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Show Jf VOL. hsvt Thi Afto math. The glamour of the after-ligLay clear and fair along the sky, And made the pathway eerie bright, As home we wandered thou and I. ht were lying low; : A shadow held the river-sid- e The water took the western glow, And peace, gray peace, spread far and wide. was ours A So still the earth, the sky so strange; And we had given in sunny hours Our youthful hearts their widest range. We lingered in the meadow-patTouched by the twilights silent spell, While fiom the suns fleet aftermath A subtle glory rose and fell. Dim, wistful thoughts within us grew, Forebodings of the life to be, Till with a sudden thrill we knew Times touch of immortality. For all the wonder and the awe, within the west, Seemed with a mystic power to draw Our hearts into its kindly rest. Yet still it faded, faded fast, And night crept up the eastern slope; But oer our lives a strength had passed, And left us with a larger hope. So home we wandered thou and I That night, sweet wife, so long ago, And still we watch the western sky And strengthen in its mystic glow. The meadow-mist- s sober-heartedne- ss h Far-wideni- ng young men, pleasure seekers, left one of our cities for a fishing tour in sdme of. these valleys of the mountains. After being out a few days one of the number was taken ill and his companions feared the effects of him sleeping in the air, and consequently at nightfall they approached a settlement and asked shelter for the sick man in a little house on the outskirts of the place. They found that the house contained only one room and that not a very inviting one, and from all appearances there was as many occupants for the three beds, as Serepta Smith had when her house was invaded by church delegates, which Joseph Allens wife tells about in her last book. Our tourists would fain have sought more comfortable quarters, but the invalid could not go further without endangering his life perchance, 60 they concluded to remain and one of them staid in the house to nurse his friend while the other slept outside in the wagon. They soon discovered who were the occupants of the cabin, and it transpired that they were indeed a saintly crew. A man, his three wives and their families had been living there for years, and one of the women apologized for being just then a little more crowded than usual, because the old man had that day brought home a young bride, which rather contracted their accommodations for strangers. If some of our Eastern doubters could step in and spend the night in one of these hotels, we think their minds would be set at rest in regard to the Beauty of Good Words. How to Form a Branch Beauties of Polygamy. National An Eastern lady who was visiting Zion a short time ago, was captured, so to speak, by a female apostle of She assured our Eastern friend that the women living in the celestial ordinance were perfectly happy, that they would not exchange their fraction of a saintly husband for the best sinner to themselves that ever lived, that children born in plurality were equal to, or superior to those of monogamic origin, and that all that has been published in regard to the beastliness and brutality ot polygamy were base fabrications, invented by vile apostates or wicked Gentiles. Our traveller would have left Zion with very unsatisfactory ideas, as all she had read previously about the institution was so entirely at variance with what she heard from the polygamic sister. had she not met accidentally a member of the Society, who exhibited to her gaze the other She introduced side of the picture. her to some women whose happiness had been blasted, lives blighted and homes ruined by the infernal doctrine. Of course, much that she was told seemed incredible to her, so incompatible with her ideas of modesty and decency, let alone religion, especially the fact of two or more women living with the same man and raising children to him in a house of one or two rooms. We do not wonder that decent people cannot believe such things can exist in a civilized community in a Christian land. An incident came to our knowledge lately which illustrates this peculiar beauty of the divine ordinance. Three po-polyga- Anti-polygam- - y j omm hntt tr own husband. et tvtt SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.DECEMEMBER, NO. 9. 1. and in owq of the Woman's Society. Ami-Polyga- t, (or. 7; 2. PRICE 1880. 10 CENTS. The following is a good form of con- and at a rapid rate, yet under the presstitution for you to adopt. Of course, ent law it is a hard thing to prove. The home of W. was that of happiwe present it only as a form, and you make what changes .or additions you ness until a few months ago he clandesdeem necessary. tinely, under the guise of hired girl, took Miss F. into his house. W. had Constitution of the (insert name) branch of the been a good husband and father, and his home seemed one where all was Soy Womens National peace and enjoyment, but he as the ciety. Secretary of that particular branch of Article I. the Mormon Church, drank in all the This organization shall be called the doctrines of plurality of . wives, and name of Branch of the (insert place) his love and passions caused him to SoWomen's National bring into his home Miss F. agains ciety. the wishes of his wife, who was a woArticle 2. The object pf this Soci- man of intelligence and endowed with ety shall be to plan and execute meas- all the fine sensibilities of true womanures in conjunction with the parent So- hood. Time brought the birth of a ciety for the suppression of polygamy child to Miss F. He alone who rules in Utah and other Territories of the over all, knows of the sorrows of the United States. once loved wife of W., but as she now Article 3. Any woman may be- sleeps in the grave yard in Weber come a member of this Society by county, having died broken hearted, its Constitution and signing paying her Mormon, friends are compelled into its treasury an initiation fee of through the hellish teachings of the (state sum). It is .also, expected that church, to look upon her as a rebeleach member of the Society will at- lious sister who has suffered because tend the regular meetings when possi- she was not fully prepared to do the ble, and assist in the work of the So will of tne Lord as expounded by the ciety. Saints. oriesthood of the Latter-daArticle 4. The officers of this so- 3ut the wife being" dead, W. and his ciety shall be a President, concubine legalize by marriage the a Recording Secretary, Corresvows they had made before in that a and Treasurer, sink of iniquity, the Endowment House. ponding Secretary, and an Executive Committee of five Any place outside of Utah these crimpersons. Their term of office shall be inals would be classed as such, and one year, or until their successors be ooked upon as murderers, but inside elected. All elections for office shall the Mormon Church it is good grounds be conducted by ballot. for exaltation, and W. stands in a fair Article 5. The duties of these offi- way of becoming a Bishop. This is cers shall be those usually belonging to not an isolated case of its class, but a such offices. The executive commitvery common occurrence. tee are expected to look after the genAt a funeral a few weeks ago, the eral interests of the Society and to carsubject of mourning was that of the out ry any plans agreed upon except wife of a brother in the church. when they may have been assigned to only Five polygamists were the spokesmen special committees. and all exalted the beauties and prinArticle 6. The organ of this Soci- ciples of the church in all its tenets, y Stand- but that most pointedly referred to was ety shall be the ard, published at Salt Lake City, that of polygamy. The lank, lean, Utah. If there are any readers of the Stand ard who, having read our appeals are desirous of forming a branch of our So ciety, the following suggestions may, perhaps, assist them in getting the good work started: First, speak with your immediate friends, and try and get them interested. If they are entirely ignoiant on the subject, lend them your Standard to read, and point out to them the articles on the Beauties or effects of polygamy, then call their attention to our appeals. Send to us for extra copies of the Standard and they will be forwarded to you for distribution among such women as you desire to interest. If you select as your coadjutors women of thought and feeling, it will not take long to rouse an interest. When you have awakened that, speak of forminga Society. Issue invitations for some convenient afternoon, and if only ?a half dozen attend, you have enough for a beginning. Select an energetic, capable woman for president, it does and another for much so rest. the about not matter The offices of secretary and treasurer may be combined. Let there be a small membership fee, as some money will be needed, for you are required to pay the parent Society at Salt Lake City $5.00 to aid in the work there. Then after your society is formed report to the parent, and you will receive instructions as to how you shall proceed. But in the meantime you need not be idle, you can commence work by obtaining and disseminating all the information you can in regard to the demoralizing institution of polygamy vice-presiden- 1 Anti-Polygam- Anti-polygam- y y Vice-Preside- nt, . Anti-Polygam- dried up old Saint of five wives debe to 7. Regular meeting plored the loss to t;he good brother, held monthly. Special ones by noti- and said, We s oald mere deeply fication of the Secretary. with him tl ai with others, Article 8- - This Constitution may sympathize because he has lo t his only companbe amended at any regular meeting by ion. If I should loose one of my coma two-thirvote of members present. panions, I would still have' several left When your society is formed, you to console me, Oh what a consolawill soon find there will be no lack of tion to tender the bereaved heart in work to do, and no difficulty in finding such an. hour as this. Each of the how to do it. And let your branch be other speakers went over the same a live, energetic one, bearing in mind grounds and gave no greater consolathat its object is one of the noblest that tion, than that the brother had been can occupy the attention of women several very foolish in not that of liberating their own sex from a wives so his loss would getting not now have degrading bondage. been that of the solitary one. The effect of such teaching upon the Incidents of Life in Utah. young is seen in much lewdness and in all the vices which are so readily imNo. 1. bibed and practiced by the young in Utah to a greater extent than A life of eight or ten years in Utah where else. Bad as the influenceanyof is enough to give the close observer 0 the practice and teachings of polygamy things transpiring around, many in- is to the rising generation of Mormons, cidents, which, were it possible fully to its influence does not stop there. Genportray to the world, would shock anc tile children cannot help, with all the raise the just indignation of all Chris care of parents, but be brought in contian people. tact with its accursed influence, while such incidents are too indecent Many people whowculi be held in restraint for polite ears, but others can be des- by wholesome Iiws, enter the church cribed in much of their horrors anc and pass through the Endownment sorrows. In seeking to present a few House to hide their crimes ; and even incidents, they press so rapidly upon Mormons are forced to acknowledge my memory that it is hard to decide that their church is used by such as a which to bring to public notice first cloak to cover up crimes, samples of While it has been claimed by the Mor which are reserved for a future nummons that persons are not entering ber. Leonora. into polygamy, we know that they are, November, Article ds ) |