[Dorian by Nephi Anderson]@TWC D-Link bookDorian CHAPTER FIVE 13/15
You have already laid away in the way of concepts, we may say, a generous store of nature's riches, for you have been in close touch with the earth, and the life which teems in soil and air and the waters.
Pity the man whose childish eyes looked out on nothing but paved streets and brick walls or whose young ears heard nothing but the harsh rumble of the city, for his early conceptions from which to interpret his later life is artificial and therefore largely untrue." Uncle Zed smiled up into the boy's face as if to ask, Do you get that? Dorian would have to have time to assimilate the idea; meanwhile, he had another question: "Uncle Zed, why are there classes among members of our Church ?" "Classes? What do you mean ?" "Well, the rich do not associate with the poor nor the learned with the unlearned.
I know, of course, that this is the general rule in the world, but I think it should be different in the Church." "Yes; it ought to be and is different.
There are no classes such as you have in mind in the Church, even though a few unthinking members seem to imply it by their actions; but there is no real class distinction in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, only such that are based on the doing of the right and the wrong.
Character alone is the standard of classification." "Yes, I see that that should be true." "It is true.
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