How many Spirits are waiting, to clothe themselves
with mortality! oh what a Sinner am I,
to be 28 years old, and have not yet been
married, and brought forth an ofspring.
Like a heavy weight lays this sin upon
my soul, and I realize that, although perfectly
healthy, I am just as likely to be swept
away from life by an accident, and then
be doomed to live alone through the
immeasurable spaces of the creations.
In asmuch as I am healthy, well build
and young, I could have had many chances
to marry a Gentile girl, but I am very
careful, and fcomparatively speaking well
experienced for my age, and know, that
habit and education make inextinguishable
marks upon mankind. Even a young
Gentile girl of 17 or 18 years is so educated
in the ways of the Gentiles, that it might be
impossible for me, as husband even, to convert
her to the Church of Jesus Christ of L. D. Saints,
and if I would undertake to labor here in
Europe in the interests of said Church,

How many Spirits are waiting, to clothe themselves with mortality! oh what a Sinner am I, to be 28 years old, and have not yet been married, and brought forth an ofspring. Like a heavy weight lies this sin upon my soul, and I realize that, although perfectly healthy, I am just as likely to be swept away from life by an accident, and then be doomed to live alone through the immeasurable spaces of the creations. In asmuch as I am healthy, well build and young, I could have had many chances to marry a Gentile girl, but I am very careful, andComparatively speaking well experienced for my age, and know, that habit and education make inextinguishable marks upon mankind. Even a young Gentile girl of 17 or 18 years is so educated in the ways of the Gentiles, that it might be impossible for me, as husband even, to convert her to the Church of Jesus Christ of L. D. Saints, and if I would undertake to labor here in Europe in the interests of said Church,