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Show f Lv A. C' i VOL. III. Til NO. every JJhn hue IfifJ owr JJ7V, and get every QJoman have Ifer oivn gusband.-- -! SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SEPTEMBER, 1882. 6. LIGHT OF IIOIE. or. 7: 2, PRICE States. 10 CENTS. We, the people, are authority, else the very foundation of temporal prosperity if they would ' of the and muniments of our whole social gather to Zion, and the beauty and not, we, people The course of the weariest river the several States. If a State antago- life and polity are sapped. Who shall desirableness of these valleys of the Ends in the great gray sea; nizes the National idea, that State is draw this line? I? You? This body mountains, as contrasted with their The acorn, forever and ever, disloyal; if a sect or party antagonizes of people? That body of people? No. own icy fields. They were told that Strives upward to the tree the National idea, that sect or party In this supreme matter no one can be the saints were supreme in Utah, and The rainbow, the sky adorning; is disloyal; if an individual citizen an- suffered to be a law unto himself, or that God would soon subdue the the storm; tagonizes the National idea, that in- unto herself; and no Shines promise through Nation whole them. to single community The glimmer of coming morning dividual citizen is disloyal. of persons can be suffered to be a law There are now in the Territory more Through midnight gloom will form. I unto itself. However or another than 30,000 Scandinavian Mormons, Our laws have nothing whatever to By time all knots are riven, do with beliefs or disbeliefs; with the may regard it, or may sublimate it, out of a total Mormon population of Complex although they be, practices of the religious or the non- marriage in the United States is, in its 123,000. In every additional arrival And peace will at last be given, religious they have to do the relig- last analysis, a civil contract, entered of Mormon immigrants there is a Dear, both to you and me. ious and non religious necessarily in- into between two competent parties; much larger per cent of these people Then, though the path may be dreary, cluding all classes. Hence, if in its but, unlike ordinary contracts, one in than of any other nationality. They Look onward to the goal; relations, in all its varied relations to which the State is controlling sponsor. come here ignorant of the true characbe head It hence becomes evident that the ter of the pure gospel which they have the heart and the civil polity, marriage is a matter Though the weary. purely secular, it must follow that the conflict between Mormon concubi- embraced. They find polygamy to be Let faith inspire the soul; State has authority to define wherein nage and Christian marriage is a vital the chief cornerstone of the system a be All doctrine most antagonistic to their forSeek the right though the wrong marriage consists is derelict to its and an irrepressible conflict. is Christian solemn obligation if it does not so de- marriage marriage, mer home life. They meet the exactempting, whether inthe at be thereto But fine. truth the it with does not rest the profes- tions of a tyrannical priesthood at the parties any cost; Speak Vain is all weak in exempting dividual, nor with any particular body sing to be Christians or professing to very outset of their new religious life, of individual, to define wherein mar- be infidels; according to the dictum of and hence a dissatisfaction arises, and When once the gem is lost. Let strong hand and keen eye be ready riage consists to define the status and St. Paul, acted upon by Christian and a growing tendency to apostatize. If Let each man have the way should fairly open, there For plain and ambushed foes; condition of the marriage relation it- infidel alike. self; and, the only tenable or tolerable his own wife, and let each woman would follow a widespread apostasy. Though earnest and fancy steady an apostolBear blest unto the close. The apostasy of the Scandinavian is defining of this marriage states and have her own husband ic in the not that of the German or English particular clearly involved condition, one of universal acceptance The heavy clouds may be raining, Saviors Thou Christendom the general injunction, throughout being type, plunging them into a rank infBut with evening comes the light; union of one man with one woman, it shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. idelity, but rather a yearning still after Though the low winds are complaining. follows that any variation or any oth- And it becomes, in view of the per- the true religion. r Yet the sunrise glides the height; er persons variation from this defin- sisted in the practice of polygamy, And love has its hidden treasure Strange as it may seem, no definite in view of the continued is not based in sound understandespecially ing and the work has For the patient pure; been done into the world of polyga- evangelical for Our us laws are ushering ing. measure fullest his countrys time And these people. gives Wandering The mous offspring a matter of most among all, and for each one of us. To the workers who endure; of the Lutheran and Presevangelists momentous of is an to revolution abstract settle, speedily shaken import hath right law no And the Word that byterian Churches have made spasmoin Humanity, it is true; but rev- and definitely, this question:' Is'-th- e right future Has the dic efforts, without attempting; permapledge supplied; olutionists in this deep, and supreme, polygamous kingdom of Mormons to For we know .that when we'awaken nent work. There has been of late, matter of marriage, continue to bear sway in the Terriand We shall be satisfied. a movement made under the should realize exactly on what basis tory of Utah, or will this august Re- however, of the Methodist- Church of auspices public, and the divine, impartial spirit this they are building. Coimnun'cuted.l city, which gives promise of good and genius of our Republic assert their is is It not denned results. Through the encouragement true, religion by Marriasfo a 8 ate Contract rights .here and our Government. We have seen that given by Rev. L. A. Rudisill, two them? maintain inflexibly evangelists, Mr, Olsen, Swedish, and Individually, marriage may. or may it, was no part of its genius or function American. define matwherein to Mr. Franklin, Norwegian, are laboring religion consists, or not be esteemed solely a secular it wherein or not the consist. to might might ter. In all its varied relations among their people. Two months of Miss on Work in Utah. their evangelistic labors have demonstate, marriage is a matter purely sec- It suffices that what (forIany cause, by strated fully that here is a field white ular. Ours is a secular Government. whatsoever prompting) may claim to M. A. W. T. PROF. is Govof be no LINCOLN, concern for the harvest. From a half dozen my religion, It is inhibited in its Constitution, first, is local. or That of form the congregations have increased to religernment, general from establishing any Methoof feature A in free But own ones concern. the if, very over half a hundred in this city. A important from solely preventing ion; second, I members has been exercise of religion; third, irom pre- the exercise of what may choose to dist work in this Territory is that now class of twenty-fiv- e I rebreak or assail style my religion, venting the free exercise of non developing among the Scandinavian organized and added to our Church, a civil the has or a then of All shades power any law, religious ligion. into consideration large part of whom are direct converts people. Taking from the Mormons. It is a fact worthy belief and practice have, hold upon me. Craft and secresy in are Sweden fact and the that Norway of note that neither Mr. Moody nor under our Government, equal rights this high matter are dependencies as Mormon fields of fruitful most the as are unsubstantial dishonorable. Mr. Whittle, in their several series of they and guarantees. These are Libertys the of prin-cipiGovernment If the a which from the labor general large meetings in this city gained a single very missionary very foundation stones, United States has not by special sta- majority of their recruits are gather- convert from the Mormon Church. of our American Republic. To show how utterly secular and tutory enactment defined the status ed, the importance of active Christian These two Scandinavian evangelists of marriage to be the are literally fulfilling the apostolic general was the genius which govern- and condition efforts among them here can not be of one man with one it union commission. Brother Olsen came to woman, ed the framers of our Constitution, these a class As estimated. over peoUtah from the East, and brother is only necessary to advert to the fact yet the entire legislation of the generthemple are sturdy, industrious, thrifty and Franklin is a convert from Mormonthat nothing whatever is said in that al Government, as of the States in is of this based and selves, simple-hearteconception, instrument proper upon the subject They have accepted ism. Both have consecrated themPlufrom the been has amendment first beginning. passed the doctrines of Mormonism as preach- selves to this work, and have already religion; the Conral marriage is a solecism. Marriage proved their efficiency. They are emshortly after the ratifying of the of because abroad ed their seeming of inently worthy a commission from the stitution, handles briefly, but com- being the union one man with one and literalness as fulfilling simplicity broadest terms, woman, any arrangement whatsoever, Methodist Church to go and preach pendiously, and in the stand-poinis of of from Biblical ideal Church the not but aside the the the gospel of Christ to their deluded this, marriage, from the secular It is the purpose of promiscuity. Of this promiscuity in God in the Jewish and apostolic ages. countrymen. whole matter of religion and leaving these supreme matters the sexual relation there have been, Their simple faith was easily wrought brother Franklin to open a Scandinavian day school, making it a branch as the inalienable and indefeasible and there are, quite a number of forms the preaching of latter-daby upon needful here to not action and individual of the Salt Lake. Seminary. specify phases right of private and miraculous the revelation, interposiThe wide latitude for freedom of Thus far all Christian efforts have The Government of and judgment. manifestation of and tion Gov divine been confined to the English speaking the United States shall make no law thought and action, given by our in of in the no matter ernment make and healing, protecting, and people of this Territory, and the religion power establishing religion; it shall ensures the loyalty of all prospering his chosen people, baptism scramble has been among the Churchlaw to prevent the free exercise of while it provokes the worlds for the dead, a world of es to secure the patronage of the Genreligion; it shall make no law abridg- citizens, seathe of dominion and saints of the admiration, and year by year, as tiles, rather than to convert the heaspirits, ing the freedom of speech or There is the whole matter in son by season, wins the sympathy, sons of God in the life to come. Of then at our doors. We need missionpress. We are, indeed, a Nation and what is best of all, wins the prac- the more hideous doctHnes of blood aries to operate among the foreign l. a of mankind. But atonement, polygamy, and absolutism born part of the population, to Amerof individual citizens; not an unlicens- tical in this intensely practically and uni- of the priesthood they were left in ig- icanize them, and lead them to the. ed and lawless mob; nor yet simply an norance.Christ of the Gospels. aggregation of so many sects and par- versal concern of marriage the liije Salt Lake City. They were attracted by the promise ties. Neither are we a confederacy of has to be drawn somewhere, by some K g non-religio- us ci d. t, non-religio- n, y non-religio- n, pre-existe- nut-shel- nt |