Show I 1 written fur for the soil sait lake 1 TIED TO THE STAKE e 1 oll O a MARTYRS or OF LATTER DAYS I 1 I 1 HT IKS A 0 1 ADDOCK J rAll CI CHAPTER VIL VII you yoa understand that the religion or of tho the latter day caiola aa to lo joseph smith is ia a restoration of the early modo mode or of worship iu in all its ill Iri tris alino LinO purity thu people hoopla are act apart by the almighty to brine about lio he religion and mode of 0 life orthe ol 01 the caly wo we aro are told by lier clation to our prophet that the race of man who tro tire fir far gone in wickedness bo be again destroyed irons ff 11 I 1 ho he face fica of the earth carth the 01 ol owera or joseph smith being the only oaly remnant to perpetuate tho human rico racel and fill up the watal places placer in of ill mission wo we must cast abide alio abo siofu habits br tytha the people with whom wo ve livo live and pay no greater obdie to their 1 6 a than is il necessary to preserve prea trva our live wo we bend to the tha irresistible fury of tho the storm koo knol wog that in god tj ii good time limo it will abate thus thul lou on teo tee that y ith a community of good 11 a mil ad the lie adoption of 0 a pastoral il life wa we also alao a plurality r liy of wives this th n lattal only duly lins has beet enjoined upon tho the prophet joeph by revelation rev dation and while whilo at nan v m 0 luc lie divine ditino was wa practiced a mong thi the saints bu I 1 liia his ienco to divico command moot meat could not bo be withheld ironi from t the 11 0 or of our rn rillo le neighbors and they our ticia by their licit own lustful boarts ho irta very soon set t up it a clamor about the af tb tho 0 morcom Moric uns I 1 i i thickened around us onil it lemd evident blat we vt mait either cither right fight nod die for our faith baith where wo ire uvie or be ba darivin hosa fram the country ciuni ry ll 11 given to have all the hn pala J to men inen who ahl a 0 inal olli iski aki caro of them my wife sifoa young elite enter T was living with us no at tho the terue her arcanti were doid dead sad a at iii ha bd b id no other homo home or friends Iri ondi I 1 uan it cin clid to marry acry her you ars wallace could not elpe alence a cheater hock chock if such a command was lil upon your husband buo bind thao I 1 did at t first lii lb da jano who was only fifteen f t fj een had been bean to we me like lika my own alt r or r ake ono one of my c hildron children and birdest dest of aai I 1 ws was the tha thought of my wire wili lovci umeso icso much moch better than I 1 door ved how should I 1 icier ner toll tell her iha Miso rabla dy day and nd night I 1 lait li it before I 1 found courado aptak t tl ler and her anguish when sho eho koew all but bat hard as i it was for both boil of at us ue we dared ull disobey dia oboy a divine requirement As AI foriano for Jano this lie was bekhor shocked nor as I 1 lad bad thought cha would be sho she WL 04 only a child ani and WM was accustomed to receive K aciro without question whatever pike iho vaa mas tax taig ight bt sol 0 I think without any ny on her part she eha be caubo my liti eife tor for time and eternity ilo ho his always lived with her meter and has been on the whole much the th harpoot of the no ao my firby wife though lit a vincene believer in tha that has co k her so mush lim 1161 not iret larned to anko too the bocci lice fleet demanded of ter ler c cheerfully he oreally or rally I 1 cannot bonde at it T tho he only won der ia that our women boar bear as aa well as they do da the heavy brosi laid on them tho the tight sigh t of marys patient sorrowful face ice breaks m L a s tt s u loi i m t ii ho 0 p au s e d h here e r e sl and nl wiped great crops of sweat from his bis loro nead lite his bu ruddy raddy colo failed to a sickly and be seemed tal be tiling with memories that over pow erad ered hini bim E chimits him as he oat bat t ilent ali there here is IB some good in hira him liter alter all oh jb for or toma soma awer to tho the toalei to fill li from lim hiie e 10 jes 51 allot after a fe lt minutes be i e a ii 1 when we weri j daiv driven en forn rom gau von wo we crossed the plains with willi my and sil Aers and mide made a home homa in salt lake hero I 1 was wai greatly prospered prospered and was coot continual inual ly urge to talie take another wife filoi us bs I 1 was well ible able to support a larger fam ily fly two aoam age io I 1 lit a young voting girl into inlo my mr house sho she wa wai homo home acir afi frien friendless dIess and imar I 1 mar nod her gave gato her a good housa to live in and provided bet harith with every comfort before I 1 on in this mu inis mon lion 1 she lias jim ono one chill alax mary aul and lier her ei sater each liae bao four I 1 think I 1 love lova 11 all ll my children alike though toy iny two tire girls girla that were boru born in nauvoo I 1 in I 1 the I 1 le happy days 01 ol of in y mar riago seem nearer to we mo on some fomo accounts esther 1 felt elt strom strongly 91 y inclined t put of a question that she feare feared a laikit gie ive pain aill she eho thought it would 50 do him no harm to probe his big faith and toa tit its ill soundness moro more rally fully so 60 she asked colo yon love all conr wives alike all ah mrs wallace he bo said bud that is it a lard hard question I 1 treat them all alike as my religion roe requires laires b bat t my myda damaral tural inclinations tiro am not cot entirely u su blued and if I 1 answer boo boa I 1 must say that uary miry has the ibo first place in ia my heart cart at this point their conversation I 1 waa pt by y the return of 0 winnie to a aad a r father vi who 0 hail beon out for r a arico across t the be prairie mrs wallace Wal cs thought that brother daniels looked relieved sti al lie ho saw lav her hul husband band aad tho could not w won at it soi for the inquisition to which he bo had been subjected ted boull have hav boon bood trying to the feelings 1 of a las senti sensitive tive man thau than the ibo had shown himself to lo 10 As AH mr mi Lopit ably insisted that their visitor should remain to supper and afta awards found much to say to him about his hid own it was quilo lato lefure lie ha took his leave and aad E ther found an n opportunity of speaking with her a lilt linit bi nd about tuo the after aate rith coong co conora alion remember how positively lie be had tile the reports she lad had heard of tho the fia po collar ili arriag ge customs of the saints abe ba expect eid tut he would bo be still more and thau than asbe aishe had bad been when ho he learned the dicta but though he bo looked disturbed BJ as bhe gave him brother DAul els dierig in ia detail they hey did nob met affect him as she eho bad they would after lid al the she bad to toll he be said brochon Br othon never mon men f ened I 1 thee subject of or tiltil til til mar ris goto me mc K I 1 cannot thick that the Iho saints Sainta count it among thu the mol molt mohl t of the G boax I 1 brother daniels is a 4 good mau but IB as you con can goo atas you your aeK it la bs be booge to a els from whom we TO may expect mora zeal n e came hero I 1 baville havu leir arvied neil f from oun him and others something with regard to tao nature and aad object ol of aliese mar but I 1 atu am certain that be ba lay too much tires s oo on you bibly reprobate the practice of polygamy poly I 1 emy sa as he be it moro strongly than I 1 do da it isono of abisco that creep into the church through the iha waa kaess bad and blin deem of oti I 1 human baman nature but we must riot reject tue the truth aconis bc onis of the error that is il mixed with it il present conditions of jf humanity wo we will never gud a body ol of believers who hold no BO mistaken views view a and aad in ia aulgo in no practices tho the lilter day sainta elto as I 1 am aai fitial y convinced hold more troth and lees ia error thin than any ny other religious rc ligou ou on earth aud and as they are areail likewise owins tile only people who allow thol r by their aula and all tb g 0 cor the Goe sake I 1 blell fee 1 called W lout my ta them I 1 re grot grettha the existence ot of plural marriage amoia akoob thorn them but I 1 am gore that when wo wc got get there we TO shall hau find it practiced principally bythe by th aclus clus of whom be in brother daniels is a matire ind and wonted not affiliate with them ibal BA avink for a mom moment cint add 1 esther st bor of bringing UD no our daughter in tho the midst of euch buch surroundings you know how bow sho aria 19 is and aint baw easi easily lacars by abat the alio sees and bean 1 I will tra l her mothers counsel couo nol prid example to keep her front from every maro thero h n no daiger or lier glicr being brought in ia contact with any thin g of tho the sort ort at home and aou 5 cu choose h booso her for her oil ait oit ton bido n do bf b the filmily family we are arc not certain tb th we cm receiving tho the members families into int 0 our house and an it spiritual marriage marria iiO proves to tl be afta doctrine amoric tile sina saints you ou will doubtless lo be 10 viii tid by the brethren with regard to fo 3 our ow own duty in the matter Eith tharl crl ilo pronounced this one word sword to so reproach heully and looked EO deeply hurt that tho hair liall repented ot of what abo hoil said Bid bidaut I 1 but though she saw BOW low shocked and aid wounded lie wu WM now at tho the ban sag te atlon that hr his brethren might think it his hia duty doty to take another wile si ero 0 deew that the iho same idea if i presented to him again and again in the nam name 0 of the lh frith faith ho he had M would soon boon growth grow 1 0 appear less repulsive and 1 lor for to hii s sike mpr lor her own and nil for tho the sake bake 0 of r on oar r child sh chevas sho evas was doter ruined to have bato a clear understanding with him in ia regard to tho the matter thorh a t ofa little pain s so 0 without giving him time to protest a i oat I 1 th tha ability a aj edwon which sho she ltd a d hinted the wont t 03 1 I have loen been told that the mormon prophet e t is in tho the husband of ciany wivel 1 I meant to have brother daniels today to day oi as to tho the truth of this thi report but you can speak to it it lees docs not stem seem ro roto however howo TOr tint thit plural marriaga mAi mar riago would be practiced by the people without bu big sanction tan clion whether holets them an 0 aa mple lia n tho the matter or not the prophet ii only a man and liable i tor mad 0 imis like othet meni X if he his j erred sa far ii at to kite give tho the camo and blaco of wito wife to more women than am sorry but I 1 would not on that account under value the good ho he b bos as done d 11 the truth lie ho staches aches It ches va david 1 1 1 1 orz I wh eject i a on maji an after gods own heart jetco itt ho erred very sally in this someway same way but we do not mot therefore I 1 1 throw aside his 1 I dont think brigham young could bring tho the excy excuses ses lor for in such auch practices today to lo day that divid david had bid bamo bomo no thousands thousand of years ago wi int but W whit hat ho he does docs is of much leu lebs coose quence to lo mo me than what you ma may JO do my chief car is that a long real residence 10 enco among this thil people may familiarize I 1 ami lianzo you yon with tile the idea of plural marriage and make it tem loss repellant to you allan ban it it n now esther I 1 du did pot not expect ekpo expo it this or 0 you and I 1 dont think I 1 hue deserved it I 1 have been beoo your husband bt years what la laio o 1 I dome or ell flat ea to do in all thiu that timo t weaken your faith in me Not nothing hiag dear I 1 havo have trusted eJ you all 11 in au all and I 1 dont think tile hie ly day will ever elbr wine come when youl you will consciously 4 wrong me it is a change of not a change in heart 0 which I 1 am speaking your views have hate changed greatly 1 within the past tow months and in this thia very particular coo year ago agoy yon 0 would ill d have found a much stronger term than erro erroneous to tuch such a clice as aluia ma maitia gc well it yon think it pos gt sib leor 9 for me to change so BO greatly us as to forget the sacredness of my marri carriazo azo V vows 0 73 I 1 will give you my solemn clemn aritta t p romise hero here tonight to night to enter ioto into a marriage coi coio Dant with any woman eave ave yourself youra olt no charlos charles if the promise you made when I 1 evo the happiness hip of my whole life into pur keeping does doea not blad bind you nothing would 1 but bat 1 I i resist on making such bach a promise prom ifie I 1 dont want to be haunted by tho the thought the that t you are ara liciag in 10 daily fear ofay my taking another wife and with something of the ibe petulance of a spa spoiled led child wallac Wall nc withdrew in search of his hia wilting materials E Es 4 abor looked after him with it a sad bid smile emilo ho really believes poor follow she eho thought that this will help mot mat tore well it will do no harm and I 1 will not him any forth farther er 1 I 1 la in a few minutes es ho bo came back with a bond in vis hand it wa a legally worded document co cov crinK about a page and dated and bignes with duo due formality he baked asked litlie lit lir to read it and place it with her marriage marri iee certificate and to please him rho pho did so hoaas ho nag too seriously bously howe ver to get over it at once and ami for ot the first time in lier her darriol mar riol life esther laid aid her head bead on her pillow without her husbands goodnight good night kissa diw I 1 to ie |