Mormonism: its leaders and designs./ By John Hyde.

EDUCATION.
endeavored to set a better example to the Saints. Himself
and daughters assumed a more cultivated style, but it is the
common significant remark, "The Elder was always a little
Gentilish in his feelings."
The greatest of all education is "home education." Home
education depends upon the mother. Where the woman is
degraded, there is no home education.
"To teach girls to sow, and weave, and work in the garden,
and cook, and be smart in the dairy, and neat about the house,
is the best education," says Brigham; "stuff their heads with
reading and they go to novels and romances, and such like
trash, and neglect their duties, and they won't be obedient
to their husbands and fathers. Teach them to work-teach
them to work."
This is good practical philosophy, but it is only half the
truth. There is but one step from neglect of, to contempt
of education. It is so at Salt Lake. Women who are
taught to believe that the "husband's power is absolute,"
and that all "their sins committed in obedience to their
husband's commands, are borne by their husbands," care
nothing for self-education, and as little for the instruction of
their daughters. The few persons who go there, who are a
little superior, are mocked. They are the "speckled sheep;"
the hearts which still cling to "Gentile customs and notions
of things." "They look back to the flesh-pots of Egypt."
The leaven of the gospel has only partially worked in them."
Their apostacy is predicted, and any influence they might obtain, crushed out. Oases in a desert, a thousand hands heap
sand upon them. Hence the women who endeavor to make
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