A crowd of the Saints and a group of elders were waiting for him with impatience.

Darling eyed his coming with looks gloomy and furtive, but the prophet was no longer, as on the previous night, wrathful and pompous.

He spoke aside to Darling.
"I thought it right to tell our sister Susannah Halsey that her Gentile home had suffered bereavement.

The uncle who has been as a father unto her is dead.

I have been greatly exercised in grief for her," continued Smith, briefly and truly; and then he added, also with truth, but with subtle suggestion, "I cannot think that further dealing with that household could be of advantage to her, but having laid the matter before the Lord, I was made aware that we must seek the good of all our sisters not with regard to outward appearance or inclination of the eyes; therefore, Brother Darling, let your motive be lowly, not having respect unto persons," and he added with the simplicity of a child, "as mine is." Susannah was left with the bad picture in her mind which Smith had sketched there.