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Show 36 ANTI-POLYGAM- STANDARD. Y Agents Wanted , There is the Constitution those things which contravene the ready for you; call a few energetic laws of Congress, the proclamations y Agents for the women together, make the changes of the President, the customs of the of Standard are wanted in every city necessary to suit your local condi- - country, and the Constitution town, village and community in the the United States. and f y0Ur ' Entered at the We offer the very And such is the drill of the United States. of the the ..to Secretary second-clas. s . Lakc City , Utah, as mail M best terms to women who will work this in city. We appeal Church that apostacy is difficult, ganization wa t. et to every Christian woman to make and when it does occur, it subjects for this paper. We believe that our Personal matter, and Consider it the apostate to great danger. Hence object will be appreciated by every Issued month'y by The Standard Publishing Compa-woman whose attention is directed KT, in the interest of the Ladies Society her buSmeSS tO See that a braildl is most apostates are driven to the ex0 formed. Let every happy wife and treme of disbelief, and are thus to the subject, and those who will terms: mother who sits in the unpolluted placed almost beyond the reach of aid in increasing our circulation can One Tear, in advance $1.00 ix not only make it profitable for months" sanctity of her own household feel Christian agencies. The claims of the Mormon priest- themselves, but also do a great deal that God has opened the way for 'ZZZUZ'-Will not every her to glVO her pOTSO D 1.1 Q tl U 0 Id C C in hood to inspiration and their con- of good as well. Remittances may be made by dra't, money order or regie-Give Post Office address in full, tered letter, at our Crime. Let her stant and cunning use of prophecy one of our present subscribers use this great abolishing , 9 Deluding Countv and State. cheerfully give her countenance and have diminished the faith of many their influence in obtaining a reliaaid to the little band of women Christians in the claims of ble agent for the Standard. Send across the Rocky Mountains lvho the Bible upon their credence. to us for terms and particulars. have consecrated their lives to the Therefore, there are many foolish deliverance of womanhood from the practices and vain conceits creeping The Bolonda negroes in Africa most degrading type of bondage into the lives and teaching of those believe in the supremacy of womwho are not well established in an. It is with them the law that that ever enthralled the sex. Will the pastors of evangelical Christian ethics and faith. women shall sit in the councils of churches please present this matter The fact that comparatively few the nation ; that a young man on To the Pastors of Christian Churches: to the women of their congrega- - Gentile familes come to Utah to live entering the matrimonial state, shall If this paper should fall into the jons remove from his leads own village to that even those who permanently, hands of any Minister of the Gospel, And women of Utah, a few words are inclined to be Christians to be of his wife, and in forming this rewill he kindly give it to some energetic to : We know that thousands slow in you themselves with lation he shall bind himself to prolady of his congregation, and ask her to of you would be glad to be released active identifying reformatory measures either vide his mother with wood so long get up a club for it. Will he please call from your fetters, and now is the in Church or State wTork. as she shall live. Here, too, the her attention to the appeal at the head of time for wife you to aid in your own e alone can divorce The the husband, dominancy of Mormonism is st page, addressed to the Women of liverance. God that Remember, a terrible incubus. Even more, it and the children in that event beAmerica. Let this subject be kept in who them themselves. helps helps is death to honesty, virtue and truth come the property of the mother. agitation until public sentiment shall Let a branch be formed in every It strikes a deadly blow at the very The men cannot enter into the most the enactment of such measures tlement throughout this Territory, foundation of all ordinary contract without the perright government, mission 'that will tend to the total abolition of if there are in that settlement only of the lady superior of the and security to virtue by substithe other twin relic of barbarism. a half dozen women two, three or domestic circle. In the for the very heart who are opposed to polygamy. If tuting polygamy of Central Africa is the paradise and sanctified Christian marThe Woman's National y ou do not feel courage enough to riage, and virtuous that many women are vainly strivfamily relations Society. take the initiative yourselves, write of husband and wife, parents and ing for in America, and the rights to the parent society, and, if possi-B- y she clamors for here are reference to an article in an- - ble, women will be sent to you to children. already in this f granted other column, it will be seen that aid in They are so strongly in the ascountry work of organization, your and by what we call an I and y the Ladies unquestioned control Society Upon application to the Secretary cendency A few deleof the I local affairs of Utah, as such, has ceased to exist, all of the Territory uncivilized people. information will be necessary from Bolonda might be .of andin its stead has arisen the Wo- - furnished to those who desire to be that they have' the power to restrain gates drunkenness and every other public good service to the cause, for they man s National Society. The object identified with the grandest move-o- f vice, but cannot consistently do so at least can speak from experience this change is fully and clearly ment of the age, the Womans of what, to us, are yet untried laws. while they write over their in the report of the Secre- - tional y liquor Society. stores, Holiness to the Lord. We tary, of which mention is made The wife of Mr. Ralph Waldo above, and we trust it will be per - Methodism and Polygamy Report of the would call upon them in the name Emerson is described by a corresof our country, used carefully by all our readers. Methodist Committee on the State of humanity and in the name of true religion, to put awav pondent of the Louisville Courier-Journa- l, The wisdom of the change is not, Affairs in Utah. who has been visiting Contheir infamous and barbarous teachwe think, admissible of a doubt. Mormonism claims to be exclu ings and practices, to cease their cord, Mass., as tall and slender, with Although polygamy is generally denunciation of Christian Churches, a thoughtful refined face and silver looked upon as a local irregularity, sively The Kingdom of God on hair. Her dress was a black silk, yet it is, in reality, a national evil, Earth. It denies the right and which are engaged in the true work and severely of simple in and requires a National remedy. harand to unite with them elegant, authority of this and all other gov-- in reform, with her mony seventy years, and reforming themselves and the great ignorance exists all over ernments or nations to enact laws the heightened fairness world of her very that is enslaved in sin. the country in regard to the work- - for it, or have any jurisdiction over fair She reminds one complexion. And we would hereby ings of polygamy, and until this it. This institution is entirely hosexpress of a stately lady abbess and fasciignorance is at least in part re- tile to the United States Govern- our hearty concurrence in the resO' nates the eye of a stranger until moved, we can never hope for full ment and American institutions. It lutions on polygamy passed by the the gaze seems almost rude in its in our work. The wo- teaches as the supreme privilege and General Conference at Cincinnati persistence. She is full of kindness men of America know by intuition duty of its votaries,, the practice of May 24, 1879, and request that this and if nothing else that polygamy is those vices which have been for subject be referred to the Annual courtesy and responsive to the of 'hose about her. a crime and should be abolished, eighteen centuries condemned by Conferences for their consideration sympathies During a recent supper a Western and their sympathies are all with us all civilized and ChristiarT and and that all action, our church people in our efforts, and we know that and lady, sitting between her and a nations, viz: Polygamy and kin- papers be requested to publish this distinguished visitor remarked that there are thousands of noble women dred vices. report. she had never before been so deready to lend us assistance. By the Resolved, That we endorse the noIt claims, in the name of revelaformation of branch societies, the tion, the sandwiched, to which Mr. right to ignore all human ble sentiments of his Excellency lightfully people will be led to seek for infor- government, and to substitute there- Governor Murray, delivered on the Emerson replied, The best part of a sanlwich is always in the middle. mation in regard to the peculiar in- for the counsels and dictation of a bourth of July, 1880; concerning stitution, which only requires to be falsely constituted priesthood, and the admission of the Territory of Mr. Peter Tavey is our known in order to be hated, and af- that all other agent governments are illegal Utah to the sisterhood of loval in ter hate will come condemnation, and unauthorized, and therefore American States. Bingham, and is authorized to take subscriptions and advertiseand after condemnation, we trust, void. ments for the Standard. Subscribers complete annihilation. The leaders of Mormonism have how many of you are who Children, Women of America, the corner in the gave their names to Mrs, Phelps, past taught and now teach willing to give ten cents for a brick and have not received the paper stone of polygamy is degradation of and practice for religion the most to help build a chapel and school at will woman. Therefore, it is your sacred please notify Mr. Tavey, and debasing and revolting acts, such as Logan, Utah. Send for 'Iricksf it will be made all right. duty to enlist your energies and polygamy and sorcery. They in- and return the obtained for money means for its suppression. Let a vest the head of the Church them to Mrs. M. E. Boyd, Treasurer Wanted reliable lady canvassers branch society be formed in every with Divine prerogative and powers. Womans Executive Committee of in town and city throughout these They teach the doctrine of infalli- Home every town and city throughout No. 23, Centre the United Missions, United States. It is a matter of bility in the decisions or the counto whom a liberNew York City. More of al commissionStates, street, will be paid. Address. little trouble, and will bring grand sels of the Church, especially in this in our next numbc y Standard. results. Anti-Polygam- Post-Oficc- 7rt in I Anti-Polygam- y I e . 1 1 ri-- k. I so-call- ed I I de-th- set-for- ce heaven-appointe- d Anti-Polyga- my I far-of- Anti-Polygam- Na-defin- ed Anti-Polygam- I A on so-call- ed Anti-Polygam- to-wome- |