It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from this/these transcript(s) must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collection Coordinating Committee. [Notes added by transcribers are in square brackets. Dashes in square brackets indicate unclear words or letters. indicate words the author inserted to a previously written line.] MSS SC 820 – Susa Young Gates Notebook Number of Pages: 14 ----- new page (MSSSC820_p001.jpg) Excuse this soiled cover if I had stopped to find a cleaner one my limited time and inspiration would have been gone [written vertically] Mrs. S. Y. Gates ----- new page (MSSSC820_p002.jpg) been used in Christmas papers 1898 Exponent A Plea for alot time Coles ----- new page (MSSSC820_p003.jpg) this is the title From A Grateful Mother's Stand Point Long ago in the Lovely vales of Utah, dwelt a childless married woman. After seven years of unsatisfied longing, Loveing and reverencing her worthy Husband more as the years proved him of the highest type of manhood combing with great integrity. They both deserving offring off spring which it seemed in vain to hope for, At last, withe full consent of all concerned took to wife another Daugh ter of Zion familiarly known ----- new page (MSSSC820_p004.jpg) 2 known and loved by both husband and wife, In a year's time a son was born to gladden their hearts and in due time annothe son then a daughter then annother son, Then after nearly a score of years of waiting A son preveiously married and promised by those in Authority came to the childless one . She was visited by hundreds of rejoicing that she had trium -phed and saying she had been blessed as Sarah of old, she knowing it was even so. ----- new page (MSSSC820_p005.jpg) And in due time another son and two daughters were born to <[---]> this just man and his patient & wife until quite a family belonged to this once childless man, He still gaining yearly the Esteem and love of his now large family proveing most faithful Even unto death. Unjust [---] Cruel and needless Crusade with a little sickness combining to take him to a better sphere, leaveing his wives and family to battle on and win. ----- new page (MSSSC820_p006.jpg) And with such founda- tion they must not fail. Now has this condition of affairs wrought good or evil? Those most concern -ed think the former will far out ballance the latter. Their greatest Ambition being to prove worthy to live in This most Holy and Revealed family order, throughout a Never ending Eternity The writer having been born this same order of marriage. cannot do otherwise than revere the same. Though his people an now forever prohibited from its jusctise. ----- new page (MSSSC820_p007.jpg) Especially her Pioneer Parents, feeling a devine Assurance that these conditions will exist forever in Eternity for the Faithful Naturally Enters a plea for the same as a Souvenir for her children born in The Husband of this woman Frankly told her during their courtship that she might with His convictions she might not be the only wife he might ever take, And if she did not feel to Acquiessce in Now was the time to withdraw. ----- new page (MSSSC820_p008.jpg) was this not honorable and straightforward? She regarded him with new interest and no coldness arose between them; Some of the Lullaby songs which the childless wife sung to her husband's children "There is a Home Eternal" Wild wood Flowers, Belle Brandon Sivance River Katie Wells, Gentle Annie After waters Rock me to Sleep mother, The mistletoe Bough Down in the Cornfield, Nellie Gray Highland ----- new page (MSSSC820_p009.jpg) Mary. Oh Zion the and Audience most Apreciative until sweet sleep closed their innocent young eyes. Did she enjoy amuse -ing theese children? So much that if she were away from them at Eventide she longed to be with them, Even as an own mother might have down. Can she or they forget those And [-] [--] Neither, the songs or the singer; Never! Grateful for the Philosihie spirit that possessed her, making the sewing machine hum ----- new page (MSSSC820_p010.jpg) 8 in those days for the dear ones and at night those blessed Home Hearts ease Concerts truly they were most happy days A peice of House hold furniture never to be forgotten, was a large Rocker roomily serving for two children in which they often ate their evening meal. One desert spoon passing from one mouth to the other, Each responding in turn to Pet Bird names such as Robin Meadlark, Oh! those Halceyon days are now long past. ----- new page (MSSSC820_p011.jpg) Now, having children of her very own she does not always think to sing at Eventide; Their Father having gone before, she is not as tuneful as of yore, until at their request she sings the same old songs with the same effect upon her Audience bringing back those Hearts ease days not then so full of care, And she Grateful for the truth forced upon her that time, is not always lost in singing to young children or those of riper years who will listen. Rachel over ----- new page (MSSSC820_p012.jpg) One of the sons of this happy household served his earnestly, and distinguished [--] The tender young life of this Precious Promised son was most tenderly cared for in the first weeks of his helplessness, by his Fathers Elder Sister, than whom A truer woman never lived mortality Rachel ----- new page (MSSSC820_p013.jpg) himself by his herosim in the struggles in Manila with Battery A. ----- new page (MSSSC820_p014.jpg) [vertical text]1210804 5000 [vertical text]Gates DS