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Show ANTI-POLYGAM- 46 , STANDARD. Y , : i' in Judges 10th chapter, Jair, a Gilleadite, had thirty sons; perhaps he was a polygamist. Thus I have enumerated all the cases found in the Bible. I think I have missed ) none. If I have it is not beai. All these cases are flaunted most Solomons was the s that glaring fore us witli a He had 's.lvors more 0f the brothel than the case we have on record. seven hundred wives and three church. hundred concubines. His glorious tjie f0y and wickedness of jf flaunroign and towering wisdom is Rehoboam, the life long rebellion ted in our faces as an evidence of 0f Abijah, and the double dyed cor-th- e Divine sanction to his and his nations of Ahab can give character Book of to fathers polygamy. The any system, then is polygamy but Mormon above referred to settles Nor dregs and filth and pollution. that matter forever. But we are Can the partially good character of a told that his great wrong was in joat,jL backed by a priest, redeem it 'taking women of other nations, from its stains. If polygamy had If the glory of his reign and the ex-- been only for the good and the pure, cellency of his wisdom arc evidence as js hypocritically claimed, then at all in favor of his polygamy, they would Joash have had more wives, are evidence of all his marriages and that his exaltation might be If they are not evi- - er than filthier men, but instead of derice in laor of one part they are this we find, all through the histo-no- t evidence of Gods approval in ry, that the corruptest men, as a when and the any part; Almighty ruJe, have the most wives and his emphatic disaproval, he eutines, which proves that it is of does not particulaiize but says, the flesp and panders to the flesh, behold David and Solomon had ail( stands out in dark contrast to many i es and concubines, which the God ordained law of monogamy, thing was abominable before which is in itself a restraint to the saith the Lord. Here, then is a baser passions and speaks in g condemnation of the whole der tones of the necessity of bringing of their pohgamous practices. the flesh It subject to the spirit. Hence the fact of Solomons prs- - demands purity of life, integritv of perity proves nothing for polygamy. life, unblemished, uiicorrupied love, It simply proves that God loved and honor without a stain. But Israel and delighted in their pros- polygamy demands none of these, and that He remembered It is the food and fire of pent, lust, the jj.be fessional. The History of Polygamy as found in the said i : intention-(Continued.- i brazen-facednes- ' . U. Attorney at Law, Main St., opp. Federal Court House Salt Lake City, Utah. J. S. e. is n Wholesale and Retail Dealers in No. 1 15 Main St., Salt Lake City, Utah P. O Box 363. ROBERT AI) IM ,1 N. BASKIN, at Law. Office in the Deseret National Bank Building, (up stairs) Salt Lake. Utah Attorney FANCY T. SPRAGUE, Attorney at Law. Office over U. S. Land Office. Salt Lake City, Utah. & SUTHERLAND McBRIDE, Heavy and Shelf Hardware, Attorneys at Law. Office, 139 Main street. (Up stairs.) ' con-utte- f vMvV BOREMAN, Attorney at Law. 1 great-concubinag- Will & twreie J. YVENNER, w. w. woods. WOODS & Meclianics Tools, frank iiotfman. HOFFMAN, Attorneys at Law. Second South street, Salt Lake City. Miners Supplies y gjoicte. thun-sweepm- C. eScC., ' ' in-coven- VALLEY HOUSE, Opp. Temp1 and Tabernacle. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. LafUn Rand Powder Co. ant with their foiefathers centive to li unfaithfulness, the He made with, them after Inter of the fountains of life. It t ley had humbled thennehes be- - crushes out the hole si feelings, and fore him as m the ca-- e of Abraham ruthlessly tramples under foot the efoie lefeued to. Now let us lis- holiest, purest, God given sensibili-te- n to his fntheih instructions to his tes of womans heart. Polygamy so11' De lias had expm itiiee, and the fondest blights hopes, blasts the the huit is msdoin. He loves his and reduces brightest cn ( ; lie will not. feed him w ilh the woman, theprospect, holiest and most divine w ill his of warnlioi decent, poison of Gods creation, to the low deg-mg- s have an uncertain sound. Let raded condition of a a pol-wluc- thy fountam be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. Bet be her as the loving land and pleas-- ! ant roe; let her hi east satisfy thee at all ime&; and be thou ravished , And vhy ahuiy s with her love. wilt thou, my son, he ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger. For the ways of a man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goThe excellings. Prov. 5: 18-ence of this lesson Solomon had learned by bitter experience, and like a true, repen a it father, he is anxious to shield his sou from the baneful effects ofpolygamy and concubinage. But some polygamists of this day learn nothing by experience, their eyes being blinded by lust, and their hearts hardened be deceit. We have now proved by the unerring word that the practices of David and Solomon in having many wives and concubines were abominable before the Lord. The advice of Solomon was lost upon Rehobo-am- . lie had eighteen wives and sixty concubines. 2d Chron. 11:21. Abijah, his son, had fourteen v ives; 1st Kings 15, 2d Chron. 18.21, Ahab had many wives. 1st Kings 20:3-- 7. 2nd Kings, 10th ch. had two wives. 2nd Chron. 27:17. Josah had two. 2nd Chron. 24:3. Ashur, the son of Tekoah, had two. 1st Chron. 4:5. It is Je-hora- m uhly TIS MANAGEMENT GEN Itt'i-r n vuted and thor repaired for the reception of g'leeda. I'Otrl k'i Rates, per dav, ft 50 to per week, $8 .o $10, to room. Board, $7 per week. ANDREW C. I' i THE BEST OF ALL lilt IX EX, Prop. iu bayard a &! EOS NAN AND 3EAST. For morn tlmn n t hint of a century the Mexican Mustang Liniment Ims been known to millions nil over the worM us the only reliance for the relief ol neei(ient;3 ami pain. 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