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Excerpt from The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 79: December 27, 1917 Mary was fond of reading the Bible, especially the historical portions of it, and she said her prayers regularly, commending her self to the protecting care of God, and asking Him to save her and her loved ones in His kingdom. Mary, though, as has been observed, happy and contented, at times had a presentiment that her peace rested on sand, and not on solid rock. Many parts of the Scriptures were to her a sealed scroll, and she wondered what they meant. Sometimes she com pared the. World around her with the ideal world of the prophets of.old, and the contrast bewildered her. From the depths of her soul, as she was meditating upon some Scripture passage, there seemed to come voices, sometimes clear and distinct, sometimes barely perceptible, raising ques tion after question but suggesting no answer. At one time a voice seemed to say, If those who call themselves Christians are the followers of Christ, why are they broken up into so many sects and factions, each contending with the others? Is the body of our Lord, like that of the Egyptian Osiris, cut up into many pieces, and must we, as weeping Isis, go from place to place and look for one part here and another there? At another time the voice came, Do the Christians follow the teachings of the Master? Do they practice the Sermon on the Mount? Do they love God more than money. And their neighbors as themselves Are those who feel strong trying to help the weak to carry their burdens, or do they use their weaker fellowmen as their burden-carriers, their slaves? When she looked at the daily reports of crime in all its hideous forms, and at the still more numerous cases of selfishness not reported in the press, thus the voices whispered: What kind of religion have we? Could the conditions have been worse under the banner of paganism? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.