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Show A fi& yvf i- - J( 11 o A'f-r- fr Ae t ''iv Sk K'- V k--, j - "77, t VOL. IS rOIYGAMY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF GOD? a i- j 1 i tl'-u- -' ln-te- vi-i- s, -- s illn.-tiatio- u- Lavv-giv- -- Here .shall a man leave his !rw: Then-forfather arid Ms mother, and shall cleave unto his w;f- : and tie shall be one U Js (Nene-si- ini.;. Tins we may cull nod's (totailu-lit),,- ! I law on the subject, ihal is, this low of Cod oil the subject of nsai riage has tin- same authoritative iiiliuenee over all on the .subject that the futuie d nned Stains has over ait tliet constitution law- - eiiacte if any Ameiiean under it. law idaL-- the oust itut inn, it is null and void. Li like manner, if uuyffutniv legi datum of mail on !be subj-- t of marriage violatelaw of (iot the pniiuii, m l!i .I sab.ert, it vvill be mil! ami void, i'. constitution i! hivv mi tiie snbjid -, itio by the author led, oi ity wl ich tablished it. Now, the .! law of Nod in regaid to marriage, i at the very begmiiiug of our race upon e pri-ui.- ii - legi-iitio- 1 ( si i- ! .;. eii-ict- .. - we have ecu from irii, of u (inion li.ia'i- to ti nd lietw cu mio man mo! mie womnn only. ail liiLiuivf as to t!o meaning of thi- - iw. f,.,l gave hi- - own mi rpn t.itina r c in -- I mid model mai tinge it is ami on amn.iti. o in.Mi t ,v.i out o.i i , !(!!-ing- s mi-ie- . ne-ut- . tiiat one of the first subject on whu it r for our race would legthe (ire.it he the would islate, marriage relation, because the Welfare. T (In race L o dependent that, upon that relation. W would npsw-e nt tilt-- beginning of the race, the Supreme ILib-r- , under whu-- e government mankind were to live, would pinmutgafo-om- e explicit and authoritative law concerning marriage. Nor are our expectations disappointed, Bor, turning to the second cicipter in (bids great statute-book- , wo llud a nm-- t explicit faw on the subject of marriage, given at the time when our race began with Adam aud Eve, ffor the Supreme Huler hud provided for mans moral and religious welfare, by the iLeiie-i- s law of the ii:2,3) pnni-iosocial was made for his welfare in tiie law of marriage, which relation was to exi-- t -- - uu N.-v- jcal-oii-ie- -. a- AO. un-n- thewrittenamltlieunwi itlon. Cads written laws we fin-- in the Sciipiure.s of the OH and tid his unwiitteu laws, so New Testament. far as man's moiui coinluft is concerned, are set fojtli in his Providential Government of our race. 1. The wntt-lawHate they anything to say on tin subject of marriage? - Y, ISS7, , -- -- 1? emi-ideii- s - A -- iie-n- one man one woman only. ' f,-r,'- pposed, Jin-Lion- s prii.ci-sde- AND 'V 1 m-- !. We would suppose, on geiMial A IVmi-yl-van- n nni!." laborers are th A-- A, X, er n call, bf f (e.-utio- allow uch e.n impoitaut qms-tiocan lid pert-oto bo stalled by the suf! t a turn of thus, who have a '.elfish iincivsi iit making idaei-- s believe it fiai Use epprov al of Nod, 'Hit only to settle the satisfactory wav tor any per-wquestion is to examine it for him-- f, and whether it Liu acre) dance with the laws of Mul or not. if the laws of (.oil do approve it, then it h right. an.l no statutes or of men make it wrung, And if tin laws of ( i oil do not approve polygamy, then no , statutes, or dial isioiis or as-- ei thins ,f can make it iigid. So the only way to Settle tic ultimate of polygamy is vvio:igfuim-suylilfnlue-so- r to compare it with the laws of Cod, an 1 ee whether they appro' e oi condemn n. Now, the laws of (hid are of two kinds, namely, s fno(, ei an -t v at I nth is - - n hvr I vve wiv e- -, one and the other lusted etc. win h! ovi r. Thi law holds g..,:d iveu hi Turninsr imw to tl e The piuof - u I - ' (qiiii'y ciior il-in - rence whatever t ref-tdiI like Tiuit i t if pnto nmnn iiO a t ii;s half litt! Ftah, than p gutN.u;v a luriim tiles. i same ve.,r- - the pn ciuiis any imly g way through peeial befoi e i fin i the luv'itc hivv the iir-- t Nn-pD.g'uuy. is (finely imaginary, it 'imply re-- do feiui-- i - of polygamy. doctrine vv.i muie bro.i.'ly hmtid at vviih-- j br- -t f a m iii wh-- e ca.-t--1 -2. Miniher uuvwitti I, i iw of sail, which H ills plulic giver, i;i the pel mi f Hfs ak as teachings. (J would deinl or divorced. It was ;; Jaw emphatic lily cvndeinns poheumy, is found tin original law of inauiage gi'en at tiie a!ie-:i- . he when nt daiel, exciteim phiuly aud declaring that true mnrnage ( nacted to guard the rights of children. If iu the ter, ilde judgment- - vv iiii vdiich tmd and indignation foil iw m, would n to ia m of New Yuk or is that between one man and one wor.ru! the I.egi-latni- e polygamy whiroei it is piaeticed. cxplainth.it be o.iy did it to ti the -- aiuts siiouldjiii'S a sjmijar Jtvv, would it rise Biiile gives us the record of a nnu.bcr id and see liovv uhHi ,),.n would bear. that only, (.Matthew xix.i ii). Notice epm-iallrinists own words: What therefore God auction polygamy ? Df course not. and for piMUiiuent pidygamou- - families, and tierc is th J iv might col lie ns r as h ad he hath join-- d together, let not man pul as- the very good reason that the people of tlio-- e in T one family among them. and that, a? any rate, if they veie For the nbjt'i tor to nay that 1inLt States an not a polygamous people, and record hovva beyond all ijnestion that the faithful they won!', have grime to underunder. is hem only the -- abject of di- have other laws condemning poly g. my. This judgments of (md came d"wn upon the-- e stand and pci form.'' lie al-- u ompluved uoe vorce, is simply an evasion, f vr, in considei-in- g was tin ea-- o with the Jew-- in both re. peets fumlits because of Emir viohition of the Jac-'.- is to prepare i piinpliiet full of tuts the subject of divorce, he refers to the 2. The pa age in Deuteronomy nvA Div ine taw of mm i i ige as rciorded in i,,in--sjs- , bearing upon p ilyg.uuy, a n! then offer it riit-i- r homes were full of tdtter aud of vva- law mat it, riage, which refer.-- to the duty of a Soothe to original published us a feeler and to pave the . a- feud-- , la tween and w ail In a this quarrels bloody others That decease! binding upwi ay, iin ling tic p ople could not endure nni) ry S doumn's . tiie families of the !i ft' eivnt wive-- . such Furtliermoie, this original law of (tod refers to polygamy is another false ump-tionhe b 'ma'cvd tin book as a of consist which make true marriage s Even if this law made the marrying outrageous liiciilicusnes-- , and Hack dis- nmiseice and tra-i- i. Nor vvre s,:.h t. union between one man and one woman of a deceased brother's wife the duty of a loyalty again-- t Nod were the legitimate and doings coniiued to Naiivou- - Even and hi brother already married, still it would apply fruit of the wicked polygamous example of iu far otT New only, is the only law lecogniz-n- l m t!i. branches forced by ChrLtn Apo-tle- -. (reel. Cuiinthi-nn-- , only to thi- - particular case, and would not his father David. But it is a .igniikant fact were so many nluiternm ere monogamy Hometbiue tan! uu oin; to free love viiri, Fphesian-- , v. 2,1 hi, I, Timothy give any sanction to polygamy in general. that in his writing-h- e eo.iiffit-ndig iii;2, Revelation, lh: 7.) But the geneial law o interpretation in- whenever ho refer- - to marriage. But prevailed. But the fountain head is further yet. Brigstilt follow up pidygamy, beThe constitutional law of single marriage, quires thi- - special statute to be interpreis such a gross violation of his laws. ham had a revelation fur himself while in it cause the with in harmony then, which was promulgated at the begin- ted One med only look at Turkey, Egypt and England in lMfo, and in April of the nan a ning of our race, instead of being repealed, law on the .subject, as laid down iu the sechas been frequently re affirmed by Uiv ine ond diayter of Genesis. Besides the Bible other polygamous countries to see the proof year HeH'r Kimball in Missouri had come to 'believe that plmality of wives would be of the fulfill- of this. The tendency of polygamy everyauthority, both in the Old Testament and gives us thi ee is to degrade the people socially, where Elder Hyde declares that the if refers of show which that ment this law, the New. And by this law polygamy stands and morally; to foster low piactice began iu KJS. In 1H!7 a certain intellectually, brother. to an unmarried condemned as unlawful and w ickwl. only aud grovelling ideas of God and coarse and brother Hid sister, both married and with IS. But 3. The passage iu 11. Samuel xii:8, where pidygamy is not only condemned views of religion; to encourage all children, fell violently in love, and the by God's primal law (if marriage iu Genesis, the prophet speaks about David's having re- vulgar of low immorality, and deeds of cruelty prophet sorts them the day would doult-h's- S it is aim condemned by special Divine ceived Saul's wives as hi own. The won! assassoon cione when they could be joined in of and the crime violence, enactments againsi it. wives here is an erroneous translation. It sination. By all this, God is saying: Let Y. . Bhelp- - learned mai riage. (I.) Among tiie special laws of God, enact- should be women for there is nothing to which and from tolerates as that far buck as 1x25 he praccommunity Josijih ed through Moses, to guard the Israelites show that ever had more than one wife. every tices the awful sin of polygamy expect to was impressed with the idea that polygamy against the social corruption of heathen na- But if one will compare Chapter xiidt, suffer the terrible penalties which follow would yvt become an institution of the Mortions, there i (, in tin Uth of Leviticus and where David's punishment is predicted, with violation of the sacred law of marriage mon Church; while another Saint avers the inlaw is tire 18th vmse, the following special Chapter xvi:21. where tho punishment to race in the beginning. It is that from tiie aiiu lips h learned that the Neither slialt thou dicted, he will discover that the latter pas- given sur against polygamy: to reply to this by referring to doctrine was revealed while foolish utterly translating the take one wife to another to vex her which sage uses the only appropriate name for crimes immoral social Bios in aud that the and we are inScriptures !::(, finally is the literal reading of the passage as given these women with w hom Dav id liv ed, mi mely, in many Christian communities. formed that the principles thereof were exLt iu tho margin of the English Bible, concubines. 2 ! These thing are not tho result of monogamy, revealed in Nor did it remain The lato Professor William Symington of 4. The last of these four passages but grow out of the perversion or violation a mere dogma or command, for a living witan excellent Hebrew is in foGlasgow, Scotland, The Exodus 21?J,BAll. ness testifies that his father was told of law Gods But the of primal marriage. by scholar, states that lint Hebrew expression llowing of the tenth violations of this law, iu Christian com- Joseph that tin Saints should translation step forth other times io the Old verse in the is used thirty-jba- r of the version, Bible, gives munities, are Pouay punished by the judgments of into this order, an with a eho-mi- i few they Testament, aud io every other ease it means tin real meaning of the passage: And if God as iri polygaumuseommuaities. as tried to start the principle in those days, surely lie cites Exodus xxvi-3- , he (the one to another. master) take another for him (his And so we conclude by saying, that if polyg- Nowhere vve are twelve years back of the aiir Fzakiel i.H, as examples, t) son,) he shall provide her (the and twenty-or- e revelation, amy L nut a gross and aggravated violation beyond the most poscommandment Seventh The other in (2.) words, if of both the written and unwritten laws of a marriage anl raiment, and to a date vv I thin twelve proclamation, itively cndcMns polygamy, fm it say-- : the son refuse to marry her, her master shall God, nothing is. mouths of the organization of the church! Y h at find another husband for her. 'ihoushdlt not commit adultery . A dciigiitf'.il smi.'iidiy of the underground is adultery? It is a violation of the marWe have now seen that the written law of situation during all these years has been reriage covenent by either party to that cov- God in the Bible, positively condemns polygcently furnished by Juseplt F. .Smith through enant. And vve have already seen, from the It Hf'Kinnln awd Growth. tho );- - 'j cl Xcirs: This great principle reamy. both by constitutional enactment and Divine law on the subject, that this covenant Though by no mnurs the whole, or the mained concealed in the bosoms of the by special statutes. Euithermoie, vve have can lawfully exist only between one rnan definite practical proof that the Bible con- chief feature of MormonLm. and miarcety prophet, and the few to whom lie revealed it, and one woman. demns polygamy, from the fact that when- even the worst, yet polygamy is eminently until he was run m a bout 1S(2, to inof polygamy admit it would ever a The polygamou- - people in any heathen iepresentative and typical of the entile monstruct the leading :.i :;i n of the priestbe wrong fora wife to live with two or three country, such us Tm key, Durmah, Siam, In- strous system of which it form" the hood, and those who v.eie most faithful and men at the same time, because she would dia or the islands of the sea. embrace Chriand most oimoxioim and scandalous inti iiigent, and be-- t pn p ovd to receive it, in be violating tin Seventh Coinmandnn nt and t. All the amazing sin and fully con. relation thereto .L and accept the Bible as the only pai stianity !,i; time, and eub.se. would b,- - guilty of adultery. from Nod. they immediately drop trived and organized by Joseph Smith. Biig-ha- qucHily until ins ir- nn.i.j . m, lie a husband who Now for the same which -t Young and tin- - rest, in tnis sn -i gio s I , li, lit polygamy a- - one 0f the degrading Jo itdy if (if lives with two or three vvono-i- i is guilty of it condemns. enormity seem to com? to a fitting heat, or to t.ibimh the pi ineipu , a'y in theory in o doing he violates the becau-e by would I reach Die climax of the iniquitous and the muids and he of in toll, adultery, The defenders '.is brethren, but otherwise we have the wotl believe that in the Hook of shameful. La uno Seventh fVimuanduieuL oi.inc. in pr.ei)ee al ii, iin :.melf having led the posMmuM have to take the Ami, surely, there is nothing in the Mormon and the iiianim and Covenants way. ition that the seventh Coioimuiilm'-n- t of mankind m re strange and tlievhive nioi ii c;;;t r"vdatmn- - from God Ii ui t'.I.'ig - 1,(1 r men. not women but is found aHm lantly in the i 1! do books Pod than incredible upon it those help iip'ii Ilian the Elide. i.f ih,. And no ic.euCIH i. of celestial nnrriag..'' sine both emin -- hurt, ju iged by the Divine law of mar. them iii the pre-e01,1 the div ine e institution. r aied riage given to mir race at the beginning, phatically condemn polyguiij. Here i. what other alleged glance :n till e ential to human vvelfdn inue or the BOOK' of .'dormou" - ivh: Eeindd, D iv id and by the Seventh tuinunndmei1?, lie denials uia.i . u ' vve cannot avoid the eoficlu-io- u boreafur, ever Inul a genesis and exodus so ib.at popo-o'iii- f aud Solomon truly had many wives and d ourru, i.i.u t.u v should Inbefore ( abominable was !od winch ever thing peculiar, so altogether unique! If such manof tolerutiu ,i ,1'Ditci'i, And to s;iv that atnurality. La 5 " , There ifold auF limitless depravity can attend the ls42 John polygamy iit the patriarchs or no-- .sailh the Lord BunicUY bo x lippesH'd, and hear me, aud hearken to introduction of a principle from above vve fold a d L simply taking tin fore, my Htdht-r.-n- , 0 anyi.odv e Imcking talc, m ingu-- t elders for there -- hall not ;i:n may well stand appalled at the thought of voluiiti eieil o J.ord; tuof word the nod violatinn son saucti. hod tie it hat pf go tknugh the land and Iii- - ihes, and law of msiiiage giun in the man among joi have, -- uv e it be one wife; the imnueraoic iibjiniimij'ins likely t mark if ew m." oi the; l le.idiing hall have imm-- , for I. the birth an i growth of one vvho-- e origin oi 1: City o,i that i i u: and al-- o and concubine-li- e of (a'in-st-- . chapii-i. was aeiualiy of vva- -iv iii the chi-tit- y beneath ! ! 1 in God. deiighti-ttV violation of the beveiith Com- all end to witnc-- i f Jug of cvciot . Dwonn-n(Bo k of Jacob, chapter in, pa is liere presented in brfofe-- t outline, ai, couple-- ! iL,o: . , 1! of the brethrou vei v t vti meat an I with -- e ire ly au s .1 J li.,1 via-n- t among igraph fiih.) polygamy ct that no e.d igl vv s in i here L the t .idling of the Doctrine is t iker, from orthodox and uuiiripeHvh.-,bf M - t a -i i a u to them, or by Mosaic law- - r gukiling itJ ;.i the Inasmuch :is Nanms amt dates ai'f.il-- o IlUi t M'nn n liirc-s. of pidygarny. No, nod f. r a. id Covenants : defen .:1s though ! e y the Chri-- t tienn with can lias and of hand, at reproached lv.gi.en. of tV'Ul it .led D 111!!,. A lie. N ion anl paly gamy: ve was fir-- t puldi-l- v 1 If it coul be shown lli.jt then- - Vole eii'ii- - of Thoigh , r be;.". 'g'ii'i.' aud iu -the law regulating polygamy, this wmld not declare tint We belleU lh.lt OliP MIDI hould proclaimed Augu-- t 2(', 172, 1: H'!', 110 liftl have one wife: an one woman but om hus- express authority on which it stam.s had med, any more tu-sV. I will." ill piove that it was ' in black and wiiile, in tic tie band except in en-- e of death, when it her L been posscs-i'- d teat won) tiaft the psove regnhilmg leu Jo eph was ut iilierty to mairy again ildn'rp"'d eddion. fuim of a "revobitii'ii. safely kept nmlei c.Ui u, up ' ! itiug io po- -, 'ieainig was thereby ssiirUen --d. lock and key, for nine long yeuis, or fnun Ivg any vvei IHoi. section blpth). 2. it cannot be shown unit the .Jews ?v-d an I is ' the piue-tic- i i h'-- . d, II, Let i.s linW look very hiLdy at tin July S2. 1"42. amt that ever sm . M2, that is poSygamoos peopl- -, and hence it is (ied, concenii ig mui 11:14,. hid been H.HTCtly t tught and evteii ,.i imvioi-ohubli, mot io talk ah.oit jHdvg.uoy in mg unwnttei. iw-uitioii, Joseph I. That unwiiitcii lavv of Nod eoncei mug -- rm Tie wm-- t that hmioieHiytlmclcrs B it even ye: tl:, el lie-- : i to m y ti.o-- e among hiImvDo-iin ib foul sic'tm ll.D not In, ii li nc; d to Ns oiilee. IU AL'Ki tv. kii'g-an- d be Piiwii is that s me of Ui i i Ig the doe, nmrriag", which of th worl !, c!ideiims T was but the p': feiti a g, tim fi.ruid r Diuei ' . U( heUls1, fell Hii till- pi CuldUig to pijilie ohii-ial-- h ws v uf ch in ilDin ireh vAu.i -. t.y m't , tb !mn: uiT alIn Biejp Jiy teg ill the it ir kev- - P ti.ia way? gamy. ) sin, Bit the rwiud j -- I . s of i.o I e.H.je iovn u n marv.iuus f set lb s,-..bout -- iv 'Jm:h'i;i t.i;- t hi- - -- in. . feuire Hut particutar wicked tins ).;s n 'diU of msint which the ly upon polygamy ny i i sanctioned t.y to pro'e ilmt tai.d tint t!., Uiewiitten law of (.hit in the Did Testa-ifieo- t, aSm'i-- t eqa'il in mmib'r. But in order that fo!2 the jiropind iiifo:md him it is your be dun- -, ti'i grcRer v asu.iiti"- - privilege to Him all Kills aiib'-ogi i it has Leu cleaiiy you Want, this p'a diced bv tiov of their m ore dinger-antwo months titer monied him t a c abd- - as iu e i wife having trua nod's great con ditntional law on the aiiMig men, twc.iu--n wi.de a litt!? later still he in died, Vu sruiN.i r l ho..! tipo-ure- s, t utc celestial, utso ikeu ia ous h' vruth provid'd pur-uit- s lodnieut ('onius the aud g subject of offli scaled it wife t ins inspired friend, law t t by licit c't both oi ca-l, Cimdeiun polygamy. siguificaut agaii 'j xxi.ij-17- , Cures Hioul six pt r cent 'rsei, Dratt itectiiH'.s That Smyth's polygamy I'r'iviiLmm which 1. The passage in 1 on j yq. as tar back as April ImS. it:C If a mau have two uc re births than female, taking !,, tergal) at wtiicls beg( ns thus; . In cMi'ideiing the .jiu-- tii ii of jolygaiuv no c u.tLii, tnoujrhtfi.! j i in oa n adcid to of i!i man, .r any n t t! e.q t t! of im u. on tin subject; h n- .J ail any r W SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, 4. s. : pv t - w 3 I' si A-- pri-von! -- 1 maid-servan- mm mkutl 1,-- 1, !l-I- . . li-r- r unr-a-onai- de i- hi-U-- ry nt doe-tiin- - pri-i'iii.- , m-tjojied nb.-ur- 2-- -- 1 rc-.nt- ic r -- nc--..riied ! fr-'i- -- 1 exci-jttio- nt-iioned -- u ! thi-chur- ch -'- ca-il- . 1 -shat v S is 1 . d. , j 1 vu-ie-- 1 .- uo-m- -hi , ! of . . - tn-.- it -- -- i -- it-i- id-nt- ial ; v pa:;-lime- il-r- pas-ige-- th-iii- e- i'i ' -- , tin-wiv- iij-i- e u.sge raking So (pen; ) I Ti wi'eo. if they did md bo icios w ! itten law in o?!n-- liiin-- ta neat. r ! : , v I 1 , -- f J -t- 1 e- ir |
