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Show i, ANTI-POLYGAM- STANDARD. Y 48 Ogden Baptist, Church. SnmSk8amS Stanford. naturally those qualities which, unperverted and legitimately exerOn Sunday, August 20th, there No Poljgauiy in Womaus Nature. cised, would have placed them among the noblest and the best! was a large gathering qf citizens of Reasons the Christian women of the Eds. Standard: Some time ago, Their religious nature has been mis- OgderTto witness the laying" of the United States diy should support the in looking over old papers I chanced directed, falsely educated, and they corner stone of the new Baptist Standard. have ever as the most devoted Church. The services were upon the first number of the Wopened omans Exponent and I would like Hindoo women have been known to The Standard is the only paper in the United by Rev. Dwight Spencer, and eloto give my thoughts upon the ideas do applied jjhe lighted torch with addresses were made by Gov. States devoted to the suppression of Polygamy quent their to own hands the funeral in pile this journal which expressed was to consume them, and thus Murray, Judge Emerson and Rev. purports to be a reflex of the senti- that Polygamy, as it exists in Utah, is not underments of the women of Utah. In it (they imagined) secure to them- R. Hartley. selves great rewards hereafter. The corner stone contains a Bible; stood by the people of the United States. among the articles entitled Miscellaneous, is one which states that 0, how many broken hearts, how history of the First Baptist Church many sad and weary, blighted lives, of a lady of the city informed a Ogden, with a list of the memIt is the mission of the Standard to enlighten of love how many of he what complained the people of America in regard to the workings have been, and are bers; names of subscribers to the of this and and of unfairness joy hope the the monstrou s system of inquity. designated of services the of edifice; altar on immolated the programme matrimonial proceedings here, that yet being, with dark and cruel this of the laying of the corner stone, fanaticism, no man, married or single, had any It is now more than thirty-onyears since of chimeiical expectation with the names of the building combusiness to fall in love with another the of the Great was shores on lanted the Polygamy mans wife, but an unmarried wearing crowns and being queens mittee; annual report of the Baptist Salt Lake. woman may fall in love with, and hereafter. Home Mission Society; Baptist in the of was one It he whether arguments she pleases, marry whom Weekly of New York, Chicago StanreBritish the Parliament During this time Congress has utterly failed to against has a wife or not." That was styled Herald, enact efficient, or enforce existing laws for the dard, Pilot, Ogden Ogden pealing the law forbidding to marry Salt Lake Tribune, New York abolition of this even weights. great crime. Now if the gentleman was fully a deceased wifes sister, that' it Weekly Tribune, and a list of the satisfied with this way of making would tend to pervert the disinter- names of the Federal officersof the the matter even, it seems a pity ested and confiding, fraternal nature Territory of Utah. Polygamy has never taken such a degrading and to unsettle the mind of one so easily of the attachment desirable to have debasing lorm in any nation, or among any Of the new edifice the Pilot says: and his The plans of the church, which people abrve the condition of savages, as in convinced, but I must ask, did the subsisting between a man Utah. wifes sisters. I remember a Mor- were made R. archiJ. lady entirely forget that it has Thomas, by mon paper quoted Frederika Bre1G0 No. proved no barrier to many men in tect, Broadway, New York, warmest her It is degrading to man and woman, a curse to that mers saying the church, and holding high posishow a beautiful structure 45x51 children, and destruction to the sacred relations tions therein, that a woman was friendships were for married men feet, with a tower on the northeast of family. married and had a husband with Little did Frederika think that her corner, which is to be surmounted whom she was living, when he, the words would be quoted with such by a tower eighty feet in height. We call upon all the Christian women of the man already himself, an application. The reason for her The style of architecture is gothic, Slates to join us in planning and executdetermined to add her to his house- admiration for her married gentle- and the building when completed Unitedmeasures to arrest the further progress of ing hold I will not desecrate the holy men friends was their devotion to will add much to the beauty of our this evil. wives and families; and that their in love 'fell cost of the new building principle by saying city. The --Amarried their the of fact forbeing very did she more with her? will be upwards of 7,000, of which Nay, them to assist us in keeping We also call and therefore entirely removed from amount about 5,000 was raised in public sentimentupon get the circumstances mentioned in in agitation against an abominaMrs. Stenhouses truthful book that the possibility of any such expecta- the East by Rev. Dwight Spencer, tion that peculiarly oppresses and stigmatizes in one instancea woman was looked tion or relationship toward her, was leaving only about 2,000 to be sub- woman. the pure and beautiful basis of that scribed at home. We upon as no man married or single congratulate But where married has any business to look on a wo- friendship! our Baptist friends upon the ausPolygamy is a sin most especially against wo man devoted to another, even at the men may look on any girl they picious commencement ff their new man as it desecrates the home and the fireside, meet or even any married woman house of and trust that it and renders mutual confidence between husband very altar by the one who was perworship, desire as attainable, be speedily completed and and wife an utter impossibility. forming the marriage ceremony, whom they may and that she was induced to leave. and a girl may iook oil any man dedicated to the use designed by its 1 jjfeomsgandtut f Anti-Polygam- y IsT T gen-tlemanv- I ho self-crucifixio- ns , e ; O much-marrie- d im: her husband for him? Did thcladv forget how many married women Joseph Smith thus looked on, sought and obtained? Or is she entirely ignorant of these and many similar facts? They are very stubborn things and I am sure the gentlemans reasonable and very natural objection to the unfairness of the matrimonial proceedings here would be much stronger andmoredc-cide- d had he learned these facts. A word or two also (by the way) as to the advantage a girl or woman she may fall in love possesses here with and marry whom she pleases, whether he has a wife or not. She Did may? Who says she may? the great Creator when, male and female created lie them? Docs the great Lawgiver who forbids to covet anything that belongs to another? Does Jesus who inculcates the And yet more than golden rule? all, do her own inherent, God given womanly instincts say so? No no a thousand times no! And when any woman so far disregards 'all these laws and influences as to fall in love with another womans husband, she is either so ignorant or so little of a true woman as to be incapable of understanding and appreciating her own being, its requirements and destinv, or she is blinded by a dark fanaticism that makes the worse appear the better reason. Alas! how many women have been Women possessing thus sacrificed ! whether he has a wife or not, founders. say in a community where such is the case, the kindliest amenities of Em Jolm. domestic life are sapped at the foundation. and suspicion, jealousy, yes Have you forgotten the impetueven envy, hatred and malice pre- ous Em John? She was found one vail instead. morning slain in our streets. Her Mrs. S. A. Coord. blood soaked the gutter stones, and the water, gurgling, gurgling like ('pinions of the Pre-the strangling innocents has never washed the stain from the roadside The Women of Mormonism is pebbles. The place of her death having a large and brisk sale, of indicated a struggle. She fought which it is worthv. Post ami for life piteously (as the stabbed Detroit. star clutches the sky with gory The best of the recent publica- fingers, ere it falls into nights tions on the subject of Mormonism. abyss). There was no inquiry, no Evening News, Detroit. arrests, or funeral. She was buried d A thrilling and accurate exposi- sccretlv, her name was not in the sanctuary, her hustion of the terrible evils of polyband disappeared on a mission, her gamy. Toledo Blade. We do not recollect having seen children watched at the windows for her coming, but in vain. The whole any work which so completely illustrates the duplicity, treachery, and Church knew for what she had been but not a word was outrageous cruelty and vileness of murdered, the men who use the name of re- spoken. Em Johns associates were set as a cloak for their brutal ligion O lust. Michigan Christian Advo- about by spies. Malcontents hushed their sighs; the dead wifes Lite galcate. broken-hearteto spasA timely and powerful, contribu- vanized the literature. modic gayety. tion to the One young woman, who had reGolden Rule. fused to give her husband a plural Have your boots and shoes neatly wife, reconsidered; but, fondling repaired on short notice and cheaper her children excitedly, told them thanatany other place in the city, with sharp cries and kisses, that it two doors below the Walker House, was to keep her darlings their Main Street. mother, that she gave up her rights as a wife. From Deseret by E. II. 0. A. Noltemeier.- IT Consequently it is only right then that woman its uiost uncompromising opponent, should and work for its complete abolition. .It is true that nothing T s, It ft also true that at no period d anti-Morm- -- the worlds AL. Consequently, we call upon women to aid us in this work of charity, trustihg that our labors may also be crowned with success. IsT That this system of iniquity should be practiced under the name and cloak of religion only adds to tbe enormity of the crime. That these unlawful and unhallowed alliances are termed celestial marriages makes the, system all tbe more revolting to our common Christian principles. .A. Consequently, we ask the cordial and concerted action of the Christian women of our land. JEl on - of existence lias womans work of love among her own sex been more signally blest. Tri-bun- e, men-tione- more fully attests the progress of a nations civilization than the posi. tion and character of its women. continued agitation of the subject, we may confidently hope that the great crime ol polygamy will be abolished. By the ID. The Standard is only $1 per annum. Subscribe for it yourselves and recommend it to your frieuds. Address, Standard,. P. O. Box 385, Salt Lake City, Utah. Anti-Polygam- y |