This distinction between voluntary and involuntary love enables us to discover certain dangers that result for want of such discrimination. Men may conceive of the Creator as desiring to be loved, admired, and glorified, just as selfish conquerors, like Alexander and Napoleon have done. In this view all their aims would be to excite agreeable emotions toward God by the contemplation of his various attributes. And thus they might be so absorbed in the indulgence of such delightful emotions as to become entirely heedless of the wants and the wishes of those around them. This kind of experience would cultivate selfishness instead of benevolence. On the contrary, choosing to obey all God’s laws for happiness‐making on the largest scale, and viewing the lovely and glorious attributes of the Creator as _means_ to this end, would induce the only true virtue, while it is the true mode of pleasing our Maker and increasing his enjoyment. The preceding furnishes the mode of harmonizing a great variety of expressions that may properly be given in answer to the great question, “what must we do to be saved?” as we gain this answer independently of revelation. The first answer is, “believe in God’s teachings—or have faith in God.” This means, take the laws of God as revealed by reason and experience, and _obey_ them, and you shall be saved. It is a _practical_ and not a mere intellectual belief that constitutes this “saving faith.” The next answer is, “repent,” or “repentance toward God.” The word repent is used to signify, sometimes, simply remorse or pain for wrong‐doing. In another sense it signifies that sorrow for wrong‐doing which includes reformation. It is ceasing to disobey law and commencing a life of obedience. It is in this sense that men are saved by repentance. Another answer is, “thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and thy neighbor as thyself.” This has been shown to signify, thou shalt choose as the chief end of life to make happiness the right way, that is, by obeying all the physical, social, and moral laws of God. “This is the love of God, that we keep his commandments.” Another answer is, “make it thy chief end to glorify God.” Inasmuch as God’s glory consists in the exhibition of his character as a benevolent being, all who promote his chief aim by making happiness according to his will, are living to glorify God. Another answer is, “live a truly virtuous life.” It has been shown that true virtue consists in _obedience to the great law of sacrifice_ by which the lesser personal good is sacrificed to the greater good of all concerned. Thus faith, repentance, love to God and man, making it our chief end to glorify God, living a virtuous life, all signify one and the same thing, (_i.e._,) choosing to find out and to obey all the physical, social, and moral laws of God as our chief end or ruling purpose. The _righteous_ are those who have formed such a purpose, and who exhibit its results in their daily life.