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39 ed: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.” Now let me point the moral which adorns this tale. A boy or a man who lives from his senses, who heeds the cries of passion, and disregards the calm voice of conscience and duty, is an Esau who sells his birthright as a child of God, for God, when He created man, made an immortal soul, and built a body up around it—a casket to contain this precious jewel. Therefore in a boy or man the soul should always be on top, and should come first in choices we make and directions we take. The senses of this body of dust should be the soul’s servants, not its masters, and its inclinations always be subordinate to the dictates of duty—another word for God—conscience, and soul. But Esau preferred the gratification of his senses to the reward of spiritual well-being, and he was lost. He lived a life that came to nothing. As Dean Stanley says: “With all his good-nature, frank 3

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