THE SECOND BOOK OF THE
NOBLE WOMEN'S LIVES SERIES
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.
PUBLISHED AT THE JUVENILE INSTRUCTOR OFFICE.
1884.
IT affords us much pleasure to be able to present a second book ofthe "NOBLE WOMEN'S LIVES SERIES" to the public. It will, we feelconfident, prove no less interesting than its predecessor, and thelessons conveyed by the articles herein contained will doubtless be asinstructive to its readers as any ever given.
The remarkable events here recorded are worthy of perusal andremembrance by all the youth among this people, as they will tendto strengthen faith in and love for the gospel for which noble menand women have suffered so much. The names, too, of such heroines asthese, the sketches of whose lives we herewith give, should be heldin honorable remembrance among this people, for no age or nation canpresent us with more illustrious examples of female faith, heroism anddevotion.
We trust that this little work may find its way in the homes of allthe Saints and prove a blessing to all who scan its pages. This is theearnest desire of
THE PUBLISHERS.
Hyrum Smith, the Patriarch, married Jerusha Barden, November 2, 1826.They had six children, viz: Lovina, Mary, John, Hyrum, Jerusha andSarah. Mary died when very young, and her mother died soon after thebirth of her daughter, Sarah. Hyrum, the second son, died in Nauvoo,in 1842, aged eight years. The Patriarch married his second wife,Mary Fielding, in the year 1837, she entering upon the important dutyof stepmother to five children, which task she performed, under themost trying and afflictive circumstances, with unwavering fidelity.She had two children, Joseph and Martha. Thus, you see, Hyrum Smith,the Patriarch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, wasreally a polygamist many years before the revelation on celestialmarriage was written, though, perhaps, about the time it was given tothe Prophet Joseph Smith; but not exactly in the sense in which theword is generally used, for both his wives were not living togetheron the earth; still they were both alive, for the spirit never dies,and they were both his wives—the mothers of his children. Marriage isordained of God, and when performed by the authority of His Priesthood,is an ordinance of the everlasting gospel and is not, therefore, merelya legal contract, but pertains to time and all eternity to come,therefore it is written in the Bible, "What God hath joined togetherlet no man put asunder."
There are a great many men who feel very bitter against the Latter-daySaints,