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Show VILLAINOUS DUPLICITY. Inasmuch as this Church of Jesus Christ has been reproached with tho crime of fornication and polygamy, wo declare that we believe that one man should have one wife, and one woman but one husband. hus-band. Doctrlno and Covenants, 1S50. And if he have ten virgins given unto him "by this law. he cannot commit adul-lerv. adul-lerv. for they belong to him, and they arc' given unto him. therefore Is lie Justified. Jus-tified. Doctrlno and Covenants, 1308. It should bo plain to the Mormou people that their faith and doctrines have been changed and perverted to meet the desires of lewd and lascivious leaders. In fact, there arc many men aud womcu in the church who admit this fact, but whose sincerity sin-cerity of belief in tho religion which they have espoused causes them to bide with the church yet awhile, in the hope that eveutually the hearts of their leaders will be turned back into the paths of rectitude and simple Christianity Chris-tianity which they declare characterized charac-terized the church in the beginning. But these should take iulo consideration considera-tion the evidence of the years. This is in unmistakable proof that there is uo intention on the part of the governing high priests to bring their practices into conformity with the original "revealed will of the Almighty." Al-mighty." Fvcr3 utterance of the hierarchs, in respect to their unlawful living, has been in defiance of the State statute and tho rule of the church. The announced determination of the leaders to continue in tho pursuit pur-suit of Orientalism is destructive of the hopo of sincere and law-abiding Mormons that some day the wrongs complained of will be righted. Hvor since the monogamic marriage law of the church was first set aside publicly, in 1853, the Mormon leaders have exerted every effort to defeat the law and the country which upheld the law. They have spent the people's peo-ple's religious contributions by hundreds hund-reds of thousands of dollnrs lo defend de-fend the crime of polygamy. They have fought through the courts up to the highest tribunals, paying to advocates and special pleaders enormous enor-mous fees, in the hope that they would be able to finally defeat the sentiment of a Christian Nation aud settle themselves permanently and joyously in their seraglioB, surrounded by courtiers eugaged in the concubinage concu-binage which would thus be thrust down tho throats of the people. Since the promulgation of the Woodruff: manifesto, mani-festo, inhibiting tho practice of, polygamy polyg-amy and polygamous living, they have carefully avoided reference to that"-' document in their senuous to the Mormon people. Every other subject sub-ject receives continued aud vehement attention from the high priests, but this subject of recession from polygamy polyg-amy is never mentioned. By implication impli-cation they practically teach the people peo-ple that they aro under no condemna- j lion if they secret 13 take unto them- j selves new concubines, iu fact, U103 urge upon all men in ihe church to "live their religion " all of their religion re-ligion and continue lo publish the alleged al-leged revelation, commanding the practice of polygamous immorality', sis a pari aud parcel of that, religion. When tho hierarchs determined lot publicly discard monogamy iu tho I church, and to openly declare po-gamy lo be the rule of conjugal conduct, they hastened to eliminate from the Doctrine and Coveuants everything that taught .monogamy as the law pertaining lo marriage. When Iho.y concluded, under public pressure, to abandon polygamy, they still continued I to publish the pol'gamous command- I incut as tho law binding upon the saints. They" aro today scattering this law broadcast among the Mormon people, carefully refraining .from preaching to the contrary, and viciously vicious-ly refusing to print tho Woodruff manifesto mani-festo in the law book. The whole history of this movement discloses the dishonesty of tho knaves who preside over ihe Mormou church. There is nothing to do but for the Mormon people to compel their lawless tyrants, who shame the namo of the whole Mormon people before all the world, to cease thoir sinning, or to cast them out should tl refuse to do so. It, has come- to a time when the Mormon people are Ihomselvcs responsible for the attitude of tho church in this respect, re-spect, and they cannot longer evade that responsibility. |