Show GRAtT J JI I m f rr d ts t His m Plural Wives WiT in an a aI Address at Prore Apostle Heber f r J 3 Grants Grant I remarks before the young younS men and young women of the t of nr last week doubtless caused th Owen u uI I U Ion to be bf instituted hut but a similar ml action a might have been bared Mt d on a speech h he made IDa at the th last Jat quarterly conference nce of the rth O stake On thin thip occasion 1 Mr r Grant Orant nt ntO rambled ts from Al a discourse r rth on the th gospel I into a talk about the th European I mission to which be has hall now parted departed d I I In this th connection lO he M said Id that It lisa hsu long been one of his ambitions to preside over the th European mission He lIe had bad been set pet tf apart for It he be declared a number of years ago but at the last moment the authorities ut Ie deemed It advisable d b to snake make a change In the assignment The Tb reason alien for this was wu explained by y Apostle Drant He said that at t tint that thur prosecutions nn der dr set act ct were r conducted with great vigor and andla in i affect continued The brother who took tee 7 e t MT was to lie f 01 r his h religion The TIle officers i though t T 1 was s hOt not a so to they r were not e t at t last an aft was found e I l learned of ot It through a prominent man to whom I owed ed He came to me and anet told me he could have bave proceedings held op up until I had bad paid hint him hi the money in ina a little while I paid the debt de t and aDd on OD the same day that I f paid it 1 I had Juad a conver conversation conversation lion with this th man Would you believe belle me if I told you Ou a thing was true on my word of honor I 1 asked him hOn himI hOnI I 1 certainly would Mr Grant Orant be hh said for I believe you to be 1 an aD honor honorable honorable able man Yell Weli T J said hi I 1 tell tall you on my y word ward of honor that the lady who wh lives It at a certain number on a certain CertaI street and aDd Who wh Is said d to be my ml second wife is not Dot say any wife at an aM r I 1 believe beUne you said Id ay ny former credit creditor or er Then TIreD he went down to the court house boWIe and had 4 the indictment against a me quashed It was manifestly impossible I ble for tor the lady to b be my second Ond wife said mid the apostle smiling broadly because u e she ab was my third wife And ADd the audience tittered and all but applauded his b utter utterance utterance utterance ance |