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Show ( Read it all and profit. Its worth far more than the little you pay for it. ) Inspirations An American Heartthrob Here is a Covered Wagon Day Pioneer Story that should be written in letters of gold and counted as one of the great hearthrobs of American history. Orson Spencer, a stately, educated, cultured young man of the East, allied himself with a most unpopular church. In a New York home of wealth and refinement he had met and courted a queenly girl who consented to marry him. This was against the wishes of her parents and when she took the step they closed forever to her the doors of their palatial home. The couple went Westward to the headquarters head-quarters of the church where they shared the persecutions and mobbing and privations heaped upon a despised people who finally were cast out from home and native land. ' As they began the famous exodus that' bridged the continent she was taken ill and grew weaker from day to day. Word of her condition was sent to her parents with the request that she be permitted to return and stay until she regained her health. The answer was, "No! Not until she renounces her husband and her faith." This she refused to do, and she died there on the cold and somber prairie. No man knows where her dust reposes, but it has become part of her country and at the last day it shall be gathered and she shall rise to shame those who cast her out and to be counted as one of the Jewels arrayed in White who have come up from great tribulation. C.N.L. |