“Opposite to the Plan of Happiness”
By its very nature, the gospel blesses or curses. If there is a plan or path of happiness, of necessity there must be a path of unhappiness; if there is a course that brings joy and rejoicing, of necessity there must be a course that brings bitterness and sorrow. If there are commandments, the obedience to which brings blessings, it follows that to violate those commandments must bring punishments.
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