The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-03-22

came in, and began in great confusion, each
one proclaiming his special creed. Among
them was Satan preaching, too. and every
now and then the others would stop and
listen to him and then 60 on declaiming j
after his fashion. Then in came men rep
resenting Peter, James and John, the
Apostles, end drove all the others out
They then proceeded to organize the New
Church, the scarfs that we had been provided
with being changed from the right shoulder
to the left, indicating that we were now Of
the true belief.
1.-THE men were then formed in Q circle
round an altar, with arms linked and
hand upon each others shoulder. The
women were also placed in q circle, but ON
the outside with walls over their faces. Tho
High Priest then knelt at the altar, and,
taking one Of the mems hands In his left,
raised his right to Heaven, and prayed. He
asked that the day might soon come when
the Lord would avenge the murder Of
Joseph Smith upon the United States; that
the time might hasten when they would bo
united no longer, but should fall upon each
other and be destroyed, that the Kingdom of
God might roll forth and Hll the world. The
Priest said this was electric prayer; that
the faith and strength Of the two circles,
being connected with him, passed up in his
prayer and laid hold on the heart of tho Al
mighty.
1--WE were then given an oath Of special
obedience to the Prophet, accompanied by
grip which is called the grip Of tho nail.'
1t consisted in clasping each other around
the hand with the point Of the index finger
resting on the wrist, and the little fingers
linked together, the point on the wrist
where the index finger rests being the sup
posed spot where the nails were driven
through the wrists Of Christ. The penalty
for revealing this oath and grip is to have
the heart torn out, cut up in small pieces,
and thrown to the fowls Of the air. This
concluded the Second Degree.
1--WE were then led by a stairway to an
upper room. The ceremonies had already
lasted five hours, and was so weary, and
sick in body and OF heart, had to be assist
ed up the stairs. The room we then entered
was divided by curtain, and in the curtain
was door, and in the door hole, covered
by a lap of cloth, through which to pass the
hand. The men first approached the door,
and person representing the Apostle Peter
appeared at the opening and asked who was
there. He was told that the Saints desired
to enter A hand then came through the
hole and cut q mysterious mark in the mems
clothing over the heart across the abdomen,
and upon the knee. The women were in
structed to initiate these marks in their own
clothing as soon as they arrived at home.
The applicant was then told to put his hand
through the opening, give the last grip re-
ceived in the room below, and whisper his
new name in Saint Peters eur. He was
then permitted to enter. This is called
going behind the vail
'sFrom the curtained apartment we were
ushered into the sealing or marriage
A-.-r
life. In the center of the room was long,
low altar, GOV cred with red velvet, and an
armchair placed at one end of it, in which
sat Brigham Young. Here at this altar I
was to give my husband to another woman
To have followed him to his grave would
have been bitter indeed, but to see him the
husband of another, to have to join their
hands myself-O that was terriblei Yet, I
had sworn to obey, and my life was at
stake; could not go back.
1.-THE Prophet himself performed the
ceremony. He sat at the end Of the altar
and we three knelt down, Edgar upon one
side, and his anlanced and myself upon the
other. Speaking to me, the Prophet asked: {:
Are you willing to give this woman to
your husband to be his lawful vito for time
and eternityi II you are, you may signify
It by placing her right hand within the
that momentl 1t was like death coming
upon me. tried to do as had been COM
manded, but every thing seemed dark and
swimming about me. I could not find the
lady's hand, and the Prophet had to guide
my hand to hers; then the deed was done,
and fell back insensible upon the floor"
The poor woman could not 20 on for weep
ing, and Trean put her arms about her,
with her own clear eyes suffused and her
fair face strained and white with indigna-
ton. What could he said of such treat
menti What wero words worth in such q
casei o, for clauses Of fire for sentences
that Kissed like vipers with which to empty
her soul Of its loathing! She sat still and
head upon her bosom, and letting her ease
her sore and weary heart in tears; then she
said, brokenly: "Iet us CO."
The sun had long since consumed itself
upon the western heights, and the shadows
Of dusk were gathering in the valley. They
| arose and passed down In silence; but half
that night Trean Hartman mentally revolved
herb eloved sisters story, and its shame and
heartless cruelty swayed her sensitive
| spirit like Q reed She felt, through her
love for Elchard, how like tearing the heart
| asunder would be such an experience, and
she promised her soul, a. she lay there
| alone In the darkness, that whatever might
come, even to death itaelf, she should never
be untrue to the sweet light that per-
vaded 1t.
She tried to picture to herself what her
sister must have suffered in the ten years
that followed, in bearing that burden
which, when 1t was laid upon her in the
Endowment House, had crushed her sense
less to the earth. She thought Of her sis
ter's first night Of bereavement; Of how
much Of agony must havo been crowded
into the hours as she paced to and fro in
her room until the dawn came, with her
husband and his new wife under the same
roof. Surely souls In the neither world
were never moro wrapped in tormentinG
fire than was hers that nighti Then the
days that came after, stretching away into
years, and each day fresh wound, until at
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TEE NEW WIFE IN THE HoNl.
last love was dead, her bosom empty Of
hope, and she drifted away from the un
worthy one who had won her, like Z