. 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 . residency. — Free Schools and Liberal Education. — Sharp Practice. — The Rich and the Poor. — Unconscious Sarcasm. — Looking into the Future. — The Spectacles of Ignorance. — PersonalHabits. — The Prophets Barber. — Dinner at the Lion House.—TheGood Provider. — Helping herself — Prophetic Cunning. — EveningDevotions. — A Gift in Prayer. — Advice to the Deity. — FatherlessChildren. — The Bee Hive. — Monogamist vs. Polygamist. NLESS
. 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 . residency. — Free Schools and Liberal Education. — Sharp Practice. — The Rich and the Poor. — Unconscious Sarcasm. — Looking into the Future. — The Spectacles of Ignorance. — PersonalHabits. — The Prophets Barber. — Dinner at the Lion House.—TheGood Provider. — Helping herself — Prophetic Cunning. — EveningDevotions. — A Gift in Prayer. — Advice to the Deity. — FatherlessChildren. — The Bee Hive. — Monogamist vs. Polygamist. NLESS I pause and lookback almost to my verybabyhood, and contrastBrigham Young as hethen was with the Brig-ham Young of to-day,I can scarcely realizethe change that hastaken place in. this I recollect him first,he was a man in theprime of life, with rathera genial face, and amanner which, thoutrhabrupt at times, hadnothing of the assump-tion and intolerancewhich characterize itnow. Indeed there was, at that time, a semblance of hu-mility, which served his purpose well, by strengthening theconfidence of the people in Dinner at the Lion Housb. 5l8 THE MORMON MESSIAH. Had he claimed, at that auspicious point in his career,when accident placed him at the head of this peculiar sect,that he was the peer of Joseph Smith, upon whom had de-scended the mantle of that martyred saint, his pretensionswould have been treated as contemptuously as were SidneyRigdons. His shrewdness plainly showed him that, andhis cunning and tact pointed out to him the surest way ofgaining an ascendency over his followers. He taught them that Joseph was their Messiah; that hewas only acting in his place until he should be restored tothem in person ; which, strange as it may seem, many stillbelieve will occur, and actually watch for his visible pres-ence among them again. Still, that belief does not obtainso generally as it did during the first years after Josephsde
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