"Then you'll stay with me tonight. I am not much on religion, but if you will mix a little information about America with your preaching, I shall be pleased to listen to you." These conditions were easily agreed to. So, after a good supper, the two young men seated themselves comfortably by the shaded lamp on the library table. The missionary spread out his book of views and explained each of the pictures. He told of the great stretch of arid land in western America, of the ranches, of the high mountains, of the fertile valleys made fruitful by irrigation, and of the wonders of the great Salt Lake. "This is the Temple." "Yes; and what is that for?" The purposes of temples were explained. "You say you baptize for the dead?" enquired Henrik, "How is that?" "Well, as I was telling you when I called on you some time ago--" "Pardon me, but I must confess that I did not pay enough attention to what you said to remember. I was thinking about those quarreling tenants of mine. Tell me again." The other smiled good-naturedly, and did as he was asked. Henrik listened this time, and was indeed interested, asking a good many questions. "Now, about the Temple," continued the missionary--"we believe that every soul that has ever lived on the earth, that is living now, or that will ever live must have the privilege of hearing this gospel of Jesus Christ. There is only one name given under heaven by which men may be saved, and every creature must hear that name. Now, the great majority of the human race has never heard the gospel; in fact, will not hear it in this life." "Where, then, can they hear it?" "In the great spirit world. Christ, when He was put to death went and preached to the spirits in prison--those who were disobedient in the days of Noah and were destroyed in the flood; and no doubt the saving power of Christ has been proclaimed in that spirit world ever since. Among those who hear, many will believe. They have faith, they repent of their sins, but they can not be baptized in water for the remission of their sins." "No; of course not." "And yet Christ definitely said that unless a man is born again of water and of the spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. What is to be done?" The listener, leaning over the table, merely shook his head. "Paul speaks in I Cor. 15:29 of some who were baptized for the dead--and that is a correct principle. The living may be baptized for the dead, so that those who have left this world may receive the gospel in the spirit world and have the birth of the water done for them vicariously by someone in the flesh." "This is strange doctrine."