Also, when good men do experience their greatest spiritual delights in this world, they cause pain also, a great restraint and struggle with nature; they find the delight too big and strong for the present state; they find a weakness and feebleness in them very inadequate to such pleasures. But doubtless, if God created us only for happiness, he intended us for a state wherein we might enjoy them freely and without oppression to nature. They also find a great restraint and inward struggle, for want of being able to express and to give vent to their internal motions and the energy of their hearts.
Again, in this world the godly live here and there interspersed among the wicked, and meet with great obstruction in the pursuing of the end of their creation, from them.
We may very reasonably conclude, that [if] God intended them only for this happiness, that he intends to place them in such a state where they shall be pure from others, where they may freely and without obstruction assist each other in this happiness.
'Tis evident that men were intended for society, that is, to assist each other in their interests, and chiefly to assist each other in their chief interest; and if in subservient interests, surely most of all in the great happiness for which he was created, and to which all other interests were only intended to subserve.
And it so, doubtless God intended that they should be under advantages to obtain this only end of society without obstruction.
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, pray unto the Father with all the energy of heart,
(Moroni 7:48)
12 Wherefore, it must needs have been created for a thing of naught; wherefore there would have been no purpose in the end of its creation.
(2 Nephi 2:12)
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