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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: errand, though neither he nor any one in Utah dared to
disobey; and it was with every mark of diffidence that he had
had himself announced as Mr. Aspinwall, and entered the room
where our unhappy family was gathered. My mother and me, he
awkwardly enough dismissed; and as soon as he was alone with
my father laid before him a blank signature of President
Young's, and offered him a choice of services: either to set
out as a missionary to the tribes about the White Sea, or to
join the next day, with a party of Destroying Angels, in the
massacre of sixty German immigrants. The last, of course, my
father could not entertain, and the first he regarded as a
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