object to life

"There is nothing so likely to help us to hold on in an earnest, loving manner, to the work of the Truth, as the realizing in our minds of an object in life. For what object do you live? Have you an object? Too many, it is to be feared, have no definite object in life beyond the whiling away of the passing hour; they are satisfied if they have succeeded by passing the day or the hour by not being truly miserable, and such will tell you they do so and so to 'pass the time away'. If such would only busy themselves in any useful direction with an earnest mind, they would find the time go too quickly with the greatest ease. What result have those accomplished whose chief business in life is to while away the time? None! When the time is gone everything is gone and there is nothing laid in store against the day of reckoning."