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Excerpt from Correspondence Between the Rev. W. Crowel, and O. Spencer
As you kindly say, I have always been accustomed to offer a reason for my faith. But be assured I was confounded. And made dumb when asked why I taught another gospel than what Paul did - why I taught that revelation was ended, when Paul did not - or why I taught that prophets were not needed when no inspired teacher ever taught such a doctrine. Error may become venerable by age, and respectable from the number of its votaries, but neither age nor popularity can ever make it truth.
You give me credit for a conscientious regard for the will of God. It was this that gave me the victory where many others, I fear, are vanquished. The Spirit of God wrought mightily in me, commending the ancient gospel to my conscience. I contemplated it with peaceful serenity and joy in believing. Visions and dreams began to illuminate occasionally my slumbering moments; but when I allowed my selfish propensities to speak, I cursed Mormonism in my heart, and regretted being in possession of as much light and knowledge as had flowed into my mind from that source. When I preached or conversed according to my best convictions, peace reigned in my heart-and truth enlarged my understanding: conviction and reve rence for the truth at such times seemed to reign in the hearts of those that heard me; at times, however, some were ready to gnash their teeth, for the truth that they would not receive and could not resist.
I counted the cost to myself and family of embracing such views, until I-could read it like the child his alphabet, either upward or downward. The expense I viewed through unavoidable tears, both in public and private, by night and by day. I said, however, the Lord, He is God, I can, I will embrace the truth.
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