The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-10
STORY OF A LITTLE MORMON
Her Revelation Of the Priestcraft of Salt Lake

with her wages, as they accumulated
from week to wcek-"hcr precious
moneys tightly held in her hand,
Sunday afternoons she attended the
services at the tabernacle, and one OF
her countrymen-Sven Svenson by
name-wallted home with her, and
came at I in the evening to take her
to the meeting house of the ward IN
which VIC lived. After n while she IN
formed me that they would be mar
ried as soon as she could save money
enough to buy n wedding dress. :,
''You are too young 10 be marrled,
/ said "You are scarcely more than
little girl. You are not yet 10.
"Oh, no. no ma am! girls should
marry when they be very young, and
bring up childrens-,.'leven, twelve lr-
"Who iold you that girls should
marry very young and bring up many
childreu2''
"'The elders at the tabernacle say
so. The missionary sayed so, and Sven
If / happen to die before | be married
| may do not ing but work in the ce.
lestial world for girls that be married
and have many children. They will bo
grand My sister, she be old, old, eight
year olden than me, and she got no
man yet She say to keep her own
moneys be good enough for her, but sho
will be my servant and scrub my door
steps there, where ] will have great
glory. She will have no glory at all
because she be not married.
Nothing that / could say had any
effect upon Lena's mind; whatever the
elders and the missionary said must be
true. If I urged her to try to reason,
she always replied by repeating what
she heard, Sunday after Sunday, at tho
tabernacle-"The elders know what is
right, and will take care for us, same
as If we be their childrens. IT do as
! be told and pay my fittings 1 will
S'Do you know what prosper
means?'
.tNo, ma am, not sure, but I know
it mean much good, or the elders would
not say we shall have it. All they say
is what God say to them for us
Before she had bought a wedding
dress Sven was ordered to go to Den
mark on a mission, and she told me,
with loud lamentations, that he would
be gone two years.
'FDoes Sven know how to preach?'
/ asked.
"Oh, yes, ma am! that is easy to
know how. lie be made an elder, and
thev know. The missionary at Copen-
hagen sayed that Christ be planting
new kingdom here, and sometime
maybe not long time-whcn the mis-
sionaries have been sended all over the
countries and have sayed to everybody
that the Book of Mormon be true. and
there be no peoples who are not Nor
mons, then Christ will come to the tenn
pie TO live, and no one shall be poor
And then we shall be made new, We
shall have died and stay in the ground,
and Christ pick up our pieces and make
us new.
In spite of her grief at parting with
Sven, she found comfort In one thought.
II am so glad we have not time to
be married before he goes, for then |
must wash much to get moneys to send
him. as other womens do when their
man be gone on Il mission. but now
can stay and work for you, and send
him moneys in not 80 hard way
Knowing the uselessness of arguing
with her, I appealed to her sense of
honor: "You should pay your father
first. You have promised to pay him,
and he trusts you.
"I will be long long time in saving
so much - she said dolefully. "FortY
dollar is much, great money! If j had
not TO buy dresses and shoes [ could
save moneys faster. If some lady
would give me all her old dresses /
would sew and sew, to make them small
for me-
A day or two before Sven went away
she came to me with n request: "There
will be a dance at the ward meeting
house tonight, and all the ticket moneys
are for Sven. Will you please say L
may go?'
eyes, you may 60,
"But oh-how shall 1 get in to the
dancing' / am so poor, SO poor, [
have so little moneys to spend"
"Sven will buy ticket for you, Of
course. -