Had the Bible in the hill been a true Bible?
Susannah intuitively knew that Emma Smith, bending with grave rapture over her firstborn, was not trying to deceive her.
"It seems to me," she said, "that it is terribly wicked of you to believe about this Bible." Her utterance became thick with her rising indignation.

"How can you sit and hold that child and say such terribly wicked things ?" She could not have told why she referred to the child; the moment before it was spoken she had not formulated the thought.

She was not old enough to reason about the sacredness of babies; she only felt.
The tears started to Emma's eyes.

She clasped her child to her breast.
"Yes, I know how you feel.

I felt that way too myself, and sometimes even yet it frightens me; but, you see, I know it is true, so it must be right.