He assumed the teaching tone.
"No, Mrs.Halsey, the only thing that I asked you not to mention was that I had any light of revelation on a point on which most of our minds is already made up." "Mr.Smith, you can't possibly be in the slightest doubt but that it would be very wicked for any man now to have more than one wife." "I've heard a great many of the ministers who in times past, in the time of our bondage we heard and believed, say as it would be very wicked for any one nowadays to take God at His word and expect Him to do a miracle or heal the sick; but I've come to the conclusion, Mrs.Halsey, that it isn't a question of what we in our ignorance and prejudice might think wicked, but it's a question of what's taught in this book, looked at without the eye of prejudice and tradition.

What we call civilisation is too often devilisation--_devilisation_, Mrs.Halsey." He tapped the book.

He was becoming oratorical.

"The idea of one wife came in with the Romans.

'Twas no institution of Jehovah, Mrs.Halsey." Susannah, more accustomed to his oratorical vein than to private conference, became now more frank and at ease.
"You said you didn't know that the idea was from the Lord, Mr.Smith, and I don't think it is.