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Yes. Be not anxious for the morrow, and much more, be not anxious
for the life to come. Your Heavenly Father knew that you had need of
salvation long before you asked him. Eighteen hundred years before
you were born, he sent his Son into the world to die for you; when
you were but an infant he called you to be baptized into his Church,
and receive your share of his Spirit. Long before you thought of
him, he thought of you; long before you loved him, he loved you; and
if he so loved you, that he spared not his only begotten Son, but
freely gave him for you, will he not with that Son freely give you
all things? Therefore, fear not, little flock; it is your Father's
good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
And be not anxious about the morrow; for the morrow shall be anxious
about the things of itself. Be anxious about to-day, if you will;
and 'work out your salvation with fear and trembling;' for it is God
who works in you to will and to do of his good pleasure; and
therefore you can do right; and therefore, again, it is your own
fault if you do not do right.
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