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Woman, Church, and State
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table of contents
  1. Preface
  2. I. The Matriarchate
  3. II. Celibacy
  4. III. Canon Law
  5. IV. Marquette
  6. V. Witchcraft
  7. VI. Wives
  8. VII. Polygamy
  9. VIII. Woman And Work
  10. IX. The Church Of To-Day
  11. X. Past, Present, Future

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When her father’s name was mentioned, Dora said, “Don’t speak to me of my father, Mr. Morris, you and the whole church know that my father, prophet though you call him, broke many a woman’s heart. If it is required of me to break as many hearts and ruin as many women as my father did, I should go to perdition before I would go back into the church again. and--”

“Oh, sister Dora! exclaimed the teacher in consternation at her clearness of vision.

“It is a fact and you know it,” she continued, ‘You know that many of his wives died of broken hearts and how did he leave the rest? Look at my mother and look at all the rest of them! A religion that breaks women’s hearts and ruins them is of the devil. That’s what Mormonism does. Don’t talk to me of my father.”--Reported in the Chicago Inter Ocean.

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