspiration of their souls they would gain more knowledge than they do by reading or speculating." "No man in his heart can ask for more than he has.

Think of this deeply.

God is just.

We have what we ought to have, even according to our own sense of justice." "The desire to love and be beloved, to have friends with whom we can converse, to enter society which we enjoy--is it not best to deny and sacrifice these desires?
It may be said that, gratified, they add to life, and the question is how to increase life, not how to diminish it.