Tell It All - Table of Contents. Tell It All. Title Page, Preface, & List of Illustrations. CHAPTER I. MY EARLY LIFE. The Memory of my Youthful Days - Early Religious Impressions - I become a Church - Member - My Pious Admirer - A brief Homily on Feminine Vanities - My first Start in Life - Faithful Counsels of a Friend - Life in a French School - The Maison - Martin - Preparing my Lessons - Objecting to a Protestant - "Assisting" at Service - My Ghostly Adviser The "instructions" of a Handsome Young Priest - Flirtation and Apostolic Succession - The Blind Leading the Blind - The Scene of Labor Changed - Domestic Life at St. Brieux - An indifferent Young Gentle man - The Presence of an "Icicle" - Quiet Attentions to "Mademoiselle Miss" - The Man who Waits Wins - My Affianced Lover - Reasons why a French Girl Marries - Views of Marriage among the French - Traces of Early Teachings - Mental Struggles and Doubts - I Resolve to Visit England - The Crisis of My Life. 31 CHAPTER II. MY FIRST INTRODUCTION TO MORMONISM. Returning Home - "Au Revoir" - A Visit to Jersey - The Home of my Childhood - My First Introduction to Mormonism - An "Apostate's" View of the Saints - Revelation and Roguery - A Matter of Personal Interest - A Lady's Logic - A Warning against the New Religion - First Visit to a Mormon Meeting - Catching the "Mormon Fever" - Snubbing an Elder - A Polite Saint - Fighting a Delusion - Among Dear Friends - "Full of the Spirit" - Religion in Practical Life - Preparing Comforts for the Missionary Elders - Emotional Religion - The Testimony of the Spirit - Sunday Service among the Saints - Contagious Enthusiasm - The Story of a too-confiding Convert - How He Went out to Zion - Terrible Fate of an Apostate - Killed by "the Indians" - Preaching under Difficulties - My First Introduction to my Future Husband - "The Other Daughter from France" - The Eloquence of Elder Stenhouse - Creating an Impression - A Memorable Era in My Life. 39 CHAPTER III. THE LABOR OF MY LIFE BEGUN: - HOW THE MORMON MISSIONARIES MADE CONVERTS. A Confirmation Meeting - The Age for Baptism - How Sister Martha was Confirmed - How Mormon Saints are "Blessed" - The Spirit of Prophecy - A Lecture by Elder Stenhouse - The New Gospel Explained - A Vision of Latter-Day Glory - How I was Convinced - The Finger of Destiny Draws Me On - A Mormon Baptism - I Become a Member of the Church - I am Baptised, Confirmed, and Blessed - I begin a New Life - A Happy Dream of Missionary Usefulness - I begin Work with Enthusiasm - Methodism and Mormonism file:///C|/WINDOWS/Desktop/Acrobat Version/fstenhouseindexcd.html (1 of 12) [1/24/2002 9:45:52 PM] Tell It All - Table of Contents. Compared - How Converts are Made - Religious Revivals - The Anxious Seats - A Testimony Meeting - How Brigham Young has Damped the Ardor of the Saints - Magical Effects of an Elder's Speech - The Mormon Marsellaise - Effects of Song upon Religious Feeling. 50 CHAPTER IV. LIFE AMONG THE SAINTS - MY NEW ENGAGEMENTS. Beginning Life as a Mormon - Breaking Way from the Past - My Friends in France - Placed in a Difficult Position - I Remember my Betrothed - Exclusiveness of my New Faith - An "Apostle" Lays Down the Law - How to Keep aloof from the Gentiles - Woman's Duty - "The Foundation of a Little Family Kingdom" - The "Gift of Tongues" in Modern Days - An Extraordinary Meeting - Sister Ellis exercises her "Gift" - Need of an Interpreter - Emotional Religion - How Brother Brigham once "Spake in Tongues" - A "High Time" at Kirtland in the days of Joseph - A Scene in the Lion House - One of the Prophet's Wives "Speaks" - Another Wife Interprets - I Receive a Blessing - Brother Young Discountenances the "Gift" - Only half Convinced - "To Doubt is Sin" - I Arrive at an Important Conclusion - I instruct Elder Stenhouse in the French language - An Interesting Pupil - Declining the verb ƒ'Aime - Studies in the Back Parlor - A Persevering Young Man - Why I listened to Elder Stenhouse's Suit - I am Engaged to Him - I become a Missionary's Wife - I Write to my Friends in France - A Free Confession - Pleasant Memories of the Past. 61 CHAPTER V. MORMON WONDERS: - ANOINTINGS AND MIRACLES. How a "Miracle" was Performed - The Evidence of One's Senses - Successful use of Scripture Arguments - Mormon versus Local Preacher - A lively Discussion - A little "Personal" Matter - A Man who Never Saw a Miracle - Success Dependent upon Faith - "I Hardly know what to Think of It" - A New Convert - How Sister Armstrong was Healed - A Genuine Case - Five Years of Helplessness - Testing the Claims: - A fair Proposal - The Faithful Accept the Offer - The Magnetic Principle - A good Dose of Oil - How the Anointing was Performed: - Aaron Outdone - Making the Passes - An Exhausting Labor - "Give me your Hand, Brother" - "Have faith, Sister Armstrong!" - "We Thought that She was Dead" - My first Introduction to Mary Burton - A Wilful Lassie - We become Fast Friends - Seeing is Sometimes Believing - Elder Stenhouse Works a Miracle: - Cures a man of the Cholera - How a "regular battle" was Fought - A Wife's unprofitable Faith - How the Miraculous Power was All Used Up - How my Husband made himself Useful again. 74 CHAPTER VI. THE FIRST WHISPERINGS OF POLYGAMY. Meeting a Living "Apostle" - The London Conference - What I Expected - Four Apostles at One Time - The Charms of a Priestly Life - Leading About a "Sister" - The "Mystery of Godliness" - Imitating Solomon The Formation of a "Branch" - Doing the Work of the Lord - The Apostle Lorenzo Snow - An Argument by the Way - Silent Snow - The Apostle Snow Thaws at the Right Time - How a Convenient Revelation was Thrice Received - Unwilling Consent - A Cruel Wrong - He Would be Five Years Away - The Conference Organised - A Mission to Italy - A Pleasant Position for a Wife - The Vicissitudes of a Year - God's Mercy a Safe Trust - A Valedictory Picnic - Not Far from Netley Abbey - Bidding Good-bye to the Missionaries - My Ideas of My Husband's Work - Mary Suggests a New Idea - What She Said - "I'm Not a Little Girl" - "I Kissed Her, and Continued" - All, all False - Elder Stenhouse Departs for Italy - Italy is the End of Our Miserable Hopes - How the Missionaries Departed - I Bid Adieu to My Husband. 90 CHAPTER VII. MY HUSBAND'S MISSION: - I AM LEFT ALONE. The Italian Mission - A Saint's Responsibility - Obliging a Friend - The Pains and Penalties of a Saintly file:///C|/WINDOWS/Desktop/Acrobat Version/fstenhouseindexcd.html (2 of 12) [1/24/2002 9:45:52 PM] Tell It All - Table of Contents. Life - My Letters to my Husband - The Whisperings of the Coming Storm - Polygamy Denied - The Wretched Subterfuges of certain Elders - The Lying Basis of Polygamy - What Apostle Taylor said - My Personal Experience - How Polygamy was Introduced among the Saints - I want to find My own Groove - Suffering for Conscience Sake - Lonely Contemplation of a Weary Soul - The American Apostles - "Without Purse or Scrip" - The Swiss Mission - My own Enthusiasm - My Darling Clara - Lighting the "load" of Love - Mary Burton's Love Affairs - The Apostle Lorenzo Snow - Missionary Work I Bear my own Troubles Alone - The Difficulties of Missionary Work A Shoemaker who respected his Soul - Work Indefatigable - Le Governeur dé L' Hòpital - Our New Convert - Days of Poverty - Practical Faith - How we Endured - The Darkness which Precedes the Dawn - The Suffering of all who Work to Win. 101 CHAPTER VIII. OUR MISSION IN SWITZERLAND: - MUTTERINGS OF THE COMING STORM. An Apostle Comes to Help Me - How the Wives of Missionaries were Supported - I Meet with Friends - My Attempts at Proselytizing - Madame Baliff Rejects the Revelation - Primitive Meetings of the Saints - Certain Bashful Men - A Lady Weak in the Faith - How My Faith was Tried - "If You Could Get that Child Healed" - Wanted: The Gift of Healing - What Governor Stoudeman Did - The Fate of a Little Child - Madame Baliff Makes a Suggestion - An Effort of Faith - My Doubts and Fears An Anxious Night - Mary Burton's Letter - Elder Shrewsbury Manifests Himself - A Girl's Opinion of Her Lover - Fears of Polygamy - Certain Imprudent Elders - The American Brethren - Learning a Business - Jealous of Her Husband - "My Elder" - An Unsettled Mind - Obtaining Information - Nothing Determined. 121 CHAPTER IX. THE REVELATION ON CELESTIAL "MARRIAGE." Waiting for the Revelation - The Millennial Star - The Revelation on the Order of "Celestial Marriage" - "My Servant Joseph" - The Keys of the Kingdom - Marrying for Eternity - The Unpardonable Sin - Being "As the Angels" - Sealed by the Holy Spirit - Shedding Innocent Blood - The Example of Abraham - The Power of the Priesthood - "Mine handmaid, Emma Smith" - "If He have Ten Virgins Given Unto Him" - Let this Suffice for the Present - An Astonishing Message from Heaven - Learning to Bear the Cross - Without Hope - Longing to Confide in Some One - My Indignant Reception of the "Revelation" - "I Dared Not even Kneel to God" - "There Was a Knock at My Chamber Door" - Not a Very Entertaining Party - "The Old Gentleman Stood the Test" - Monsieur Petitpierre "Thinks Prayerfully Over the Matter.". 134 CHAPTER X. MISSIONARY WORK: - TEACHING POLYGAMY. Preaching Polygamy - A Phase of Missionary Life - An Embarrassing Position - Bearing the Cross - One Ever-Present Thought - The Haunting Spectre of My Life - My Little Daughter Clara - The Work of Repentance - Why Men are Sent on Mission - Working in the Dark - Days and Nights of Prayer and Fasting - Preparing for Work - Breaking the News - My First Convert - The Victim Chosen - The "Beauties" of "Celestial Matrimony" - Introducing a Pleasant Subject - "Came Down Stairs Singing" - A Cruel Task - "Does My Serge Believe This?" - "I Tried to Comfort Her" - Not Wisely, but Too Well - How the Swiss Women Received the Revelation - A Companion in Misery - A Letter from Mary Burton - Polygamy in England - Elder Shrewsbury in Difficulties - Love and Religion - How Polygamy Was Denied - Looking Most Miserable - "He Kissed My Hand Sorrowfully.". 142 CHAPTER XI. MORMONISM IN ENGLAND: - PREPARING TO EMIGRATE. A Blissful State of Ignorance - The Opinions of Monsieur Petitpierre - Strong Arguments - How He Became an Apostate - "He Shall Rule over Her" - The Nobler Sex - How Women were Sufficiently Honored - Looking Anxiously for a Change - Establishing a Mormon Paper - Denouncing the Gentiles - file:///C|/WINDOWS/Desktop/Acrobat Version/fstenhouseindexcd.html (3 of 12) [1/24/2002 9:45:52 PM] Tell It All - Table of Contents. Terrible Expectations - Hastening to Zion - A Journey of Many Days - The Swiss Pilgrims - Death by the Way - Disobeying Counsel - The "Judgments" of the Lord - The Love of Many Waxes Cold - The President of the London Conference - Distinguished Apostates - Strange News from Zion - An "Object of Interest" - Great Success of Mormonism in Britain - How Saints were Re-baptized - Poor Elder Marsden! - The Emigration Season - My Little Daughter Minnie - Saintly Treatment - A Visit from Mary Burton - How Love Affairs Progressed - Pacifying a Lover - The Meaning of the Word "Patience.". 154 CHAPTER XII. EMIGRATION TO ZION: - WE ARRIVE IN NEW YORK. Mary Burton Tells her Story - A Persevering Lover - A Long Conversation - Some "Strong Points" of the Revelation - A Trifling Circumstance Terrible Doings in Zion - How Orson Hyde became an Apostate - He Bears Witness Against Joseph Smith - "Danites" and "Avenging Angels" - Murders Committed by "Indians!" - Emigration in the Old Times - A Journey of Nine Months - How the Mormon Emigration was Managed - A Favored Apostle - How the Profits were Pocketed - On Board Ship - We Suffer Loss - How we were Deceived - An Untruthful Apostle - How Poor Mr. Tennant was Robbed - Brigham Young Acts his Accustomed Part - Love and Marriage at Sea - Cooking Under Difficulties - "Harry and the Rats" - A Smart Lad - An Ancient Scotch Sister - Working "for a Consideration" - Christmas on Board Ship - Cruel Treatment of Seamen - A New Year in the New World. 167 CHAPTER XIII. LIFE IN NEW YORK: - CONDUCTING A MORMON PAPER. An Introduction to a New World - The New York Saints - How Certain Elders Disappeared - An Uncomfortable Week - Left all Alone - Love Waxing Cold - Mental Slavery - The School-House at Williamsburgh - Miserable Condition of the Emigrants - Suffering for Their Faith - The Apostle Taylor Lectures the Saints - Some Smart "Counsel" - Buying Shovels - An Unprofitable Speculation - The "Mean Yankee Gentiles" - Days and Nights of Trial - How the "Mormon" was Edited - A Rather Small Salary - The Doings of High-Priests and "Seventies" - An Amiable Connecticut Girl - Half-a-Dozen Wives - Permission from Brigham Young - Certain Elders who had "Disease of the Heart" - The Course of True Love - A Young Widow Who Looked Well in Weeds - Arranging the Affairs of the Heart - The True Source of Modern Revelations. 179 CHAPTER XIV. SAINTLY PILGRIMS ON THE WAY - THE "DIVINE" HAND-CART SCHEME. The Eastern Saints - Service in Williamsburgh - The "Prophet of the Lord" Tries an Experiment - The Pilgrims Cross the Plains - The Hand-Cart Scheme - The Poor Emigrants - A "Divine" Plan - The Great Gathering to Zion - An Interesting Letter from Mary Burton - How Elder Shrewsbury Won his Bride - A Solemn Oath Against Polygamy - Mary Burton's Marriage - Arrival of the Hand - Cart Emigrants - Scene at Castle Garden - Meeting with Mary Burton and her Husband - The Story of her Courtship - Her Trustful Enthusiasm - Proposing to make Brigham Young a King - Anticipations of War - How the Prophet Defrauded Brother Tennant of Sixty Thousand Dollars - The Pilgrims Leave for the West - The Story of a Truant Wife - Second Thoughts are Sometimes Best - The Mormon Paper Comes to Grief - A New Trial of Faith - Literary Work Waiting for Permission to Journey Zionward. 191 CHAPTER XV. A TERRIBLE STORY: - THE HAND-CART EMIGRANTS CROSSING THE PLAINS. The Hand-Cart Emigration - Mary Burton's Story - Crossing the Plains The Camp at Iowa City - Shameful Neglect of the Church Authorities - Making the Hand-Carts - The Outfit of the Emigrants - On the Way "A Day's March Nearer Home" - Stout-hearted Pilgrims - Traveling through Iowa - Showing Kindness to the Emigrants - Need of Help and Sympathy - Perils and Privations of the Journey - How they Suffered file:///C|/WINDOWS/Desktop/Acrobat Version/fstenhouseindexcd.html (4 of 12) [1/24/2002 9:45:52 PM] Tell It All - Table of Contents. Hunger, and Fainted by the Way - Very Scanty Rations - Distress of the Women and Children: - the Weak and the Sickly - How the Church "took Care" of the Emigrants' Money - Suffering from the Heat - Arriving at Florence, near Omaha - How a Mass-meeting was Held - Taking Counsel - A Rash and Foolish Decision - Offering to Swallow a Snow-Storm - Brave Advice of Elder Levi Savage - "Weak in the Faith" - How they Continued their fatal Pilgrimage - The Camp at Eventide - False and Dangerous Security - The Carts Break Down - The Cattle Stampede On Short Allowance - Visitors of Importance Arrive - Delusive Prophecy of the Apostles - How they took the Bread of the Starving - Selfish Conduct of Saintly Leaders - Promises of Help. 206 CHAPTER XVI. MARY BURTON'S STORY CONTINUED: - TERRIBLE ENDING OF THE HAND CART SCHEME. The Pilgrims Arrive at Laramie - Disappointed Hopes - A Message from the Apostle Richards - Help Again Promised - Fearful Sufferings and Privations of the Emigrants - The Frosts of Winter Come On - The Storm - Clouds are Gathering - Presentiments of Death - The Night-Air of the Wilderness - The Bitter End - A Wife's Unchanging Devotion - Death in the Camp - Falling by the Way - A Shocking Incident - Faithful Even in Death - The Good Deeds of Elder Chislett - How Faith Sustained Them - Lost in the Snow-Storm - Brigham Young's Tardy Repentance - "Joseph A." Comes to the Rescue - In the Grasp of Death - Fearful Position of a Brave Woman - The Evil Day Comes at Last - A Night of Horrors - Waiting for Assistance - The Finger of Death - The Cry of the Wolves - A Scene too Terrible for Description - Who Died That Night - "God was Near Me Then" - A Change for the Better - Three Anxious Days - Light at Eventide - "Help Came Too Late for Them" - The Victims of Fanaticism - The Remnant that Arrived - The Conclusion of a Terrible Story. 221 CHAPTER XVII. WE FORSAKE ALL, AND SET OUT FOR ZION - OUR JOURNEY ACROSS THE PLAINS. Considering Our Position - Doubts and Fears - A Visit from the Apostle Geo. Q. Cannon - We are "Counselled" to Emigrate - Giving up All for the Church - Taking Charge of the Emigrants - The Insignificance of Women - Wives are Never to Follow their own Judgment - "Be Obedient" - We Begin our Pilgrimage - The Perpetual Emigration Fund - How Mormon Emigration is Managed - Settling the Debts of a Lady-Love - How Certain Imprudent Englishmen Have Suffered - The "Emigration" of Miss Blank - An Ancient "Sister" who was Forced to Wait - Living Contradictions - First Glimpse of Salt Lake City - A Glorious Panorama - The Spectre of my Existence - The Prison-Walls of the Mountains - Without Hope - Life in the Wagons - Search for a House - "Roughing It" in Zion - First Impressions - A Cheerless Prospect for Winter - Daniel H. Wells Promises Assistance - A Woful Spectacle of Tallow Candles Odorous Illumination - "L'Eglise c'est moi" - "An Ugly Man with a Cast in his Eve" - An Awkward Mistake - Beginning Life in Zion. 237 CHAPTER XVIII. MY FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF THE CITY OF THE SAINTS. Some Personal Observations - An Innocent Prophet - Living Witnesses of the Truth - How Salt Lake City was Laid Out and Built - The Houses of Many-Wived Men - My First Sunday in the Tabernacle - Curious Millinery of Lady Saints - Two Remarkable Young Ladies - A Doubtful Experiment - How Service is Conducted in the Tabernacle - Extraordinary Sermons - Deceitful Dealings of the Original Prophet - Why Joseph, the "Seer," Married Miss Snow - Another of the Prophet's Wives - A Shameful Story - Aunty Shearer, and her Funny Ways - Spiritual Wives and Proxy Wives - How the Saints are Married for Time and for Eternity - Concerning Certain Generous Elders - How Wives are Secretly "Sealed" - Extraordinary Request of One of Brigham's Wives - "The Next Best Thing" - Mormon Ideas of the Marriage at Cana - The "Fix ins" of a Mormon Husband - How "The Kingdom" is Built Up - Women Only to be Saved by Their Husbands - A Painful Story - A Very Cautious Woman - A Woman who wanted to be "Queen" - A Deceitful Lover - A Strange Home-Picture - "These Constitute my Kingdom" - Forebodings. 246 file:///C|/WINDOWS/Desktop/Acrobat Version/fstenhouseindexcd.html (5 of 12) [1/24/2002 9:45:53 PM] Tell It All - Table of Contents. CHAPTER XIX. BRIGHAM YOUNG AT HOME: - WE VISIT THE PROPHET AND HIS WIVES. Inside the Lion House - The Family-Circle of the Prophet - A Gracious Reception - A Woman's Description of Brigham Young - His Early Life and Struggles - Working for "Six Bits" a Day - How he "Ate Up all the Corn" - How he Worked as a Painter and Glazier - Born at the Right Time - Brigham Young's Character Summed Up - How he Obtained his Position - The Twelve Apostles of Mormonism - Intrigues for Place and Power - Pulling the Nose of a Queen - Delivered Over to "The Buffetings of Satan" - Poor Sidney! - The "First Presidency" - Yearly Elections - A Foe to Education - What Boys and Girls Should Learn - An Unfortunate Musical Society - Moral Delinquencies of the Prophet - Borrowing Clothes for a Conference - How a Million Dollars were Borrowed and Paid! - Brigham's Avarice, Cowardice, and Thefts - A Terrible Despotism - Lost Opportunities. 263 CHAPTER XX. THE WIVES OF BRIGHAM YOUNG: - THEIR HISTORY AND THEIR DAILY LIFE. The Prophet at Home - His Own Little Family - Domestic Life of a Patriarch - Wife the First - Two Sisters Married to the Same Man - Brigham's Son at West Point - She "Had her Day" - A Troublesome Wife - The Privileges of Mormon Women - Shocking Case of Infatuation - Emmeline The Forsaken Favorite - The Fickle Fancies of the Prophet: - Amelia: "the Queen of the Harem" - The Follies of a Modern Prophet - The Charms of Julia Dean - The Spirit of the Prophet Subdued by Amelia's Will - Eliza Ann Tells her Own Story - How Brother Brigham Won his Last Wife - Fictions and Frauds - Brigham Names the Marriage Day He Came "Just as it Happened" - Getting Groceries in a Small Way "Two Bits' worth of Fresh Meat" - The Conclusion of Eliza-Ann's Story - A Patriarchal Family - The Father of Fifty Children - A Questionable Story - "Whose Child is He" - Inside the Prophet's Mansion - Pocket Money and Divorce - Domestic Life of the Prophet - Entertaining a Visitor - How a Large Family is Managed - The Patriarch at Home. 275 CHAPTER XXI. THE ORIGIN OF "THE REFORMATION": - EXTRAORDINARY DOINGS OF THE SAINTS. Some Peculiar Mormon Doctrines - The Faith of the Saints - Extraordinary Ideas of Sacred Subjects - Polytheism Taught - Preexistence of the Soul - Assisting the Spirits to Emigrate - "The Body that Shall Be" - The Origin of the Devil - Brigham's Adam Deity - "Kolob": - the Sun of Suns - Father Adam Descends to Eden - The Grades of the Priesthood - Place and Position in the Church - Obedience the Cardinal Virtue - Patriarchal Blessings - How an Ancient Dame Sold her Petticoats to Buy a Blessing - The Thin End of the Wedge - Terrible Doings in Missouri - Mormon Politics - The Avenging Angels - Origin of the "Danites" - Whisperings of Dark Deeds - The Bearded "Daughters" of Zion - Brigham's Threat - The "Death Society" - The Prophet Smith Murdered - "Milking the Gentiles" - "Whittling an Apostate" - Treasonable Speeches and Practices - Brigham as Governor of Utah - Great Excitement in Salt Lake City - A Crisis. 295 CHAPTER XXII. THE "REIGN OF TERROR" IN UTAH: - THE REFORMATION OF THE SAINTS. Days of Trouble in the Valley - Shedding Innocent Blood - What is Murder? - About Killing a Cat - Better than Their Faith - Cutting Throats for Love - The Deeds of the Apostle "Jeddy" - The Celebrated Mule - The Saints Accused - Missionaries Called Home - Their Consciences Accuse Them! - The Blood-Atonement - What was Said in the Tabernacle - Terrible Doctrines Taught - Brigham a "God!" - Fearful Blasphemy of Brigham Young - The Shedding of Blood - "Righteously" Murdered - The Principles of Eternity - Deeds of Darkness - A "Saint" Murders his Wife - A Terrible Story - How Children Were Married - A Petticoat on a Fence Pole - A Scarcity of Unmarried Girls - Obeying "Counsel" - Propositions of Marriage - A Trifling Mistake - Stubborn Facts and Figures - The Most Fearful Deed of All. 310 file:///C|/WINDOWS/Desktop/Acrobat Version/fstenhouseindexcd.html (6 of 12) [1/24/2002 9:45:53 PM] Tell It All - Table of Contents. CHAPTER XXIII. THE MOUNTAIN MEADOWS' MASSACRE: - " I WILL REPAY, SAITH THE LORD." The Train from Arkansas - The Story of a Friend - How an Apostle Merited Death - Mormon Hospitality? - How Justice Slumbered - That Sinner McLean - Weary and Footsore - What the Governor of the Territory Did not Do - The Story of a Frightful Sin - A Weary Journey - "Without Morsel of Bread" - Christian-like Indians - Empty Wagons - Military Murderers - Corn, but no Mercy - A Regular Military Call - Pursuing the Pilgrims - The Muster-Call - The Little Children not to be Killed - The Infamous John D. Lee - The Flag of Truce - "The State of Deseret" - A Deed of Fearful Treachery - Surrounded by "Indians!" - The Emigrant Besieged - Dying for Want of Water - Without Bread - The Mountain Meadows - Atrocious Mormon Villainy - The White Flag - The "Indians" Again - The Mormon Story of the Massacre - Treachery - The "White" Indians - Mormon Perfidy - How the Emigrants Were Betrayed - Marching to Death - A Few Children Saved - The Spoil - The Murder of Many Men - The End of a Terrible Story. 324 CHAPTER XXIV. WAYS AND WORKS OF THE SAINTS: - THE PROPHET'S MILLINERY BILL. Life in Zion - Introduced to Brother Heber - "Have you got the Blues!" - A Wife's Trials: Counselled to Take Another Wife - The Tabernacle Sermons - The Crowning Glory of a Man - Spiritual Food - "Filled with the Devil" - Face to Face with Polygamy - Winter in Salt Lake City - A New Position - I Produce my Treasures - My "Talkative Friend" - Comforting Visitors - "I Don't Like Crying Women" - Afraid of Opposition - Paid in Salt Chips and Whetstones - Creating a Business - "Something Like Home" - A Bonnet for Brigham's Favorite Wife - Running up a Little Bill - How the Honest Prophet Paid It - Has He any Conscience? - My whole Fortune Gone. 340 CHAPTER XXV. MYSTERIES OF THE ENDOWMENT HOUSE: - FEARFUL OATHS AND SECRET CEREMONIES. Saintly Privileges - The Origin of the Endowments - The Fraternity of the Saints - Story of the Mysteries - Shocking Doings in Days Gone By - Whisperings of Terrible Deeds - How the Mormons Mind Their Own Business - The Temple Garments - Inside the Endowment House - The Book of Life - Our Robes and Our Oil Bottles - The Washings and Anointings - The High Priestess - Invoking Blessings - The Mysterious Garment - A New Name - The Garden of Eden - An Extraordinary Representation - The Duplicate of the Devil - The First Degree - Terrible and Revengeful Oaths - The Punishment of the Apostate - Pains and Penalties of Betrayal - Grips and Passwords - The Mysterious Mark - Singular Apostolic Sermon - The Second Degree - Secret and Significant Signs Behind the Veil - The Third Degree - Celestial Matrimony - Eight Hours of "Mystery" - I Justify Myself. 352 CHAPTER XXVI. SECRETS OF SAINTLY SPOUSES: - A VISIT FROM MY TALKATIVE FRIEND. I Receive Congratulations - A "Bit of Advice" - How a Woman found Wives for Her Husband - A "Rather Backward Man" - How a Mormon Husband was Managed - Anxious for Alice to Marry - A Very Obedient Husband - Marrying for Principle: Not Love - How Saints are Silly over New Wives - Taking Life Easily - "Miss Alice! We shall See" - Bringing Home a "Sister" - Wife, Number Three - How a Wife Lost her Influence - How a Wife Consoled Herself Under Difficulties - Understanding the "Order of the Kingdom" - The Necessity of Having Two Wives at Least - Not Needful to Fall in Love - A Good Example. 370 CHAPTER XXVII. SOCIAL LIFE IN SALT LAKE CITY: - BALL-ROOMS, "WALL-FLOWERS," AND DIVORCE. Seeking for Old Friends - In the Ball-Room - Social Life - How Brother Brigham Built a Theatre - file:///C|/WINDOWS/Desktop/Acrobat Version/fstenhouseindexcd.html (7 of 12) [1/24/2002 9:45:53 PM] Tell It All - Table of Contents. Short-Sightedness of the Prophet - Poets and Polygamy Disagree - What a Woman would Think - The Ideal of True Love - Unpleasant Comparisons - Bearing the Cross - Rather Old Boys Subduing a Wife and Getting a Wife - What the Wives Say in Secret - Introduced to an Apostle's Five Wives - "I'm Afraid You are Not Too Strong in the Faith" - The "Model Saint" - Improved Prospects - An Old Friend Discovered - Another Victim to Polygamy - A Divorce for Ten Dollars! - Pin-Money for Brother Brigham's Wives - Four Husbands of a Girl of Twenty-One! - How will the Knot be Untied? 378 CHAPTER XXVIII. WHAT WOMEN SUFFER IN POLYGAMY: - THE STORY OF MARY BURTON. A Surprise - Meeting an Old Friend - The Traces of Grief - Mary in Trouble - Sympathy - "There is No Help!" - Painful Memories - The Remembrance of a Dead Love - "He Used to Almost Worship You" - "It Changed him Altogether" - "How can we Help Ourselves?" - Living up to his Privileges - The Time for Beginning Polygamy - That Promise! - A Wife's Prayers Refused - The System a Fearful Curse - Dangerous to Talk! - "Is the Child Dead?" - His whole Nature Altered - Mary's Little Girl. - Frantic with Sorrow - "Not Much to make Them Happy" - A Miserable Resource - A Sad Story of Wifely Sorrow - How Elder Shrewsbury Kept his Promise to his Wife - "She shall Believe" - Marrying two Sisters on the Same Day - Memories of Other Days. 393 CHAPTER XXIX. HOW MARRIAGES ARE MADE IN UTAH - A NEW WIFE FOUND FOR MY HUSBAND. My Old Friend Madame Baliff - Painful Reverses of Fortune - Shameful "Counsel" during the "Reformation" - A Choice of Two Evils - Reminiscences of a Happier Life - A Message from Brigham Young - A Serious Trust - An Interesting Case - Suffering for the Faith - My Talkative Friend Again - I Receive Strange Congratulations - An Inquisitive Lady - A Lady who Could "Build-Up" a Rebellious Wife - The Apostle Heber C. Kimball Pays Me a Special Visit - "Plenty of Wives around the Town" - A Morning Drive with the "Model Saint" - A Lesson on Children's Dresses - Good "Counsel" thrown Away - Heber Suggests a Wife for my Husband - How Love is Developed in Mormon Wives - "The Finest Thing in the World" - The Shadow of Coming Evil. 405 CHAPTER XXX. TAKING A SECOND WIFE: - THE EXPERIENCE OF THE FIRST. A Mysterious Errand - Going a Courting - Silence and Obedience, a Wife's Duty - Kept in the Dark - Mistaken Kindness - The Conflict between Faith and Reason - A "Rebellious Woman" - My Poor Friend Carrie - Women Advocating Polygamy - Finding a Wife for My Husband - The Poor Victim - An Unusually Loving Husband - A Consultation with Brother Brigham - The Curse of a whole Life - The Fiat of the Prophet - The Penalties of Disobedience - "I Can Only Consent" - A Message from Eliza R. Snow - The Bad Logic of the Poetess - An Unwilling Sacrifice - An Unalterable Decision. 420 CHAPTER XXXI. TRIALS - THE SECOND WIFE CHOSEN - SHADOWS OF LIFE. A List of Eligible Young Ladies - Making a Selection - Asking the First Wife's Consent - My Husband's Bride Elect - Watching a Husband's Wooing - "Her Little Day of Triumph" - Another Victim to the Heavenly "Order" - The Important Claims of Love - Reminiscences of a First Love - Submissive to the Faith - A Man Cannot Love Two at One Time - A Very Youthful Bride - A "Very Painful Task" - A Long Courtship - Bearing the Cross - A Visit from my Husband's Bride-Elect - Belinda Carrie Grant's Illness - Divulging a Secret - "Love me One Day Longer" - The Approach of Death - A Strange Promise for a Wife to Give - I Choose a Wife for my Husband - Carrie's Last Hours - "It is Better So" - A Sacred Pledge - My Last Visit to Carrie - A Sad Farewell. 433 file:///C|/WINDOWS/Desktop/Acrobat Version/fstenhouseindexcd.html (8 of 12) [1/24/2002 9:45:53 PM] Tell It All - Table of Contents. CHAPTER XXXII. MARRIAGE FOR THE DEAD - ENTERING INTO POLYGAMY - THE NEW WIFE. Memories of My Poor Friend Carrie - The Last Untroubled Sleep - Her Hopes and Mine - Alone in the Night - A Mysterious "Presence" - "I Plainly Saw Carrie Leaning Over Me" - The Wedding-Ring - "The `Presence' in the Room was Gone" - Troubled about the Ring - Beside the Coffin of my Dead Friend - I Place the Ring on her Finger - My Husband's Gift for Carrie - "He Considered it was only a Dream" - Waiting for the Event - The Saddest Day of my Life - My Husband's Second Marriage - I Give Away the Bride! - Fulfilling my Promise - I am Married to my Husband for Carrie - Brigham's Decree: The Claims of the Living and the Dead - Married for Eternity - The Bride and Bridegroom - After the Wedding - Loneliness and Grief - A Night of Darkness and Sorrow. 446 CHAPTER XXXIII. DOMESTIC ARRANGEMENTS OF THE SAINTS: - POLYGAMY FROM A WOMAN'S STANDPOINT. A First Wife's Experience in Polygamy - "Getting Used to It" - The Doings and Devices of Polygamic Wives - How Mormon Men Deceive and are Deceived - Feminine Drill-Sergeants - The Ladies who Advocate Polygamy! - A Present for Brother Brigham - Getting up a Petition - How Signatures are Procured - Inscribing the Names of the Dead as Voters - Cruel Efforts of Hopeless Women - A Mormon Idea of a Husband's Duty - The Domestic Arrangements of the Saints - A Man with Six Wives - How he Divides his Time - A Crafty Proceeding - The Reward of Generosity - Primitive Habitations - Polygamy in the Rough - The Discarded Wife in the Wagon-Box - "Build up the Kingdom!" - Four Wives and their Children in One Room - Advantages of a Large House Wealthy Polygamists - Married to Two Sisters - Marrying a Step-Daughter - Managing a Husband - The Influence of Good Cookery - Wives in Various Settlements - The Case Reversed: A Picture. 459 CHAPTER XXXIV. LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF POLYGAMY: - MARRIAGE AND BAPTISM FOR THE DEAD. Domestic Difficulties - Husband and Lover - How Brother Brigham Treats His Wives - Polygamy in Poverty - Obedience the Crowning Virtue - How Women Feel and Act in Polygamy - A First Wife's Trials - The Young Second Wife - Home Life in Polygamy - The Husband Displays His "Jewels" - Our Worldy Prosperity - The First Daily Paper in Utah - Whisperings of Murder - Not in the Confidence of "The Church" - Brigham's Inconsistencies - Mr. Stenhouse Refuses a Contract - How Brother Brigham "Jumps at an Offer" - How He Makes His Money - I Remind My Husband of Certain Things - Another Visit from My Talkative Friend - Baptism for the Dead - Baptized for Queen Anne - A Strange Description of Paradise - Napoleon and Washington Mormon Elders - Queen Elizabeth Enters into Polygamy - Becoming Proxy for Henry VIII. - The Wife of the Thief on the Cross - Waiting for Queen Fanny! 474 CHAPTER XXXV. FESTIVITIES AND SOCIAL GATHERINGS OF THE SAINTS - THE PROPHET'S WHISKEY SHOP AND DRY-GOODS STORE. An Absent Husband's "Kingdom" - A Suggestion - A Pleasant Time for a Wife - "The Old Woman is Full of the Devil" - What I heard at the Pic-Nics - A "Bishop" and his Four Wives - Quite a Spectacle: - The "Woman in White!" - The "Peg" that "God Made for Brigham's Hat" - Dancing among the Saints - How Balls and Social Parties are Conducted - A Man Disgraced by following his Wife - Sad Fate of a Swedish Lady - Life in a "Dug-Out" - Another Phase of Celestial Marriage! - A Wronged Wife who Poisoned Herself - An Apostle's Five Wives! - Doing a Kindness for a Dead Uncle - Marrying four Wives on the Same Day - The Fish Brought in by Brother Brigham's Net - A Slumbering Conscience - The Prophet's Theatre - The "Word of Wisdom" - Brigham Young Whiskey-making Establishment - The "Revelation" and the Five-Gallon Keg - Why Brigham Sells Bad Whiskey - The Dry-Goods Store of "the Prophet of the file:///C|/WINDOWS/Desktop/Acrobat Version/fstenhouseindexcd.html (9 of 12) [1/24/2002 9:45:53 PM] Tell It All - Table of Contents. Lord." 493 CHAPTER XXXVI. MY DAUGHTER BECOMES THE FOURTH WIFE OF BRIGHAM YOUNG'S SON - THE SECOND ENDOWMENTS. Learning More of the Inner Life - The Mistakes of Newspaper Correspondents in Utah - Looking through Mormon Spectacles - Kept in the Dark The Second Wife Begins Housekeeping - Getting Rid of Her! - My Clara's Lover - Joseph A. Young - The Engagement - Waiting for "Something" to Turn Up - Asking Permission to Go East - How Mormon Girls are Deceived and Deceive Themselves - Brother Brigham "Counsels" Brother Stenhouse - The Wedding Day Fixed - The Marriage Ceremony in the Endowment-House - Brother Brigham Officiates - Married for Time and for All Eternity - The Fourth Wife of a Polygamist - A Mother's Sorrow - We Receive our Second Endowments - "Our" Husband Anointed King and Priest - Belinda and Myself made Queens and Priestesses - A Little Stranger: The Second Wife's Baby - "The Conclusion of the Whole Matter.". 506 CHAPTER XXXVII. REALITIES OF POLYGAMIC LIFE: - ORSON PRATT: THE STORY OF HIS YOUNG ENGLISH WIFE. Peculiar Position of Plural Wives - The Troubles of a Pretty Young Welsh Girl - The Story of Orson Pratt and His Young Wife - The "Champion of Polygamy" - The Wife of an Apostle - Leaving a Mother and her Babes to Starve - The Neglected Wife - Destitute and Forsaken - Attacked by Fever - The Wretched Wife Loses her Senses - She Wanders Forth Upon the Prairie with her Babes - The Good Deeds of Brother Kelsey and his Wife - They Clothe and Feed the Poor Wife - The "Philosopher" and his dying Wife - He Takes Matters Comfortably - "It is Too Late, Orson; Too Late!" - Another Victim to Polygamy - How a Wife's Rocking-chair was Stolen - How a Good Brother Whipped His Little Wife - Whence Come the Elders' Wives - Dupes from the Old World "Gone East!" - His other "Home" - The Advent of Three Little Babies - Why I Blame those Men. 519 CHAPTER XXXVIII. "OUR" HUSBAND'S FIANCÉE - A SECOND WIFE'S SORROWS - STEPS TOWARDS APOSTACY. A Little Misapprehension - My Husband's Kingdom - The chosen Maiden - The Prophet's daughter, Zina - Reviewing a Lady-Love - A Strange Consultation - The Accepted Lover - Love of no Ordinary Kind - "Something very Beautiful" - "He Never Loved Before" - Progressive Affection - Why Zina Pitied Us - "Our Husband!" - Sorrows of a Second Wife: Belinda in Trouble - A Pleasant "Duty!" - The Flirting in the Prophet's Parlor - Wavering Faith - The "Revelation" Criticised - Homæopathic Religion - The Book of Mormon condemns Polygamy! - A very Questionable "Prophet" - Belinda's Bereavement - Accused of Favoring the Gentiles - Lover's Quarrels - A Long Courtship - "If One Girl Won't Another Will!" - Steps Towards Apostacy. 535 CHAPTER XXXIX. SOME CURIOUS COURTSHIPS - BRIGHAM RUINS OUR FORTUNES - BELINDA DIVORCES "OUR" HUSBAND. Some Curious Courtships - "The Nicest ole'oman in the Country!" - "Be spoke" Wives - Marrying in Haste - A Woman with Nine Husbands - A Difficult Question - The Autocrat of Utah - Reminding a Husband - Accused of Favoring the Gentiles - The "Subjugation of Women" - The Daily Telegraph in Trouble - Removing to Ogden - Brigham Young Resolves to Ruin Us - A Crafty Prophet - The Ruin of Our Fortunes - "It Makes Me a Free Man!" - "Our" Husband's Divorce - "Take Care of That Paper" - Inside the Prophet's Office - Signing the Document - A Curious Bill of Divorce - Belinda - Forming a Resolution - A Sacrifice Worth Making. 548 file:///C|/WINDOWS/Desktop/Acrobat Version/fstenhouseindexcd.html (10 of 12) [1/24/2002 9:45:53 PM]