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Man's life purpose

William Charles Comstock · 1915 · Scanned text · Free in the US

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Author
William Charles Comstock
Language
English
Published
1915
Length
51,712 words · about 3 h 37 min
Sections
9 reader sections
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Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
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Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (9)
  1. Contents about 58 min
  2. II W0kk Of Life In Man about 49 min
  3. IV about 33 min
  4. VI about 26 min
  5. VII about 10 min
  6. VIII Man The Thinking Life about 3 min
  7. IX about 36 min
  8. XI Helpful Thought about 2 min
  9. XII Final Word about 2 min

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Contents

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Foreword v

The Writer's Preface xix

II W0kk Of Life In Man

Br. Coulter.

MAN was made worker on earth for the life which must beyond earth work wider work. Will Higher wills that life work both man's work and wider work. The life of man, being personal life, wills how man's work be finished. That life finally win fitness for wider work God purposes ; but till man's work is finished life waits for wider work. Then man chooses whether his life work wider work, or still work man's work on earth. That work purposed for teaching man has for his work. For work purpose firmly then, man of earth. Only when life works well, finishing well each day's work, can it win fitness for the wider work of life freed.

The life it is that works man's work, the life purposed that work as teaching for wider work. Man thinks he works his earth work for man only, purposing for that work as for man's life only. We tell that man works as life which finds wider life

and wider work in wider life. When life finishes the work of earth God frees that life, and wills for it wider, fuller life. The work of life man has for his work, and by that work the life is taught that which wider life needs, firm purpose. Then the man who works well helps life that finds by God's purpose wider work. That thought helps you, O man, if you think upon it. Well must man work who wishes wider life, for by the work of life in man that life learns the firm purpose needed beyond earth.

Man works for life immortal. His work is the first work of life immortal. That work God purposes to be teaching for life immortal. Man wills how the work of man is finished; but he wills for life while he wills for man's work. Man wills that life immortal work well then. Will Higher wills that man's work begin immortal life's work. Then the purpose with which man works is the purpose with which life works. Will Higher purposes that life in man prepare by man's work for wider work of life freed. Think, man who works weakly; your work prepares but for man's work further. Purpose firm for work helps life immortal. Remember this word, man of earth.

Work of man, being life's work for earth, the life must finish while it is man. But man works well or weakly as he chooses. What must life find through the work of earth? Firm purpose that it takes to wider life and wider work. The man who works well finds that firm purpose which life uses when freed. That which life must find by God's purpose it finds through man's free will. Man, then, purposes for life while he works his man's work.

Will Higher made man working life. That working life wins by work firm purpose. Work teaches life for which firm purpose is willed, and through that teaching the purpose higher is fulfilled. Then man who is willed life, which life is by God purposed teaching by the man's work, learns finally that firm purpose which life must. But that purposed teaching will finally teach, not the man who incarnates life now, perhaps, but a man who incarnates the life. God purposes, and by the firm free purpose which life learns through God's teaching life finally fulfills His purpose. Finally every life fulfills God's purpose. Finally every life wins freedom. The will of God is loving will, and His love follows the life through its many lives of man, till finally life of its free purpose makes itself worthy the freedom He purposed for immortal life from the creation of all.

That life who wills in man is life for whom wider, fuller life is by God purposed. That fuller life wills while it is for worth that wins still fuller, worthier, happier life. When the life which once was man wills, it wills firmly. But that firm will it learned by the life in man on earth. Then that which life wins through man's life it finds help in fuller life, and fuller life wins still fuller life by the firm will learned in man. Then by man's work life learns, if the man will, (for he is the life who works ) , the firm will by which life finds its worth forever.

Man works life's work for earth willed; man wins by that work well finished the firm will and purpose by which life wins freedom. Then, man who would find freedom for your life, purpose firmly to-day, to-morrow, each day you live.

That man work for his welfare God purposes; that life work man's work He purposes; that by work life find firm purpose life's Wilier purposes; that by the firm purpose won through the teaching of work life must for itself find worth for wider life He purposes. Life willed by Him finally fulfills His will. Man, the life personal, wills for life worthy using for help the firm purpose found through work. Life finds freedom by wise use of the firm purpose learned through work. Help men to understand this word, O God.

That work which man has help the life of man Purpose Higher wills; that life win firm purpose while working where it is man He wills; that by work life learn that firm purpose He wills ; and that life in man win the purpose which helps life forever He wills. Yet man purposes with free choice, man wills that which he wishes, and firm purpose life perhaps will not win in this man. Then will for life worthy is weak, for purpose drives free will. That life who finds firm purpose wins wider life; that life who finds weak purpose wills for life of man again. What would this man wish, the freed life, or work of man again? Think, man who has life to free, think well.

That life work God wills, for that His will be fulfilled through His teaching He wills. Man who wills for his work of free will has the purpose of God to fulfill through work, and that life who is man finally fulfills the higher purpose through the teaching of the work given for help. Though life is wholly free, the life who wills of free will has the will of its Maker to obey, and finally that life, willing of free choice, willing as life taught through the discipline of work in man, fulfills the higher purpose of God. Will free finally becomes wise will free, for life is finally taught that which brings wisdom, and thus taught, fulfills the purpose of its Maker.

The work of man, being life's work for earth purposed, man does using in that work the powers of life itself. Man wills using life's free will, purposes using life's free purpose, thinks using life's mind. The powers willed for life personal man has. By those powers life attains its worth. God wills for life which He made that by free purpose its own it win the worth of life which brings wider life. That wider life uses the powers made the powers of man who is life for earth. Man uses, then, the powers that win for life personal wider life; man uses them well or ill as he chooses; but life must finally use them for the worth that frees from man, for thus life's Maker wills. Then though life in this man may use them worthily or unworthily, life itself finally uses them in man worthily.

The thought that work is for man only is wrong. The work which man has is the work purposed for earth work of life immortal. The work of man teaches life immortal, for that work is by God purposed as teaching. Then the work purposed as teaching finally teaches life. What does it teach? Firm purpose needed both in the work of man and in the work to find the worth which God purposes. Work to find worth? Yes, for life works for that always. None find worth forced, but all must work to find it. Why then may life of man work weakly? Because the Maker of Life wills that it be free while it works to work as it pleases. He wills then that life free in purpose find worth, yet life works as it pleases for that worth. But what must follows life while it works? The must of God's purpose. The will which God makes free then must win for life the worth which God purposes. For life which wills for itself whether it work well or ill He purposes worth found of free choice.

Work for life worthy, man who would win freedom. Work for life worthy? Must life find its worth through work? Why have the words we tell been told? To teach men that life worthy is found by work for it. Well the life works who wins freedom, well the life purposes, and life worthy found through hard work for it wins the wider, fuller, freer life. Man who has life to free, think. Man who works is life for whom work is given that it be help. Will firm, purpose firm the life of man finds by God's purpose on earth. Work teaches firm purpose, firm will, and life finds its worth using the firm purpose and the firm will taught by work. For life its Maker purposes freedom won by its free purpose. Won is freedom then by the life who finds by the teaching of man's work firm purpose, firm will.

Work God makes teaching for life of man; work of man is work of life in man ; then the work purposed to help life man has. When, by the firm purpose which work teaches life, it wins wider life, man has won it, for he purposes while life is man.

The free purpose of life made fulfills the higher purpose of life's Maker.

The work of life man has for his work. We who worked man's work know that we are lives who were men. That work which we did in the flesh of man we recognize now as the work of the life which continues through many men to this wider, fuller, better life. Man then, who works the daily work of earth, is the life who thus prepares for wider work. His work he does as he wishes, well or ill, but the well-finished man's work makes the life ready for wider work beyond man's life, while the ill-finished man's work leaves that life unprepared for work beyond that of earth. Life learns while it is man that which life needs when freed, the firm will which finishes work, the firm will which makes life worthy. Man wills for the life's earth work then, and his firm will wins for life its wider work. But will when weakly used leaves work unfinished; then the life is not worthy wider work. For life God purposes both wider life and wider work; for both man prepares. Then while man works he must remember the meaning of work. Work finished wins firm purpose; firm purpose wins wider life; wider life finds firm purpose won in man help in its wider work.

Man works the work of life immortal which is purposed to teach that life firm purpose. Man works the work that teaches firm purpose for life that works wider work in freedom from earth. Man wills for that work using the power made life's power; man purposes for that work using life's power ; man thinks for that work using life's power. When man uses well those powers the life purposed wider work in wider life uses them well, and the firm purpose found through the teaching of work life takes to wider life's work. Those powers help man, they help life. Purposed wider life, purposed wider work, life is by the work of man taught wise use of the powers it will forever use. Think, who would win wider life. Think what use you must make of the powers you have as immortal life. Think well.

When, freely purposing, life finds the worth which life must find in man, Will Higher frees that life from man and earth. But the life may for many lives in man be weak. Then that life works further the work purposed as teaching. But the purpose of God will finally be fulfilled; the weak life will find firm purpose; the life who wills for this man weakly will finally in a man will for life worthy. Then when man wills for life worthy his life finds fuller life, but when he wills for unworthiness his life finds further life on earth. Would the man who wills to-day wish the further man's life, weak perhaps, willing again unworthily perhaps? Would weak man win freedom for his life? Think, man of weak purpose; you will this life of man worthy or unworthy by free choice. Have we helped you to choose wisely?

Work of life man has for his work. That work life finishes while it is man. That work man finishes well when for it he purposes firmly. Will that man uses, his free power, he uses finally to finish well life's work for earth purposed. Will for work finished well life learns through that work which Will Higher gives to man. Will free man uses for that work, the free power of life personal. When that free power man uses firmly for the work of life, (his work that is, for he is life) , the life wins worth for wider work. But man wills freely for the work which life must finish on earth. Then by the free will of man, who wills work well or ill finished as he chooses, is the purposed work of life on earth finished. Will for work well then, man of earth; will for life then well. Your life works that it find wider life and work. You finish well, if you please, the life's earth work. All work done firnny helps life. While man wills the work of life for earth purposed must be finished. When for work man firmly purposes life firmly purposes. Life wider purposes for its wider work using the firm purpose found while it works on earth. Man finds that firm purpose when his will he uses well. Man who works for life well finds the firm purpose which life takes to wider life's work. Heed the word, man who works to-day. Will for your man's work firmly. Finish well that work to-day, and find help for that work through firm free purpose. For life man works, for life he purposes, for life he finds firm purpose. Well for work purpose then, man who wishes freed life. Your firm purpose well and wisely used for the man's work wins for the life firm purpose which life uses while it is.

Think wisely, who would free life. Man wins freedom? No, life wins freedom. But life while it works man's work finds firm purpose. Who finds that firm purpose? Who frees life then? This man if he chooses. Then think, man of earth, think well.

Thank God, O men, for His purpose for life. While the life is man it finds the worth for freedom. While this man wills life finds firm purpose for life worthy if this man chooses. Will Higher purposes, life made fulfills His purpose by its own free purpose. Help this work for help with thy blessing, O God.

Work of man is life's work for earth purposed. That life find firm purpose life's Maker wills; that through the teaching of work it find firm purpose He wills. That thought will help the man who works. The firm purpose which life learns, that firm purpose which life needs, that firm purpose which helps life both in man and when freed, man finds through his work. Will Higher made life for work; His purpose teaches life through work; man works because He wills; life works because He wills; that life find firm purpose man finds firm purpose. Then the man's work prepares life for the wider work that He who made life purposes. That life find firm purpose through work God wills, and His purpose life fulfills. Man wins through his finished work the firm purpose which helps life forever. Think, man of earth. You find that firm purpose which helps freed life when you thus choose.

We, the lives who have finished man's work, we who live the wider life of wider work, would help men to thought of the meaning of man's work. Work of life man has for his work. The life who is purposed wider life works for teaching man's work of earth. Work helps life both while it is man and while it lives wider life. Work teaches life firm purpose. Man works life's earth work, wins for life by that work finished work wider, finishes that work well finally, (for thus man's Maker purposes), wins by that work done well and finished well the firm purpose which helps life forever. That firm purpose which life finds by God's purpose it finds finally through the teaching of man's work. Man works the work purposed for life while it prepares for the wider life beyond earth. That work teaches life firm purpose which life wider uses while it is. Man works for life immortal. His work teaches life immortal. His work finished, life immortal finds wider life and wider work. The firm purpose that life purposed wider life uses in that wider life is learned while the life is man. What food for thought! Man who works finds for his immortal life the firm purpose which life wider holds to eternity.

When man finishes well his work his life finds firm purpose. When man works weakly, finishing work not well, life finds but weak purpose. Firm purpose life finds by the higher purpose of life's Maker. Freed life has found firm purpose. Freed life holds firm the purpose won by man. Then the life profits by man's finished work. Think, man who would help life. Why was purpose made free? You will help life when free purpose you make firm, firm for both work and life worthy. Think well.

Will Higher, who purposes for the life made by Him, purposes that life find help through firm purpose its own. When by firm purpose its own life finds the worth which Will Higher purposes that life in man shall find, He translates life to wider life. Man finds that firm purpose which makes life worthy the wider life purposed by God.

Firm purpose helps life. That thought men find, but they think firm purpose helps for earth life only. The firm purpose which life finds by God's purpose while life is man helps life forever. We who tell for help this word found life worthy this wider life. We found firm purpose that helps life there where man works. The life wider uses while it wills for further worth the firm purpose won while it was man.

Will Higher made life for worth. That life find through the teaching of work firm purpose He wills. But life He makes free. Life which is free fulfills the purpose of Omnipotence. Then life free wills bound to will as Purpose Higher wills? No, that would make life not free. Purpose of Higher Will makes life free. Purpose of free life fulfills His will. Man who purposes as he wishes finally purposes as Higher Will purposes. That finite life willed wider life finds the worth for wider life willing that worth itself.

Wilberforce.

The life works in man that work which God wills for life on earth. Man who is life immortal works the first work of life immortal. Then work which man has is teaching for life immortal. When man works well life finds the purposed teaching. When man works ill does life find teaching? Yes, all life's work is purposed for teaching. Man who works ill learns but little; only well-finished work teaches that which life is purposed to find while on earth, firm purpose. Well then work, O man. Your work wins for life firm purpose if you will. Think.

When man finishes the work purposed for life on earth life finds wider work in wider life. Man wins for life immortal wider work then. What meaning this gives to man's work! Work that man has prepares life for wider life's work. But what life finds wider work? Man's life, and by man's will life works on earth. Then what man wins for life the wider work? The man who finishes to-day his work. Think, man who works for life, think wisely.

The work of life man has for his work, the work which by life's own purpose must be finished well. Well life works finally in man, well life purposes finally in man ; well man works, well man purposes finally then, for life on earth is man. Yet the free purpose of life man uses. For his work, for his worth man purposes well when he chooses. But the life finally, though it be weak in many lives of man on earth, wills that which God purposes, for life wins finally its freedom, and freedom is not won until worth is found. Man wills as life for which worth is purposed; but for that worth life purposes itself. This man may be weak, but life then works further on earth. Penalty for weakness God wills, penalty through which life is taught wise use of its free purpose. Work purposed for teaching man has for his work to-day. Will he use his purpose well or weakly? Man chooses for himself.

Man purposes whether his work be well finished or ill as he pleases. But when he purposes that his work be weakly finished his life finds further man's life and work. Then man wins but further life of work on earth who works now weakly, for the man who wins but weak purpose wins not the worth which life must find by God's purpose. Only the life who finds firm purpose in man finds wider work and wider life. Think, O man.

The work which man thinks weary teaches life for which God purposes wider work. Purpose firm life learns while it works man's work, purpose by which life finds its worth for higher life. Will Higher purposes well for life, and the life fulfills His purpose. All lives win firm purpose ; all lives are freed from earth; not one but fulfills the purpose of its Maker. Thank God, O men, for the purpose of Him who made you life. Will Higher, the will of omnipotent God, wills you worth. While work is for teaching purposed, work teaches only when the man wishes. The life who finds by the teaching of work firm purpose wins by that firm purpose the worth which God wills for life on earth. Thank God, O men, life wins firm purpose finally; your life will find that firm purpose, but when you yourself determine. You learn by the work you think weary firm purpose if you choose. Think, man who works; your life will profit thereby.

Will Higher, man's Maker, life's Wilier, purposes for life forever, and life made fulfills His purpose. Weak though it be while in this man, finally it learns wise use of free will. Then man who is life finally wills for that which frees from earth, for by man's will life finds the worth purposed for earth. Yet free man is while he lives, and free will fulfills the purpose of Higher Will finally. That which life finds in man, firm will, it is purposed to find, but finds it by man's free purpose. God wills for life work; on earth the man's work, in life wider the life's wider work; yet life must find the firm will needed in life's wider work while it is man.

Will Higher purposes that life while it works man's work prepare for life wider. Help man's work is, for life wins, through that work finished, fitness for wider work. Firm purpose work finally teaches. Firm purpose wins for life its worth for wider life. Firm purpose won by life in man helps life forever. Firm purpose life first finds in man.

Firm purpose won by life in man life holds for always. Thought helpful, man who works.

Will of life, free though it be, must finish that work which God purposes for life on earth. While life works in the man life wins by God's purpose its own firm purpose. That firm purpose won through life in man life takes to wider life. Then while life is man it learns that which helps wider life. For that firm purpose life works in this man if this man chooses. That thought helps the man who will have help. Man himself finds, and the man himself must find, that firm purpose by which life wins worth for life beyond earth. That firm purpose which helps life for worth forever life finds first in man. What help this thought will be depends on the man himself.

Man wills that his life find worth of free will, but man was willed work that work be teaching for his life. Personal life, man's self, works the work which, purposed for teaching, finally teaches life personal that which God purposes, firm will, firm purpose. When life finds the firm will, finds the firm purpose, depends on the life itself, for God makes life free; yet that which life is purposed to find it finally finds. Why may life will weakly? Because God makes it free. Then weak life finally becomes firm for life worthy because God teaches it. Yes, life becomes worthy wider life finally; not one but becomes worthy, but man who wills weakly is man for further life on earth. You who think, find wisdom in our words.

Work of man teaches life, for thus Will Higher purposes, but work teaches when man chooses to learn. Firm purpose which life finds by the higher purpose of God man finds by the wise use of free purpose. What for life purposes Will Higher? That by free purpose it win freedom. But free purpose may be unworthily used. Then the life who thus uses the purpose which must win the worth for freedom wins but worth for earth. The work purposed for life by God teaches life finally, for thus Will Higher purposes ; but until man purposes wisely life works on earth. Heed the word, O man.

Work is help for life while life is. Man's work helps man; freed life's work helps that life. When through firm purpose won on earth life wins wider life, that firm purpose it holds forever. Food for wise thinking in this, O men. Heed the word we give you, man who would find wider life. Your firm purpose must win the wider life. Think well, man who has life to free.

The work which man has, being life's work for earth, man must finish. That man wills for his work as he wishes changes not the Purpose who wills for life. Man uses in the work of life the free will of life. The man who uses free will then has the work given to life for its earth work to finish. God purposes for the life wider work when the man's work is finished. His purpose life fulfills while it wills of free will. Then life for which wider work is purposed wills itself when it be worthy wider work. Wider life works the wider life's work prepared for that work by the work of man. Help work is by God purposed to be; help it is when life finishes it well. Will free man uses always. His free will finishes well life's earth work, and prepares his life immortal for wider work and higher life. Think, who work weakly.

Will Higher, whose purpose life fulfills by its free purpose finally, is Will Omnipotent. He purposes that life find finally worth for life wider. While it is man life wins that worth. Then man who wills as he pleases fulfills the higher purpose of God when by free purpose he wins worth for wider life. Think, who will to-day. While you will life wills. Will free you have. Whether that will wins the worth that frees or the weakness that holds life to earth you determine. What will you will? You choose for yourself.

That life work while it is man Will Higher purposes; that life find firm purpose while it is man He purposes. Man works that life find firm purpose. For wider life the life of man prepares ; for wider work the work of man prepares. While life works firm purpose it must find; while life works the man's work that purpose must be won. Man is the life who finds firm purpose. But man is free. Then life finds firm purpose when man chooses. The work of life man has; by that work finished well he finds for life the firm purpose which helps life in the wider life of freedom.

Will Higher, whose purpose life fulfills, made life man. While life is man it finishes the work purposed to teach firm purpose. For life man works. His firm purpose is life's firm purpose. Well for life man purposes finally, for life finds freedom. The firm purpose that man finds helps in the wider work of life freed. What for life purposes the man who works life's work to-day? For life worthy he may purpose, for life weak he may purpose. That purpose which man finds life finds. Firm purpose frees life; weak purpose keeps life to work of man. Think, man who wills for life; think well.

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