托斯卡诺回忆说，当天还是个即将踏上传教之路的年轻人时，他对他的主教(大致相当于一个教区牧师)说约瑟·斯密是个多配偶论者。
Mr Toscano recalls that, when he was a young man about to go on his mission, he mentioned to his bishop (roughly the equivalent of a parish priest) that Joseph Smith was a polygamist.
从他们的头上看过去，墙上挂着安琪尔姐姐的画像，她是家中最大的孩子，比安琪尔大十六岁，嫁给一个传教的牧师到非洲去了。
Over their heads hung the picture of Angel's sister, the eldest of the family, sixteen years his senior, who had married a missionary and gone out to Africa.
一位史学家将这个时期称之为“失职的时代”，因为牧师越来越脱离信徒、无心传教。
One historian called it "the age of negligence", as the clergy distanced themselves from the congregation and absented themselves from their pastoral ministry.
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