Napoleon allows Moses to return in Chapter IX "after an absence of several years" because his stories of Sugar Cane Mountain take the other animals' minds off the laborious conditions in which they now live. Believing in some place that is miraculous and wonderful (Sugar Cane Mountain in this instance actually represents "Heaven")--even though the pigs repeatedly and contemptously deny its existence--gives the animals the hope and the wherewithal to keep going in this life.
Moses--note the name--is the character who represents in the novel organized religion. He is upbeat, speaks of the "promised land" and is the only character in the novel who is allowed to eat without working. Napoleon probably considers it Moses' job to keep the other animals working on the farm through his preaching of a better place.
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