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Show 91 negligence of the great majority of this people. Women drinking their tea and coffee and opposing Polygamy. Men, who should set the example to their families, using tobacco, drinking whiskey, swearing, and speaking of the authorities in the vilest terms. What wonder is it that children walk in the same path. Oh, why do not this people live up to their privileges. I wonder how long the Lord will bear with them. July 12 Last evening I received the second letter from Lizzie containing news from the homeward bound. Before many days I will see them again. As the time draws near, I feel more impatient, like I could not content myself any place. I must return home as soon as I can so we can have everything in order-make our home pleasant and cheerful for the weary travelers...5 In mid July on the very evening of her own arrival home, little Bard surprises his mother by returning. The following day Milford, Maggie, and Walter come; and on the third day Mary arrives. Ellis longs "to give full expression" to her feelings but, "feeling it would not be wise," contents herself with merely writing, "I feel grateful indeed to my Heavenly Father that he has preserved us and blessed us all to meet again." August 10th is worth noting in that Ellis attends church and listens to the "Heaven-inspired words of President Young" and then in the evening "for the first time in many months" to Milford. "Such days," she says, "are to me the most blessed of my life." Perhaps these reflections led to the following essay which enunciates her perceptions of the differing roles of husband and wife. Saturday Evening August 16th 1873 Very often I have been led to reflect upon love, the love of husband and wife, those two who are bound together by the holiest vows and most sacred covenants. Man in seeking a wife desires a helpmate, a companion in every sense of the word, one who has the capacity to appreciate and understand every sensation of his soul, one who is patient, |
