ane of education and
refinement than these others, could so triumphantly embrace the new
faith, it must surely contain more of virtue and reason than she could
see. The influence of what he was, being so much greater than the
influence of what he had said, caused her mind to work with solemn
earnestness as she followed him in sympathy through the symbol of death
and resurrection.

When the prophet came back to the shore he appeared for the first time
to recognise Susannah, and stopped before her, but at first with a
distraught manner, as if he were trying to recollect some dream that
eluded him. He still had his hand familiarly on Halsey's arm, for he had
been conducting him out of the water.

"This is the elect sister?" Smith asked in a hesitating tone, as if
still striving with memory. "Does she desire baptism?"

"Not yet," answered Halsey, "but I have asked the Lord for her soul, and
I believe that it has been given."

In Halsey's mind up to this moment there was, no doubt, only the
solicitude of the missionary spirit; but Smith was a man whose mind was
cast in a different mould; he had already marked the solicitude and
given it his own interpretation, and he had already opened his own eyes
upon her beauty. How far this had conscious connection with the
condition of actual trance into which he now fell cannot be known. It is
probable that what the Psalmist calls the "secret parts" are not in
such minds as Smith's open to the man's own eye.

Smith became wrapped in a sudden ecstasy. Oblivious of all around him,
he looked up into the heavens, and it was apparent that his eyes were
not beholding the material objects around. Those about him gazed
awe-struck, waiting and listening, for he began to speak in a low
unknown tongue, as if holding converse with some one above.

Susannah shrank back, but was held by Emma's encouraging arm. Halsey
stayed perforce, for the prophet's grasp had tightened convulsively upon
him.

In a few moments the vision was over, and Joseph Smith opened his eyes
and smiled in his own slow kindly way upon the frightened girl and upon
Angel Halsey, who stood with steadfast mien.

"It has been revealed to me in heaven that the soul of the elect sister
is indeed given to be united to the soul of this young disciple, that
thereby she may obtain salvation."

He took Susannah's hand, and she felt no power to resist him; he clasped
Halsey's almost more timid and reluctant hand over it.

"Wher