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 demand of them, in all anxiety and alarm of expression, if they were yet saved. Both missionaries had enjoyed converting successes that day, and each was returning home more or less satisfied, when they happened to meet in the same compartment of the train. As the saying is, "When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war." Each, catching in the other's eye the sinister glance of religious diversity or unbelief, seized upon the other to bring him to his knees. But neither party expecting the other's attack, and misunderstanding its harmless meaning, there were immediate and loud calls from both simultaneously for guard and police; and it was only after due explanation from either side that they were both discharged from custody.

Gray had full belief in eternal punishment, and would solemnly declare that everlasting fire awaited all who rejected Mormon truth. If people wilfully accepted the alternative, he would say, how was God cruel to leave them to their own will and choice? The heart was at fault in unbelief rather than the head. If any one pleaded the impossibility of believing Mormonism, he would sharply ask if it was impossible for him to fall upon his knees and pray for true faith, which, if prayed for honestly and in earnest, would certainly be given. And again he would urge people to believe, if only on prudential grounds, for even if religion, after all, proved to be a myth, they lost nothing, whereas if true they lost everything. Above all, he earnestly exhorted converts to abstain from reading or listening to the profane attacks of the outside Gentile world, however plausible, upon Mormon truth.