But that hain't got nothing to do with the times I know that the Lord spoke.
You don't believe it was the Lord at all.

Well, then, who was it?
For it's the same as has told me not to do the lots of wicked things I might have done and didn't.

As to them plates, I told you before I didn't have them as much in my hands as I said I did.

I got wrong a bit there too, maybe, but it isn't easy to keep quite straight between the thing you see and the words you say it in, when you are trying to talk to people about what they don't understand.

It isn't easy to do just only what is perfectly right about anything at any time, at least, if it is to you, it isn't to me; but I often thought I was born worse than most people." "The men who were your witnesses as to the reality of the plates are apostate," she said gently.
"They are apostate," he said gloomily, "and why?
Because I would not let them live upon the Lord's tithes without labouring as we all laboured." He spoke again after a moment.