Latter Day Saints

The Women of Mormondom

Prevail." The Rev. Mr. Fielding. First Baptism in England. First Woman Baptized. Story of Miss Jeannetta Richards. First Branch of the Church in Foreign Lands Organized at the House of Ann Dawson. First Child Born into the Church in England. Romantic Sequel. Vilate Kimball Again.

Chapters

69. CHAPTER XVII.

The prophet and his brother Hyrum were in prison and in chains in Missouri; Sidney Rigdon, Parley Pratt and others were also in prison and in chains, for the gospel's sake.

95. CHAPTER XLIII.

Probably the most remarkable woman's rights demonstration of the age, was that of the women of Mormondom, in their grand mass-meetings, held throughout Utah, in all its principa...

100. CHAPTER XLVIII.

A LEADER FROM ENGLAND--MRS HANNAH T. KING--A MACDONALD FROM SCOTLAND--THE "WELSH QUEEN"--A REPRESENTATIVE WOMAN FROM IRELAND--SISTER HOWARD--A GALAXY OF THE SISTERHOOD, FROM "MA...

97. CHAPTER XLV.

The heroic conduct of the Mormon women, in their eventful history, is not strange, nor their trained sentiments of religious liberty exaggerated in the action of their lives; fo...

64. CHAPTER XII.

It was commenced in June, 1833, under the immediate direction of the Almighty, through his servant, Joseph Smith, whom he had called in his boyhood, like Samuel of old, to intro...

67. CHAPTER XV.

Towards the close of October, 1838, several small detachments of migrants from Ohio entered the State of Missouri. They were of the refugees from Kirtland. Their destinations we...

74. CHAPTER XXII.

By this time (1840, the period of the founding of Nauvoo), the Church has had a remarkable history in Canada and Great Britain. To these missions we must now go for some of our...

54. CHAPTER II.

It is one of our most beautiful and suggestive proverbs that "great men have great mothers." This cannot but be peculiarly true of a great prophet whose soul is conceptive of a...

96. CHAPTER XLIV.

WIVES OF THE APOSTLES--MRS. ORSON HYDE--INCIDENTS OF THE EARLY DAYS--THE PROPHET--MARY ANN PRATT'S LIFE STORY--WIFE OF GEN. CHARLES C. RICH--MRS. FRANKLIN D. RICHARDS--PHOEBE WO...

73. CHAPTER XXI.

As observed in the opening chapter, they are the sons and daughters of the Pilgrim sires and mothers who founded this nation; sons and daughters of the patriots who fought the b...

66. CHAPTER XIV.

One of the very queens of Mormondom, and a woman beloved by the whole church, during her long eventful lifetime, was the late Vilate Kimball. To-day she sleeps by the side of he...

79. CHAPTER XXVII.

The sisters were side by side with the most potent missionaries the Latter-day Church found. They made nearly as many converts to Mormonism as the elders. They were, often times...

76. CHAPTER XXIV.

MORMONISM CARRIED TO GREAT BRITAIN--"TRUTH WILL PREVAIL"--THE REV. MR. FIELDING--FIRST BAPTISM IN ENGLAND--FIRST WOMAN BAPTIZED--STORY OF MISS JEANNETTA RICHARDS--FIRST BRANCH O...

84. CHAPTER XXXII.

CONTINUATION OF ELIZA R. SNOW'S NARRATIVE--ADVENT OF A LITTLE STRANGER UNDER ADVERSE CIRCUMSTANCES--DORMITORY, SITTING-ROOM, OFFICE, ETC., IN A BUGGY--"THE CAMP"--INTERESTING EP...

99. CHAPTER XLVII.

ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF CALIFORNIA--A WOMAN MISSIONARY TO THE SOCIETY ISLANDS--HER LIFE AMONG THE NATIVES--THE ONLY MORMON WOMAN SENT ON MISSION WITHOUT HER HUSBAND--A MORMON WOM...

77. CHAPTER XXV.

SKETCH OF THE SISTERS MARY AND MERCY R. FIELDING--THE FIELDINGS A SEMI-APOSTOLIC FAMILY--THEIR IMPORTANT INSTRUMENTALITY IN OPENING THE BRITISH MISSION--MARY FIELDING MARRIES HY...

70. CHAPTER XVIII.

The disciples of the prophet believed in the Book of Mormon; but nearly all their themes, and that vast system of theology which Joseph conceived, as the crowning religion for a...

59. CHAPTER VII.

The divine narrative leads directly into the personal story of Parley P. Pratt. He it was who first brought the Mormon mission west. He it was who presented the Book of Mormon t...

56. CHAPTER IV.

The birth-place of Mormonism was in the State of New York. There the angels first administered to the youthful prophet; there in the "Hill Cumorah," near the village of Palmyra,...

105. CHAPTER LIII.

But the enemies of the Mormons, at home and abroad, who have sought to break up their religious institutions and turn their sacred relations into unholy covenants, have, from th...

82. CHAPTER XXX.

RISE OF NAUVOO--INTRODUCTION OF POLYGAMY--MARTYRDOM OF JOSEPH AND HYRUM--CONTINUATION OF ELIZA R. SNOW'S NARRATIVE--HER ACCEPTANCE OF POLYGAMY, AND MARRIAGE TO THE PROPHET--GOVE...

81. CHAPTER XXIX.

LITERAL APPLICATION OF CHRIST'S COMMAND--THE SAINTS LEAVE FATHER AND MOTHER, HOME AND FRIENDS, TO GATHER TO ZION--MRS. WILLIAM STAINES--HER EARLY LIFE AND EXPERIENCE--A MIDNIGHT...

68. CHAPTER XVI.

Haun's Mill massacre was merely a tragic episode; a huge tragedy in itself, it is true, such as civilized times scarcely ever present, yet merely an episode of this strange reli...

60. CHAPTER VIII.

There was in Kirtland a controversy between the powers of good and evil, for the mastery. Powers good and evil it would seem to an ordinary discernment. Certainly powers represe...

93. CHAPTER XLI.

It was nearly twenty-three years after the establishment of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, that the revelation on celestial marriage was published to the world...

65. CHAPTER XIII.

Concerning affairs at Kirtland subsequent to the dedication of the temple, and people and incidents of those times, Eliza R. Snow continues: With the restoration of the fullness...

71. CHAPTER XIX.

Joseph endowed the church with the genesis of a grand theology, and Brigham has reared the colossal fabric of a new civilization; but woman herself must sing of her celestial or...

104. CHAPTER LII.

It was charged, however, by the anti-Mormons, that woman suffrage in Utah was only designed to further enslave the Mormon women; that they took no part in its passage, and have...

102. CHAPTER L.

WOMAN'S POSITION IN THE MORMON CHURCH--GRAND FEMALE ORGANIZATION OF MORMONDOM--THE RELIEF SOCIETY--ITS INCEPTION AT NAUVOO--ITS PRESENT STATUS, AIMS, AND METHODS--FIRST SOCIETY...

92. CHAPTER XL.

MIRIAM WORKS AND MARY ANN ANGELL--SCENES OF THE PAST--DEATH-BED OF MIRIAM--EARLY DAYS OF MARY--HER MARRIAGE WITH BRIGHAM--THE GOOD STEP-MOTHER--SHE BEARS HER CROSS IN THE PERSEC...

87. CHAPTER XXXV.

Very properly President Young and a chosen cohort of apostles and elders formed the band of pioneers who bore the standard of their people to the Rocky Mountains. On the 7th of...

75. CHAPTER XXIII.

Among the early fruits of the Canadian mission, perhaps the name of no other lady stands more conspicuous for good works and faithful ministrations, than that of Mrs. Mary I. Ho...

101. CHAPTER XLIX.

"Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned; for she...

78. CHAPTER XXVI.

THE QUORUM OF THE APOSTLES GO ON MISSION TO ENGLAND--THEIR LANDING IN GREAT BRITAIN--THEY HOLD A CONFERENCE--A HOLIDAY FESTIVAL--MOTHER MOON AND FAMILY--SUMMARY OF A YEAR'S LABO...

98. CHAPTER XLVI.

MORMON WOMEN WHOSE ANCESTORS WERE ON BOARD THE "MAYFLOWER"--A BRADFORD, AND DESCENDANT OF THE SECOND GOVERNOR OF PLYMOUTH COLONY--A DESCENDANT OF ROGERS, THE MARTYR--THE THREE W...

83. CHAPTER XXXI.

THE EXODUS--TO YOUR TENTS, O ISRAEL--SETTING OUT FROM THE BORDERS OF CIVILIZATION--MOVEMENTS OF THE CAMP OF ISRAEL--FIRST NIGHT AT SUGAR CREEK--PRAISING GOD IN THE SONG AND DANC...

89. CHAPTER XXXVII.

THE MARTYRED PATRIARCH'S WIDOW--A WOMAN'S STRENGTH AND INDEPENDENCE--THE CAPTAIN "LEAVES HER OUT IN THE COLD"---HER PROPHESY AND CHALLENGE TO THE CAPTAIN--A PIONEER INDEED--SHE...

85. CHAPTER XXXIII.

BATHSHEBA W. SMITH'S STORY OF THE LAST DAYS OF NAUVOO--SHE RECEIVES CELESTIAL MARRIAGE AND GIVES HER HUSBAND FIVE "HONORABLE YOUNG WOMEN" AS WIVES--HER DESCRIPTION OF THE EXODUS...

63. CHAPTER XI.

Yet here in America in the nineteenth century, _among the Gentiles_, a modern Israel began to rear temples to the name of the God of Israel! Temples to be reared to his august n...

72. CHAPTER XX.

A trinity of Mothers--Eve the Mother of a world; Sarah the Mother of the covenant; Zion the Mother of celestial sons and daughters--the Mother of the new creation of Messiah's r...

107. CHAPTER LV.

And the women of Zion have a press. More than up to their Gentile sisters are they in this respect. Few of the church organizations of Christendom can boast a woman's journal. T...

86. CHAPTER XXXIV.

"It was June 27th, 1844," writes Zina D. Young (one of the Huntington sisters, with whom the reader is familiar), "and it was rumored that Joseph was expected in from Carthage....

55. CHAPTER III.

Woman is child of faith. Indeed she is faith. Man is reason. His mood is skepticism. Left alone to _his_ apostleship, spiritual missions die, though revealed by a cohort of arch...

62. CHAPTER X.

The women who did their full half in founding Mormondom, comprehended, as much as did their prototypes who came up out of Egypt, the significance of the name of Israel.

108. CHAPTER LVI.

They have pioneered the nation westward, where Providence was directing its course of empire, and now they are turning back upon the elder States of the Union as pioneers of a n...

110. CHAPTER LVIII.

WOMANHOOD THE REGENERATING INFLUENCE IN THE WORLD--FROM EVE, THE FIRST, TO MARY, THE SECOND EVE--GOD AND WOMAN THE HOPE OF MAN--WOMAN'S APOSTLESHIP--JOSEPH VS. PAUL--THE WOMAN N...

53. CHAPTER I.

Fuller of romance than works of fiction are the lives of the Mormon women. So strange and thrilling is their story,--so rare in its elements of experience,--that neither history...

90. CHAPTER XXXVIII.

"Our first winter in the mountains was delightful; the ground froze but little; our coldest weather was three or four days in November, after which the men plowed and sowed, bui...

111. CHAPTER LIX.

Zion is coming down to be the spiritual mother of the earth. She shall bruise the serpent's head, in her seed and in her ministry. Now shall woman be not only the mother of the...

80. CHAPTER XXVIII.

MORMONISM AND THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND--PRESENTATION OF THE BOOK OF MORMON TO THE QUEEN AND PRINCE ALBERT--ELIZA R. SNOW'S POEM ON THAT EVENT--"ZION'S NURSING MOTHER"--HEBER C. KIMB...

88. CHAPTER XXXVI.

"As soon as the weather became warm, and the gardens began to produce early vegetables, the sick began to recover. We felt considerable anxiety for the safety of the pioneers, a...

57. CHAPTER V.

The forerunner made straight the way in the wilderness of the virgin West. He raised up a church of disciples in and around Kirtland. He led those who afterwards became latter-d...

112. CHAPTER LX.

The chiefest right of woman is in the shaping and settlement of the marriage question. The voice of civilization well enunciates this supreme doctrine. To commit this all-sacred...

61. CHAPTER IX.

"In the autumn of 1829," says Eliza R. Snow, the high priestess, "the tidings reached my ears that God had spoken from the heavens; that he had raised up a prophet, and was abou...

109. CHAPTER LVII.

SARAH THE MOTHER OF THE COVENANT--IN HER THE EXPOUNDING OF THE POLYGAMIC RELATIONS OF THE MORMON WOMEN--FULFILMENT OF GOD'S PROMISE TO HER--THE MORMON PARALLEL--SARAH AND HAGAR...

91. CHAPTER XXXIX.

For an example of the heroism of woman excelling all other examples of history--at least of modern times--let us turn to that of the Mormon women during the Utah war.

106. CHAPTER LIV.

In the Garden of Eden, before the act of disobedience, through which Adam and Eve were shut out from the presence of God, it is reasonable to suppose that Eve's position was not...

94. CHAPTER XLII.

Next after the revelation on celestial marriage, through Joseph the prophet, the Bible of the Hebrews, and not the sacred record of the ancients of this continent, must be charg...

103. CHAPTER LI.

Marriage is the great question of the age. It is the woman's special subject. Monogamic, or polygamic, it is essentially one problem. Either phase is good, or bad, just as peopl...

58. CHAPTER VI.

And they "spake often one to another; and the Lord hearkened and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon...

16. CHAPTER XXIV.--Mormonism Carried to Great Britain. "Truth will

Prevail." The Rev. Mr. Fielding. First Baptism in England. First Woman Baptized. Story of Miss Jeannetta Richards. First Branch of the Church in Foreign Lands Organized at the H...

29. CHAPTER XXXVII.--The Martyred Patriarch's Widow. A Woman's Strength

and Independence. The Captain "Leaves Her Out in the Cold." Her Prophesy and Challenge to the Captain. A Pioneer Indeed. She is Led by Inspiration. The Seeric Gift of the Smiths...

32. CHAPTER XL.--Miriam Works and Mary Ann Angell. Scenes of the Past.

Death-Bed of Miriam. Early Days of Mary. Her Marriage with Brigham. The Good Step-mother. She Bears her Cross in the Persecutions. A Battle with Death. Polygamy. Mary in the Exo...

38. CHAPTER XLVI.--Mormon Women whose Ancestors were on board the

"Mayflower." A Bradford, and Descendant of the Second Governor of Plymouth Colony. A Descendant of Rogers, the Martyr. The Three Women who came with the Pioneers. The First Woma...

17. CHAPTER XXV.--Sketch of the Sisters Mary and Mercy R. Fielding. The

Fieldings a Semi-Apostolic Family. Their Important Instrumentality in Opening the British Mission. Mary Fielding Marries Hyrum Smith. Her Trials and Sufferings while her Husband...

21. CHAPTER XXIX.--Literal Application of Christ's Command. The Saints

Leave Father and Mother, Home and Friends, to Gather to Zion. Mrs. William Staines. Her Early Life and Experience. A Midnight Baptism in Midwinter. Farewell to Home and Every Fr...

22. CHAPTER XXX.--Rise of Nauvoo. Introduction of Polygamy. Martyrdom

of Joseph and Hyrum. Continuation of Eliza R. Snow's Narrative. Her Acceptance of Polygamy, and Marriage to the Prophet. Governor Carlin's Treachery. Her Scathing Review of the...

36. CHAPTER XLIV.--Wives of the Apostles. Mrs. Orson Hyde. Incidents of

the Early Days. The Prophet. Mary Ann Pratt's Life Story. Wife of Gen. Charles C. Rich. Mrs. Franklin D. Richards. Phoebe Woodruff. Leonora Taylor. Marian Ross Pratt. The Wife o...

39. CHAPTER XLVII.--One of the Founders of California. A Woman Missionary

to the Society Islands. Her Life Among the Natives. The only Mormon Woman Sent on Mission without Her Husband. A Mormon Woman in Washington. A Sister from the East Indies. A Sis...

25. CHAPTER XXXIII.--Bathsheba W. Smith's Story of the Last Days of Nauvoo.

She Receives Celestial Marriage and Gives Her Husband Five "Honorable Young Women" as Wives. Her Description of the Exodus and Journey to Winter Quarters. Death of One of the Wi...

24. CHAPTER XXXII.--Continuation of Eliza R. Snow's Narrative. Advent of a

Little Stranger Under Adverse Circumstances. Dormitory, Sitting-Room, Office, etc., in a Buggy. "The Camp." Interesting Episodes of the Journey. Graphic Description of the Metho...

42. CHAPTER L.--Woman's Position in the Mormon Church. Grand Female

Organization of Mormonism. The Relief Society. Its Inception at Nauvoo. Its Present Status, Aims, and Methods. First Society Building. A Woman Lays the Corner-stone. Distinguish...

19. CHAPTER XXVII.--The Sisters as Missionaries. Evangelical Diplomacy.

27. CHAPTER XXXV.--The Pioneers. The Pioneer Companies that Followed.

50. CHAPTER LVIII.--Womanhood the Regenerating Influence in the World. From

18. CHAPTER XXVI.--The Quorum of the Apostles go on Mission to England.

49. CHAPTER LVII.--Sarah the Mother of the Covenant. In Her the Expounding

23. CHAPTER XXXI.--The Exodus. To Your Tents, O Israel. Setting out from

28. CHAPTER XXXVI.--Bathsheba W. Smith's Story Continued. The Pioneers

20. CHAPTER XXVIII.--Mormonism and the Queen of England. Presentation of

26. CHAPTER XXXIV.--The Story of the Huntington Sisters Continued. Zina D.

40. CHAPTER XLVIII--A Leader from England. Mrs. Hannah T. King. A Macdonald

45. CHAPTER LIII.--Members of Congress Seek to Disfranchise the Women of

15. CHAPTER XXIII.--A Distinguished Canadian Convert. Mrs. M. I. Horne. Her

41. CHAPTER XLIX.--The Message to Jerusalem. The Ancient Tones of

3. CHAPTER VII.--An Israel Prepared by Visions, Dreams and Angels.

7. CHAPTER XIV.--An Illustrious Mormon Woman. The First Wife of the

10. CHAPTER XVII.--Episodes of the Persecutions. Continuation of Eliza

30. CHAPTER XXXVIII.--Utah in the Early Days. President Young's Primitive

14. CHAPTER XXII.--Woman's Work in Canada and Great Britain. Heber C.

31. CHAPTER XXXIX.--The Women of Mormondom in the Period of the Utah War.

52. CHAPTER LX.--Terrible as an Army with Banners. Fifty Thousand Women

9. CHAPTER XVI.--Mobs Drive the Settlers into Far West. Heroic Death

5. CHAPTER XI.--The Land of Temples. America the New Jerusalem. Daring

8. CHAPTER XV.--Haun's Mill. Joseph Young's Story of the Massacre. Sister

12. CHAPTER XIX.--Eliza R. Snow's Invocation. The Eternal Father and

35. CHAPTER XLIII.--Grand Mass-meeting of the Women of Utah on Polygamy and

43. CHAPTER LI.--The Sisters and the Marriage Question. The Women of Utah

47. CHAPTER LV.--Woman's Voice in the Press of Utah. The Woman's Exponent.

13. CHAPTER XXI.--The Huntingtons. Zina D. Young, and Prescindia L.

34. CHAPTER XLII.--Revelation Supported by Biblical Examples. The

48. CHAPTER LVI.--Retrospection. Apostolic Mission of the Mormon Women. How

51. CHAPTER LIX.--Zion, a Type of "The Woman's Age." The Culminating Theme

6. CHAPTER XIII.--The Ancient Order of Blessings. The Prophet's Father.

2. CHAPTER IV.--Birth of the Church. Kirtland as the Bride, in the

46. CHAPTER LIV.--Woman Expounds Her Own Subject. The Fall. Her Redemption

1. CHAPTER II.--The Mother of the Prophet. The Gifts of Inspiration and

11. CHAPTER XVIII.--Joseph Smith's Daring Answer to the Lord. Woman,

37. CHAPTER XLV.--Mormon Women of Martha Washington's Time. Aunt Rhoda

4. CHAPTER X.--The Latter-Day Iliad. Reproduction of the Great Hebraic

33. CHAPTER XLI.--The Revelation on Polygamy. Bishop Whitney Preserves a

44. CHAPTER LII.--The Lie of the Enemy Refuted. A View of the Women in