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<p>True religion must be everything or nothing with us. <br />
  In religion, indifference is ruin; neglect is destruction. <br />
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  Of all losses, the loss of the <strong>soul</strong> is the only one that <br />
  is utterly irreparable and irremediable. You may lose <br />
  <strong>property</strong>, but you may recover the whole or a portion <br />
  of it; you may lose <strong>health</strong>, but you may be restored <br />
  to a larger measure of bodily strength than before <br />
  your illness; you may lose <strong>friends</strong>, but you may obtain <br />
  new ones, and those more sincere and valuable than <br />
  any whom you have lost. But if you lose your <strong>soul</strong>, <br />
  what is to make up for that loss?<br />
  <br />
  Do you ever feel what a tremendous stake heaven <br />
  or hell is? Have you ever felt that <strong>to gain heaven</strong> is <br />
  to gain everything that can make the soul eternally <br />
  happy; and <strong>to lose heaven</strong> is not only to lose <br />
  eternal bliss, but to sink down into . . . <br />
  unfathomable,<br />
  everlasting,<br />
  unutterable woe? <br />
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  It is this believing sight and pressing sense of eternal <br />
  things; it is this weighty, at times overpowering, feeling <br />
  that they carry in their bosom an immortal soul, which <br />
  often makes the children of God <strong>view the things of <br />
    time and sense as . . .</strong><br />
  <strong>mere toys and baubles</strong>,<br />
  trifles lighter than vanity,<br />
  and pursuits empty as air,<br />
  and gives them to feel that the things of eternity <br />
  are <strong>the only solid, enduring realities.
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