The Sacred Duty to Do Good

ARE WE HONEST? 301 and evil. One encourages us in our efforts to build a strong and noble character; the other strives to destroy our power and in- influence for good, weakening every effort we set forth to gain a knowledge of true and noble principles. Pleasures that momentarily gratify, are dangerous in the ex- treme, dangerous because they blind our eyes and dull our mental faculties to the nobler, grander, and more lasting things that are within our reach. It remains, then, for each individual to so con- duct his life that he will merit the guiding influence of the Spirit of God, which, coupled with his own efforts, will make him wise unto salvation. The hidden mysteries of heaven will be gradually unfolded to the truly "Honest" soul — one who is striving, and thirst- ing for true knowledge. The Savior said: "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled." Our time is valuable, and I believe we must give an account for the time we spend in this probation, so let us be honest with ourselves, and cease to play the roll of a thief. THE SACRED WILL TO DO GOOD. The will to accomplish good is a divine attribute of the soul, and is the basic principle which governs all good actions. Asso- ciated with the will to do good is that heaven-born and noble quality — with its sphere of action as boundless as eternity — love. The will to do good evinces a broad, philanthropic spirit of devo- tion to high ideals, the manifestation of practical acts which con- tribute to the general happiness of humxanity. Inclining to do good continually is to possess a heart void of guile, tender and compassionate to the repentant erring one, charitable to the un- fortunate, and embodying the unlimited and divine graces of ster- ling virtue. "When the human will is controlled hy power divine, the mind is enriched with gems of rarest thought, and every im- pulse of our being is quickened with intelligence from on high. To do good while tabernacled within the narrow confines of earth-