| Show INDIANA AND ay awn utan UTAH A METHODIST In minister inister rev AV 0 steel announced ced that he would preach on the R richardson Uc mcfarland Farland tragedy on sunday the esth dinst and his meet t ing house was wag crowded to tok hear him ho took for hi hs s text malachi ii 11 1314 his discourse was intended to up uphold hold hoid tha the sanctity of the marriage relation in the tho n course of his remarks he said that poly gamy had been condemned in utah i but no bill biu had been passed parsed against indiana polygamy poly gamy that state whose mis sion slon seemed to be that of turning chris chrls fians into cormons mormons in every state of oui our land there have been many wicked mali mall cious clous evil things the tho cmor mor imor 0 by one and another but wo we think this allu aliu allusion glon ilon is the meanest we hayessen hayg have seen been no Q clearer evidence of the ignorance g which prevails among men who pr profess fess to be teachers of the people can ean an be given keiven than these remarks of talk the practices which prevail in indiana and an utah dUtah in the game same bame same breath chy why the comparison is most indiana grants divorces for seven reasons six of these are adultery impotency abandonment for one year cruel treatment of either party by the other habitual drun drunkenness kenness henness of either party or the failure of the husband to make reasonable provision for his fam 7 4 ily the conviction subsequent to marriage in any country 0 of f either party of an infamous crime and any other cause for which the court s shail shall deem improper it proper that a divorce should be grated granted this I 1 ast last clause is called the omnibus clause it covers the entire ground left uncovered by the preceding six gives givis the greatest latitude for divorce and leaves nothing to be desired by the adulterously inclined with such a law there is no wonder that divorces are obtained there without trouble bu when mr steel says that this facility for obtaining divorce turns christians into mormons cormons Mor mons he merely exhibits his gross ignorance of the latter people for if they are distinguished for one peculiarity more than another it is for tb the tho 0 o importance and sacred character acter which they attach to the marriage ordinance they viewing it as not only being for time but for all eternity it is not for divorces that latter day saints are famous it is for marriages and what possible connection there can be between the easy divorces of indiana and the plural marriages of the latter day saints we can not discover the mormons cormons Mor mons mr steel evidently supposes are loose in their morals and have very vague ideas about the sacred relation of husband and wife therefore he uses them to point his moral but in doing so he betrays inexcusable igner ance in his remarks he asserted that marriage by any one save a clergyman was improper and tended to strenz strengthen thep then the infidel and dangerous idea that ahat mar ariage wa was only a civil contract with such views how bow does doeg he look upon the house of representatives and rind its action in deg deo declaring laring that in utah territory marriage shall be a civil contract are its members infidels or is it all right to make it a civil contract in utah and to punish the latter day saints for viewing and arid solemnizing solemn izing it al a rela rell I 1 E ous ordinance v i J F I 1 I 1 f t I 1 i SUCCESS OP or wun THE CO our notice motice yesterday of the tho success of the lath ward branch of Z 0 at 1 I has haa called forth the following to which we gladly give place in the columns of the SALT LARV lawn CITY may 12 1870 editor deseret new dew adear yD dear ear dar sir while reading the pleasing account of the success of the lath ward branch of Z 0 M L I 1 in lat last nights nighta NEWS niem I 1 thought it would not bo amiss to report the progress of this institution it has been in ire operation nearly one yearn year and is now paying a second dividend which high with the first makes about SO 30 per cent on the capital stock paid out ont boutas as dividends to the shareholders hold hola ers ors besides increasing the value of the capital stock ia 0 per cent the people of dr the ward having faith in the institution have wisely concluded to patronize their own st store re thiis thus reali reail realizing zinga a great saving savina in fil time shoo shoe leather ieather etc they also appreciate it as a great blessing and are only sorry sony there is so little leof of the needful in circulation praying for the success of this and all si similar m liae ilae institutions r I 1 am etc onas CHAS sansom SANSON supt bupt wd branch Z 0 M I 1 S L 0 |
