| Show I 1 A CA BACHELORS our or correspondents ideas th g h reverently expressed are arp like most youn young persons whose pa passions ire are strong and d whose 01 prudence is weak rather rath er loose he argues a gu es from 0 11 the fact that thai iri irl because in heaven they neither marry nor deir are gi eien gien en in marriage and because we pray that goas gods will be done dore on earth as it ii is in heaven thi thai the law of marriage is not a divine calv law but merely a human ordinance and e but he fbi forgets getso getro he authority which says submit yourselves yours elvea to every evely ordinance af pf of rhan than man whether to the king as supreme prenie su or to governors go erncr 9 ac I 1 T T 1 and healan be alsa also forets forgets that the lords pr prayer aye Is is I 1 a a prayer for cor another kingdom or another im ra or a new earth which ahia must first come before I 1 gu you can legislate le isgate for fr it martlage marriage Marr mart iare lare laws are or 1 finances din ances 0 of gr high author authority 11 y notwithstanding this it is true the they have changed clanged ith the times limes the patriarchs y had h ad many mally wives the jews took as many as they thy pleased anth in the east they do so to tilts day the progress of civilization in the west wesl has changed alla all ail this by adopt adopting itLy the thi roman system of mo monogamy for it is a roman custom the work of moralization however howe ver is fa fat tat r from being comple compie tein e i in either cither system the western world is remarkable for a desecration ec of the female sex peculiar pecullar 0 to o its itsel a corruption unknown in the east one of the greatest works to be accomplished is the correction of this evil and most probably it will be effected b by some same new modification of the law of marriage A most irresistible power however I 1 is required to do it it is one of the mountains I 1 odthe of the present social system and both the cause and the consequence armany of many of its worst fet features no unhallowed hand band must touch it I 1 for to do so would be moral suicide you may reason about it but in the meantime obey the ordinances of man if you value life and character this howe however does doea not forbid the suggestion suo of or improvements family Ilera llera herald fd oct 1852 |
