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The great and spacious building

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14 The attendant declared that they must not let go, for letting go had been discouraged with considerable emphasis.

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15 Then Sariah asked how he proposed they should carry the entire riverbank to supper.

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16 The travelers used the rail while it helped, released it when they had reached firmer ground, and returned when another person needed help across.

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17 Thus the rod remained a tool, and did not become an owner of hands.

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18 And the keeper wrote: Hold what helps thee stand; keep the freedom to examine what thou art holding.

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19 The mist returned on another morning. Their earlier crossing had not permanently abolished weather.

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20 They were permitted to learn the path again.

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FIRST NEPHI / CHAPTER 6

The great and spacious building

The building sells liberation from approval; its upper floors require increasingly expensive evidence of independence.

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The great and spacious building.

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1 And I shit you not, across the water stood a great and spacious building, exceedingly full of persons who had opinions about the persons outside it.

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2 Upon its balconies they laughed at the travelers who were eating fruit without having selected an appropriate audience.

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3 But a reformer declared that the building had misunderstood its purpose, and opened a new entrance for those who rejected the old entrance.

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4 Above the new door he wrote: FOR PERSONS BEYOND APPROVAL.

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