“If I firmly believed, as millions say they do, that the knowledge & practice of religion in this life influences destiny in another, then religion would mean to me everything. I would cast away earthly enjoyment as dross, earthly cares as follies, & earthly thoughts & feelings as vanity. Religion would be my first waking thought, & my last image before sleep sank me into unconsciousness. I should labor in its cause alone. I would take thought for the morrow of Eternity. I would esteem one soul gained for heaven worth a life of suffering. Earthly consequences would never stay my hand, or seal my lips. Earth, its joys & its griefs, would occupy no moment of my thoughts. I would strive to look upon Eternity alone, & on the immortal souls around me, soon to be everlastingly happy or everlastingly miserable. I would go forth to the world & preach to it in season & out of season, & my text would be, what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world & loses his own soul?”
Challenging I would say....
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