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Show ANTI-POLYGAM- STANDAKD. Y The History of Polygamy as Fonnd tn God could not justify concubinage,- lighted that a few women arefound gether in a social mitherimr the Bible and, Book of Mormon , whe her pract.ced by His servants of . venti-strong enough courage to action of in with Comments . . or other for He - , . tte cannot deny, late: the infamous system,, and al-- 1 election matter and the Anti-oolof them are forced bylgamy agitation-happeneto be XY ELDER CHARLES DERBY. that, the circumstances to keep silent about brought ud as subjects of convert commences with falsehood it, yet you have their best wishes tion, when the polygamous wife of Knowing the tenacity with which olygamy is the marrying more, for complete success. The Standard a very high member of the Mormon the people of Utah cling to the Bi- wives than one. I will show that is handed around from one to the priesthood made these remarks-Abrahable as authority in behalf of polygwas not a polygamist, other, and is: anxiously looked for They think that h they can stop is acknowledged both of God by more than one woman in the gamy, do amy, I have concluded to give the they? Why there were Bible history of that abomination, and of Abraham as his wife. She chains of polygamy, and it is read more plural marriages celebrated in and show that there is no evidence s called his wife twenty-tw- o times by numbers in secret who dare not i860 than in any other one year in the sacred volume that it was rom the 11th to the 23d chapters openly acknowledge that they have since the Saints entered the Valley ever given as a means of salva- of Genesis inclusive, whereas Hagar ever seen or read a single copy. And perhaps they also think that tion or exaltation in the kingdom is not called his wife but once, and Since the question of polygamy ey can prosecute those who have of God, and, further, that the has been agitated all over the coun- - contracted polygamous alliances. I instances of its practice pretry, the elders have been busy in can tell them that there will be sent no evidence of divine sancpreaching up the celestial ordinance, hundreds of children born in this much less divine of tion, appointand urging people to defy the laws Clty alone before very long, and the ment. I shall also refer to its hisof the land. And the people do not mthers could not be tortured into the Book in Mormon. of tory who are the fathers of those hesitate to obey, at least, some who 1 In giving the Bible history of it. leave the readers of are fanatical, and others who are children. I shall follow the inspired translathe Standard to judge for them-man- y wicked, and in consequence a good tion, as given by Joseph Smith the polygamous alliances have selves if polygamy is likely to die taken place lately. These are, how- - out while such fanatical women can martyr. The history5, of polygamy comever, generally kept quiet for a be found as this old Saintess and mences in the early ages of the whom this power (to marry) and whil0 as if the ppe?rators were the polygamous wives of whom she world. In Gen. v., 30, we read : the keys of the priesthood are con- Lfraid f being punished for their sPoke who would not reveal the And Lamech took unto himself ferred. f her. not a single sen- - Wrong d0ing One case happened names of the men who were to give them exaltation in the next world, This Lamech was a tence in the Bible indicating any Lt Richmonj in two wives. not COunty very son of the murderer Cain, and he, one else as engaged in the transac- lo A y0ung Prophets Daughter. hav-- 1 TV and not certainlv, tion, Sarah, his like also, was a murderer; and L. Salt Lake, January, 1881. ing attention to twowfehich and peo- the ihe of (if priesthood, mg theory le did not know father, Cain, he was a member of a of on the .be priesthood polygamists secret combination, introduced by fav,ored 0 but it geemg it was she could not true,) lawfully of give, to for Miss A w,om h(j married- - It then the purpose Satan Cain, as to or seal him , , LMn marrv, i Hagar j tl i tl ' PropS( propagating falsehood and of mur Gail Hamilton is about to write wife. Moreover, the position of marr;? and a W1S ie 0 the reminiscences dering and getting gain ' aA1( L of her girlhood. their works were abominations. a wife is one of the highest and ho- take them both on the The apostles of polygamy tell us best hat can be fi ed by woman. but Mjsg B deelined to be sec0Id1 Mrs. L. B. Kellogg, admitted in Cain was cursed ascertaining to the But the position of Ilagar both be- - After he had married Miss A. he December last, is the first lady to fore and after this transac ion, was gtill keptplaying the lover to Miss practice at the bar in Kansas, priesthood, and they declare that wife a of slave. Ihe that brings none but holy men can be permit only gu e s were so pow Mrs. John Jacob Astor has sent A to her own children honor and forth ted to enter this order of marriage a follt- - 'vith basi" but this bond silra. , l yet, strange to say, they point to happiness, the mission she has which r? n" firS chapel this murderer, this abettor of false- was to bring them forth for the established in Nebraska. honor and happiness of he. hood, this secret plotter of evil, as ,, very quiet marriage, lt .be f,ha 1 may obf 0chl A new way of finishing the ends for a short time, but it soon leaked an example of the divinity of polyguc er. en. ren , y xvi., out and both are now known of satin ties is to fringe them to the amy. The jewel consistency is no difference between the was , as big wivgg in their claim. I admit Lamech then, Ig there no depth of six inches, and then tie God the slave. and wile never the b which justice can be ad- - the strands into a tassel. was a very proper example of poas Abrahams1 recognized Ilagar and lygamy, and strongly indicative of wife! She is called a President Bartlett, of Dartmouth ,deliberate ,?fed handmaid, the source from whence it came. f ers rea College, said he had never known a But that source was from beneath. her maid, and God calls her, thy Another case is that of a son of truly noble woman whose heart was bond woman!' The angel calls her ot Ihe next claimed case is that Re one of the principal Mormon lead- - not in the missionary work. garaps ma;j He teq. per. revelation Abraham. Ihe ers n Salt Lake Citv, who has been Lydia Maria Child requested that on polygamy says that the Lord justiin- - connected with a church organ in . xv. ' to sl!ould be Plaln that sh fied Abraham. Isaac and Jacob, as du iv also G datian He had a nice young er c l Are this county. iv be dtr.essed 1D her, montl.1 also Moses, David and Solomon, as all the plural wives of your Church wife and a babe only a few touching the principle and doctrine of their having many wives and handmaids and bond women to the fro indulging in celestial propen- - ner rave I will offer one concubines. first wife? If so, it must be an ex- - cities, but the worst of it was that Marriage was alted (?) thought on this. AJiss Emma C. Thursby has been Are they em- - the young man left the country with- position. ordained of God unto man, and to raise up children for their out going through the Endowment spending the greater part of the ployed comthat the this for the purpose need not ceremonies which entitle the breth- - summer in Germany, where she If mistress? not, yon : mand might be fulfilled Multiply claim celestial brides. And yet the has been staying for the benefit of ren you are patterning after Abra- The fact and replenish the earth. man will as- - her health, studying at the same as it was for this express pur- yung ham, that God ordained marriage proves Sarah gave Ilagar to him. sert in an interview with a news- - time, so that her singing shows re-that pose of that he considered the relation is your object in taking plu- - Papcr reporter perhaps in the na- markable improvement. this the sexes holy, and that it was of ral . .. women, why do you not lion- - tional capital that the children p aGraph vith TnorP that the highest importance they estlv tell ? an(i youth of this people are so uiuiibu. iuejuudiidiu tia Mott, when her autograph w as should be regulated by divine law.. virtuous an(l religious, and ninJ well be would not harem bums, was. Inti In other words, that it should be your social irregularities are unknown fsked lur Jtocked? true relation the indepenmarriage made necessary that all who underamong the Mormons. ( To be continued.) of dence the husband and the wife took to fulfill that divine command Cache Valley. is equal, their dependence mutual, See Section i of the Revelation. should be bound together in the sa1881. January, and their obligations are reciprocal. cred marriage bond. Had it been fSee Section 2 of the Revelation. Miss Louise McLaughlin, the dis- pleasing to Him that their relations Ed Some afiect, Standard: of should be promiscuous or outside people of nti ullder the giaz6 to believe that polygamy is on the on pottery;reidizfn that artliUe the law of marriage, He would never decrease in Utah, and that com- have ordained that holy sacrament. tQ af, t ld h hcat, have few I Standard: in plural Dear marriages thought your pantively th avtist3cxplaied it to Being unmarried, or not joined ceg3 the sometaken know to place during year the sacred bonds of wedlock, their readers might like t and even pub,fsbed a book . information the better two our or m on lor was of what of law of the relations are outside going j ng thing A man bas now - of such persons, I beg leave to.re- conI so the of Territory, take he r r ss and 1 tented it. God; and not being governed by 'part I which late the few lines, a occurrence, following write you it cannot be sanctified by'' eluded to law, not like I will vouch for as genuine, on oath law, neither by mercy or justice, The men in this vicinity do What woifian in the Unit- A few days ago a therefore they must remain filthy 'the Standard very much, but the if necessary. ed States should read, the Anti-Bo- still Mormon Booh cf Doctrines women say that every word con- large company of ladies, principally Mormons were assembled to- - lygamt Standard. and Covenants, 55, 8. Therefore tained in it is true. They are men; . Kd v- aW8-1VlU- S d so-call- ed ' j m poly-bara- -- I 'ing I . . q . S'tT Tu S1 mP mistress.l60 I T w-ome- n - - i so-call- ed , . GeU C xJ -- raey If . I -- Pt .f s, di;-ection- r ery de-'go- - od |