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The Mormon Prophet

CHAPTER III
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Are you a friend of the Smiths ?" "I have experienced the great benefit of being acquainted with the prophet for the last fourteen days." "But he's not a prophet," said Susannah resentfully.
"Did'st thou never find thyself to be mistaken when thou wast most sure?
Hast thou not perceived that thy Bible tells thee in many different ways that God chooses not as men choose ?" Then with great ardour he preached to her the doctrine of this new Christian sect.

He was a convert; his preaching was rather the eager recital of his own experience, which would out, like some dynamic force within him, than pressure brought wilfully to bear upon her.
He said, "I do not ask thee, friend, if thou art Methodist or Baptist or Presbyterian, but I do ask thee, canst thou read the promises of thy Lord to his church and be content with its present low estate ?" Susannah was habituated to some recognition of her beauty; she missed it here, not knowing what she missed.

Smith had known that it was important for her to be sheltered from the wind; he was sorry that her skirts were splashed; his manner, casual as it had been, had at least had in it that element of "because you are you," the first essential of any human relationship.

But Susannah liked the young Quaker much better than Smith; he was of finer fibre, and her heart was agape for young companionship; so, unconsciously, she resented his indifference, not only as to her sect but as to her sex.
"My father was an Englishman," she replied with dignity, not knowing why this seemed sufficient answer.
The Quaker proceeded eagerly with his own story.

He had searched the Scriptures diligently, and found in them no warrant for believing that the age of miracles and direct revelations would ever pass from the church.


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