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Why do the children of men set their hearts on earthly things? They are to be used, but not to the abusing of yourselves. They are to be used to make us comfortable. Suppose all the good things of this world should be given to us, the gold and the silver, the cattle and the horses, and all the flocks of thousand Hills; it would be for the express purpose of building mansions and temples, of feeding the poor that cannot be themselves, of succoring the tried and the tempted, of sending Elders to preach the gospel from nation to nation, from island to island, and of gathering Israel from the four corners of the globe. But that moment that men seek to build up themselves, in preference to the kingdom of God, and seek to hoard up riches, while the widow and the fatherless, the sick and afflicted around them are in poverty and want, it proves that their hearts are weaned from their God; and their riches will perish in their fingers, and they with them.