THE WOMEN OF MORMONDOM. -- By EDWARD W. TULLIDGE. NEW YORK. -- 1877. PREFACE. Long enough, O women of America, have your Mormon sisters been blasphemed! From the day that they, in the name and fear of the Lord their God, undertook to "build up Zion," they have been persecuted for righteousness sake: "A people scattered and peeled from the beginning." The record of their lives is now sent unto you, that you may have an opportunity to judge them in the spirit of righteousness. So shall you be judged by Him whom they have honored, whose glory they have sought, and whose name they have magnified. Respectfully, EDWARD W. TULLIDGE. _Salt Lake City, March_, 1877. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I.--A Strange Religious Epic. An Israelitish Type of Woman in the Age. CHAPTER II.--The Mother of the Prophet. The Gifts of Inspiration and Working of Miracles Inherent in her Family. Fragments of her Narrative. CHAPTER III.--The Opening of a Spiritual Dispensation to America. Woman's Exaltation. The Light of the Latter Days. CHAPTER IV.--Birth of the Church. Kirtland as the Bride, in the Chambers of the Wilderness. The Early Gathering. "Mother Whitney," and Eliza R. Snow. CHAPTER V.--The Voice, and the Messenger of the Covenant. CHAPTER VI.--An Angel from the Cloud is Heard in Kirtland. The "Daughter of the Voice." CHAPTER VII.--An Israel Prepared by Visions, Dreams and Angels. Interesting and Miraculous Story of Parley P. Pratt. A Mystic Sign of Messiah in the Heavens. The Angel's Words Fulfilled. CHAPTER VIII.--War of the Invisible Powers. Their Master. Jehovah's Medium. CHAPTER IX.--Eliza R. Snow's Experience. Glimpses of the Life and Character of Joseph Smith. Gathering of the Saints. CHAPTER X.--The Latter-Day Iliad. Reproduction of the Great Hebraic Drama. The Meaning of the Mormon Movement in the Age. CHAPTER XI.--The Land of Temples. America the New Jerusalem. Daring Conception of the Mormon Prophet. Fulfillment of the Abrahamic Programme. Woman to be an Oracle of Jehovah. CHAPTER XII.--Eliza R. Snow's Graphic Description of the Temple and its Dedication. Hosannas to God. His Glory Fills the House. CHAPTER XIII.--The Ancient Order of Blessings. The Prophet's Father. The Patriarch's Mother. His Father. Kirtland High School. Apostasy and Persecution. Exodus of the Church. CHAPTER XIV.--An Illustrious Mormon Woman. The First Wife of the Immortal Heber C. Kimball. Opening Chapter of her Autobiography. Her Wonderful Vision. An Army of Angels Seen in the Heavens. CHAPTER XV.--Haun's Mill. Joseph Young's Story of the Massacre. Sister Amanda Smith's Story of that Terrible Tragedy. Her Wounded Boy's Miraculous Cure. Her Final Escape from Missouri. CHAPTER XVI.--Mobs Drive the Settlers into Far West. Heroic Death of Apostle Patten. Treachery of Col. Hinkle, and Fall of the Mormon Capital. Famous Speech of Major-General Clarke.