Show balt SALT lame LAKE CITY april spirl t mr creditor Ir Editor sir sli I 1 have been through years of experience in polygamy aud and flee sea fit to offer a few of my reflections on the culminations fulminations of the present comparisons ara are odious so fio are many things that humadi humanity ty la Is forced to witness in lifes experience offensive sights grievous sensations and painful traditions that oft timea times bow the body to faintness faint nebs nees and utter prostration oar savior entered into the fullness of a comprehension of this when the pores of his person sweat blood and veteran men and women of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints know something of it today to day who witness the movements respecting this thia people men who have talent energy and power to command wealth respect and honor in any civilized portion of the tho globe were years since convinced thao thac there was the whole entire truth elements of salvation honor riches life immortal increase and dominion without limit in the gospel of jesus christ secured to man by the atonement of his blood on calvary and have rent reat asunder and forss forsa forsaken berl keif all the loved and the cherished that would not follow them to the embrace of this gospel and have traversed seas and lands to testify of its truth given their means wealth and ano talent like water poured upon the ground to gather tho the downtrodden down trodden and oppressed assuming cheen cheer cheerfully faily fally a perpetual pocket tax tam for the accod ment of their emigration an emigration that is total dered a model ly by the parliament of england and sought tobe to be copied after in lil america for this thia gospel they have ab negated self families property peaceful beautiful homes leisure luxuries luxuries the concomitants comi tants of the little one horse arrangements of monogamy and stood out men weir daring freethinkers free thinkers thinker 11 hild and actors too believing if gods first commandment man dment to multiply and replenish A the earth applied to one woman it did to all permeated with the spirit ef of the gospel inspired of god their theft whole natures were shocked with the realization of the associations of the men and women of the age HOVA howa how alter this wasen was an inquiry which sprung spontaneously from the he 1 aits artson of thousands of saints humbly they sought gods word and policy as exemplified when men and women were vere guided by inspiration who in the il illustrious lustri ions lines of the past shone bhone brightly in the favor of the lord whom has god acknowledged who according to Chri stains not hot mormons cormons Mor mons verdicts are accounted worthy as a pattern care carefully fully glea gleaning n in g from adam through the worlds examples abraham isaac and jacob touched the spirits of these men abraham Ab abrahamian rahamin in the past ages made alive by the spiritual telegraphy in the touching and sublime ac account coulat of or Lazarus resurrection abrahams bosom it a place of rest forthe for the righteous chrimes mortal colsan consanguinity uin ulu running back to obed coming through a le I 1 lineage in aage the honor hon or of god to solomon the last son of a noted polygamous family the purity of the past when men women and children who believed in polygamy were compelled by law to stone a penson person to death for adul adultery teryl compared with the status of today to day roused cheso veteran latter day saints to action I 1 action in fervent prayer and faith revelation came plural mar marriage ridge in an outburst from the heavens as gods policy wholly as a purifier preserver ol 01 health and virtue an extender of life lire drying up the rottenness fast changing the years yeara of patriarchal life to a mere unit emasculating culat cu ing ipg humanity to an extent that only ii a question of how far rushing this fast age of ours would go in prostitution infanticide etc before man gods bon aon would be emasculated wholly these men acting on the highest and most holy examples not against any commandment man dment of god espoused polygamy as religion and a religious duty experimenting practically where others experimented philosophically I 1 by their fruits meshall ye bhail shall know them thern two hundred thousand people hissed and persecuted planted in a desert every provocative from poverty every temptation from outside elements offered to their wives wires and daughters the world acknowledges them the most moral people on the civilized earth freest from ca the deadly leprosy of the age these veteran men obeyed god faced a world of obloquy sacrificed millions of money gave up loved homes fruitful farms cities towns and a county in la illinois pioneered a wilderness thirteen hundred miles markine marking their entire journey with the burial of their loved and cher isia ista by hundreds dying dying dally daily ell eli anda andi allow allowed zd kofold of oid old states teai teal bom hom homes esaud an childhoods associations giving h heart stabs to burdens al most unendurable they settled in autumn in the sahara of america they present to the world today to day utah as she silo is made from the material mater maten lal ial she has been made of lu in a great degree from the poor employed emp loyes of despotic lands ignorant 1 I 1 e measurably the belenco of philosophy and infidelity of the age yet it Is claimed thab that such men have got too old to guide and must make room for new blood poor respect poor morality poor encouragement for a life time of faith falth faithfulness falness does noes joseph smith or Eleber 0 kimn kirn ball give countenance to bench fench notion notions sT if so keep us in this world aa as long as possible that the next world may wait as long iong as possible before it has power to make me less ia la status a child of god than I 1 am here most respectfully respects respect ully ally lle lwe fcc A MORMON WOMAN IN POLYGAMY 4 coil coll co IOWA I 1 I 1 feb 1870 I 1 arat geo aeo A shuh sinith dear brother I 1 received your kind letter in due tinie time it t was liko like an oarb basu in a desert I 1 feel thankful thankful that I 1 have had bad the privilege of seeing the contrast st between zion olon and babylon I 1 have traveled through mor moy morgan arl ari cass and counties ills visited vis ted tea my relation relations s and friends and have borne a faithful testimony on oa the cars at hotels and from house to house I 1 have preb preached ched a few times the last occasion being within two miles of the devils headquarters for that state where are located the asylums fo for oon the th insane idiotic deaf and dumb ac I 1 told the people there ft aa well as at itt other places that we wanted to disabuse the public mind mindi and notwithstanding the many false report reports in the newspapers about jugl us I 1 believed that thought ag as well of or us as we did didok of them the m I 1 get any opening and the spirit spill t said go west I 1 came to this state to richardsons Richard bons sons point where I 1 lived when I 1 received the gospel to the 1 ouse of ofir mr emrie one of my ray old neighbors iwho I 1 who was a Camp preacher 20 25 years ago I 1 found him a believer in mormonism he Ho procured me a school house bouse to preach in there were two methodist preachers came to the meeting I 1 spoke an hour on the affairs of utah socially and religiously As I 1 was closing closi pil one of the preachers asked me if we believed belle beile vedin in the new testament for if so he could convince me that polygamy was false I 1 asked him for his scripture he quoted paul where he told the church to let every man have his own wife and every woman have her own husband I 1 told him that utah was the only place that men were not allowed to have others wives and that woman were vere not allowed to have others 1 husbands and that was what was the matter with society here they had each others husbands and wives that seemed to satisfy him and the congregation after visiting around I 1 found a number that were ready to be baptized eo so f I 1 attended tended af to the ordinance on sunday morning I 1 baptized six including the Camp beUte bente preacher mour four men and two tivo women and I 1 ordained bro emrie an elder ye lye had a meeting at three the house was filled I 1 spoke with great freedom after which BroE BroEr mrle arle spoke very beautifully he be told the people he be had bad investigated the bible and taught it for many luany years bat be he had only beefy in tho the kingdom of god a few hours ile lle is one af the moat talent ed men in a the neighborhood and has a fine farm the other brethren whom I 1 baptized baat zed are nine fine men me and own good farms I 1 believe there ia is a good opening here A man sent some four or five miles 0 off fr to come coma and preach ia in his neighborhood my prayer U A god bless israel beni BENJ F siewart STEWART ali ah this beautiful world I 1 know not what to think of it sometimes it is all suh sub sunshine shine and gladness and heaven its itself elf eif lies ilea not far off and then it suddenly changes and rind is dark and sorrowful and the clouds shut outtie day in the lives of the saddest of ua us there are bright days like this when we feel aa as if we could take the great world in our arms then come gloomy hours when the fire will not burn on our hearts heart hs and all without and within is dismal coid cold and dark believe meavery me tue every heart has its own secret sorrows which the world knows not of and oftentimes we call a man a cold man when he is only sad longfellow |