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Show ANTI-POLYGAM- The History of Polygamy as found in the ' Continued.) The polygamists urge that Abra- ham married Keturah. Yes, he did, but not until he had buried Sarah. (Gen. xxiii., 1. and Gen. xxv., 1). One more wrd on this point. The thar neither the children of the cubbies nett yet Ishmael, were soiled a .the seed of Abraham STANDARD. Y of the Almighty directly declaring Patriarchs and against such act? prophets were liable to go astray. And when God has given His law, it is not necessary that He should be continually uttering fulminations lie against the breaking of it. holds every man responsible to the law revealed for his government, But it is a remarkable fact that the first time the Lord visited Abraham, after he had taken Hagar, He corn-famands him to walk uprightly before Him and to be perfect, and lays down the conditions upon which He would bless him. Nor is there the slightest evidence after this that he ever held any relations with any woman but Keturah, whom he married after ct I i is another evidence that concubinage is not of God. nor sanctioned by him. ,,ln Isaac shall thy seed be called, give forever the Divine seal to monogamy, and hurls the thunder Sarahs death. He died a monogof His displeasure against concubin- amist, and not a polygamist, as is claimed. He taught his son age. But the sophisis claim that it vainly must be divine because G d blessed Isaac monogamy, and Isaac lived up the children. Why iiuuld He not to it, notwithstanding the false claim bless the children? And if they do in the pretended revelation that His will, why should He not exalt God justified him in polygamy. Were they to Thus we expose the second falsehood and honor them? blame? As though to recompense in that bundle of falsehoods: Had it for the dishonor entailed upon it Abraham been a polygamist and realized it to be a celestial law, he by its parents, the illegitimate child is often brighter in intellect than would have taught it to his son those born in wedlock from the Isaac; for after he had given proof Will they tell us that that he loved God. by puttng away same pair. because of this God sanctions un- Hagar, God said I know him, that And yet, if the he will command his children and lawful relations? He comargument is good in the one case, it his household after him. manded Isaac to take a wife , but is equally good in the other. Isaac obeved, and Much stress is laid upon the fact never wives. that an angel appeared to Hagar. lived and died a monogamist. 7b be Continued She was subject to her mistress and We submited to her command. have no evidence that she sought Abraham; her condition was forced A neighbor of mine, the first wife Shall the Judge of ail upon her. the earth spurn her then ? The of a prominent Mormon living in wrong was between Sarah and Abra- this city, came into my house some time ago, with her otherwise intelli ham it was not the Hence He, who is too wise to err, gent and handsome face sadly marred and too good to be unkind, sends by a black eye. Being aware that the His angel to iier in her distress and celestial ordinance sometimes occacomforts her. And so He has com- sioned unpleasantness in the houseforted many a poor misguided wo- hold, we refrained from making any man when they have called upon allusions to the disfigurement, unHim; and thus He has taught us a til she apologized for it, and said : This is one of the fruits of our holy lesson full of the sublime eloquence We asked for an explaof heaven, that we are not to despise religion. those erring ones, but rather seek nation, which was given in the folYou know that my to reclaim them. lowing words : Again, it is urged that Abraham husband has lately married my ser I vant girl, and they are billing and was the father of the faithful. He became so after he cooing like two turtle doves. Nothoerrant it. had ceased the evils before men- ing in the house is too good or good Thirteen years after tioned. enough for her, and I have so far birth, the Lord appeared forgotten my duties as a Mormon unto Abraham, and said unto him, wife as to object to recognizing her I, the Almighty God, give unto thee as the entire mistress of the house, a commandment that thou shalt which, as it happens, belongs to me walk uprightly before me, and be and not to my husband, it and ev thou perfect. (Gen. xvii., 1.) God erything in it having been given me never does anything in vain; and if( by my father. Yesterday she had all the time walked ciously informed me that if I be uprightly, and had been perfect up haved myself I might remain, other-t- o that time, He would not have wise she would turn me out of the visited him to command him to do house. Unfortunately I had the We read of but one being in audacity to resent this remark, and so. the flesh whose life was without a was commencing to give her a dose the man Christ Jesus. No of. her own medicine by putting stain human being, except the Son of some of her things out of doors, God, ever claimed to be a perfect when my husband came home. For pattern for humanity, and he point- - my exhibition of a wrong spirit, he ed to the excellency of the Divine whipped me severely, leaving the law, rather than to His own acts, as marks you see, and upon quitting a standard for our lives. Paul told the room, remarked : I am deter-th- e people to follow him, as he fol- - mined to live my religion if it kills And shall we be so us all. lowed Christ. The first wife of another well-o- f vain as to conclude that every act Gods people is necessarily ac- - known Mormon thought that her cording to the Divine pattern, if we husband was paying altogether too do not happen to hear the thunder much attention to her servant girl . bond-woman- s. Ish-mae- ls gra-Abraha- 3 consequently she gave her a summary discharge. Shortly after, the husband became very solicitous about the health of his wife, she 3eing near her confinement, and suggested that she should take her other child and stay with her mother until her trial was over. Not suspecting any treachery, she acceded o his desires and left him at home, le saying that he could shift for limsell very well for a few weeks.. The mother lived in an extreme part of the city, but he seemed very attentive, coming to see her almost every day. When her child was about a week old, a garrulous neighbor revealed the fact that her husband had been sealed to the girl she had discharged, some two or three weeks previous. The wife indignantly denied it, but the neighbor insisted it was so, and rather tauntingly added : When you go home you will see( that she is already mistress in the house. Almost maddened with grief and excitement, the poor woman rose from her couch, wTent home and confronted her treacherous husband and his guilty partner. Finding that he had rv ally married the girl, who insultingly told her that she was a servant no longer, the injured wife fell in a swoon at her husbands feet. She was taken to bed, never regained consciousness, and in two days was carried to the dreary cemetery on the north bench the vic- tim of her husbands perfidy, where also rest so many women who have been foully murdered by Mormon polygamy. Moody and Sankey in Salt Lake. These eminent revivalists stopped over at Salt Lake as they went out to California. It is fitting that they should follow the Masters example. At Northfield, a few weeks ago, they were with the disciples and the Master on the Mount of Transfiguration, and now they have followed the Master down into the valley where the sinful and the leprous are. Salt Lake City is full of moral leprosy, and rotten with polygamous lust. It would be a Sodom but for the few righteous that have gone in and lifted up the standard of the cross there. No doubt the faith of the churches there have been strengthened and some souls won from sin, but before this iniquitous system of polygamy, as impregnable as the mountains of rocks that environ the city, comes down, there must be the explosive force of law, that like beneath the rocks, will break the system into fragments, and scatter its votaries to the four winds. It is a burning shame that this has been allowed to explague-spo- t ist so long. The standard of virtue and right has been lowered throughout the whole country. The tact that a man like Cannon can sit in our legislative halls to take part in the enactment of laws for this great country, puts a premium on vice. No one hoped that these Evangelists would burn out this running cancer, even though they went with hearts aflame with Divine love. First the Law and then the Gospel. A few lessons from Sinai, a few thunderbolts of law that will strike nitro-glycer-in- e down legalized vice, and the way will be cleared for the gospel. Sinai first , the Cross afterwards. hen all the people demand, as they ought at once to do, that this blot be at once and forever removed from the nation, it will be done. The Christian Woman. V Mrs. Ann Eliza Young. The lecture of Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, last evening, in Temperance Hall, was well received and highly appreciated by the audience present. The lecture, a new one, entitled Utahs Curse, and the Nations Shame, is a thoughtful and well written production, chaste in style, beautiful in diction, vivid in description, logical in arrangement, and mighty in argument. Mrs. Young, being somewhat indisposed, sat during the delivery of the lecture, but her clear voice, distinct utterance and impressive manner threw a fascination over her audience and held the people in wrapped attention for nearly an hour and a half. The lecturer not only pictured the blighting influence of Mormon-isin general, and polygamy in particular, upon those who fall un der its dark and debasing shadow, but also gave an intelligent and thoughtful discussion of the political relations of Utah and its iniquitous system to the National Government, and of the dangers to be apprehended from it, and was unsparing in her criticism of those in high places, who lack the courage to oppose. As this is one of the living issues of our National politics, and hence a subject of great interest to all, it is to be regretted that more were m not present to hear it discussed with such marked ability by one who has so thoroughly' mastered it. From the Canton (Ohio) Daily Re pository. Chatauqua Barnes of English and Bible History. We have received from Alice H Brick, of Lindsborg, Kansas, the Chatauqua Games of English and Bible history. These are very entertaining as well as instructive games, combining a great deal of amusement with much solid, useful information. For young students, one of these games is invaluable, as the player cannot help but become familiar with the leading events of English history, and names and dates which are so difficult to learn,, are memorized without any trouble whatever. We heartily recommend these games to everyone, Send 50 cents to the author, Mrs. Alice Birch, Linsburg, McPherson County, Kansas, and procure one of these games. 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