He thought he might as well spend the evening, and be comfortable, so he made a fire in the stove.
On the small home-made desk which stood in the best-lighted corner, near to the student's hand were his well-worn Bible, his Book of Mormon, and Doctrine and Covenants.

He opened the drawers and found them filled with papers and clippings, covering, as Dorian learned, a long period of search and collecting.

He opened again the package which he had out the evening of Uncle Zed's death, and looked over some of the papers.

These, evidently, had been selected for Dorian's special benefit, and so he settled himself comfortably to read them.

The very first paper was in the old man's own hand, and was a dissertation on "Faith." and read thus: "Some people say that they can believe only what they can perceive with the senses.