“Adopted as a son.”
“Of one poor, and naked?”
“Clothed, and he wants for naught.”
“If ungrateful, he smite you?”
“Still we feed and clothe him.”
“If yet an ingrate?”
“Long, he can not be; for Love is a fervent fire.”
“But what, if widely he dissent from your belief in Alma;—then, surely, ye must cast him forth?”
“No, no; we will remember, that if he dissent from us, we then equally dissent from him; and men’s faculties are Oro-given. Nor will we say that he is wrong, and we are right; for this we know not, absolutely. But we care not for men’s words; we look for creeds in actions; which are the truthful symbols of the things within. He who hourly prays to Alma, but lives not up to world-wide love and charity—that man is more an unbeliever than he who verbally rejects the Master, but does his bidding. Our lives are our Amens.”
“But some say that what your Alma teaches is wholly new—a revelation of things before unimagined, even by the poets. To do his bidding, then, some new faculty must be vouchsafed, whereby to apprehend aright.”