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Show f ' . t-v- z t A btf C' i t -- I 4 Jr VOL. II. qi erg fffai hate tys otvtj $ifc, and JV ciern $Uoman have er own Hfmband. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JULY, NO. 4. 7: 2. PRICE 1881. d Mrs. Young at Polo III. marriages from the first wife if she be To the Women of America: . in the least inclined to object or Eds. Standard. Let every happy wife and mother who make any trouble. But if it should be Mrs. Ann Eliza Young was, through reads these lines give her sympathy , evil fallen we are then so, upon truly the exceeding kindness of the Beaut and efforts to free her sisters is from aud the fiayers times, glory departing iful Snow compelled to make our from this degrading bondage . Let all Zion. In earlier days when the faith city a lecent visit of exactly a week. the womanhood of the country stand of the Saints was maintained in its On the Friday evening she lectured in united for them, Thete is a power in purity, no such untoward event could the City Hall, in the regular lecture have occurred. Not only were the course, on Mormonism to a large combined enlightened sentiment and symsisters better trained than now in the and delighted audience. During the pathy, before which every form of injus- duty of unquestioning obedience to night the snow came down in earnest tice and cruelty must finally go down. their lords, but in case that one should and Mrs. Young was our prisoner. But Harriet Beecher Stowe. prove contumacious, it was expressly she was the only one. Quite a ordered that the marriage should take number ofqotf strangers, travellers and etc. place without her presence or consent. were thus compelled to stay. Taking THE FOOLS PRAYER. The prophet Joseph was a wise man, in the situation at a glance, the writer left as he an and that Revelation the the King The Royal feast was done; thought it would be well to secure the made his followers due to banish to heritage services of this talented lady for the Sought some new sport for such contingencies. Sabbath provision evening service. She kindly care, Snow-boun- (or. 10 CENTS. and without price; but, that she received a voluntary presentation of an address and a purse containing a considerable sum of money as some small Sovefnir of her visit and labors among us. The presentation and reception took place in the parlors of the Exchange Hotel. Pardon the length of my epistle. Your paper is a welcome visitor here. May God bless you and it. Yours, . Alexander Alison. Presbyterian Minister. Polo, 111., June 2, 1881. GEORGE ELIOT. Thackeray died during the Christconsented and on that evening the mas holidays, and the greatest of his And to his jester cried, Sir Fool in wise: readeth this a us for auditorium of the Presbyterian successors died at the same time. Kneel now, and make If a woman refuse to give other large Church was literally packed to listen George Kliot for by that name more prayer! wives to her husband, then it is law- to her well known lecture In and out than any other shewill be always The jester doffed his cap and bells, ful for the husband to take them of Utah. known was the woman of the greatAnd stood the mocking court before;' without her consent, and she shall be smile Every body was delighted and those est intellectual power who has written for her disobedience, 'They could not see the bitter destroyed who had never seen her before were at in England. In point of what is called Behind the painted grin he wore. How and when the disobedient wife once made her warm friends. So strong genius, Charlotte Bronte is perhaps knee his is Revelation bent the be to and his bowed destroyed He head, was the feeling elicited in her favor her rival, but for the union of genius, furstool: inform silken to but omits monarchs the us, history Upon that a general desire was expressed to mental force, and scholarly acquirenishes a few facts to supply the omisHis pleading voice arose: 0 Lord, have her repeat on Monday night the ment, George Kliot is supreme among sion. A lady of our acquaintance Be merciful to me, a fool! Mo- her sisters. lecture of Friday evening on folin as her Zion experience gives Her power of sympathetic apprecirmonism. The desire took definite No pity, Lord, could change the lows: I have never consented to any heart shape in the formation of a deputation ation and representation of character but of husbands plural marriages, my as the creative to white of the with wait on Mrs. and Section From red wrong wool; The rod must heal the sin; but, Lord, 25 of the aforesaid Revelation to that has made little difference to him, consent. are now half a dozen women as there in the Territory who call themselves his wives. I have always been outonward the Tis not by guilt sweep spoken in my opposition to polygamy, Of truth and right, 0 Lord, we stay; and have expected to pay for my Tis by our follies that so long boldness with my life. I have freBe merciful to me, a fool! ' We hold the earth from heaven away. These clumsy feet still in the mire, Go crushing blossoms without end; These hard, hands we quently been warned that the President had counseled my husband to have me put out of the way, and the sun has risen on me many a day on which I did not expect to see it set. Another, lady, at present a well thrust s of a friend. known and respected resident of Salt Among the Lake, was declared by the bishop of The ill timed truth we might have her ward, to be possessed of a devil,' kept because of her determined opposition Who knows how sharp it pierced to the introduction of a second wife and stung into the family. What counsel her The word we had not sense to say husband received on the subject is Who knows how grandly it had best known to the aforesaid bishop, rung? but his action in the premises evinced Our faults no tenderness should ask, a firm faith in Section 25 of the RevThe chastening stripes must cleanse elation concerning Celestial Marriage. them all; After praying devoutly that his wifes sinful and rebellious soul might be But for our blunders oh, in shame Before the eyes of heaven we fall. saved, he arose from his knees; took Earth bears no balsam for mistakes; the carving knife from the shelf, and Men crown the knave aud scourge seizing her by the hair, attempted to cut her throat. Her daughter hearing the tool heir cries, rushed in from an adjoining That did his will; but Thou, O Lord, room, and the women by their united Be mercifnl to me, a fool! strength, succeeded in wresting away The room was hushed; in silence rose the knife. They then left the house The King, and sought his garden and took refuge with the wifes friends. cool, The husband married his second love, And walked apart, and murmured low, and the Church consigned the disobeBe merciful to me, a fool! dient wife to the buffetings of Satan Atlantic Monthly. for a thousand years. Another disobedient wife was kept bound with 1 cords for two years, under the plea Sketches from the History of Polygamy. that the devil which had moved How Rebellion was Crushed. her to make violent opposition to her well-meani- ng heart-string- husbands second marriage rendered we know not with what it dangerous to the whole family and truth that the officiating priest of the made it necessary to secure her in Endowment House lately refused to some way. Historicus. solemnize a plural marriage because the first wife of the intended brideSubscribers , who do not receive groom withheld her consent. We do not believe it true, because we have their paper regularly, will please the best information to the effect that notify the Standard, and the matthe policy now is to conceal all plural ter will be attended to. It is said -- secure her genius storyYoung teller was She gave it. Once more prodigious; and among all that Church was packed from stem historical novels her Romola must to stern and every available inch of dispute with Henry Esmond the space was utilised, not even excepting first place. It is a womans picture of the halls and stairways. And what a a woman, and the womans hearts treat those had who were fortunate plea for her, while the setting of the enough to get in. Your readers may picture, the old Italian Florence, is a have same idea of. the enthusiasm in marvellous reproduction, so far as any town when I state that the last meet- modern knowledge can judge. In Adam Bede, the figure of Dinah ing was only decided upon a few hours before the time of lecture and yet the stands with Jeanie Deans, a creation house was packed.In addition to this as pure as Shakespeares women. We , might be said' that under ordinary can not follow the long and vivid list, circumstances the inclemency of the but in the first moments of hearing of weather would have kept more than her death a sense of the great service rendered by such power to mankind half of the people at home. Mrs, Young is a power against po- instinctively recalls the form with is associated. lygamy. Her very appearance seems which it Mrs. Browning calls George ' Sand to secure her friends.. Her simple, thou large brained woman and large earnest, unhypocritical manner and address at once preposessed in her fa- hearted man, and there is much of the same feeling in contemplating vor. God bless her in her work! In both cases, perhaps, She has aroused this city to a unit George Eliot. there is also a similar feeling of pain against polygamy. aud regret with the. aspects and conPolo, as perhaps you are aware, ditions of their private life. Rumor was an under-grounrailway station has said much of George Eliot, but the times of the aboli- few know the facts. The interest of during stormy tion controversy, and the people have the world is with the work of her genever stood together as the blackmans ius, and with her influence and positfriend. Today they wish to be count-e- l ion in literature. She leaves on the side of the law and right behind English no writer in her own kind of against the gigantic evil in Utah, her own class, and the country which am sure I am justified in saying that is proud of Miss Austen, Mrs. Brownas Polo was always in the fore front Mrs. Somerville, and Charlotte and exceedingly liberal in her contrib- ing, Bronte may well lament this death, ution, to the cause of Emancipation, and feel that its intellectual glory a financially, so she will do her duty if! glory which is blended of such varineed be in the same way in any other ous rays has been enriched by the direction that means the amelioration of that power which was of human suffering and degradation splendor self styled George Eliot. Harper's and of raising especially woman, beWeekly. yond the tyranny and lust of selfish and sensual men. We shall always Wanted reliable lady canvassers wecome Mrs. Young, or any like her who come in the name of the Lord in every town and city throughout for the supression of vice and all kind the United States, to whom a liberof evil. al commission will be paid. Addr ess It would be improper to close withy Standard. out adding that Mrs. Young gained the esteem of our citizens, by unselfSend in your subscription for our ishly giving her two lectures (Sabbath ; and Monday evenings) without money second volume. d j Anti-Polygam- |