Show DIALOGUE DIALOG between elder freeman and a visitor from abroad visitor I 1 hope sir that you wilt will not regard it an ju intrusion upon your time if I 1 improve this ol 01 tf port unity to inquire into some of your peculiar institutions from my limited acquaintance ara and observation in this city and surely it in a beautiful and peaceful city furnishing famishing a rather father pleasing comment upon the ind industry estly an aad d ev even en bar harmony me ny ef f your I 1 am led to think that yow yo people aiu not realize swan dmn your domestic arrangements all that you anticipate eld freeman in ht te respect sk sir I 1 do I 1 not know how much we are wi A to antica pate by stra strangers agers like ilia youg yourself realf I 1 have never at ab that perfect mil lenaW peace and labbe ny would be brought abbat by out our people IR ia their families in a few months or eves years yeam V these jars jare jealousies and ud rivalries I 1 ait fc 65 don domestic circle 1 I trust that it ill m no offense offence to i name them tabra U t yes yea may we not rather empt that they will If id crease trease rather than diminish an s boar families multiply iua and increase under tinder the c complex and diverse parentage bof one father and different mothers must mask you not see mw and do you not fear that the complexity of the reUt relations ious vad ld the extensive extrusive increase of children will in tin the course of a few generations make an unwieldy mass of subjects that no one patriarchal head of a i family can efficient effi efficiently cien aly control and manage managed you have really incorporated in your system many beautiful principles and I 1 we see nothing designedly design ay or even corrupt among you and aad strangers have great reason to appreciate your I 1 hospitality and kindness and gentiles as you call them seem mom to have alt toe the privileges of free and un trammelled competitors for wealth and influence among you and this principle of toleration moot bespeak the kyor favor and aad indulgence of ull oll char stable and high tainted men abroad but your plurality system is too ephemeral and short abort lived to i continue long eld F well sir air it would not need to live low in order to outlive out live any domestic government among christian gentiles among air 4 conduct of only one cifes children is hardly endurable eny eay durable during the short period of their minority I 1 and then every cord of patriarchal authority is either loosened or cut asunder as of a ship lashed by I 1 winds and tempests that no cable can hold children art are gener generally qUy the parents op pres sors even evea before they pass the age of minority but after the period of eighteen or twenty ole one parents universally abandon au all hope of further control it your system air siri the airet act of boar domestic organization is ia in no BO offense offence air because ray my assertion is too scrip ty true to require apology accordingly tip the best fruit that you can took look for from such an organization i is the spirit of misrule and this spirit iu in your children is so ob that you you have long since ceased to attempt Us its control after die a hert period of eighteen or twenty years and then the endren children green as an they are take their own head and go their own way and even marry and attempt to bring up ap fila families nilles of their own without without a wise experienced patriarchal f p wen van to ca coal 4 I 1 I 1 trot or instruct them now the order arder of heaven sir organizes families on principles of pern permanency bax giving the experienced parent aai an endless control of children in the way of righteousness not only before but after death and opens up facilities for intercommunication between the deceased parent and the surviving children throughout all generations and the deceased parents J can be and an areas as wisba wisely y in bet aalf of weir their I 1 j surviving posterity howsoever howsoever numerous aitho as tho they had never entered the gateway gate way of death V how is all that I 1 dont know that mat I 1 have learned all your views concerning fati family ally order eld F its very possible that you have not and if you would indulge mii me in the same plainness that you requested for yourself I 1 would add that I 1 am greatly afraid that you will not unless 5 3 ou are born of that spirit that leads into I 1 all I 1 truth toi for there is no other spirit that can teach the truth properly and unerringly if you are familiar with your bible you ought i to know that jesus christ opened up UD a channel I 1 of communication between the living and the dead and was called the new and living way by which all matters could be transacted between the living arid and the dead and intelligence could be transferred with more than telegraphic speed fr from orn one world to another as occasion required and every relation properly established on earth could b be maintained and carried oui greatest advantage and the least impediment V Is this what was bs vision of the ladder let down from heaver heaven upon wb which y he saw the angels of god passing ana re passing pasing eld F the same principle is taught in that vision and any anyone one familiar with the contents of the lie bible should readily perceive that the right ways of god are revealed from faith to faith and they are not learae by dint of great talents or by ones own sharpness anyhow V the subject of government is occupying an intense interest amona among t legislators of the present age and I 1 must confess that I 1 feel 1 curious to learn whether your people possess the knowledge of any rare and valuable principles that would contribute to establish a permanent and invincible government for I 1 find that thrones are being cast down as things that have no solid basis and even our own republican government as flourishing as it has been now seems likely to be shorter lived than many of the old monarchies nar chies our ablest statesmen alq already in deep concern that the different constituencies of this widespread wide spread government will not manifest mafes sufficient of the spirit of concession for the general good to ensure a fent enc union of the states for any great length of time i should like to have an interview with this governor young I 1 suppose you consider him almost a most an oracle in these matters 1 eld F how can dan you expect any govern ments to stand permanently that are built upon a con apt foundation if children will not submit m t to t the ae wholesome T restraint es and abie government ment of parents to whom they them are affianced by the I 1 I 1 strongest possible ties how can they be expected to make concession fol foi the public good and durability of any other government whatever if they will not let their par parents nis hold the presidency dencY over them and chair of ghate is it reasonable to suppose that they will ever keep the peace as I 1 orderly and law abiding citizens un under derany any other rulers herminy herein you bu geri gentiles tiles leak out nonsense as a barrel that has no head 1 I hope no offence offense I 1 sir sir if they cannot abide under patriarchal way a y so sa 0 early arly in life you efte need not look laok for obe iw clience ie n ce to any other power in the capacity of citizens iti zens give the devil the control of the I 1 hildren of any government for the first period if f eighteen or twenty years and I 1 defy any un ns aspired aired ruler or potentate king kin or president to nake aake good and peaceful subjects of them ever 1 alfter in this world V although J aril am not called a religious man mid grid generally leave lecave religious matters to the clerical profession where they belong yet I 1 confess that I 1 jt enter entertain tain a high i regard for sabbath schools whichard which chare are so widely spreading over dver christendom I 1 11 think they will have an important influence in securing the stability and anion of governments it is a beautiful sight to beethe lee rising rising generation of youth forme and fashioned in one 1 uniform Ch christian osban mould eld F 1 I should judge indeed sir from the fiew ew you take of sabbath schools and their fleets ff acts that you could not have become very ruly religious religions though deeply superstitious you may be my avyn own indignation against christian sabbath schools as a means of fortifying the it ability and union of governments or even morals and peace of mankind is about as xi ani edg edged as it is against houses of ill fame and OU organized haunts of corruption V wei ei sir pre previous to calling balling upon you jou I 1 had resolved st aty etly in my y own n mind not to become excited hy by az aunno thing yot yol might say but really I 1 find your elders re eternally th the most cross grained persons in iu i conor gation that I 1 ever met with I 1 thought that sabbat schools would meet with your most hearty apar approbation obrion ob tion therefore I 1 introduced it partly in order cordei to support your views of training and gu governing verning chitren chi Uren to be continued continue 4 |