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Show : )i P n-- i s ct VOL. II. verg 4Hm have 1is oivtf ffife, and yt every Qbtnan have ler or. 7 : own IQuuband. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JUNE, 1881. NO. 3. PRICE which breaks up homes and hearts, and told that it was used for the .To the Women of America: Let every happy 'wife and mother who and puts a brand on innocent chil- building up of the kingdom, and to be glad and reads these tines give her sympathy , dren which they ought never to that they ought C V A childs birthright, (as II. Prayers and efforts W. Wright says in his book on Marfront, this degrading bondage . Let all the womanhood of the country stand riage and Parentage,) is to be born them. There is a power m of the mutual, undivided love of united to free her sisters bear. for That hundreds, combined enlightened sentiment and syrn- - father and mother. thousands of children are not pathy, before which every farm of injus- yes, thus born, both in and out of polytice and cruelty must fin dly go down. Ilamct Beecher Stowe. gamy, is a sad fact. If every child Til F. YESTERDAYS. I take yopr gifts, O, yesterdays, And safe from all unfriendly eyes, 1 set them one by one away, had its birthright, what a different world this would be! But I wish to say there are as true and pure and ood women who have been misled thankful that thev had been able to icstfet in so great a work. Some .. 2. i , who came before Polygamy was an acknowledged fact, lnard rumors of a plurality of wives, but were solemnly assured it was a wicked falsehood, circulated to injure the Church. On coming here, those to whom the existence oLPolygamy had been thus denied, found it an established fact;' ves, more, an actual testofsincerity and adherence to the Church. With some the awakening 10 CENTS. festoof Godbo, Harrison, Shearman, Lawrence, Kelsey and others. If it had not been for such a resistance to the, dominant power, Utah would even now he a most undesirable residence for There are many who still retain n name and place in the Mormon Church whose minds are in the same state as those who have come out of that Church, arid they need to be encouraged, and to know that there are friends who will welcome them, to know that they will not be looked down upon and shunned, but rather commended and received with kindness. At the commencement of this article I used the word reformatory, but I do not understand, neither w;is it intended to be understood that our Society was established for the purpose of bringinn women out of polygamy, but rather to expose the evils thereof and create a public sentiment that will eventually become strong enough to demand its abolition. And surely none can aid us better than those who have themselves experienced its miseries. Let us therefore welcome all such, and avail ourselves of the reliable information they can give in .working for its extinction. Mrs. S. A. Cooke. non-Mormo- -- ns. into Mormonism as there are anywhere. Those whom I allude to was a work of years. Their earnest and sincerity Secure from change or sore surprise. were devoted Christian women. devotion , having God in the and believed confidence them to brought They accepted I take your gifts, glad yesterdays! 1 And when I turn from work to play, whole Bible as the word of God. and firm hopes in the future, they fFrom care to rest, theyll make my They often almost envied the holy put away from their minds the women of old who conversed with doubts and fears that assailed them, joy. its holiday. And make my heart Jesus and his apostles, and when when hearing or becoming cognizant Mormonism wa brought to them, of conduct unbecoming a saintly I take your gifts, sad yesterdays The better deeds 1 might have done, preached, as many of them can tell character, and many learned the The con The tears I might have wiped away, you it was, not as a new gospel, but stereotyped expression: I won. The higher heghts might have as a renewal of former days, a latte- duct of men does not alter the prinr-day Yes, even dispensation, the fulfillment ciples of the Gospel. You show, 0, tearful yesterdays, How poor my lifes most perfect part; of the prophecies of the setting up when the men alluded to held high You tear the crown of pride away, of the kingdom of God on earth, positions in the (so called) priestheart. And give instead a pitying never more to be overcome or de- hood, it was said prophets and I see the wave of summer woods, stroyed, a restoration of the faith, priests in ancient times had gone f once delivered to the Saints7 of the astray but the work of ' God" reI hear the lapse of streams, The murmur of the honeyed pines Some women were begifts and graces promised to be- mained. dreams. Runs sweet and low along my lievers, but which h id been so long guiled into entering households as as a dead letter, such as healing of the wives of men already married. And still a tender heart enfolds the sick by faith and prayer, the Perhaps the position they occupied A faded face, a haunting tone We have been sent from England "The. lingering fragrance of a joy, of the Holy Ghost by the lay- served to open their eyes more fully, gift its own. One yesterday made all ing on of hands, and, more than but, I repeat, only God and their a copy oi the Sheffield Post , contain' I take this, that a spirit of unity, brotherly Otvn hearts can know what a conflict ing an article copied from the Stan your gifts, rich yesterdays! .actuated the they passed through, what anguish dnrd , on the Beauties of Polygamy. Henceforth may no soul call me love and lives and the characters of the dis- they suffered. Some men were in- A friend writes us that our paper is poor: Fortune may strip her gauds away. ciples. Thus it was represented, duced to take other wives, and doing good work in England by enThe wealth of all the past is sure. and is it any wonder that the most strove to live with all in peace, con- lightening the people in regard to We jostle in the careless crowd, devout, the most earnest seekers fidence and unity, showing no par- the peculiar institution, and will no We meet, we part, we go our ways; after higher and holier lives, hoping tiality, exciting no jealousy, but the doubt be the means of preventing But each, unseen, bears up to God and longing for a brighter day and utter impossibility of so doing con- numbers from emigrating to Zion. The sum of all his yesterdays. a greater light, shou.d have accepted vinced them that the system was In some cases, the elders abroad Mary Clemmer. with joy the glad tidings, as they contrary to nature and therefore to still deny that polygamy is taught believed them to be? And God God. But the noblest and bravest, or practiced, and affirm that the k Word Tor ipostates. only knows the sacrifices of home, when thoroughly convinced that principle is only advocated in theocountry, friendship and kindred, this work was not of God, that the ry on earth, to be practiced in the I believe it is a universally ac- made by some to come as they urged infinitely wise and loving father cele tial world. knowledged principle that kindiiess to do and gather with the Saints. never gave a revelation that would and sympathy will go much further lie alone knows what many of them crush the hearts of his daughters, We have received f oin L. H. towards vercoming evils than harsh- suffered as time rolled on, and the taught hatred of ones fel R Publish, 75 Maiden Lane ow creatures or the shedding of In fact, the sad fact became more and more ap- p.uvc. ness and contempt. Ne York ci y a copy of ..Bird.g latter call up resistance and obsti- parent that they had been deceived, blood, some such as I have mena business mans Eye Views, broke in and so is off shook school here not and tioned were the It incubus, deluded, family things nacy. sheet of ready information, contain- in . believe I all came had and been chains bound the as that that other, them, represented; discipline, they 1ste and hand form in and the principle is peculiarly ap- instead of the universal brotherhood, out from among thos.- who, they informartion dail netfded wJhen plicable to all reformatory attempts. the kind care of and interest in the knew, would hencef rdi be the.r writj leUers. Th'is is a v Those we wish to help should be well fare of the poor there was a sort enemies, came out at the risk ot uble publication, and is only twen- made to feel that we desire their of moneyed aristocracy combined being denounced, of having all man- Send to the bHsll five cents good, but if we 'assume a sort of I with a high position in the Church, ner of evil stud of them, of being ,.)r I whose am holier than you attitude to- and favor and hospitality were be- counted covenant-breakerwards them, if instead of lamenting stowed on those who could pay the only chance of salvation lay in their mistaken views, and endeavor- largest amount of tithing. Money having their earthly tabernacles Wjmted reliable lady canvassers ing earnestly to show them wherein loaned to the Elders on promise of destroyed. jn every town, and city throughout comand be in are mistaken rival on we not Should these the ai deceived, they valley, persons payment United States, to whom a dethem and in linnas of some instances no little and It required speak ignorant money placed a commission will be paid. Address and unfit to as associate with, in the same hands for sale keeping ness, fortitude ami courage to do as based, y Standard. can we accomplish any good ? was withheld on one pretext or an- they have done, and many names think not. The polygamy question other, and the owners thereof were go down to history as heroes whose Send in your subscription for our is one of deep interest to us. 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