The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1907-01-10

Dared to Hear.
resurrected to act as servants and
slaves to the Saints. In his lighter
moments Brigham had been wont to
name a couple of Presidents Of the
United States who would then act as
his Wallets.
1t was this earlier teaching that the
faithful of Amalon chung to, perhaps
not a little by reason that immediate
ly over them was a spiritual guide
who had been trained from infancy
to know that salvation lay in belief
never in doubt. For a sign of the end
they believed that on the night be-
fore the day of it there would be no
darkness. This would be as it had
been before the birth of the Savior, as
told in the Book Of Mormon: "At the
going down Of the sun there was no
darkness, and the people began to be
astonished because.there was no dark.
less when the night came; and there
was no darkness in all that night, but
il was as light as il 1t We're m.tl ny.
Tley trlsed OF little but this -natGer
in that small pocket of the intarmoun-
tain commonwealth, in Sabbath meet
ings and around the hearths at night.
The Wild Ram of the Mountains
thought all PROSECUTING should cease
in view of the approaching end; that
the Elders on mission should with
draw from the vineyard, shake the
dust from their feet, and seal up the
rebellious Gentiles to damnation. To
this Elder Bell Wardle had replied,
somewhat testify:
We'll, now, since these valleys OF
Ephraim have got a little fattened a
whole lot of us have got the sweeny,
and our skins are growing too tight
comprehend that the Gentiles were a
rejected lot, the lost sheep OF the
house Of Israel. On this occasion it
had required all the tact of Elder Rae
to soothe the two good men into an
amiable discussion Of the time when
Sidney Rigdon went to the third
heaven and talked face to face with
God. They had agreed in the end,
however, that they were both OF the
royal seed of Abraham, and We're on
the grand turnpike to exaltation.
To these discussions and sermons
the child, Prudence, listened with in
tense interest, looking forward to the
last day as an occasion productive OF
excitement even superior to that or
her trips to Salt Lake City, where her
father went to attend the October con-
ference, and where she was taken to
the theater.
One day in this spring when she
was IA, the good Bishop Wright, on
his way down from Box canyon with
a load of wood, saw her striding up
the road ahead of him. Something
caught his eye, either in her step
| which had a child's careless freedom,
or in the lines OF her swinging figure
that told Of coming womanhood, or in
the flashing, laughing appeal OF her
dark eyes where for the moment both
woman and child looked out. He set
the brake on his wagon and waited for
her to pass. She came by with q
smile and a word of greeting, to which
his rapt attention prevented any reply
except a slight nod. When she had
passed, he turned and looked after
her until she had gone around the Ut
tie hill on the road that entered the
canyon.
After the early evening meal that
day, along the many-roomed house OF
this good man, from door to door there
ran the words, starting from her who
had last been sealed to him:
He's making himself all proud"
They know what It meant, and won
dered whom.
A little later the Bishop set out, his
face clean shaver to the rufle OF
white whiskers that ran under his
chin from ear to ear, his scant hair
smooth and shining with grease from.
the largest bear ever trapped in The
Zine mountains, and his tall form ar
rayed in his best suit of homespun.
AS he went he trolled an ancient lay
Of love, and youth was in his step.
For there had come all day upon this
Prince of Israel those subtle essences
distilled by spring to provoke the
mating urge. At the Rae house ne
found only Christina.
y Where's Brother Joel. Sister Rae?'