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Live for a Purpose—We should live for the next world. It is
so wretched to live a haphazard, aimless life. We want an object in
life—to live for a purpose. God help us all to be self-sacrificing, less
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self-caring, more forgetful of self and selfish interest, and to do good,
not for the honor we expect to receive here but because this is the
object of our life and will answer the end of our existence. Let our
daily prayer go up to God that He will divest us of selfishness.—Lt 17,
1872. (HC 242.)
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