. 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 . ants, who, he must have seen, would soonbe in sore straits for food and clothing. The rations werescanty, and would soon have to be lessened; the nightswere chilly, and fast growing cold ; and already the seven-teen pounds of bedding and clothing allowed to each onewere scarcely sufficient protection ; and as the season ad-vanced, and they approached the mountains, it would betotally inadequate. It was fortunate that they did not
. 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 . ants, who, he must have seen, would soonbe in sore straits for food and clothing. The rations werescanty, and would soon have to be lessened; the nightswere chilly, and fast growing cold ; and already the seven-teen pounds of bedding and clothing allowed to each onewere scarcely sufficient protection ; and as the season ad-vanced, and they approached the mountains, it would betotally inadequate. It was fortunate that they did not knowthe climate of the country, and the terrible hardships towhich they were to be exposed, else their hearts wouldhave failed them, and they would have had no courage tohave recommenced the journey. My father realized it, andso did most of the party with him ; yet they had no ideahow horrible it was to be, else they would have insistedupon their remaining in camp until spring. Even the usu-ally indifferent heart of Joseph A. was touched, and hehurried on to impress upon his father the urgent need forimmediate assistance for those poor, forlorn creatures whom. BRIGHAM S RESPONSIBILITY. 211 he left preparing to cross the mountains, where they wouldof a surety meet the late autumn and early winter storms,and where so many of them must of a certainty perish ofexposure and hunger. He had no faith in the apostolicprophecy, which seemed a mockery to all those who knewthe hardships of the journey which lay before these faithfulsouls before they could reach the Zion of their hopes. My father had been four years absent from us, yet suchwas his concern for the poor people whom he so recentlyleft, and who had been his care for so long, that he couldonly stay to give us the most hurried greetings. His glad-ness at his return, and our responsive joy, were marred bythe thought of the sufferings and privations of those ear-nest, simple-hearted Saints, who had literally left all to fol-low th
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