This is my native country, and I have as much right to be here as you have; and, thank God, this country provides for free speech and allows every man to worship God according to the dictates of his conscience.

I love this, my native land--I love these, my people.

That's why I am here to preach to them the gospel of Jesus Christ." "You're a farmer, and not a minister," sneered the priest.
"Peter was a fisherman and Paul was a tent-maker," replied the Elder calmly.

"I suppose, sir, that if either of these men came here to preach, you would look upon their occupation as a reproach." There was no reply, so the "Mormon" continued.

"It is true I am a farmer.