"I came out this evening," said Finney, "to tell you that last March in Ohio I saw _her_." His voice fell at the pronoun in sympathetic sorrow.
"Yes ?" "When I was about to return from Cincinnati I was advised to go northward to the Erie Canal, in order that I might pass through that part of the State which has been sorely infected by the cancer of that hypocrite's teaching." There was no need in the district of Manchester for Finney to explain what hypocrite he meant.

In his own country Smith was commonly held to be the arch-hypocrite.
"The devil has surely espoused that cause in earnest, for the number of deluded souls in that part of Ohio and in southern Missouri, and scattered as missionaries up and down the country, is, I hear, between three and four thousand." "And always among those who worship the letter of the Scripture," remarked Ephraim, "for their missionaries give chapter and verse for all they teach." "I was told that their customs were peculiarly evil.

Even among themselves they lie and steal and are violent and licentious; and they teach openly that it is a merit to steal from the Gentiles, as they call those not of themselves; and, furthermore, they aim at nothing less than setting up a government of their own in the west." "Who told you all this ?" "I am sorry to say that I had it on good authority.

Some of the western brethren had it from a poor fellow who had been deluded into entering the Mormon community, and had barely escaped with his life when he desired to withdraw." "Would you consider a pervert from your own sect the best witness of its tenets?
But you say that you saw my cousin ?" Finney told what had led him to the village of Hiram, and said, "When I spoke of the sins of the Mormons, a young woman seated near the front of the congregation rose up.

It was your cousin.