. 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 . f child-birth, women used to officiate, and Brigham Young com-pelled one of his wives, Zina Huntington, to learn mid-wifery, in order that she might attend her husbands otherwives during their accouche7ncnts. The task was extremelydistasteful to her, as she was not particularly fond of nurs-ing ; and as those to be cared for were her own rivals, she,of course, relished the work still less. But she was a good,conscientious woman, a
. 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 . f child-birth, women used to officiate, and Brigham Young com-pelled one of his wives, Zina Huntington, to learn mid-wifery, in order that she might attend her husbands otherwives during their accouche7ncnts. The task was extremelydistasteful to her, as she was not particularly fond of nurs-ing ; and as those to be cared for were her own rivals, she,of course, relished the work still less. But she was a good,conscientious woman, and her reverence for her husband — ANOINTING WITH OIL. 125 for, strange as it may seem, she did reverence him —would not allow her to resist any commands he might placeupon her ; and her generous nature and strict sense ofjustice would not allow her to neglect any one under hercare, no matter how distasteful the person might be to never carried her personal feelings into a sick room,and always gave her patient the tenderest, most watchful,and motherly care. The world, Mormon or Gentile, doesnot hold a nobler, truer woman than Zina Anointing the Sick with Oil. In the absence of physicians, almost the entire responsi-bility and care of Elizabeth and the boy, my half brother,fell upon my mother. She has often said that in the careshe gave her at that time, she tried to make amends forsome of the bitterness of feeling she had shown never expected to be reconciled to the family arrange-ment; but as it was inevitable, she was determined to doeverything in her power to help everyone concerned in it,and to make the new home in Zion as peaceful and har-monious as possible. It was a difficult task ; but then po- 126 THE DELIGHTS OF CRACKED WHEAT. lygamy is made up of difficult tasks and tning is nothing else in it,—no one palliation for all thewoe. My mother grew very much attached to the child,and he clung to her with loving a
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