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Show bush over his breat i. My f a t h e r v a l i d a t e d l i s priesthoo him, afte t h e r e ! " And Ben had skhlked away, gtrowling under through Joseph Musser to the Church a u t h o r i t ie i by t r a c i n g it ; who had charged • the Manifesto was s i g r e d , to ' l e t n i t a year pass without I '7 %71 fPr- tiajs./UuiL a child b( ing born into the Principle of Plural Marriage. -?~- Ben's claim as being ludicrous, Founded on an insane drive for I power. Petrhaps Ben had influenced Ervil to bear a special grudge toWhrd my father for queajZoning their\pralesthoodtf^/jkt^ I knew that some of the LeBarons were capable of cruelty. My aunt had described how the LeBaron boys chained their crazy sister, Lucinda, to her bed at night and in the goat pen by day. At least in my family, women were given some measure of respect and consideration, chained only by psychological links. Perhaps the LeBarons, exiled in Mexico, felt their outlawed state more acutely and so their psychological abberrations had become more extreme and their violent a natures uncontained. There, withoutAChurch or a consistent perhaps government to draw lines and limits for them, Athey had lost all common sense and morality, had lived in the desert without manna or messages from God. I was convinced that their confusions stemmed from having to justify themselves, feeling compelled to self-righteous postures, constantly asserting their legitimacy to a wcTld that regarded them as outlaws. Despite ~ or perhaps because of the crucible of living in a Physical and sociological desert, genius had been spawned alongffifth the madness. Joel had earned the reputation of being 'the most charitable, Christian man on earth,' in the eyes of some. The other LeBaron sisJt.e^r^,, ETrsat-Hnieerr-, was a concert Pianist, perhaps as accomplished as my mother. Where was the |