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Show JuJyo McKean Ima decided tliul polygamous intercour.-n between the sexes i.s adultery, and lm ho charged a jury. The great moral which in its eighth section nay.; "Thou sink not com mil, adultery," wa Misindorod from Mount Siti.'d Ly ilni v.dco ol" ihe Almighty lo a ,n,j(jmiiit; wa.s lir.st L'iven a a fide ol' morali to a n:ition ol' jmlygaiiiisis; was to lull fi'iv: iii that naiion when Jle said ol' a jto!yfaiui-L that "he was a man alter kind's own heart;" wa.s held sacred hy men suh-siquently suh-siquently who were polygamies and as such wTe approved ol' and held in favor hy the Almighty, and ihrou-.h who.io linkage tlie Son of Cod came in rani" d 1'iitittnir, .1 ndgo iMeKcan mil -it either ns.-.uiiie th-i nispons'iliility of denying and disearding the saered -seriplsin.'rf a'! worthier tables, or of char.inc: the flreat Creator with filar- ing ineoiiiistcney and gross foolishness, i Hi; nv.iy arcepL eiiln'r horn ol'tho dilemma he chooi. Whether polygamy polyg-amy be described Ly statutory enactment enact-ment as criminal, or hy public opinion as barbarous, It cannot be' charged as, adultery hy any believer of the Jewish seriptures. Judge McKean h eredited willi being a I'profcasor" of religion, aa having been at one liuic a "holder tbrth"-among the members of (he Melhodiit church; how likes ho tho position of being an unhcliever in holy writ, or that other and worse one of bringing accusation again -.L I ho Almighty? Tif p unr rrirxr niiT j ti( |