My opinion is he don't know twice across or straight up about the Lord's secret doings!" Yet if he had sought to render a little elastic the rigid teachings of the priesthood, he had done so innocently.

The foundations of his faith were unshaken; for him the rock upon which his Church was built had never been more stable.

As to doubting its firmness, he would as soon have blasphemed the Holy Ghost or disputed the authority of Brigham, with whom was the sacred deposit of doctrine and all temporal and spiritual power.
So he sighed often for those Gentile sheep on whom the wrath of God was so soon to fall.

Even with the utmost stretching of the divine mercy, the greater part of them must perish; and for the lost souls of these he grieved much and prayed each day.
It was more than ten years since that day in the Meadows, and the blight there put upon his person had waxed with each year.

His hair showed now but the faintest sprinkle of black, his shoulders were bent and rounded as if bearing invisible burdens, and his face had the look of drooping in grief and despair, as one who was made constantly to look upon all the suffering of all the world.