. 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 . Feais of Rebellion. — The Struggle of Faithagainst Nature. — Seeking Rest, but finding None. — Brighams Coun-sels.— A New Wife Selected. — My Parents enter into Polygamy.—The New Bride, Elizabeth. — The Marriage Ceremony.— My MotherSealed. — She is to become a Queen. — Domestic Arrangements inPolygamy. — Bearing the Cross. — A First Wifes Sorrows. — Wheredoes Polygamy Hurt ? — The Mormon Husband ; his Position andPrivileges. OFTEN
. 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 . Feais of Rebellion. — The Struggle of Faithagainst Nature. — Seeking Rest, but finding None. — Brighams Coun-sels.— A New Wife Selected. — My Parents enter into Polygamy.—The New Bride, Elizabeth. — The Marriage Ceremony.— My MotherSealed. — She is to become a Queen. — Domestic Arrangements inPolygamy. — Bearing the Cross. — A First Wifes Sorrows. — Wheredoes Polygamy Hurt ? — The Mormon Husband ; his Position andPrivileges. OFTEN wonder if thereis a child in Mormon-dom, bom under theblight of polygamy, whoknows what it is to havea happy, joyous child-hood, rendered morehappy and more joyousby the smiling, calm con-tent of the mother inwhose arms its tiny infantform lies cradled. I fearthe cases are as rare ashappy women , childhood always has a certain careless happiness ofits own, that even the saddest surroundings cannot whollyrepress ; but even this happiness is embittered by the tearfuleyes that gaze into trustful baby ones, and tlie lips that. fiUMiji^S RECEIVING THE FIRST PLURAL WIFE. 99 quiver with pain, as they try to smile back into laughingbaby faces. In the happy homes which I have visited since I brokethe chains that bound me, and came forth a free woman,unshackled in thought and untrammelled in action, althougha wanderer on the face of the earth, with no abiding-placewhere to stay my weary feet, I have been compelled to con-trast the difference between childhood in a monogamiccountry and in a polygamous one ; and when I have seenthe mothers face grow almost divine in its radiant con-tent as she smiled down into the face of the little onesheltered so closely in her heart, I have felt my heart throband ache with jealous anguish for the little ones in Utah,and above all for their weary-hearted mothers, to whommaternity brings no such joy, and added love, a
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