The Women of MormondomTullidge, Edward W. (Edward William)
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The Women of Mormondom
Tullidge, Edward W. (Edward William)
Latter Day Saint churches -- History; Latter Day Saints -- History; Polygamy
Julia Budge, first wife of Bishop William Budge, may be presented as
one of the women who have made polygamy honorable. She was born in
Essex, England, where she was baptized by Chas. W. Penrose, one of the
most distinguished of the English elders, who afterwards married her
sister--a lady of the same excellent disposition. The bishop is to-day
the husband of three wives, whose children have grown up as one family,
and the wives have lived together "like sisters." No stranger, with
preconceived notions, would guess that they sustained the very tender
relation of sister-wives. Their happy polygamic example is a sort of
"household word" in the various settlements over which the bishop has
presided.
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Sister Nancy A. Clark, daughter of Sanford Porter, now a resident of
Farmington, Utah, has had a most remarkable personal experience as
a servant of God. When a little girl, less than eight years of age,
residing with her parents in Missouri, she, in answer to prayer,
received the gift of tongues, and became a great object of interest
among the saints. During and succeeding the persecutions in that State,
and while her father's family were being driven from place to place,
her oft-repeated spiritual experiences were the stay and comfort of all
around her. Her many visions and experiences would fill a volume. It is
needless to say that she is among the most faithful and devoted of the
sisterhood.
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A pretty little instance of faith and works is related by Martha
Granger, the wife of Bishop William G. Young, which is worthy of
record. In September, 1872, the bishop was riding down Silver Creek
Canyon, on his way to Weber river, when he became sunstruck, and fell
back in his wagon, insensible. His horses, as if guided by an invisible
hand, kept steadily on, and finally turned into a farmer's barnyard.
The farmer, who was at work in the yard, thinking some team had strayed
away, went up to catch them, when he discovered the bishop (a stranger
to him) in the wagon. He thought at first that the stranger was
intoxicated, and so hitched the team, thinking to let him lay and sleep
it off. But upon a closer examination, failing to detect the fumes of
liquor, he concluded the man was sick, and calling assistance, took
him into the shade of a haystack, and cared for him. Still the bishop
remained unconscious, and the sun went down, and night came on.
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