Ignorance of these things is what I understand to be ignorance of God." "In England I lost my wife and two children.

The gospel came to me shortly after, I am sure, to comfort me in the depths of my despair.

Not one church on earth that I knew of, Catholic or Protestant, would hold out any hope of my ever being reunited with wife and children as such.
There is no family life in heaven, they teach.

At that time I went about listening to the preachers, and I delved into books.

I made extensive copyings in my note books.