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Show FATHER LAMBERT ON" THE ROBERTS ROB-ERTS CASE. (From the N. Y. Freeman's Journal.) Whatever may be said of the merits of Mormon Roberts' right to a seat in the house of representatives, he is certainly cer-tainly a strong man and an orator without a superior in the house he would enter. There are some points in a speech he delivered recently in his defense that must have made his Protestant Pro-testant brethren wink and wince. ."Last week, when taking a walk in the resident portion of your city, I passed a mangificent heroic statue cf stern old Martin Luther, than whom the nations of weatern Europe and America Am-erica owe no m-an more than they do to him. for the rcfiigious and civil liberty liber-ty that they now possess the lounaer of Protestant Christendom. And that i man, upon this subject that is here s' much denounced, declared, in the early days of Protestant Christendom, when he was informed that his disciple, Carl-stadt, Carl-stadt, was telichin;? polygamy: 'I indeed in-deed musV. eonfe'T'3 that I canrot protest when one takes many wives, for it does not contradict the Scripture.' i "And again, in his letter to Philip I Landgraave of Her,s?, remarking upon the fact that Philip had take a second wife, his firsC wife being still living, he said: 'In matters cf matrimony the laws of Moses are not revoked or contradicted con-tradicted by the Gospels.' "Yet we built monuments to Luther, notwithstanding hh toleration and defense de-fense of that form of marriage." Mormon Roberts' citation of Martin Luther in defense of polygamy has annoyed an-noyed our sectarian exchanges considerably. consid-erably. Even some of the secular papers pa-pers think the Mormon misrepresented tho founder of Protestant.scn. But the document by which thet founder and the apostles of the Reformation gave permission to Philip. Landgraave of Hesse, to have two wives at the same time, is still extant in black and white, and speaks for itself. Here is an. extract ex-tract from, it: "But K your - highness be fully resolved re-solved to take another wife, we judge that it ought to be done secretly; that jsv that none but the lady herself and a few; trusty persons obliged to secrecy under the seal of confession know anything any-thing of the matter. Hence it will not be attended with any important contradiction contra-diction or scandal. For 'it is not unusual un-usual for princes to keep mistresses; and although the vulgar should be scandalized, the more prudent w-.rald underhand THIS MODERATE METHOD METH-OD OF LIFE AND PREFER IT TO ADULTERY. OR OTHER BRUTAL AND FOUL ACTIONS. There i r.o peed of being much concerned for what men will say, provided all go right with conscience. Your highness hath, therefore, there-fore, not oniy the approbation of U3 all, in a' case of necessity, but also the consideration con-sideration we have made hereupon. We ar most ready to serve your highness. Dated at Wittemberg, the Wednesday after the feast of St. Nicholas, la-9. "Martin Luther, "Philip Melancthon, . "Martin. Bucer, "Anthony Corvin, "Adam. "John Leningue, "Justice Winforte, "Dionvsius Mdenther." Go ahead, Philip, but kee.-p it secret! This precious and pious document may j be found in full in Vol. 1. page 482 and i following of Spalding's History of the Reformation. ' . |