[The Good Time Coming by T. S. Arthur]@TWC D-Link bookThe Good Time Coming CHAPTER IV 14/19
The Millennium must, therefore, begin with the individual.
And so, as it comes not by observation--or with a 'lo! here, and lo! there'-- men are not conscious of its presence.
Yet be assured, my friend, that the time is at hand; and that every one who represses, through the higher power given to all who ask for it, the promptings of self-love, and strives to act from a purified love of the neighbour, is doing his part, in the only way he can do it, toward hastening the time when the 'wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf, and the young lion, and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.'" "Have we not wandered," said Mr.Markland, after a few moments of thoughtful silence, "from the subject at first proposed ?" "I have said more than I intended," was answered, "but not, I think, irrelevantly.
If you are not happy, it is because, like an inflamed organ in the human body, you are receiving more blood than is applied to nutrition.
As a part of the larger social man, you are not using the skill you possess for the good of the whole.
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