. 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 . h theMethodist Church; and it was while she was in the first PREACHING THE NEW RELIGION. 37 flush of her religious experience that the Mormon mis-sionaries came to Avon, the town in which she lived,preaching their new doctrines. My mother had very nat-urally a great deal of curiosity concerning this new reli-gion, which was railed at as a delusion, and its prophetand founder, Joseph Smith, who was called a hypocrite, afalse teache
. 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 . h theMethodist Church; and it was while she was in the first PREACHING THE NEW RELIGION. 37 flush of her religious experience that the Mormon mis-sionaries came to Avon, the town in which she lived,preaching their new doctrines. My mother had very nat-urally a great deal of curiosity concerning this new reli-gion, which was railed at as a delusion, and its prophetand founder, Joseph Smith, who was called a hypocrite, afalse teacher, a blasphemer, and every other opprobriousname that could be heaped upon him, in the bitterness ofreligious persecution. But she was forbidden to attendtheir meetings, and it was many months before she wasable to listen to one of the sermons. During this time shehad grown somewhat into sympathy with these people, andhad come to feel an interest in them greater than shewould have felt had she not met with such persistent, and,what seemed to her, unreasonable opposition to her oftenexpressed wish to hear them and judge of their sincerityand truth for Preaching the New Religion. After a time, however, she found an opportunity of attend-ing a two days meeting, without the knowledge of herfriends; and she listened eagerly to Joseph Young as heexpounded the new doctrine and dwelt upon the gloriesof the kingdom which was to be speedily set up uponthe earth. Predisposed as she already was in its favor, it. 38 SUFFERING FOR THE FAITH. is not strange that she was readily convinced of its divineorigin, and accepted it at once as the true religion. Beforethe meeting was over, she was numbered among Elder Jo-seph Youngs converts, and was received into the MormonChurch, being baptized by the apostolic hands of his brotherBrigham. When it became known that she had become a convertto the obnoxious faith, she was the object of bitter persecu-tion. The family with whom she lived wer
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