The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-18
THE MISSIONARY'S JOY.
He Maps Out n Course Of Study for
His Wife.

His Wife.
New York, November 10 1890
My Darling ALICE cannot tell, swee,
wife, OF the Joy and satisfaction that
thrilled my soul while reading your dear
letter. Tho little glimpse of home-liie
tho gate. her golden hair streaming IN
the pure mountain air. the love-hsht In
OF her dear mother at the door-l see 1t
ALL and even above the din and hustle
Of this modern Gomorrah. l hear your
voice and hers.
that | know the love of true Latter
day Saint is of a different kind from th9t
which St.rs the heart of the Gcntiie, IL
is armer, stronger and broader, lor u
has been revealed to us, and We know
moro fully than the Gentle can ever
hope to know, that our children are I'M,
mortal beings and that they have hEed
in another state before coming TO TINS
world. They were ours before birth, ana
ours they will be throughout eternity ,
for the change called death does not ana
cannot break up the family relation 1t
is this that leads the Mormon TO Neorn
so for children. Not alone, as you know,
for their love bat for their and ms
own. eternal glory.
You did well Alice. In asking me to
map out n course OF study which would
lead your thoughts away from those rest
destroying phantoms which seem To be
haunting you First. | would have YOU
take the Doctrine and Covenants ana
Then read carefully the comments on
this same subject by that great philos-
ophor OF the Saints, whose honored Chris
tan name | bear Orson Pratt In them
YOU Will learn that which viii drive away
what Jealous thoughts You may nave al
lowed To lead YOU from the path or obedl-
cnce and truth, and 1 must say, Alice
mako YOU willing even to share your nus.
hand with another, although you eXacted
from him Il promise never to take an
other as his wife.
ABOUT THE PROMISE,
Pardon me, dear Wife; that promise was
ell the deep secrets OF our glorious re
IigIon. The woman who has become
true Latter-day Saint, who has made
her marriage vows within the molly tenn
pie of our God. you have done, can
rot hold her husband TO such compact
The reason j need not but nevertheless
viii, explain. You yourself have said It,
and one OF your recent letters has empha-
sized it, that polygamy is the highest
state a man or woman can enter either
in this world or the life TO come. Why
is IL the highest statep Because tho high
cst celestial glory can only be attained
by those who thus immolete themselves
upon the altar of obedience to divine com
;nand The manifesto issued by that holy
prophet of our God, President Wilford
Woodruff, did not do away with polyg-
amy but only left II In ubeyance until
such time as the power would be gwen TO
The Saints to resume the relation-in the
Cnted States,
You may think this Is harsh. my wife.
it may even cause you tears but dear
my love for you, for by my hope of cter-
nal felicity ] swear II, my heart is as
truly yours today, yes, even more fully
yours, than on the ga2 morning eight
years ago when L claimed you as my
bride.
You deprecate your want OF faith Alice,
my darling, IT. is not want of faith which
thus causes YOU to suffer. but the want
Of control over your unruly heart. II you
will turn your thoughts TO the great
eternity which we shall spend together in
glory the trials OF the little span of life
VIC have on this plane VIII seem very
small: we shall then be as gods.
In one portion of your letter YOU urge
me not 10 think OF the material beauty OF
Emma Bell. You even go so far as TO
point out that my duty as missionary
ceases when she ia converted to our
faith. Alice, / ask YOU candidly. does IL
cease2 What if you had been left In
Tennessee after you had accepted the
ordinance Of baptism? Would YOU have
been grounded In the faith as you are
rCN, or would YOU have been led away
by every wind of fnlse doctrne2 / fear,
little wife, that your feelings run away
with your reason
ANOTHER NICE GIRL.
! AT the opera which In my last l told
YOU l would attend with the Bell fam
ily. 1 met a cousin of Miss Emma. She
Miss Endicott, n scion OF one of the old
Virginia families She is on visit to her
New York relatives. Miss Endicott is one
of the most beautiful women | have ever
met SGe Is very different from her
cousin, Emma Her mother is a creole
and she has inherited oil the dark love
Illness OF that race OF beautiful women.
Her hair Is a blue-black and her features
regular those of the Venus de
Medici The most striking tSing about
her Is her eyes. which arc those large
dreamy. black orbs that seem to look
beneath the surface and read your very
soul.
The following afternoon l made my re-
turn call and we were soon In religious
discussion, She is a Catholic and very
tenacious OF her views, But when l
pointed out. even from between the lidg
Of her own Catholic Bible, the evidence of
our faith she was staggered. When ,
left IT was with pressing invitatica TO
return in the near future and resume
the conversation. This I have already
Gone. ] see signs, unmistakeabe signs
mat she is ready to Investigate tho
truth of our Latter-Gay dispensation
bind me to the Bell mansion
l send you by this same mail some of
The newest successes in music, How l
would love to hear you sing them,
My darling. the hour is getting late.
and must draw this letter to a close. Re
member me In your puro prayers. Last
night | dreamed that you wcro with me
md row. over the vast expanse OF plain,
;iNcF and mountain, | send YOU the kisses
! ~Etu you then.
Your loving husband
ORSON.