She did not remember who Uriah was, and took no offence.
The prophet had tarried in his pacing by the window; with hands clasped behind him he was looking absently out upon the driven snow.

Upon his face was an expression which Susannah only sometimes saw, and that in the moments which she felt to be his best.

She believed this man to have true moments of humility and high resolve; it was only a question with her how far they permeated his life.

In a minute more he turned again and spoke modestly and sadly enough.
"As I have said before, it is not in me to greatly love our brother Halsey's manner of thought, but I perceive his holiness and the Church shall not lack his counsel.

I am here to-day to tell you how much it grieves me to set a constraint upon his conscience, yet I am here also to ask you to tell him from me that it is not the will of the Lord that he should continue to preach against the spirit of self-defence." When he was gone Susannah realised how angry she would have been if she had heard that Smith had rebuked her husband on this subject, yet now that the fiat lay in her own hands to impart with all gentleness, the task, because of her own fierce attitude toward the oppression, was grateful to her.
When the roof had been set on the white walls of the first great Mormon temple upon Kirtland Bluff, a small army, well armed, well provisioned, went out from Kirtland for the deliverance of Zion amid the prayers and huzzahs of the little community.