BY
JULIA FARR
Author of "Venna Hastings"
"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided,
and that is the lamp of experience."
I. P. HENRY
THE DESERET NEWS
SALT LAKE CITY,
UTAH 1920
LOVINGLY DEDICATED TO MY
EPHRAIM FRIENDS
MRS. CATHERINE H. THOMPSON AND FAMILY
Have you been a convert to the "Mormon" faith? Have you left yourhome-land and started out for the valley in the mountains, leavingfriends behind, and looking forward with an awful loneliness to thestrange new land where life must begin over again with only the Lordto know and love you? And have you found, on coming to Zion, a realfriend—one who opens heart and home to welcome the convert, and givethat first cheering hope to the tired one, just come from the world'spersecutions? If you have had that experience, readers, you canunderstand with what tenderness I think of Ephraim, where I experiencedmy first welcome, my first friends in Zion. In trying to think of asuitable setting for my heroine's home life, Ephraim came instantlyto my mind, because it was here that I met the real "Mormon" spirit,which strengthened me to bear the disappointments of the morrow. Thislittle city will always be to me one of the chosen spots in God's Zion.I would not have it thought that any of my characters are supposed tobe those of Ephraim people. The story is one of fiction, the pioneerstories excepting. These stories are true, and belong to two prominentUtah families.
Julia Farr.
CHAPTER I.
"Even a child is known by his doings."—Prov. 20:11.
CHAPTER II.
No great truth was ever born into the world, without thethroes of suffering of those who bore it.
CHAPTER III.
A child's love is as proportionately great as a woman's.
CHAPTER IV.
Society's Nothingness, and its Sacrifice.
CHAPTER V.
Edith's Choice.
CHAPTER VI.
The glamor gone, what is left?
CHAPTER VII.
"Go, preach the Gospel to all the world."
CHAPTER VIII.
The Way of a Missionary.
CHAPTER IX.
Betty's new friends.
CHAPTER X.
"God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confoundthe wise."
CHAPTER XI.
The Treachery of the World.
CHAPTER XII.
Indifference begets indifference. Love begets love.
CHAPTER XIII.
Friendship's Claim.
CHAPTER XIV.
A contrast—The husband and the lover.
CHAPTER XV.
Spirit upon Spirit.
CHAPTER XVI.
Away from the world, soul meets soul.
CHAPTER XVII.
Edith