ingly attached

to her uncle George A., and aunt Bathsheba, and notwithstanding she loved her mother, brothers and sisters very much, she suffered extreme home-sickness in her separation from her uncle and aunt, and found no peace of mind until she started on her way back to Provo, where she arrived on her ninth birthday anniversary, and with such pleasure as she had not experienced for many a long day, and with tears of joy she could not repress, sought out and found her uncle George A. and his family. They received her as one of their own children, and with them she contentedly and happily remained until May 5th, 1866, when, at the age of seventeen, she became the happy wife of the man of her choice, Joseph F. Smith.

Directly after her husband (or he who was to be) had asked permission of Brother George A. to pay his addresses to her, her uncle went to her and said: "My girl, do not marry until you find some one you love as well as you do your uncle George." She fully understood the meaning of this kind and generous sentiment, for she knew he loved her as he did one of his own children, and he knew full well how truly she loved him, as her uncle, her protector, and her truest and best friend. She removed at once, after marriage, to her husband's home in the Sixteenth Ward, Salt Lake City, where she has resided ever since. On June 6th, 1870, she

suffered the saddest affliction of her life in the death of her firstborn, an unusually bright and beautiful little girl, who died at the age of two years and ten

months.

On the 24th of the same month she was chosen President of the Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Association of the Sixteenth Ward, and for several years took pleasure in her labors in this capacity and in such other matters of public interest to women as she was invited to take part in. But in time her family increased upon her hands, and domestic responsibilities multiplied until she was compelled to surrender her public duties and to refrain. from constant labors outside of her home circle.

However, in 1873 she was called to assist at the Endowment House, principally to provide the mid-day meals for the workers but frequently taking part in the ceremonies and services of the House, often filling the place of an absentee, or relieving the weary and assisting on crowded occasions as necessity required. In this capacity she continued to labor until the House was closed in 1884. She visited St. George, and was present at the dedication of the temple there in the spring of 1877. In December, 1884, when the anti-Mormon crusade began in earnest, she accompanied her husband to Oregon; but in the latter part of the month she returned home, and in February, 1885, following she joined him in

San Francisco, leaving her five little children at home, taking only her baby, Julina C., nearly one year old, with her, and together with her husband, her brother-in-law, Bishop A. W. Davis, Bishop George Romney and others, sailed for the Sandwich Islands on a mission, where she remained until March, 1887, when she started on her return home. On April 21, 1876, her son, Elias W., was born at Laie, and in September, same year, her daughter, Donnette, came to the islands with her aunt, Melissa J. Davis (along with a company of Elders on their way to New Zealand), on a visit to her father and mother; so that on Sister Julina's journey homeward she had the care of her three children upon her hands, having left her husband in Honolulu. Grateful inIdeed was she once more to be at home, with all her children around her, a privilege of which she had been denied for more than two years.

From 1872 to 1874 she studied obstetrics, attending the lectures of Drs. R. B. Pratt and M. Barker, and was selected as one of a number of young women to go East to study medicine, but declined this honor out of consideration for her husband and family. In 1875 she commenced the duties of midwife, and has followed the practice at the urgent solicitations of her neighbors and friends as her own condition and circumstances would permit.

She has skillfully and success

fully presided over the advent of scores of children into the world. and has been wonderfully favored and prospered in her labors in this direction. Although in consequence of the responsibilities of her own household, she has never solicited patronage, and has been obliged to turn away many who have sought her services.

She is now the mother of ten children, nine of whom are living, eight of them having been baptized at eight years old, and are happily enjoying the blessings of peace in the old home, loving their parents and the gospel of Christ, so far as they have reached the years of understanding, and in heartfelt sympathy and union with the people of God and the great latter-day work.

SKETCH OF THE LABORS OF SISTER LUCY B. YOUNG IN THE TEMPLES.

WORKER IN THE ST. GEORGE
TEMPLE.

MARRIED at the age of sixteen into the family of President Brigham Young, the after experiences of Sister Lucy were such as to purge out the dross of her nature and leave only the fine gold. She early recognized the fact that the key to a happy life here and hereafter in the celestial order was usefulness. And to the attainment of that key she devoted her time, her talents and all her spiritual strength. In the course of a long life she knew much sickness, and together with her constant companions and dear

associates, Sister Eliza R. Snow and Zina D. Young, she learned thoroughly the lesson of faith. If people are ever to be known by their most prominent characteristic, Sister Lucy B. Young will certainly be called Faith. Above all her many and noble qualities shines that of faith, first, brightest and most preeminent. Humility, the necessary accompaniment of true faith, has brought to her path many glorious and rare experiences. She was born Oct., 3, 1830, and was married in Nauvoo, to President Brigham Young. She emigrated to the Valley at an early day, and lived in the Lion House until 1870, when she removed to St. George to keep a winter home for her beloved husband. When the temple was dedicated in the year 1877, January 1st, her name. was the first on the roll of workers for that holy House. Here she began her life work in administering the ordinances for the living and for the dead. No one who has not lived in this sacred work can tell of the joy and comfort this work has brought to her soul.

How many times the sick and suffering have come upon beds to that temple, and at once Sister Young would be called to take the afflicted one under her immediate charge, as all knew the mighty power she had gained through long years of fastings and prayers in the exercise of her special gift. When her hands are upon the head of another in bless

ing, the words of inspiration and personal prophecy that flow from her lips are like a stream of living fire. One sister who had not walked for twelve years was brought, and under the cheering faith of Sister Young she went through the day's ordinance and was perfectly healed of her affliction. Numbers of times childless women have sought out the prayers and faith of Sister Young in her temple duties, and have afterwards turned, as Hannah of old, to bring up their promised child to receive further blessings in the temple. Volumes would not contain the myriad instances of cases of illness and disease healed by the power of God under Sister Young's hands. No one was too high, none too low, no one too poor no one too sick for her faith to reach. This gift is still with her, and humbly and powerfully does she exercise it.

When the temple in Logan was to be dedicated she was chosen as one of the workers to assist in starting the ordinance work in that holy edifice. Here she remained a short time, until the work was well under way, and then she returned to her labors in the temple at St. George. Again, when the work was to begin in the Manti Temple, her name was chosen to assist in starting this work. There she was at the dedication of that temple, and many and glorious were the manifestations which were given to her in that beautiful time. She remained here

some months in charge of the work until Sister M. W. Snow could come and take up that labor. Again she returned to her work in the St. George Temple, and there has continued until the present winter. Now, yielding to the persuasions of her children. and friends, she has consented to remove to Salt Lake City, where in her declining years she can be with those who love her and watch over her interests. Here then she waits, looking with longing eyes for the dedication and consequent work in the great temple, for not until she can enter into her beloved temple work will she ever be happy and satisfied. She has been instrumental in redeeming hundreds of her own dead kindred, while she has ever been joyously willing to take names and assist the poor and unfortunate brethren who need a woman's help in their work in temples.

No one ever calls upon

her for means or for work, for faith or for prayers, in the doing of Christ's work and finds her unwilling or selfish. Of her life she has freely given, and surely she shall in that great, eternal work beyond find that precious jewel-eternal lives and glory.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE LIFE

AND LABORS OF MINERVA
WHITE SNOW,

WORKER IN THE MANTI TEMPLE.

I WAS born in Northbridge, Worcester County, Mass., March 22nd, 1822. My parents were Alden and Achsah White. They

were not members of any church, but were worthy, God-fearing people, who taught their children the principles of morality and to honor the Sabbath day.

My mother was left a widow when I was nine years old, with a family consisting of two brothers, three sisters and myself. When I was eighteen years of age I first heard the sound of the gospel. The words of the Elders sank deep into my heart, and I was at once convinced that their doctrine was the same that Jesus and His disciples preached. after this I was baptized, and received the gift of the Holy Ghost. About two years later my mother's family emigrated

Nauvoo, where I became

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quainted with the Prophet Joseph Smith, and I bear my testimony to the world that he was a man of God, guided by divine inspiration. I not only knew him in life, but I saw him after he had been cruelly murdered by a wicked mob.

I was married to Erastus Snow in the order of celestial marriage. on the 2nd of April, 1844, in Nauvoo, by Hyrum Smith, and according to the advice of the Prophet Joseph.

I received his counsel on this subject as a divine revelation, and never for one moment of my life have I regretted taking that step. My relations in the family of Brother Snow were of a very pleasant nature, and I wish to bear my testimony to the noble. and unselfish character of my

husband's first wife, Sister Artemisia. I loved her as a dear sister, and have every reason to believe that my affection was returned. Her death has left a void in my heart which only our anticipated reunion behind behind the veil can ever fill.

It is not necessary for me to dwell on the sad scenes connected with our exodus from Nauvoo, for they are indelibly imprinted on the hearts of all those who participated therein, and our experience has become a matter of history for the information of those who did not. Suffice it to say that we crossed the Mississippi River early in February, 1846, in bitter winter weather, to go we knew not whither. We endured many hardships and privations, and I narrowly escaped drowning by the slipping back into the river of the wagon in which I was sitting on the ferry boat, with one of my husband's children in my lap. By receiving prompt assistance, I escaped with a wetting in the ice-cold water. Soon after our arrival at Winter Quarters I gave birth to a daughter, my second child, my firstborn having died in Nauvoo.

home in Nauvoo. Then for the second time was I left childless. Only a mother who has been thus bereft can relize my utter desolation. As spring approached we again made preparation to take up our line of march toward the setting sun. We left Winter Quarters in the spring of 1848, traveling in President Young's company. I drove a mule team through all the long and wearisome journey, occupying the whole summer. We arrived in Salt Lake Valley in the fall of the same year, and went to housekeeping in a log house containing but one room. The family consisted of six persons. Two more children were born during the winter. In the following year Brother Snow was called to take a mission to Denmark, and was absent nearly three years, during which time his wives were dependent upon their own tions for a livelihood, and endured all the privations incident to a new country, with the added disadvantage occasioned by the absence of their natural protector, and of which the young people of the present day have little idea. Cultivating our own garden, chopping our own firewood, and in addition to our regular duties we gathered straw and made straw hats, for which there was an increasing demand as the tide of gold-seekers surged toward the golden State.

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This industry was a source of great benefit to us,

as we were