| Show PO POLYGAMY DEFENDED AGAIN to the editor of the bolton bollon awamy guardian birj ir you please to permit mo me tu to reply through tho the columns of your sour paper to equality lb letter of tha ath uit I 1 didiot did oid not expect to again havo have troubled you but as equality appears to bo be so excited upon tile the subject of polygamy and so extravagant in his remarks and aa assertions I 1 aaen bethe bethia bethea beg privilege equality lias has to me a strange way of expressing his ideas and uses words calculated to lead the reader to misunderstand tho the subject upon which we are writing lle lie 1 he 10 complains of me having turned ills his meaning in inferring that he be called women mens masters what am I 1 to understand when writing on the tile subject of polygamy lie quotes from the bible no man can serve two masters ho he now wishes to toi explain himself by stating that the scripture says it is impossible to serve god and the world if this be the meaning 11 I 1 would ask what have such re remarks in arks to do with 1 the subject of polygamy tte die equality 4 says them there Is no passage in n the bible bearing out the P belief that cain was married when lie slew siew abel I 1 would repeat that it is a matter of little importance inthe premises promises whether lie he was married or was not if however lie he was not married where did ho he get ills his wife wite for he hd went out from tile tiie presence of the tho lord and dwelt in the land of nod east of eden and knew know his ills wife not took him a wife but knew the one he already had and she bare him a son and lie ho built a city to his name polygamy lie he says pays 18 is of mans invention and as commenced by lai Lar lamech which is a mere there assertion of ills liis without reference he also says we reads read of abraham abrahams wife sarah who gave her hafid handmaiden malden maiden ilg ligar hagar ar to abraham to be his wife and the result was waa vas that garah sarah was despised in the eyes of hagg hagar fr ll 11 he also aiso refers to jacob having trouble in ills his famil family y in consequence orpo of polygamy 13 gamy on the same principle of argument a man should not marry at all fr for thousands of cases mig might t be he cited in which a man does not a agree ree with his big one wife or that a father rather should not bo be the father of more more than one child because there is often trouble in large largo Ih families milles or have llave more than one servant because Ee servants often disagree I 1 wish to state that the envy and trouble in the fa families m alile s of abraham and jacob were not hot the result of poly polygamy amy the principle of polygamy was no moro more responsible for the grievances in the famil families les ies of bf abraham and jacob couthan than jesus was waa for the complaining pla pia ining of martha against marys BI larys ati attention etAlon to him the result of sarah giving abraham hagar to wi fevas feyas that sarah earah became the mother of israel and the result resul t leah giving her libl handmaiden to jacob to wife was that she had a son on using her own words now I 1 know god hath given me my lle ill ilire litre ire lre because I 1 gave my handmaid to mv husband to wife if equall eduali ty is right in stating polygamy y Is all an ungodly tb thing ing then t the 10 I 1 lord anu must st have made some mis mistake I 1 in sta sia stating biating ting when visiting abraham oil on the plains 0 of manire mamre eor for I 1 know him hini that he will command his children children and ills his household after him and they shall keep the file way of theford to doj boj ustice and judgment that the lord may bring u upon ori orl abraham that which hemath he hath spoken of him genesis avill pc kvill kv viii ill lii 19 now if poly polygamy gamy bo be such an ungodly thin thing it may be that equality ailts does docs s not refer to the god of Alim abraham auraham hani bani jacob moses gideon adam elkanah ashur Sha reho Keho boam Jeli jell jehoida olda oida abia abijah lil ill jair jerubbaal Jeru baal david a and na solomon all of whom were wele po lyga y g a mists ts and all of whom god bl blessed s 24 zd 24 and ili in no ono instance did over the prophets the apostle apostles s jesus or god himself sa say y ono wor word aga against ast them for being polygamists ests b but Ss ut strange strang gc to say Equa equality equalia lit finds fault with the whole ot of t them e E equality quality says that solomon repented of being bellig C a polygamist an and atilo eulogized liz ed monogamy nand mand and in proof of which aile hiie he refers me to the following passages E 29 which reads 10 ilo lo this only havel found that god goa hath bath made man mau upright but they have sough sought t out n many aily ally inventions also E ecclesiastics ecles eeles lastes cs viii vill 9 all this I 1 have seen and applied pi led iny my lie lle heart art to every work that is done under tile the sun thero there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to ills lih own ha hurt urt 11 what ahat bearing have these quotations on tile the subject of polygamy equality admits that solomon was a god fearing man in the tho early part of his ilfe life and that god loved him but afterwards he state states that lie took tow unto himself many strange women which turned his heart away from the lord all of which is true according to the bible equality will do well to take int into consideration that it was not while solomon took unto himself wives of tho the house of israel that the lord was displeased with him but it was when ho lie took unto himself wives who did not believe in the god of ism israel 0 what about this saying of the lord to david through brough t tho the 10 prophet nathan and I 1 g gave ave avo thee aby thy masters wives into thy bosom and gave thee theo the tile house louse of israel and of judah and if that had been too little I 1 would moreover have given thee such and such things equality asks thatis that if the lat ter day saints adv advocate 0 cate cato that every man should have ills his own wife and every woman her own husband why doi dol do I 1 advocate polygamy ido I 1 do not understand what this has to do with tho the principle of polygamy david took another mans wife and the lord condemned him foritano fori tand yet lie was a husband to each one of his wives Equall equality ty mis quotes my remarks in stating wat mat I 1 said eald polygamy is a necessity because of the excess of marriageable women n over that of men my words nvere men eligible to marry which to me has a very different bearing gE equality quality lays a great stress on the words adam and eve being one flesh in the beginning I 1 do not understand why E equality quality remains so lone long in tho tile garden of eden seeing that adamand adam and eve have left it themselves why does he not leave it and follow creation as it goes albrig along and observe how the lord arranges matters for the redemption of man man ilan is not as he was first made as I 1 have before explained had lie ho remained as he was there would have been no need of polygamy so far as relating to adam and eve being one flesh is concerned I 1 am aware tho the bible bibie states that eve evo was wade made of part of adams own body but my wife wire was not made that w way ay iy neither have I 1 heard of any other wide wife having been made as eve was the saying therefore which refers to man and his wife being one can only mean one in purpose and in all thinas which h can also be tho the case with two three or more as is is frequently expressed in the bible beye be ye one lilt itil in me kle ac according to Equal Equality itys a reasoning 71 a 1 man cannot be one with his w wives ives children servants friends or brethren and would be like a house divided ag against ainest itself ho says I 1 did not answer his question wherein ho he asked me to refer him to a place in the new testament ili in favor of polygamy I 1 did show that there was not a place in the new testament that spoke one word against polygamy polygamy also that polygamy ha liaa been a custom among tho tile jews from tile the days of I abraham and was looked upon as sacred asizy as of the laws oe ot moses koses now if equality was a pleader i at law and could establish the fact that a law aw did exist pertaining to a subject and t that lat it ba had been een acted u upon on for hundreds of years without opposition and that nothing could b be found on the s statutes atutes that the said sail law had beci befi bel i repealed lie he would at once gain his point the same applies to the law of polygamy amongst the jews in the days 01 of the apostles Je jesus susand and theados the tho apostles made it a special part of their mission to speak against thea the tho abominations of the jews amongst which they named whoredom fornication adultery and lust but not polygamy ramy gamy had polygamy been such an ungo ungodly adly thing they certainly would have said something about it does equality expect a fulfil fulfill ment of the prophecy of isaiah v chap I 1 v speaking of the last days in which lie ho says in that day seven women shall take hold of one man saying wo will eat cat our own bread and wear our own apparel only let us bo be called by thy name to take away our reproach it I 1 is to be hoped for the sake of equality feelings that ho be will not bo be one of those men if Equal equality itys views bo bu a fair roso representation pre of those mow who aro are promoting the Bi bleas bleab a sta standard 0 dard for m moral monal or a and nd polygamy bo be an 1111 U ungodly 11 di thi thing then I 1 blush for their standard ri 1 of religion and be better ater would woul d it bo be for them their bibles if nuch ruch be 0 uce the ce n cise case ae as stated by 14 equality 11 and iivo livo a moral life and ana save their money to educate educato the tho rising generation hene kene ration and thereby cease oftering offering ofT ering tho the bible as a standard of virtue a the tho latter day saints alnas boeve beeve bel levo as is the tho ancients did in the blessings of wives wives wises and Aldren children cl and iuliis in rais rals ing children in the tho fear of th tiie tile 0 t lord ord the better the man the tho more worthy heis helis to be entrusted with atheni no agn greater ter ten blessing did the lord ever make to man than that his ills children should bo be eo so numerous that they could not bo be numbered they further believe that a man who is not capable to take care of himself is not fit to marry one wife and has no business to taise raise children like unto himself they encourage and permit women to have their choice and they iii ike laws whereby women aro lire mn ma lo 10 e honorable ill in marF marrying ying fing men aho who vho will love and take care of them and alid their children and they hold elry e ulry man responsible for his wido wife or i wives in the tile next place they do not look upon marriage as a necessity to gratify man mana Is passions as for nature has made eliat provision independent of marriage for example look at the social socia condition of this great nation lastly they look upon marriage as an institution ordained of god that men may bo be responsible for their children and wives that children cli ell ildren lidren may be raised malsed by ky good and honorable parents violation of chastity j amongst tho the latter day saints sainta is looked upon as one of the greatest of crimes the result was that before the latter day saints had bad in produced trod into their midst corrupt judges broken down politicians and lawyers and other professing christian monogamists who sought lust and worldly pleasure instead of the improvement of the human race there was not a prostitute in all utah nor nora a gaming house h ouse drinking saloon or tippling shop neither hau had they any of the loathsome blessings of this tilis stalled led christian country nor a child disowned by lay ills father nor women with children bom born out of bf wedlock and today to day clay in places plates where tile the latter day saints sal sai n ts are left to themselves es these evils are unknown I 1 have been connected with the latter day saints since the tho year 1838 andam and am well weli acquainted with them and al i 1 I their leaders leaden I 1 have been with them in it their public and private councils and in their general labors of life and can scan testify before all men that their greatest object is to bless and exal the human race yours very respectfully J blum bollon E england guardian not nov 8 |
