. 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 . nk I HAVE NO TRIALS? IO7 made a wreck by the religion which should be a stay anda comfort, drove her almost wild. She had buried onelittle girl, and I have often heard her thank God that Hehad taken her to Himself before life became a terrible bit-terness and burden. She often says, in referring to hersufferings at that time, and the desperate state she was in,she wonders she did not commit suicide; what kept herfrom it she cannot
. 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 . nk I HAVE NO TRIALS? IO7 made a wreck by the religion which should be a stay anda comfort, drove her almost wild. She had buried onelittle girl, and I have often heard her thank God that Hehad taken her to Himself before life became a terrible bit-terness and burden. She often says, in referring to hersufferings at that time, and the desperate state she was in,she wonders she did not commit suicide; what kept herfrom it she cannot tell to this day, unless the thought thatthese polygamous relations did not end with time, but werecarried on through all eternity. She had to keep a double guard on her tongue and onher actions. She did not like to vex her husband, andneither did she wish to grieve the young wife, whose positionwas no pleasanter than her own. Besides, a husband inpolygamy is very sensitive regarding the treatment of thelast wife by those who have preceded her, and she knewthat no act of hers would escape her husbands notice, evenhad she been inclined to ill-treat her Do YOU THINK / HAVE NO TRIALS? Once, very mildly and kindly, she tried to tell some ofher troubles to Elizabeth, and begged her not to add to hersorrow by bestowing so many marks of affection on myfather in her presence. The young wife turned on herquickly, and demanded, bitterly, — lo8 EVEN WORSE THAN I THOUGHT. Do you think /have no trials? God forgive me, and help us both ; I know you have,^was my mothers quick and sympathetic answer. After all, what could she say or do? She had influencedthe girl quite as much as my father had, believing she wasonly doing what was right, and that the act, hard as it was,would bring its own blessing with it. Instead, it broughtwhat polygamy always does bring — the curse of a wreckedhome and a lifes unhappiness. A gentleman visiting Salt Lake City for the first timeonce asked me wh
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