in 1920, evans published a book explaining why he left the rlds church. he wrote that while the "reorganized 'mormon church' does not teach or practice polygamy", the "great sin" of the church "is in denying that joseph smith, their prophet, seer and revelator, received revelations commanding the church to enter into that god dishonoring and woman debasing doctrine under pain of eternal damnation". faced with these facts, evans concluded that he "could no longer believe that god and christ visited and conversed with smith" and that he must have been a false prophet. although it was not central to his reasoning, evans also mentioned that frederick m. smith was "neither a prophet, seer, revelator nor god's mouth-piece to the church, but is an autocrat, cruel and tricky, and selfish in his methods."