vid Whitmer saw the
plates, the very same as I had told them; they were floating in the air
at the time of prayer."

"But, Mr. Smith, St. Peter saw the sheet in a dream; there isn't
anything in the Bible about things or people floating in the air when
people are awake."

"Well, I don't know, sister, about that. There was Philip when he
finished baptisin' the African. Ye see, in going to Azotus he must have
gone up before he went along, or he'd have struck agen the trees; and
our brother Newell, not being as good as Philip, and not having as much
faith, ye see, he jest began to go and had to come back again. Mebbe
when he's engaged in the work for a year or two he'll become an apostle
too. Did ye never think, Sister Halsey, that Providence might take us
up, intending to do great things with us, and jest have to set us down
because we hadn't learned to have faith enough?"

This spiritual significance of the episode of Newell Knight had not
occurred to Susannah before. It touched her own case.

He went on. "When I think of the future that is opening before us,
Sister Halsey--why, when I think of how all the nations are to be
gathered in--there's persecutions in store, and we must be tried by
fire, but there's riches and honour and blessing for those as shall be
steadfast; and it's borne in upon me that the Kingdom shall be set up in
the west of this land." He turned and looked at her, becoming elevated
in mind and rising again into finer language. "And the men that are like
unto thy husband, and have the single eye to believe and obey the word
of the Lord, shall become as princes, dispensing bread to the hungry,
and the water of life to them that are athirst; and the beautiful women
who fail not but continue faithful, shall be as princesses driving
behind white horses and wearing silken robes, and comforting the sick in
their sickness, and welcoming the women of the nations as they come from
distant lands, teaching them that which is good--" He drew his breath,
as if about to say more and yet larger words, but remained silent,
looking upon the open space of the fields. Then his mien, which had
become enlarged, contracted somewhat, as if the vision were past.

"Why, Mrs. Halsey, when I do think of it, it seems as if one day at a
time were'nt enough, and as if I couldn't just set myself to get the
Latin and the Greek, and preach just to a few folks and help a person
that's needing a bit of help; but it's borne right in