. 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 . Book of Mor-mon, dwelling particularly on the passage that expresslycommands that a man shall have but one wife ; then mentionsthe Bible command that a man shall take a wife and cleaveto her only; and made the sermon so strong and so con-vincing that no further proof was asked by those whoheard him. His manner was impressive. He was sor-rowful, he was indignant, he was reproachful; he was elo-quent, and fervent, and almost inspire
. 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 . Book of Mor-mon, dwelling particularly on the passage that expresslycommands that a man shall have but one wife ; then mentionsthe Bible command that a man shall take a wife and cleaveto her only; and made the sermon so strong and so con-vincing that no further proof was asked by those whoheard him. His manner was impressive. He was sor-rowful, he was indignant, he was reproachful; he was elo-quent, and fervent, and almost inspired, thought those whoheard him. He was logical and convincing in what hesaid. In short, he was a consummate hypocrite, lying inthe name of God to a confiding people, with a smoothtongue and an unblushing face. He employed a French lady— one of his converts, anda most charming and cultured person — to translate thesermon for him into her own language. He then had itpublished, and distributed largely through the many were kept from apostatizing by this tract, anda large number announced their intention of at once 330 A CONSCIENCE-STRICKEN Apostle John Taylor.[Husband of Six Wives.] gathering to Zion. Among them was the lady who hadtranslated the sermon for Taylor, and who, influenced by the spirit of the discourse,and the seeming earnestnessof the missionary, had be-come more zealous than everin her devotion to her newand ardently beloved faith. Imagine, if you can, herhorror, on reaching Utah, atthe social state of affairswhich found her there, anddiscovered that she not onlyhad been grossly deceived,but, in her ignorance, hadhelped to deceive so manyothers ; for it was through theinfluence of her translation of Taylors denial that nearlyall the party with whom she emigrated had come. She apostatized at once, but she was conscience-strickenat the part she had so unwittingly played, and could not becomforted. A more remorseful, grief-stricken woman wasnev
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