Part 8. by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link book Part 8. 11/51 Thus you become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nuisance to them--if the people you go among suffer by the operation. A. Its adherents have been hunted and hounded from one end of the country to the other, and the result is that for years they have hated all "Gentiles" indiscriminately and with all their might. Joseph Smith, the finder of the Book of Mormon and founder of the religion, was driven from State to State with his mysterious copperplates and the miraculous stones he read their inscriptions with. Finally he instituted his "church" in Ohio and Brigham Young joined it. |