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Show SOME ADDED TEXTS. The following briof note of inquiry has been received from a reader of Tho Tribune in this city. It is under date of tho third of the present month: Why, In quoting from tho Hook of Mormon Mor-mon In your editorial of tills morning, did you omit uoctlon 27. pimo 132, at that book, and section 5, pago 131? Theso wore omissions that wore inadvertently in-advertently mado 13 The Tribune. In the article to which our questioner refers re-fers wo had presented somo matter from church works in ropb" In a letter sent in by another correspondent, who wanted want-ed to know if he was correct in thinking think-ing that Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, had received au3 revelations revela-tions denouncing the practice of pob'g-ainy. pob'g-ainy. Wo replied that ho was right in n Miinl.-Mirr ?i twl ft't'i unmr nf llm nun. tations necessary lo provo tho point. Tho above references 'supplj further ovidence, however, and wo gladl reprint re-print tho text. It must bo remembered remem-bered thnt the Book of Morinou is claimed to havo been received Ivy- revelation, reve-lation, so that its contents may be prop-erl3 prop-erl3 regarded in that class of Mormon literature. Ycrsc 27, pago 132, reads: Wherefore, my brethren, hear mo. and Hearken to the word of the L.ord; for there shall not any man nmong you have save It bo ono wife; and concubines lio shall havo none. The othor rcfcrcnco given is of verso 5, pago 13-1, and is ontiroh relevant to tho question and valuable in its dolcr-minatiou. dolcr-minatiou. H is as follows: Behold, the Lamanltcs. your hrolhrcn, whom ye hate, because of their Illthlness and the cursings which hath come upon their sklna. aro more righteous than you; for they have not forgotten the commandment com-mandment of the Lord, which was given unto your fathers, that thoy should hnve, save lt were onc wife; and concubines they Hhould have none; and lliero should not be whoredoms committed umong them. Both tho Book of Mormon and the original Doctrine and Covenants contain con-tain inhibitions and denunciations of tho practice of poh'gano; and in tho last matter quoted from the Book of Mormon it is candidb' intimated that a pob'gamist is not as good a man as is an Indian. |