Show from the tablet oct 15 the bible only and mormonism the principle princ ipke of the bible only is developing itself in a remarkable way among our enlightened cousins across the atlantic the first propound ers of that rule of life could scarcely have been aware of f all the propositions it involved now I 1 bo however wever they are becoming visible and the only wonder isthan is that they were so long undiscovered they are certainly contained in the original formula and it is impossible to deny tile the accuracy of tile the new logicians logic alaras we are at a last gravely told that mormonism is irrefutable on the hypothesis hy that the who whole a bible and noth nothing ing buethe but the t bible ible is to be received A mr henry enry J jarvis writes to the times a voluminous I 1 0 letter and therein expounds the benefits of mormonism he does not tell us whether he is or not himself a sectary of joe smith probably he is not but being a lover of truth and the defender of injured innocence takes p himself t te vindicate the fair fame of the most hetesy now in u the tha world the individual in ques question lion suggests to the ordinary protestant that he had b better ater be silent on the subject of mormonism if he cannot find it in his heart to profess it or refute it mr jarvis believes all good of president brigham young and his nine and twenty concubines the community over which he rules is a society of virtuous men and women and an example of perfect models to the rest of mankind europeans know nothing of them and it is ignorance and malice to suppose that they are anything else than a most excellent and noble hearted people among the numerous errors of the mormons cormons there is one so salient as to strike the most careless observer that is their doctrine and practice of polygamy all people who call themselves christian revolt from this impiety and w whatever may be tile the habits of individuals here and there therea I 1 few few or none will venture to defend the monstrous life of the mormons cormons Mor mons mr jairis is however a man of unconfined intellect and untrammelled trammelled un soul and sees nothing very objectionable in this Mor monic institution he calls on his bis fellow protestants to prove from the holy scripture that polygamy is forbidden he is not content with this negative result for he insinuates very clearly that the proof called for cannot be forthcoming he dwells on the history y of the patriarchs and discovers therein ator a for mal defence of the Mor monic rite in question with the bible in his baud band he sets aside the christian law and dispenses with the obligations of a pure life the mormons cormons are a calumniated people and polygamy is a scriptural form of living spirit rapping and table moving are probably innocent recreations if we have been told the whole story about them words formed by hazard h cannot obtain credit except among the s superstitious ious and if mr robert owen believes in the 11 spheres where the spirits dwell lie he probably believes more about the supernatural world than he ever did before these thin things cannot move vast multitudes of men nor in themselves em selves find credit for a length of time neither are they of necessity peculiar to protestant but we cannot say the same of this new religion in america mormonism Monnon ism recruits itself daily among the rural population of england and wales and Is fed principally by the shrewd race of df the anglo saxon the principles of the new sect cannot be practised practiced in england and therefore it is that men and women are obliged to go to america in that country the government tolerates polygamy and sends its own officers to administer in the territory where these enormities prevail more than this two delegates only one under the territorial T errit orial organization mor cormons mormons m mons ons sit in the congress of the states to represent the interests of this detestable community mr jarvis is in earnest earliest and in the right for how is the protestant to whom he addresses himself to refute the new errors the moment that divorce is tolerated polygamy comes in you cannot have the first without the latter the british parliament when it dissolves a valid marriage and allows the parties to it to contract a fresh one has admitted the Mor monic principle and cannot consistently quarrel with president brigham young if mr young goes further than most protestants it is probably because he has more faith and is not afraid of his principles i L they carry him far certainly but principles are not meant for halfhearted half hearted people and moderate men in general have less of thern them than those whom they charge with being extreme in their views this is not the first time that polygamy has been advocated by the children of luther but it is the first time that a sect has appeared in which the doctrine has been consciously adopted america has the high honor of showing the old world the way into a better condition and we are obliged to cross the great atlantic to learn on a grand scale chathas what has been implicitly held in europe luther and henry VIII saw but dimly into the grandeur dear of their religion and it was reserved for I 1 joe some three hundred years later to 1 proclaim the great doctrine of protestantism that marriage is no sacrament and polygamy no sin if the popes in the middle arestad ages had received this revelation they might have saved themselves a great deal of anxiety and trouble they would have found friends where they found enemies but as they were not so favored they were ob liged to submit to wars to exle exile and imprison ment and many other calamities which men are not in the habit of seeking for their own sakes i it certainly is quite true that the patriarchs were polygamists and that this is recorded dad of them without note of blame mr jarvis has read his bible and the protestant cannot very well answer his hi objections this is a protestant sect though of american growth but at the same sain e ti time me we must remember that the proselytes prose lytes come from bible distributing england this is one of the resilda re silta it of bible reading in america and we really cannot wonder that the grand puke duke of tuscany should bould s be alarmed amed alk the are not yet po lyga mists and the grand duke has no wish to se see them reduced to barbarism the scotch P presbyterians r rians may think otherwise but as he and not they are responsible for the Tu Ta scans it is natural that lie should strive to protect his bis subjects from the last development of tile the protestant religion |