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Show Page 237 to repent and not let your will carry you too far in these things." 61 These arguments slowly broke him down, and the men around Orson prevailed. Perhaps Woodruff's words pacified him, and after several hours, the confrontation ended with a sermon draft to be read the next day in conference. It was the eve of Mormonism's thirtieth anniversary. Once read, the revised confession apparently mollified Brigham Young, and Orson hoped the matter had been cleared up once and for all. But these days Orson could not help but feel somehow set apart from the others - at worst constantly under suspicion; at best, misunderstood - and he kept wiser eyes open in the future. Later years saw less and less from his energetic pen as he turned to the more abstract and less controversial method of describing the universe in mathematical terms. He was a stranger among his own, he knew well, and his home, as always was in the missions. When Brigham Young heard the exceptionally orthodox "ride down" this troubled apostle, he dismissed the remarks with a chuckle, "If Brother Orson were chopped up in inch pieces, each piece ,.62 would cry out Mormonism was true. |
