. 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 . ,Mother, and All. — Marrying a Half-Sister.— Marrying Nieces andSisters. — How Emigrant Girls were Married Off. — Irightful Story ofa Poor Young Girl. — Polygamy and Madness. — One Womans Lovetoo Little. — How English Girls were Deceived.— How Claude Spen-ser committed a Damnable Wrong. — A Girl who was Martyred for herReligion.— How the Bereaved Husband Acted. — A Man with thirty-three Children.— They never cost him a Cent. — A M
. 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 . ,Mother, and All. — Marrying a Half-Sister.— Marrying Nieces andSisters. — How Emigrant Girls were Married Off. — Irightful Story ofa Poor Young Girl. — Polygamy and Madness. — One Womans Lovetoo Little. — How English Girls were Deceived.— How Claude Spen-ser committed a Damnable Wrong. — A Girl who was Martyred for herReligion.— How the Bereaved Husband Acted. — A Man with thirty-three Children.— They never cost him a Cent. — A Many-WivedSaint. — Mixed-up Condition of Marital Affairs. HE Reformation was pro-ductive of nothing butevil. The most revokingand blasphemous doctrineswere taught, and betweenBlood-Atonement, Massa-; ^4 ores of the Gentiles, and^f^ the worst phases of Polyga-mous Marriage, there wasnothing good in the Terri-tory. The whole systemof Mormon reliction was amass of revoltinijf crimeand wickedness. Bigotrywas at flood-tide, and fa-naticism ruled reason. The very thought of it brings ashudder. The most horrible things were taught from the. THE MEN TO SAVE THE WOMEN. 307 pulpit, and decency was outraged every time a Mormonleader opened his mouth to speak. They were all maniacs on the subject of Celestial Mar-riage, and the lengths to which they carried their advocacyof it did not stop with mere absurdities; it became the mostfearful profanity. There was not a pure character in allthe Bible history which their dirty hands did not besmear,and their foul tongues blacken. Not content with bringingup Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and David and Sol-omon, as their examples in the practice of polygamy, Brig-ham Young, in one of his sermons, delivered during theintensest heat of the excitement, declared that JesusChrist was a practical polygamist; Mary and Martha, thesisters of Lazarus, were his plural wives, and Mary Mag-dalen was another. Also, the bridal feast a
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