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planet and all that belongs to it, as absolutely its own, 

 of character, of good done, of services rendered to the 

 cause of truth, of work accomplished for the benefit of 

 others, without fee or reward, save the inward satisfaction 

 of the innate consciousness and conscience, and of the 

 thousand and one occasions met, when the interests of 

 self have been spontaneously subordinated to the advance- 

 ment of those of others, and to the still greater number 

 of unenumerated acts of kindness because of their lifelong 

 accumulation, in which the life of true religion has been 

 lived without its being taken note of by the liver, with all 

 that can be called " true and of good report " in the 

 "daily walk and conversation of life." 



These are some of the everlasting " properties and 

 belongings " of this life, entitling " the dead who die in 

 the Lord" to be received into the blessed condition of 

 " rest " defined above, as that which is awaiting everyone 

 entitled to it, with the certainty of " cause and effect," 

 and as a satisfaction of the laws of everlasting justice and 

 truth. Thus, the elements of uncertainty and chance, 

 favour and accident, are absolutely eliminated, at the 

 fountain-head, from the reign of law in the spiritual 

 condition into which man enters at death, and in which 

 his future evolution and development are ensured to all 

 eternity which is surely a goal to be aimed at by all, 

 and in the aiming at which, virtue, if it does not succeed 

 in obtaining its own reward here, will become a personal 

 asset of the utmost importance when the material gives 

 place to the spiritual life, and when that rest, so much 

 longed for by the weary soul, is at last granted as the 

 recompense and reward of those " who die in the Lord." 



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