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Updated: May 7, 2025
If you object to the term "holding forth," you must blame Mrs. Duff; it is borrowed from her. She informed us, you may remember, that the stranger who met, and appeared to avoid, Lionel Verner, was no other than a "missionary from Jerusalem," taken with an anxiety for the souls of Deerham, and about to do what he could to convert them "Brother Jarrum."
Brother Jarrum, therefore, was received and welcomed. He did not hold forth this time in Peckaby's shop. He did not in public urge the delights of New Jerusalem, or the expediency of departure for it. He kept himself quiet and retired, receiving visits in the privacy of his chamber. After dark, especially, friends would drop in; admitted without noise or bustle by Mrs.
"Now, I can't explain to you why it is that the women in the city should be fair to the eye, or why the men don't seem to grow old," resumed Brother Jarrum. "It is so, and that's enough. People, learned in such things, might tell the cause; but I'm not learned in 'em.
"But if their husbands die off?" suggested a puzzled listener. "The husband's successor marries his widders," explained Brother Jarrum. "Look at our late head and prophet, Mr. Joe Smith him that appeared in a vision to our present prophet, and pointed out the spot for the new temple. He died a martyr, Mr. Joe Smith did a prey to wicked murderers.
"And you see this?" cried a man, Davies, in a somewhat doubtful tone. "I see it with my two eyes," answered Brother Jarrum. "I often see it. We had had news in the city that a train of new-comers was approaching, mostly English, and we went out to meet 'em.
This missionary, however, contrived both to keep his audience and to increase it; his promises partaking more of the mundane nature than do such promises in general. In point of fact, Brother Jarrum was an Elder from a place that he was pleased to term "New Jerusalem"; in other words, from the Salt Lake city.
"To have their own places apart, their own rooms in the house, and to be as happy as the day's long. They don't " "How they must quarrel, a lot of wives together!" interrupted a discontented voice. Brother Jarrum set himself energetically to disprove this supposition. He succeeded. Belief is easy to willing minds. "Which is best?" asked he.
"It's not many servants, though, that you'd find in New Jerusalem." "Ain't servants let go out to New Jerusalem?" quickly returned Mary Green. She was a servant herself, just now out of place, given to spend all her wages upon finery, and coming to grief perpetually with her mistresses upon the score. "Many of 'em goes out," was the satisfactory reply of Brother Jarrum.
It had been revealed to Brother Jarrum, he said, that they were to start that partic'lar night, and that I was to be left behind special. A higher mission was What was the word? resigned? no reserved reserved for me, and I was to be conveyed special on a quadruple, which was a white donkey.
"I telled Brother Jarrum, the very day afore the start took place, that if he took off my wife, I'd follor him on and beat every bone to smash as he'd got in his body," interposed Peckaby, glancing at Lionel with a knowing smile. "I did, sir. Her was out" jerking his black thumb at his wife "and I caught Brother Jarrum in his own room and shut the door on us both, and there I telled him.
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