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Show -287- The glow of his memory lasted most of the way to the University, but as he travelled along Nineteenth Avenue, it began to fade and to be replaced by the familiar anxiety. Brotherhood way lay beyond the University, a new street that had been constructed about the time the Professor arrived in California, and i t had been set aside solely for the purpose of building new churches of a l l denominations. The last tim e the Professor had driven down i t , no churches had been built. Now he saw a Methodist church and a Baptist chapel, s i t t i ng lonely a t the bottom of the narrow ravine that the street wound down, and he saw signs on other vacant lots announcing future construction. He saw no announcement that a Mormon church would be constructed here, and he thought he knew why. His own church (and he s t i l l thought of i t as t h a t ) , for the most part, held i t s e l f aloof from the others. In one way, he liked t h i s . It was an extension of Brigham Young's determination in the early days to remove his people as far as possible from the other sects that had persecuted his people in the Midwest* but now, when a l l others had encroached on the Mormon domain, the a t t i tude of the Mormons seemed more self-righteousness than inde-pendance. Only they knew the truthi Only they had the author i t y ! This was an a t t i t u d e the Professor abominated. For a religion to have v i a b i l i t y , he thought, i t must appeal to a l l , and no religion can claim to know a l l the truth? As usual the Professor arrived early? He parked his car |