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Show . ANTI-POLYGAM- 34 STANDARD. Y More Beautiosof Pol)g.nny;-- In Ojdt'u Saint. give myself if I had rebelled at the is Pro noted for Living; His Brutal ter of Brigham Young, drew from act which gives eternal bliss to a Keligioii. somewhat It is probably a prev her the frank statement that like human soul. You do not see things feeling that now the Edmunds other women she should shrink in- right. Can you not think more of The Salt Lake Tribune publishes bill has become a law, the system of stinctively from such a step as her heaven? a communication from Ogden under Mormonism is surely doomed. So husbands taking a second wife, but I am always thinking of hea- the above heading, which is as folwas it the general opinion years ago added that she should submit with- ven, not your where heaven, lows: that with the completion of rail out protest, as the church requires it. women are eternally revolvThe Mormon paper of this city roads and the coming in of a non Here is the key-no- te to this bon- ing as satellites around a fixed star. in giving a report of the proceedings of the church Mormon population, dage of polygamy, but contact with But I can picture a heaven the of a late Conference in this stake of the Latter Day Saints would soon the outside world is begining to be tiniest dwelling, shared by the one Zion, tells of the appointment of begin to lose its vitality. Neverthe- felt, and polygamy is looked on with I love no other woman to be ag- new bishops. Now it has always less, in the room of decreasing, the decreasing favor among the young grieved, no other children to be been the policy of the Mormon Mormons have steadily increased people, as they begin to see how it fondled. When evening came he Church lo reward faithful service, j until they now number over 200,000, is regarded by others. would be with me, and when the land hence we are not surprised at As for the Edmunds bill, even if door was shut against the world, the manner in which some of our comprising a vast majority of the population in Utah and having a it should succeed in disfranchising that humble home would holl for Weber county Saints are being balance of political power in several all polygamists, there would still us the best that God could give. blessed in offices. Three years ago, adjoining .Territories and there is be a vast majority of Mormon voters To train our innocent children; to a citizen of this county was the posnow serious danger that public sen- in the Territory who would carry pray beside their pillows; that is sessor ot one wife a lady of refinetiment will rest satisfied by the out the orders of the church; and to a heaven for which I would give up, ment and deep feelings of love as a bill, while that bill in reality prosecute polygamy successfully without a word, the heaven you are wife and mother. Her husband was little. Such, will belittle easier than heretofore, looking to. may accomplish very naturallya pretty good fellow, but beat least, is the feeling of many of the on account of the secrecy of marriNo doubt, said the third party, infatuated with a desire to gain best informed people at Salt Lake; ages at the Endowment House and a feeble, sallow woman of middle ing and prestige in the Church, and the Mormons themselves show the difficulty of proving them. Men age, the depraved heart craves the power was ready to do anything to accomno special signs of alarm, while some and women, as is n in the undivided affection of the one it plish this end. He acted as a teachof their number do not hesitate to localities where they reside, come has chosen. But martyrdom, cru- er in his ward, and his zeal made snap their fingers at this new law, to Salt Lake to be married, while in cifying of self, taking up the cross him a pretty good spy. Then a and declare that all the powers of many cases no legal proof of an act- is the lot of the true woman. In promotion to that of secretary and earth and hell cannot resist the prog- ual marriage can be obtained. sacrifice, and in the performance of some other officer followed. To gain ress of their church. The importance of keeping public duty, we gain happiness. promotion and at the same time Several days lately spent by the sentiment awake, and bringing pubWhat a strange place this is gratify his lusts, he took a girl into n writer at Salt Lake have afford- lic opinion to bear upon Congress interrupted Em John, stopping his house, ostensibly as a servant, ed a fresh and interesting view of that it may furnish such legal helps a trembling cottonwood; the but a trip to Salt Lake and a pasthe matter as it appears from this as are possible, can hardly be over- trees even are always in a shiver, sage through the Endowment House, standpoint of the Mormon Mecca. stated; but after all Christian edu- the water in the gutter gurgles made her more than a servan She At the Sunday service the Taber- cation must be relied on as the most gurgles like strangling innocents became a mother while living in his which will in to seat Out work. The force when the is there the 13,000 nacle, hopeful Lake, pointing house, and instead of being the serwas all not a at in Dead Sea, nothing can live in it. vant, the filled, Congregatiomlist. occupied legal wife of the man was A Dead Sea, pathless plains, lone- her slave to do as she was bidden. the galleries, though they were forThe addresses some mountains; this is the valley The hours of Em Join:. merly well filled. anguish, the sundering were shaped specially for the beneof death, the place of skulls, the of the affections, with all the bitterfit of Em John was a beautiful and ac- great charnel house of living death. ness of the hearers, of whom heartbroken, was the lot there must have been at least 200 complished woman, deeply in love And what a noble thing this of the wife, until death came as a present, seated in front by them- with the man she married, and al- existence is! What grand men and welcome messenger to end her earthselves as usual. One of the speak- ternately hopeful or despairing as women are to be found here! We ly sorrows. Not many tears were Women prostitu shed by the brute over the remains ers, the superintendent of Mormon his attentions were given to or taken are all religious. schools for the county, argued at from herself. ting their bodies to save their souls. of his murdered companion and not Two other wives and five little Tearing out their hearts to wear as length the reasonableness of a new many days elapsed before he and his revelation to Joseph Smith, and blue-eyein were the. heads. crowns Here on their we girls woman went through the mockery-ohome, both the addresses had about them and the proud woman was wearing stand, out casts of the nineteenth marriage to quiet unpleasant a good deal of the assumption that her heart out, struggling against century; aliens, loathed, despised. stories. It is just such criminals the doctrines must be true because love for her husband, and hatred of A great multitude outside the pale that the Mormon Church loves to I, the speaker, say so. The pray- the women who bore- his name. of civilization, decency, sympathy. honor, and hence we are not suring was, to a very large extent, Twice she had gone East, deter A motley rabble of robbers, cut- prised at this promotion. He can similar to that in Evangelical mined to remain at her earlvv home; throats, blasphemers, sad women, now continue to preach that damnachurches, though there was once but a few weeks found her again at brutal men, orphaned children. ble doctrine to women, that if they or twice a more direct supplication her husbands side, wretched, yet Where in this cursed land is happi- are resigned to the will of the Lord, that all the world may be converted compelled to be near him. To lit- ness to be found ? By what right and quietly submit to polygamy, all to Mormonism. The (Mormon) tle Mamie, her s wife, of earth or heaven do these rnons will be well with them, while if they men and women were seated by the unhappy woman was strangely trosities debauch the name of rebel against the twin relic, they and the babies and little drawn. One day she said to her, Saint, and with the sweet word will be damned in the world to themselves, Zion brand the foulest place come, after children, of whom there were a bitterly, you were ordered to marsuffering heartbreakings found in the confines of a Christian here. good number present, cried vigo- ry him, there was no escape. The world should know of From Deseret by E. H. Why should I wish to escape? world? rously. keeping up sometimes a such cases as this, as it is an examchild-wifMormon the I sharp competition with the choir. replied ple of how the Latter-daChurch Since the passage of the Edmunds have thought all my life of Heaven; is all in its The doing of Mormoihm. power tp build up bill the Mormons are somewhat more said was my mother, they polygamy by offering a premium on there; I reserved in their intercourse with never saw her, and if I had missed If anything hates the light, it is crime, while it is trying to blind others, though heretofore they have it Mormonism. In its depths is con the eyes of the world from its iniqui-ties- done their trading almost wholly at Happy woman, you have never cealed an iniquity too deep for J. H. shops kept by their own people. loved! words; an iniquity that makes the The of the Yes father and mother Stew- instincts of the human heart cry population Another vigorous attack on polycity is between four and five thous- art, and the girls, and little Ogarita. out for vengeance. The present gamy in Utah is The Women of out of and, twenty thousand in all, I hated to leave them, but lam very volume exposes in part the vileness Mormonism; or the Story of Polywith a Congregational, Presbyteras abomination. told grateful that I am chosen by a of this latter-da- y the It gamy women themby ian, Methodist and two Episcopal great apostle. He has saved my is edited by one who is familiar selves, edited by Jennie Anderson churches. It is a mistake to sup- soul. with a portion of the curse from a Froiseth. The woes and sins of pose that polygamy, as bad as it is, Mamie, if you had loved, loved long residence in Salt Lake City. Mormonism are here set forth in is the worst and most dangerous fea- with every breath and glance and She has compiled the utterances of unmistakable colors; and the book ture of the Mormon Church. The thought you could not calmly see hose who have deeply felt its poi- will be an effective' weapon in the offense is one of which only about your husband clasping other sonous fangs, and know from bitter widening war. h of the people are women to his heart. part Good Literature. experience of what they speak. The accorded to guilty. infallibility If, as we are taught, exaltation Miss Willard, whom we all the Mormon Church and its priest- comes by the process of sealing for and admire for her active respect philanCity subscribers will oblige us hood is the thing most to be feared time and by I would want my thropy, has written a spirited intro- leaving their eternity at Trisubscription the and hardest to uproot; and poly- husband to marry every woman duction to the work. National bune Office, or sending it to P. 0 box gamy rests upon this. A lady of friend I had. I could never for our party meeting a married daugh- Utah and the Mormons. al-e- nt ; Ed-mon- ds well-know- un-de- . non-Monn- on d f - 7 father-in-law- e. W-m- non-Mormo- one-tent- en n ' 385- - 11 |