Friday, July 2, 1875

July 2nd. On deck before 4:00 A.M. I had a little breakfast and lost it. Oh how miserable I feel! More talk with Oakley on the Gospel, how missionaries are called and supported, how polygamy is managed, etc. He told of life in New York - how a child, girl of misfortune, is cast out without any effort to redeem her, while her destroyer is welcome in the best society. I explained to him the principles taught and practiced by us are a preventive for this worst of all social and moral evils. I turned in at 10:30 P.M. and rested poorly.