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the maintenance of that truth which secures and illumines labor 

 in its toil. 



To make these the main ends of human or national life, is to 

 outrage the rights of man, and defy the laws the God. Lies 

 and hypocracies are as inevitable adjuncts of an age whose main 

 end is literature, as outrage and violence are of an age whose 

 end is war. God did not make man to fight, or to talk, but to 

 work. 



An age of talkers is necessarily an age of liars ; though, from 

 the needful division of labor in human society, the same is not 

 true of individual men. If we look at the spiritual and eternal 

 relations of man, this is no less true ; neither eternal war, nor 

 eternal talk are the final end of man. But eternal work is his 

 glory and destiny, here and hereafter. Here his great work is 

 to recover earth from the ruin of the fall; to annihilate its 

 wastes, its briars and its thorns; to transform it, morally and 

 spiritually; "to create a new heaven and a new earth," and 

 make all here one resplendent, sublunary paradise. After death 

 he is to become a ministering spirit, a winged messenger of life 

 and of light, an inhabitant of higher spheres and brighter 

 worlds; a co-worker with God and the spirits of the just, in 

 the creation and government of other worlds and other spheres, 

 whose joint heirship is to be his eternal heritage and home. 

 Hence, work is of three kinds : work of the hands, work of the 

 head, and work of the heart ; all eqally honorable and equally 

 useful. 



As an eloquent writer has said, " every freeman must have a 

 birthright in his hand, a common school in his head, and a Dec- 

 laration of Independence in his heart." These are the only 

 great labor-saving machines patented in the high court of heaven ; 

 and their aggregate constitutes the sum total of all national 

 wealth, and national glory. 



By heart-work, a new spirit is to be transferred into the souls 

 of men. By head-work a new illumination is to be thrown over 

 all their processes, and their toils. By hand- work all these for- 

 ces are to be applied to the physical world in which we live, un- 

 til the new heaven and the new earth— the earthly paradise— is 



