This and much more of a severe nature caused me as the Mother of this Church to ask earnestly “What shall she do to be saved?” and I think God has answered me and bidden her to disorganize, saying, “I will try her and prove her on the pure basis of spiritual bonds, loving the brethren, keeping peace and pursuing it. I will test her love which seeketh not its own but another’s good, is not puffed up, is not easily provoked, envieth not, doth not behave herself unseemly, beareth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things, and if she is saved as a Church, it will be on this basis alone.
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