Thomas Brown Holmes Stenhouse (21 February 1825 – 7 March 1882) was an early Mormon pioneer and missionary who later became a Godbeite and with his wife, Fanny Stenhouse, became a vocal opponent of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. These inspirational T B H Stenhouse Quotes will change your life.
Best T B H Stenhouse Quotes
- “I know also another man who married a widow with several children; and when one of the girls had grown into her teens, he insisted on marrying her also, having first by some means won her affections. The mother, however, was much opposed to this marriage, and finally gave up her husband entirely to her daughter; and to this very day the daughter bears children to her stepfather, living as wife in the same house with her mother!” – T B H Stenhouse
- “I discovered several never-failing signs by which one might know when a man wished to take another wife. He would suddenly ‘awaken to a sense of his duties’; he would have serious misgiving as to whether the Lord would pardon his neglect in not living up to his privileges; he would become very religious, and would attend to his meetings … which seemed just then to be very numerous, and in various other ways he would show his anxiety to live up to his religion.” – T B H Stenhouse
- “The idea that someday another wife would be added to our household was ever present in my mind, but, somehow, when the fact was placed before me in so many unmistakable words, my heart sank within me, and I shrank from the realization that our home was at last to be desecrated by the foul presence of Polygamy.” – T B H Stenhouse
