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The Lions of the Lord

CHAPTER XXVII
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I bet I know something you don't, now--what verse in the Bible has every letter in the alphabet in it except 'J'?
Of course you wouldn't know.

Plenty of preachers don't.

It's the twenty-first verse of the seventh chapter of the book of Ezra.

And the Book of Mormon--I do love to git set down in a rocker with my shoes off--I'm kind of a heavy-footed person to be on my feet all day--and that blessed Book in my hands--such beautiful language it uses--that verse I love so, 'He went forth among the people waving the rent of his garment in the air that all might see the writing which he had wrote upon the rent,'-- that's sure enough Bible language, ain't it?
And yet some folks say the Book of Mormon ain't inspired.

And that lovely verse in Second Niphi, first chapter, fourteenth verse: 'Hear the words of a trembling parent whose limbs you must soon lay down in the cold and silent grave from whence no traveller can return.' Back home the school-teacher got hold of that--he's an awful smarty--and he says, 'Oh, that's from Shakespeare,' or some such book, just like that--and I just give him one look, and I says, 'Mr.Lyman Hickenlooper, if you'll take notice,' I says, 'you'll see those words was composed by the angel Moroni over two thousand years ago and revealed to Joseph Smith in the sacred light of the Urim and Thummim,' I says, and the plague-oned smarty snickered right in my face--and say, now, what did you and your second git a separation for ?" He was called back by the stopping of her voice, but she had to repeat her question before he understood it.


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