The night after our arrival at Far West there was a
meeting to be held there. Stewart said to me :

" Let us go up and hear them speak with new tongues
and interpret the same, and enjoy the gifts of thf gos-
pel generally, for this is to be a prayer and testimony
meeting."

" I want no signs," I said. " I believe the gospel they
preach on principle and reason, not upon signs— *-its con-
sistency is all I ask. All I want are natural, logi-
cal, and reasonable arguments, to make up my ipind
from."

The Sunday after, I attended church in Far West
Hall. The hall was crowded with people, so much so
that I, with others, could not gain admittance to the
building. I obtained standing room in one«of tjie win-
dows. I saw a man enter the house without uncovering
his head. The Prophet ordered the Brother of Gideon
to put that man out, for his presumption in daring to'
enter and stand in the house of God without uncovering^
his head. This looked to me like drawing the He
pretty snug and close i however, I knew but littlegof <
etiquette of high life, and much less about that of met
Kingdom of Heaven. I looked upon Joseph Smith as a
prophet of God — as one who held the keys of this last
dispensation, and I hardly knew what to think about the
violent manner in which the man was treated who had
entered the house of God without taking his hat off. But
this did not lessen my faith; it served to confirm it. I



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was fearful that I might in some way unintention-
ally offend the great and good man who stood as
God's prophet on the earth to point out the way of
salvation.
