Let it not be forgotten, however, that toleration is not acceptance.  I may believe with the utmost fulness of my soul’s powers that I am right and my neighbor is wrong concerning any proposition or principle; but such conviction gives me no semblance of right for interfering with his exercise of freedom.  The only bounds to the liberty of an individual are such as mark the liberty of another, or the rights of the community.  God himself treats as sacred, and therefore as inviolable, the freedom of the human soul.

   “Know this, that every soul is free
    To choose his life and what he’ll be;
    For this eternal truth is given,
    That God will force no man to heaven.

   “He’ll call, persuade, direct aright,
    Bless him with wisdom, love, and light;
    In nameless ways be good and kind,
    But never force the human mind.”

“Mormonism” contends that no man or nation possesses the right to forcibly deprive even the heathen of his right to worship his deity.  Though idolatry has been marked from the earliest ages with the seal of divine disfavor, it may represent in the unenlightened soul the sincerest reverence of which the person is capable.  He should be taught better, but not compelled to render worship which to him is false because in violation of his conscience.

In further defense of the Latter-day Saints against the charge of inconsistency for this their tolerance toward others whom they verily believe to be wrong, let me again urge the cardinal principle that every man is accountable for his acts, and shall be judged in the light of the law as made known to him.

There is no claim of universal forgiveness; no unwarranted glorification of Mercy to the degrading or neglect of Justice; no thought that a single sin of omission or of commission shall fail to leave its wound or scar.  In the great future there shall be found a place for every soul, whatever his grade of spiritual intelligence may be.  “In my Father’s house are many mansions,” (John 14:2), declared the Savior to his apostles; and Paul adds, “There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.  There is one glory of the sun and another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory.  So also is the resurrection of the dead,” (I Cor. 15:40-42).  The Latter-day Saints claim a revelation of the present dispensation as supplementing the scripture just quoted.  From this later scripture (see D&C, Sec. 76), we learn that there are three well-defined degrees in the future state, with numerous, perhaps numberless, gradations.