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Show THROUGH GREAT TRIBULATION. 357 ' king must not multiply wives lest his heart turn away.'* He did multiply wives, and his heart did turn away. Now look at the other fellows. When the Lord started m. an on earth, he created a one- wife man; when he saved the race, he saved a family with one wife each, and drowned all the pluralists; and when Christ came, his earthly parents were one man and his one wife. It looks to me like that's the safest example to follow." It must not be supposed that our friend was allowed to give this view continuously; that would be a new experience in Utah. The ward teacher had thrown in knotty texts at every pause, and now, wrought up to the " sermon point," he concluded with the usual apostolic curse " Behold our Lamanite brother ! " And to emphasize the matter a Southern Ute entered the yard, tricked out in all the gaudy finery which they affect when annuity goods are plenty. " He is the last of a mighty race that rejected the truth. Look at the cities of the plain. Behold the desolation of the East as foretold in the prophets. The same shall come upon your boasted Union. It's been split in two once, and patched up again ; but, mark ye, it's like an. old. bowl it'll break again in a little while, and ye can't fix it.. Then you'll, flee to these mountains for safety; for the Lord ' 11 come out of his hiding- place and vex the nation in his fury;" and so on for an hour. As he concluded a light step was heard at the door, and, looking up, Manson saw a face that had vaguely haunted him through all his Montana wanderings. He felt the warm blood rush to his cheeks; and in that instant he recognized the source of his uncertainties four years before. He now knew why he had lost his little girl friend, and why he was so strangely distrait in her presence, and she so strangely perverse, apparently unfriendly. He understood it all. She had been in the far South, in " Mormon Dixie," and just returned. A faint flush overspread her face as Manson advanced to meet her ; in an in-stant it passed away, and she accosted him with a manner and words that plainly showed she meant to consider him merely as " some one she had met before." But his frame thrilled as their hands touched. It was all over with him. He was madly, violently in love. He scarcely knew how he got out of the house and got home. There was a messenger waiting a returned miner from Montana who bore a note, in a well- remembered hand. But it contained only these words: Will : For God's sake, come and see me. TOM JAMES. * Deuteronomy xvii: 17. |
