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Show PLURAL WIVES OF PRESIDENT SMITH INDORSE HIS STAND AND DECLARE 1THEY KNOW POLYGAMY IS DIVINE WWW(flW(ffl9s MRS. ROBERTS INDORSES POLYGAMY. . I certainly would never have accepted polygamy unless I believed It 0 was divine and a direct command from God. If I "WERE A MAN I WOULD BE INCARCERATED AND GIVE MY LIFE BEFORE I WOULD DESERT MT PLURAL WIVES. STATEMENT OF MRS M. S. ROBERTS, THIRD WIFE OF BRIGHAM H. ROBERTS. 0 0 9 The plural wives of President Joseph. F. Smith are enthusiastic In indorsing his stand on the plural system and they also declare that "polygamy Is divine." Mrs. Margaret S. Roberta, a plural wife of Brigham' H. Roberta, also admires ad-mires President Smith on account of his stand on polygamy, and plural wives. Here are the statements of the five Mrs. Smiths: MRS. JULIA SMITH: I do not BELIEVE BE-LIEVE polygamy is divine. I KNOW IT. Why do you ask me about such matters? Everything President Smith says Is straight. MRS. EDNA L. SMITH: I don't care to say anything on the matter. I uphold up-hold everything that my husband says." MRS. JOSEPHINE SMITH: I do believe be-lieve that polygamy is divine. I Indorse every word of President Smith. The plural wives were married previous to 4 the manifesto and should certainly not be deserted. . MRS. ALICE K. SMITH: I don't care to discuss the subject at all. I will not say a word about it. MRS. MART T. SMITH would not make a statement. MRS. SARAH E. SMITH refused to make a statement. Brigham H. Roberts spoke for an hour and a half last night to an audience audi-ence that crowded to the - doors, the Third ward Mormon meeting-house. The topic chosen for his lecture was "The Translation of the Book of Mormon." Mor-mon." His discourse was chiefly of the Ihree witnesses to the truth of the Book of Mormon, and the character of other eight witnesses. In his lecture he referred to the testimony testi-mony of President Joseph F. Smith be fore the Senate committee, as a sign of the Anger of God. "Never," Mr. Roberts said. "In all his long and laborious life, taking all the combined audiences that President Smith has had. has his testimony of the truth of the word been able to reach such a vast multitude. The fame of it will go to every civilized nation all over the earth: the echo of it will go down through the ages and be wondered at of posterity. God, in his inscrutable way, touches with his Anger all these circumstances. circum-stances. Millions have the witness of God's truth, the truth of the Book of Mormon, and thus he shows the truth of the divinity of his word." George D. Pyper sang "The Waiting Time" and Miss Dahlqulst won especial favor with an excellently rendered piano solo. |