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TOTHE MORMON WIVES OF UTAH

I Dedicate thisBook to you, as I consecrate my life to your cause. As long as God gives me lifeI shall pray and plead for your deliverance from the worse than Egyptian bondagein which you are held. Despised, maligned, and wronged; kept in gross ignoranceof the great world, its pure creeds, its high aims, its generous motives, you havebeen made to believe that the noblest nation of the earth was truly representedby the horde of miscreants who drove you from State to State, in early years, murderingyour sons and assassinating your leaders.

Hence, you shrinkfrom those whom God will soon lead to your deliverance, from those to whom I dailypresent your claims to a hearing and liberation, and who listen with responsiveand sympathetic hearts.

But He willnot long permit you to be so wickedly deceived; nor will the People permit you tobe so cruelly enslaved.

Hope and pray!Come out of the house of bondage! Kind hearts beat for you! Open hands will welcomeyou! Do not fear that while God lives you shall suffer uncared for in the wilderness!This Christian realm is not "Babylon," but The Promised Land!

Courage! Thenight of oppression is nearly ended, and the sun of liberty is rising in the heavensfor you.

ANN-ELIZA YOUNG