The Apostate

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Lycia barely finished reading her love letter from Obadiah when Lee and his band came back to the meeting. It was a few minutes before she could hear the loud shouting. "Brigham Young, you sent me and these men out without proper food and no pay to save your miserable life. We've come back fully expecting to find our families living in comfortable houses with roofs over their heads. Instead, we find our people living in tents with snow sifting down into their belongings." Brigham's strong voice boomed out. "Now John, you are my family, we will make it right with you. Let's talk about this in private somewhere. We'll upset these folks, some of whom are new to the faith." Bishop George Miller spoke harshly ""While you fatten your own pocketbook, my families are still trying to get adequate roofs over their heads. Damn you, Brigham Young, for trying to take more than your fair share." "You will not speak to me this way, George Miller." Miller growing angrier started shouting for all to hear, "Well you will go to Deseret without me and mine. We are not listening to words from a false prophet any longer. Those of us, two hundred strong, who came together, are pulling out for Bishop Lyman Wight in Texas."

About the Author

Luther Butler was born of southern parents in Alamosa, Colorado in 1929. He holds degrees from Eastern New Mexico University, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Tarleton State University. He served in the US Navy and has ranched, worked in a mental hospital, in inner city slums, and was with the Texas Department of Agriculture for 23 years. He is married to Jo Butler and has one son.