DUTY, GOODNESS, TRUTH by Bishop Thorold

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 23, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 30.

DUTY, GOODNESS, TRUTH.

By Bishop Thorold

GOD desires and proposes three main things for us: duty, goodness, and truth. Duty means our filling the place and doing the work assigned to us, whether it be of kings or of peasants. Not to be happy, but to be good, is the true aim of an enlightened conscience; and often the goodness comes through the lost happiness, because happiness rests on circumstances, and goodness on discipline.

We shall live, if we do the will of God—live, not only there, but here; live, not only in eternity, but in time; live tho we be dead, and buried, and forgotten. This is completed immortality; to abide everlastingly first in the life and fruition of God, with whom, in His life, and truth, and energy, and holiness, we are joined already in a completed and mystic union; and when those truthful seeds of goodness are wafted over the spaces of the ages from our poor lips and lives, they will ripen in a kindly soil into eternal life.