This may have to be added to the protocol:
One of the most interesting things that has occurred to me during this Conference was a visit at the Presiding Bishop's Office of one of my former associates in the Church who was recently appointed a Patriarch and set apart and ordained by Dr. Widtsoe. He told me of how he felt his inability to meet that wonderful calling until he was blessed by Brother Widtsoe, and then he told of the joy he had had in giving blessings to the young people in the Church and of the manifestations that had come to him. Among other things he said that while he was blessing one young man he saw an ev¡l spirit standing by his side, and the impression came to him that the ev¡l spirit was listening to what was being said so that he would know what his mission in life was, that he might try to destroy that mission. It reminded me of a picture I saw in Brussels many years ago, when I was on my first mission, of a man who shot his head off, and by his side stood two angels, one of light and one of darkness, and as he committed the deed the angel of darkness laughed with a laugh of triumph and the angel of light turned his head and wept.
Bishop Le Grand Richards (in Conference Report, Apr 1940, pp 131-132)
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