Show DOES THE BIEBLE sanction roly pory POI Y GAMY r i i between professor Pro peo reasor feasor orson imra prati ti nn tl dr J P chef chaplain 1111 senate n third closing bay day lof prat laites ladies we W e ave fialo avo asim asem assem aasem assembled bled blod ourselves in mis vast in the third session of our discussion cus siou sion to ako take ake into consideration the divinity ofa gfa very important institution of the bible the question as you hav have already heard is does does doea the bible sanction poleg im many arguments have havo already been add adduced aced on the side of the and also aiso oh on the biao siao so of th nega tive tivo thip thio afternoon atter after noon one hour is allotted to md m in 14 the discussion to bring forth still lurther evidences which will close the debate ba batemo debaie debato teso solar far as the affirmative is conger conqer concerned ned then zo to be followed fol foi lovyed by the reverend dr newman which will finally close tia tid thedis thodis di S cuss cass cassiol iob lob i polygamy is a questioner onor in other words is an institution of the bible an institution established as we have hive already ready al shown sho she wn by divine Atit ailt authority hority established by law by coin command nand nAud and hence of course must mus be by the great divine lawgiver whose words worda are recorded in the giblo yesterday I t was challenged ly by the arend doctor newman nowman N esmau to bring forth any evidence whatever to prove that tir clr there thero were indre than two two 20 polygamist fa families milles in all braul during tue time of their sojourn in bea lea st what I 1 un t allue proceed to gring forth the ilie proof the statistic soi sol israel of apses ho we of overa t twenty enty years of ago age th verso verse ift ifa r t i i i pail fail jj A hummed varo vard or six J vi thi t three thoua thousand ild iid and ang nive five and lifty fifty t IC was way admitted yesterday y 1 after oo n b br br pr neenan that horo hero were two P nd a h al 11 togs logs 00 1 r a boyo hoyo t 1 t I 1 awl haft hafi ta tako th the tho p position thattie th thab that atthe the females a t tho israel israelites ites we were far moro more numerous 01 Is I 1 than fi tho the males I 1 mean f ahat that ftp af them thom thai that hat were etro over twenty chars ane one I T assume iss ggs this nor for this reason that from t tha a birth rth of moses hoses down until tho the jime iima that tho the isael were yeo brought out I 1 same ef eighty ht y years had ol elapsed aped the tho destruction estr clfon otho of tho male maie chil chii children drea had commenced bedore before the birth of moses how many years bofro before I 1 know not tho the order ot of king pharaoh was to destroy every male chilo AH all the tho people pies ples subject abject to this ruler were commanded to see that th they y were destroyed destro yee yec and thrown int into tild the raver niver river ni nile to how howling lop kop K a period this great destruction destruct destruction ign continued is unknown owai but bill IK we suppose that one male child to every two hundred and ii nifty fifty fay aay per sons bons was annu annually ally aily destroyed I 1 ic would amount to the number bi often ofton ten ton thousand yearly this would soon begin to tell in lri the between the numbers of pt males and males females fp ten thousand each year would only he one male maie child to each two hundred and fifty persons how many would this make fro from i of Mose sor eighty yearby years yearb it would amount to soo I 1 1 females above gie pie males maies but bat I 1 d do qa not nob wish to take advantage in th this is a u ment meat by assuming too high a number numbe I 1 will dim diminish ing it one half which will still leave than males this would be guo one male malo ale destroyed bach each year bar ont out of ey evory every i ovy evy five hundred persons the females then over twenty years of age would be added to surplus women making iii lit in all ail wamen over ovet twenty years of ago the children then under twenty epars y ears pars orage to mako make makeup up the two and a half millions would be 92 goo the total population of israel being laid laid doan at people now then for the number of nam fam families constituting this population the families hv having haying im first born horn males maies over one month old see sea numbers umbers 3rd ard chapter and verse verso numbered families having no maie male male malo children oyer over one month old wo we may suppose to have been in the ratio of one third of the former forager class of families which would make malke additional families add those these to the with first born males and we have the sum total of as the number of the families III in israel now in order to favor javor the monogamists argument and give I 1 c I 1 theal kil ill the advantage possible wo we bilig will still ty 11 ll add fidd to this number 0 fo o malco make it even families more making thirty thousand families in all ail now cornes cornea another species of calculation founded on this data divide twenty five hundred thousand persons by girst first born barn males maies and we wo find 06 og one 06 first rt born mlle male to every eveny persons what a lar large e fat fai filly for a monogamist but bui divido divide 2 W persons by fund and tho the quotient gives el eighty ty three persons in a family su suppose pose these families to have been a ic antel after deducting ing husband and wife we have ave t the e very respectable number of eighty one c children ildren to each wife if we assume the numbers of thu tho males and females to have been egdal making no allow allowance ance for tho the destruction of the male if infants we shall then have to increase the tho children under twenty years of ago to keep good the tho number of two and ana a half millions this would still make eighty one children to each of the ruto into households now let iet letus us examine these dates in connection with polygamy if we suppose the average numbers of wives to have been seven in each household though there may have been men who had no wife at all and there may have been some who had but one wife and there may have been others having from frota ane ano up to say aay ay thirty wives yet if we average them at seven wives each we would woula then have one hns Ans ausband husband band seven wives and seventy five children to make up the average number of eighty three in in the family in a household this would give an average of over ten children aloice to each of the poly gamio wives when we deduct the oooo husbands from the men over old oid we have un marled unmarried mon men in israel 1 if it wo we deduct the married women from the total of or over nver twenty years of age we have 93 left this would be enough to supply all the unmarried men meu men mon with one no wife eab each leaving stift a balanda of females to live old maids br or enter into poly roly gamio households the law guaranteeing the rights of the tho first born which has been referred to in other portions olour of our discussion includes those thoo first born maie male child children roif reif in israel that is one first born male child to 0 o every persons in israel taking the population as represented by our learned friend mr newman at two and a half millions thus we see that there thero was wag a it lav law V givan ta regulate the rights oc of the nest first born applying to over first born male maie children in israel giving them a double portion of ot t the he goods and inheritances of or their fathers having slaving brought forth these statistics let us moments examine more closely these theae results how can any one assume israel to have been and be consistent si I 1 presume that my honored friend notwithstanding his great desire desiro va rt amy th alo aid a ID iv n 0 evidences in I 1 in f v o r 0 of f P polygamy c would woula not aib 0 t h d no wifel could brink bring bocan we can depend 1 upon these proofs lil iti I iii upon anos 0 biblish if he thanh males and feni females klig adro rehear we V e equal 1 I ua It int irn number thau that israel wj was h people then let at arz irb flioy how these great and av holders aoud ber produced in hitaj israel mach 1 if I 1 there i e id were only two tivo Z eli geli i es nation atwould It would require t hip 3 mbry wonderful than that thal herb called mandrake rh ande ahde 19 rent reft garred to td by y D dr i elan iian in his r to my reply to ta him inthe in the tho ar new roil ork merald herald I 1 think he hb will not be ablo to find in ojan nr day ah au herb horb with such auch wonderfully 0 1 gillead efficacious bous lous properties results which will VI 1 produce such dema yema remarkable bablo I 1 havo have established that israel 1 was vl ma a U poly samio gamio nation when god gave them the laws lawsl which I 1 have hayo quoted lawn law I 1 to govern and regulate a people am among whom were poix poly amie amle and famil families ibs lbs tha the nation was faunde founded d iri in polygamy in the tho days of jacob and it was continued J fhi polygamy until they became ver ter very y nur nui numerous num erous crous yer ter very great and very tory pa powerful w erful wll e d here ane and thero there might be a monog ainia family am a man an with ogie ofie one ono wife now if gave laws to a people having these two forms orm marriage of arriago in tho the wilderness he would adapt such laws to all he woula would hot not take up isolated instances here and there of d a man haying hating one wile wife but H HO would adapt his law to the tho whole to both the poly gamio and forms of marriage throughout all israel bul but wo we are informed by the tho reve revo R doctor that tho the laws given for the regulation df matters in the poly gamio horm form of ma marriage ljean upon the face of it the con of polygamy 1 and to justify his assertion he refers to the laws that have been pas passed ed in paris to regulate the social evil and to the excise laws passed in our to regulate intemperance and claims that these laws for the regulation of evils are condemnatory of the crimes to which they apply but bilt when parisians Pari pass laws to t regulate the social evil ovil they acknowledge it aa as a crime when the inhabitants of this country pass laisle laws te regulate intemperance they thereby denounce it as a crime clime and when god gives laws or even whon whoa human legislatures make penal la law they denounce as crimes ta the be acts fi against which those laws ard are directed and attach penalties to them for disobedience dis obedi en co when the kawwas law was waa given of god n ainest murder it was denounced 1 as a crime by the very penalty attached which was death and when the law was given en against adultery its enormity was wat marked by the ph punishment mont ment the cri criminal m inal inai was to be stoned to death etwas it was a c rime crime ana and was so denounced when whon the J law was given god gave laws to regulate thes these things ip ji israel but because ho he has regulated in many n grea great greab t add and abominable crimes 11 by Is law w has VI ho no hight right to regulate that whiz which is good annd arid moral L as we well weil 11 as thair which is wicked and im immortal irn morial for tor instance god introduced the law of circumcision and gave commands Tegu regulating lating ft it shall we therefore say accord ing to the logic of the gentleman that c cir clr ir 1 wab was condemned because because it wa regulated bythe by the law of god that would behls bebis be his logic and alid the tho natural conclusion according to his is logic again when god introduced the pas passover soyer ho he gave laws how it should bo be conduct conducted el does that condemn tho the passover as being immoral because regulated regulated by law but still closer homo home 13 god gave laws to regulate the form of marriage does that prove that monogamy is condemned b by the tho law of god because thus regulated ah oh that kind of logic will never nevor dol now then we come totham to that passage in leviticus the chapter and the verse the passage that was so often referred to in the gent lemans reply yesterday esterday afternoon I 1 was very glad to hear the gentleman refer to this passage U the ho law I 1 according to king james translation as we heard yesterday afternoon reads thus neither shalL shail thou take a wife to her sister to vox vex her to uncover her nakedness besides the other in her lifetime life time that was the law according to king james jamee translation my friend together with doc tors dyr dwight ight and edwards and several other celebrated commentators disagree with that and somebody I 1 know not whom some unauthorized person has inserted in the margin agather in terp recollect i in the margin and n adt dt in the text it is argued that this interpretation terp in the margin must be correct white while king ring james translators must havo bava been mistaken now recollect that tho the great commentators who have thus altered king james translation were warp monogamy ests so were the translators of the bible r they too monogamists bat but with regard to the true tran translation lation bation dortht of this passage athas it has been argued by my learned friend that the hebrew kilebrew the original nay naf hebrew i i signifies something a little different fro from orom M that which ia is contained in king james translation those these are an his words as awill will be bee ber found round in his sermon on preached at washing ton upon this same samme subject but in verga versa 18 the law against polygamy polygamy ia is riven given neither ahalt thou take a wife to her hen er sister or aa as tho the marginal reading is thou nottage ono wife to another and tim this rendering is sustained by cookson I 1 by DY bishop jewell anday and by drs edwards ani ana and dwight four eminent monogamists interested in sustaining monogamy According to dr edwards iho tho words which we translate in a wife to her alo aio afo aro ing with him keep alive for your how row many were nere here there or of this great zem zym company ilae were ra tb hotop 7 alive for themselves eherd wes was soine thing very stranger A this thib if tiley had caused israel to sin why spare them theofi or wh why keep them alive for themselves that they might avo them lawfully ab hie bhe may way havo have ha vo them as servants not pa B wives might have beon been kept as riar rier and not at as 3 w wives IN es but there thero not havoen have havo been gye oyd I 1 danger of israel pin pinning ini int with th sef scy many thau thousand tid servants Ber ben as t they 6 apte ro the same women who wiio hda hau 1 brought tight tile the plague into the camp of israel before how row many were waro thuie thereof of these thirty two thousand as S au bu will irtie af inn ina lna nother verse orthe of the samo chapter and wild these those were davidw div eded tip up as you will alao also find in the iatter latter part of the game same chapter among the children of israel those who stayed at bome borne from th the war took a certain portion sixteen sextet n thousand in number dumber those who the war including the levites took the remaining sixteen thousand I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 now to show that polygamy was wag as conj imong the children of israel I 1 n i taking captive edmen let me refer refet yon to another passage bf scripture lin cin in deuteronomy D iet let Chapt chapter br commencing in g at the loth verse when thou forth to war against thine enemies and nhe tho lord thy god hath hith delivered them into thine hands kano anition an and thoa thou hast takeru taken thomm thorn captive I 1 and gand beest soest among the captives a beautiful woman and hast a desiro desire unto her that thaon have her to thy wife thon then thou shall bhail brI figUr her home homo 6 thine house and bho eho shall shavo shave her head and pa par |