The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-03-15
" WE ARE" SHE SAID.


faces, and my own cruel experience, have
liberated my mind. am no longer . Nor
mon, Trean, and when the right time comes
shall take my children and leave it behind
me-"
When she paused the girl was leaning to-
ward her, glad, half incredulous, her whole
lovely form animate with expectancy.
at is true" said Mrs. Smoot, II have
suffered enoughW
'sThen we will go together" cried Trean,
''for disbelieve it, tool' and she put her
arms about her sisters neck and kissed her,
with tears yelling into her shining eyes.
eyes," said the elder woman, with heav-
ing bosom, ''when the right day comes, and
hope it is not far away. we will leave this
region Of slavery. Oh, Trean, have suf-
fered so! For ten years life to me has been
like heavy nightmare" and she drew her
were numb with dull and weary dream.
went on, ''yet, look at me! hair sprinkled
with gray, sunkon cheeks, and old in spirit!
The brand Of polygamyl Love has been
trodden out Of my life; its strengthening,
sustaining sweetness denied me. For ten
years have lived in o house Of shame, be-
iieving that for me life after this hard,
joyless journey depended upon it. O, how
cruel 1t isl
II can't toll you, Trean, how glad I am
that you have determined never to enter 1t.
I have been troubled for years lest you
should believe It your duty, as we are
taught. The death that God gives would be
better, dear; for polygsmy to pure woman
10 living death. I am glad you will never
know its misery.
'six months after Edgar and I were mar
lAl 2Ah ktvvfp q
lived but Q few streets away. Every other
evening he would dress himself carefully
and 20 over and visit her as he used to me.
No language can picture my anguish as I
sat alone at home through those terrible
weeks with hope, and love, and all that I
had expected Of the future, dying out Of my
heart. Insanity often seemed very near, and
the first fruit Of our love, little life which
had begun to feed upon my own, perished
in my grief. After my sickness arose, but
to meet with fresh suffering. could scarce
ly stand alone for weakness when the day
was set for Edgar to be married to the
young lady he had chosen. Words are poor
things to express human feelings with,
and can only tell you Of my racked and
tormented heart; can not show it to you.
''At length the day came, and went
alone to the Endowment House to meet
. thousand years I could not efface that
day from my memory. Its moments were
not moments to me, but thousands Of thorns
over which walked to meet the end Of all
that then to me seemed sweet. That day
my love was murdered.
1.-THE ceremony took place In the old En-
dowment House, building now abandoned,
which stands at the west end Of the Temple
Block. AL the chamber ceremonies Of the
Priesthood were until recently enacted there
When the great Temple 10 finished the
Sacred Orders, endowments, celestial seal
ing, baptism for the dead, and plural mar.
riages, will be administered In it; until then
they are being given in the Temple at Logan,
. town north Of Salt Lake.
II may as well describe the Endowment
House rites from the beginning, Trean, for
II do not you will probably never know
what they are like. It is the Freemasoury
Of Mormonism. No marriage is considered
binding, you know, If in the beginning or
Afterwards 1t is not celebrated there or in q
Mormon Temple. No matter how long two
persons may have been welded, their mar.
| riage 10 not considered lawful and binding,
nor their children legitimate, until they have
been remarked and have partaken of these
disgusting mysteries. Even then their chill
dren, born before, must be adopted by their
parents or they sre not looked upon a. legiti'
mattel This 10 according to the highest
Mormon authority. 1t Is with this ~ with
the general laws Of mankind, to our people
they ere ~ nothing II not indorsed by the
Priesthood. Trean, 1t 10 shameful
"Wel, at seven o'clock In the morning
arrived at the door Of the building, and
found my husband and his new love waiting
In the anteroom. Ny limbs would hardly
support me when / saw them, and such q
weight seemed to descend upon me could
only stagger TO chair and sink into it
gazing ct them with horror and misery. Il
seemed to mo should mover rise again
But Brother Lyon, our Mormon poet, came
forward and reasoned and talked with me
showing me how It was my duty to 60 on with
| the ceremony, and Edgar came and kissed
ne, saying that he would always cherish
me. and that his new wife and should
always b. exactly equal In his affection. o
bitter, hollow mockery Of woman's love
30 got up with my burden, with my sicl
soul and broken heart and went forward
hoping to win Heaven BY life Of sorrow
and The outrage Of my better self.
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