. Wife no. 19, or, The story of a life in bondage : being a complete exposé of Mormonism, and revealing the sorrows, sacrifices and sufferings of women in polygamy . be given,For ever and ever. Amen and Amen. This hymn always stirred the Saints to the very depthsof their natures. It was as appealing and sonorous as abattle-cry, as exultant as a trumpet-note of victory. Withoutunderstanding it, I was powerfully affected by it; my cheekswould glow, my eyes flush with tears, and my little heartgrow so large that I would almost suffocate. The sublimeexaltation of the Saints, as they sung this, was
. Wife no. 19, or, The story of a life in bondage : being a complete exposé of Mormonism, and revealing the sorrows, sacrifices and sufferings of women in polygamy . be given,For ever and ever. Amen and Amen. This hymn always stirred the Saints to the very depthsof their natures. It was as appealing and sonorous as abattle-cry, as exultant as a trumpet-note of victory. Withoutunderstanding it, I was powerfully affected by it; my cheekswould glow, my eyes flush with tears, and my little heartgrow so large that I would almost suffocate. The sublimeexaltation of the Saints, as they sung this, was felt by me,child as I was, though I could not comprehend it. I shutmy eyes now, and see a large company gathered together,in a fast-falling twilight, on a wide plain, that seems as end-less as the ocean ; the blue of the star-studded sky is theonly covering for the heads of this company. In the duskthe white-covered wagons look weird and ghostly. Campy-fires are burning; men, women, and children are clusteredtogether, and the talk goes back to the old days and the trialsand persecutions which these people have borne, and forward I20 THAT SOUL-STIRRING Singing the Rallying-Song. to an independent and happy future, blessed of God andunmolested by man. In the glow of anticipation, some onestrikes up this fervid hymn,— the rallying-song of the Mor-mons, — and the wide plainsecho back the stirring nestle by my mothers side,awed and subdued, but con-tent to feel the clasp of herhand and meet the lovinij li-htof her eyes. The song is over,and hosannas and amens resovmd on every side, and outof the blue sky the stars smiledown on the wanderers with acalm, hopeful light. Never, to the ver} last, up tothe time of my abandoning Mor-monism and leaving Utah, couldI hear this hymn unmoved; and even now the very thouglitof it thrills me strangely. I have heard it sung again andagain since then; but it is, nevertheless, indissolubly con-nected with that journey across th
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