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Show 80 to some degree present even in the society she knew. Her basic integrity will probably not permit her to be totally blind to her husband's human foibles nor to include in her record a favorable misrepresentation of the man. How then can we account for her largeness of spirit on this and those other occasions when a "sister wife" had been added to the family? Beside her fervent conviction that the "principle" was as basic to the faith as were the first principles of the gospel, beside her genuine and enduring love for Milford, there is the man himself-his own religious fervor, his gift with words, his gospel oratory. The pulpit was his natural setting. Yet he seemed to successfully transfer to his home and to his wives the application of the principles he verbalized in public. There was the matter of his wholesome good looks, his aspect of solidness; and there was his charisma which had the power to lead his contacts to the church, to galvanize into action those already there, and to acquire and keep the love and loyalty of his burgeoning family. He must have been, in these regards, a very substantial man. There is little or no record of him in the historical archives. His unpublished report concerning a missionary trek to Sanpete County in the company of several general authorities prior to his marriage to Ellis is about all that is available to the public. Milford's description of the trip is objective and well written. In the first week after Milford marries Mary Smith, Ellis makes a brief but interesting entry in her diary: |