why me Posted March 29, 2012 Posted March 29, 2012 On a different board, there is a post about Lucy Walker. Lucy was a faithful member of the church all her life. And yet, on the comment section of the post about lucy walker, there were many posters who felt sorry for her because of polygamy. And yet, Lucy said:“We marvel at the wonderful work he [Joseph] accomplished during his brief life. From the time God heard his humble prayer, and suffered him in vision to behold His face, Satan with all his hosts was arrayed against him. Contempt, reproach and ridicule were poured in black profusion o’er his youthful head as if to blast the bud of character—to wither reputation, ere it could be strengthened by maturing years. But what availed the malice of the world with him? He’d seen a heavenly vision, and heard the voice of the eternal God who cannot lie; and all the powers of darkness, speaking through the human tongue, could never teach him to unknow what he authentically knew. ‘His eyes had seen, his ears had heard, he’d felt the power of the Great Eternal One.’ It seems that lucy was fine with polygamy and so, why the pity and sorrow for her? I just don't understand the pity and sorrow for the polygamous wives of Joseph Smith. The wives seem fine with the polygamy, true, some of the wives did not have an easy life after JS's murder. But then most lives are not easy.
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