Negroes are not admitted to the Mormon priesthood. . . The Book of Mormon accounts for this by relating the history of the gods. When Jehovah led the hosts against Lucifer and his legion, there were a few spirits which took no part in the combat; they would side neither with the right nor with the wrong; they tried, as it were, to sit on the fence. They were the stand-patters, the middle-of-the-roaders of that mythical day. . . The fact is that negroes, as a rule, are not thrifty, and the Mormon Church wants no one who is not thrifty.