The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-19

ing Dixie wine to a degree which a
times rendered him unfit for the dutie!
of his office. Vino in Toquerville wa;
Mt that time. and ] presume is still. a
common beverage. Prior would get
drunk and then would try to abstain
from drinking for few days at time
The bishop did not turn him out for
fear it might give offense to his sister
Mrs. Carrie. whom he hoped in time ia
bring into his family as third wife.
At the expiration Of John Carrie Is
contract with the mercantile firm in the
old country he sailed for America, and
III due time arrived in the village of
ToQuervllle, where he reunited with has
family. He had not long been In that
village until his wife made known to
him what Bishop Willes had been teach
ing her. but Mr.. Carrie would not ac-
cept tho doctrine, In addition. he did
not find conditions in Utah AS they had
been represented to him by the mission
aries whom he had heard preach in his
native land To make a long story
short. John Carrie was not very strongly
imbued with faith in the Mormon re
ligion; he came 10 the conclusion that
the whole institution was humbug.
Mrs. Carrie was almost grief stricken be-
cause of her husband g unbelief; her
long standing hopes were blighted and
tho disappointment almost unbalanced
her mind.
Mr.. Carrie was not accustomed to
any kind of work except bookkeeping,
and there being no opening at ToQuer-
Vile in that avenue. he finally left for
Salt Lake City to find employment in
the business to which he was accus-
toned. After her husband had gone,
the wife told her troubles to the
"gcod' bishop, who did what he cou ID
to console her in her grief, Mr.. Carrie
long before Bishop Willes offered him
self as substitute. He would take
her and they would go through the en-
dowment house together and be married
for time and all eternity, Instead of
rcpulsing him. as true Christian wife
was in duty bound TO do, she took the
matter under advisement, The bishop
and Mrs. Carrie often met and conflden-
TALLY discussed tho subject Of 'celes-
tial marriage He no doubt showed
her paragraph 50 of the revelation b"
on plural marriage, where the Lord had
commanded Emma Smith, the wife of
the prophet, TO receive nil those
(wives) who had been givon' unto Jo-
seph. And more than probable he told
how the prophet had sent one Henry B.
Jacobs on a mission 10 preach the Cos.
pei in England and had taken his wife
to his bosom while her husband WAS
away from home, That was enough
to convince Mrs, Carrie that it was right
for n woman who had been married by
Gentle law, only till death did them
part. and who had an unbelieving hus-
band, to marry n true believer in COM
pliance with the revealed will of God
through His servant the prophet,
So Mrs Garie accepted the bishop s
proposal to become his plural wife. She
justified herself in so doing by taking
into consideration the fact that time
and again she had pleaded with her
endowment house and be married for
time and all eternity. He had laughed
her to scorD She wished To be saved
and exalted in the kingdom of God, and
if her husband did not believe in such
marriage it was no fault OF hers.
In very few days after he had