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Show ^ throat nuiBii^ aim ou-^cu. his teeth, Making that little click with his lips. "Sometimes the brethern want to give our group a name for tax purposes but I consistently refuse. This is the problem the other groups have created. They take upon themselves the power to set up a church and to give it a name apart from the true Church. They have no right to do that. It's Sod's Church, never to be taken again from the face of the earth. No one has the right to try to tear it down or to start another like it." I wondered why he always seemed to be sermonizing, even now with only the two of us in the kitchen. Didn't he know how to talk personally about anything; I would have to steer away from discussing doctrine and talk about feelings. Saul and Danny had always complained that he refused to discuss another person's point of view - but then they were the same way. The missing premise was human emotion. "It used to bother me a lot when I was going to Church, knowing that my parents were excommunicated. Didn't it bother you? Doesn't it bother you now - knowing you could be wrong, that you could be outlawed forever?" My father sighed. "My name has not been stricken from the record in Heaven. I've not been excommunicated firom the Gospel, only from the Church - and not even that, in spirit. !'ve been called to keep the Principle alive, and the cost °f that calling is that I must perform my duties outside the official Church. But my mind and heart are in complete harmony with the Church on all counts save one : the Principle. °ne day the Church will be set in order and the Saints will be as One. " |