Heavenly Doctrine (Chadwick) n. 93

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93. One's country is more the neighbour than a community, because it is a kind of parent. It is there a person is born; one's country feeds one and protects one from harm. Good should be done to one's country out of love in accordance with its needs. These are principally concerned with its food supplies and the secular and spiritual life of its inhabitants. Anyone who loves his country, and does it good out of goodwill, in the other life loves the Lord's kingdom, for there the Lord's kingdom is his country. Anyone who loves the Lord's kingdom loves the Lord, because the Lord is the all-in-all of His kingdom.


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