The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-02-15

ed some subtle force that held her, and SO she
NAMED Bishop Mahrud of exceptional
y strong personality and his wishes generally
deferred to by those who had in any degree learned
to confide in him.
"But, dear little girl invited you in to talk to
you regarding your mission in life" the bishop pro-
ceeded "your duty to your maker and to Joseph
You to have married Joseph, and somewhere
the other side of the veil he is waiting for you
to fulfill your promise 1t pleased the Almighty to
call Joseph away before he had wives children,
but it does not follow that he is released from that
divine commandment to be fruitful and multiply.
"And so while Joseph is in heaven waiting for you
to fulfill your promise to marry him he is not glori-
fled; he is not with the Father and Son and the
prophets Joseph and Brigham and Hyrum, nor can
he be with them until he has lived that law.
Jesus said, in my Fathers house many mansions
and the mansion Joseph inhabits now, and must
tinue to inhabit until you fulfill your promise and
marry him. is nothing than place of detention
in the spirit world which the Saints know as para
disc, a spiritual prison.
"Of course you will go through the temple and be
sealed to Joseph for eternity but this is not stuff
cient, Emma, dear; Joseph must have children raised
up to his names honor and glory this side of the
veil. On the other side there is neither marrying
giving in marriage. No, this all has to be done
fore they have wives husbands or children are
dependent upon the loved they leave behind
for any exaltation they attain in the hereafter
God in His wisdom has made this clear by reve-
lation to the prophet Joseph And So while you
may be sealed to Joseph for eternity, it will be
essary, in order that you may fulfill your duty to
him and to yourself for you to marry some one for
time only"
Here Bishop Mahrud reached for the small Bible
on the center table, and, opening it at the twenyfth
chapter of Deuteronomy, he read follows:
IF brethren dwell together, and one of them die,
and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not
marry without unto stranger; her husbands broth
shall go in unto her. and take her to him to wife,
and perform the duty of an husbands brother unto
her"
"And so you see DEAR" proceeded the bishop,
closing the sacred book "the house of God is house
of order and the spirit of revelation has made
duty clear to I loved Joseph enough to do any
thing possible for his eternal happiness I love you
bot in fact and your welfare is, after serving God
the greatest desire of my heart; but above ALL and
ALL love the sacred institutions of high heav
en-, and stand ready to lay all possess on the
altar of my religion and to earnestly endeavor, with
out thought of the cost to live up to every require
ment of the Lord"
Emmas tear-stained face dropped to the bishops
shoulder, and his arm frightened around her waist as
he went on:
Dear little woman, I am than interested
in YOU To you have become at daughter
and sweetheart. I desire with my whole soul your
complete salvation No heavenly vision vouchsafed
me of Almighty stands out SO gloriously clear as
the one wherein you revealed mine for this
short life, for the sublime and noble purpose of per-
throughout the endless ages to come, the
name of sleeping brother and husband" Ten