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Show Acting Alone Page iQO numbers of new converts to all churches, but especially a law-and-order denomination like the Elder's. And, the rich liberals having hightailed it out of this area in fear, the local media would be in the hands of the solid everyday working Americans. The popular scorn quotient would thus be kept at a reasonably low level, and the missionaries could bicycle down the streets without people laughing and spitting at them. And this would constitute a real, non-parabolic example of the Double- Pronged Earthly and Unearthly Good, the ultimate double justification for the Elder's apostasy and conversion and current presence here in America. Bring souls to Christ. Protect the Family here on earth from the encroaching degeneracy of pornography, the horror of capital criminals, the treachery of gangsters and white-collar types. Make the country safe to bring and baptize new souls into. Most of all, make it so that good men shall be able to gather their wayward sons about them once again, cleave to them and build a secure life around them in the bosom of Heavenly Father. Yes, it would be a shame were bad things to befall Saint Paphnutius Convent; but a shame that would be more than compensated for in God's eyes by the Double-Pronged Earthly and Unearthly Good. Even partially gutted, the convent chapel would make a splendid visitors' center, or a vestry for the donning of the sacred garments for the baptisms by proxy, connected to the main body of the Temple by a secret causeway. And Cheyenne Zoo, just up the hill, would be an added enticement for Temple visitors with children - the most desirable kind of visitor. Suffer the little children to come unto me. The grounds of the former sanatorium, when combined with other current church holdings up there on the mountainside, would be just |