| Show V R PO polygamy vs shake ism abc to the women of massachusetts I 1 tn n approaching the subject upon which I 1 am now to write I 1 am not unconscious bof the many difficulties standing in the way I 1 am a massachusetts woman residing in essex conn conn and am greatly gained to td seo see massachusetts women sinking so low loly as us to be willing to become prostitutes for tji their gir vir petition to the legislature ra to legalize galizo le polygamy simply means that all ways and every way is being thought of in regard to the woman question except the one way of giving up marriage entirely that Is not fori for a moment considered orif or i thought of the he ang suggestion seldom finds its way inta prints the majority of bf women today to day think thinh tha they must b be e married 1 when just is the real r ea 1 state oatlie of fhe case the lot lof ivonen women in massachusetts shoua not forget the exam example lile that jebus jesua and nd his disciples set the world they TE ey crucified the flesh and gave up the marriage relation altogether and if jesus and his followers did this in the first century cannot wo we do the same in the nineteenth the old answer will come that jesus is god andge and we cannot do do as ho he did if I 1 grant you that you surely burely will not ask mo me to say that thoa thea the postles apostles also were god they simply laid aside the animal jino bre and clean and free from all ail pithiness filthiness of body and ands their theli thoughts were pure und aud the great work voigt of ot their ilves lives was to crucify the llesh flesh and live the tha angel life yiu yin wiil will those women of massachusetts tell in me why they can noldo the same t wall I 1 I 1 they tell the world why do they wish to go back to the time when moses was obliged to stand forth and protect woman in order to gle glo give gie her time to ba be a woman a mother will they ju insult their god and lis ils his christ by b y completely complo ely oly stepping over them both and going baag back baek to the time when lust was rampant when moses wrestled with god to stay this tido of eval and because of the hardness of their hearts instituted divorce and polygamy polygamy tho the great create end ond n of all this commotion adre idre in relation I 1 tion to marriage marriaga alq all and evely everything thIng pertaining thereto is is the leading of man out of the tho sin sla into which he was led by woman while yet in eden this may sound very strange but nevertheless it is true and until woman woman is willing to confess coji fess her fault and forsake it sil she 6 can naver nover never possess the rest and tile the right she is so anxiously seeking today to day man reels and stagers staggers under the burdens that weigh em him down and t to 0 this same woman question q uti 0 n he knows not what to answer in truth he has no right to lay llis hia hands upon it ho he can cau on only stand and look to see what aho the end will be there thero is but one way by which man nian could decide the question and that Is by polygamy woman herself is empowered to grapple with it and can solve it if she sho show shew ni ill but nut if she is more willing to talk than to act why t then hen she must continue to clamor and the point at issue is lost when jesus of Nazareth came into this world and the christ ivas was vas ad von ven to him by the tho father what id he do for poor fallen humanity he came to make us free this we all knowd know consequently we should be free from everything that stands between god and band our own souls now marriage does stand between because in id marriage woman must give herself to please her husband and thereby christ is put out you will start up in indignation at this but nevertheless it is true there AS 18 but yerk very little chi chils christ is fe even ven in the mst perfect marriage relation then if honorable honor ablo ahlo marriage debars us froin from pure iove love to god what must as christians lust do dot and yet polygamy is the remedy these intellectual women are tire about to apply to the great trouble under consideration X 1 cann cannou cannot call cali sueh such women wise wige for wisdom cames from god while this mo movement now dow ow before the peo pie pio is really 1 the I 1 making m provision for theale the flesh l to ful fu nii dil the lust thereof Wis wisdom domis Is said to be the night right use of knowledge lof hof of intelligence and surely there i is s but very little wisdom or godly understanding exhibited in the management of the woman question with christ as a surety you are running away from him and are about to leap eap cap into the most horrible pit that can possibly bo be found you clamor for your rights but have never used the right means to obtain them you forget that god bestowed purity upon woman aomar as her power and that all efforts made by woman to obtain influence mu must st be ity and not by that superior physical lorce torce which belongs to man and E man alone power by the mir mig might t and right night t of purity id ia power indeed this is the shield or weapon god placed in womans comans hands but pho phe she sho failed to keep it bright and now aits bits aits sits down in the dust to survey the result of her mistake jerown her own and nob not others an aomen of massachusetts do you not know that christ can give you back this purity as bright as it was inthe anthe int he day when E eve ve first loved her bar frit father ber god why do you not take it if you ask me what I 1 meauli mean I 1 tell you yom christ crucified the flesh can you not do the same instead of being possessed with the idea that you ought to and must be married dues does not christ tell toll you that ho he willbo will bo your husband that his strength is euille lerit lenit for por you surely you are arb not going to put christ out of tb the c question by not taking him into your counsel you will say th this is is all tery well weil but do not forget that we want husbands husban husbands dg to provide us with homes food and clothing to bo be sure you do and you need a great deal more than these you want friends and real friends and and und iove lave not lusi lust and occupation and something to live for these things we wp all need but the quest guest question on Is i how hov shall shail all ali we obtain them it is hard to be he condemned for wrongdoing by ona one ivha is neither able nor noi willing to set you right 41 if I 1 understood the reading of the instrument before me a peti dign to have jiahe polygamy legalized the women whose names stanl stand pledged pro pre are willing to me sacrifice al for the sake of a husband a home and the comfort 0 of thi that nf home Is it not stran strange 9 e in this age and with the teachings of jesus that cultivated women should be thus willing to live in lust rather than to be saved from it and live in purity of pt body and mind you again agali remind me mp of the tho husband home food and clothing tiis this is the reason why I 1 write to point out the remedy for this great trouble troubie that has come upon us the women so outnumbering numbering out but the men flista god never made anything without a mate matei matel and if men and wamen by continued or single action create one bide side god is bound to create the other this is a law th that ft t runs run s throughout all things from beginning to end if thousands of unmarried women in massachusetts q form one side the other side is somewhere they dp not need to mistrust the love of god anil and of his christ chrit by giving themselves up to a life of infamy the remedy proposed pro posed is one that thai will save man from himself and not drag him down deeper into that which is abominable abodin able abie in the of god and of all men and women it is a remedy that will give to woman all she needs heeds while on earth plain and simple men and women aho vho who wish to start a new business if not quite quito up to the work I 1 go to some successful parties for information for formation respecting business that is what you must do in this dilemma go to those who have been successful in grappling the woman question om in just such a movement as tho the situation of allaire now calls for you want a home then select from your midst a few of tho the most cultivated and earnest women to go bo to mt nit lebanon labanon new kew york state and talk taik the matter over over with the V presiding elders eiders and el dresses odthe of tho the norh orth family pamily ot of believers or what t rhe the world calls shakers vou you you will then alien learn what the work i it that is entrusted to your care and will learn too the plan the only successful plan that can help you and save you I 1 the society life of the shaker is an established fact which worldly women should deeply ponder for they stand today to bayat day at the turning point boint let your petition for poleg imy amy be grante granted dand daud and the cup of gods wrath will bo be filled androu and jou you will be obliged to drink it to the very veri very dregs again if you are willing to sacrifice rifi ceso BO much for a husband and a natural home why are you not willing to sacrifice one kiegle thing oer fer a homo home in god I 1 namely the animal generative nature that that ja nail nall all ali human beings or do you vou hink think the body must rule tile the 1 soul zul instead of the soul ruling the body as christ and the apostles taught that it should do do not put the counsel of god out of the question n order to tb bring the social condition of woman to a happy end the in her or in other words wolds the sensual n nature a tuie tule must die dle there thero the religious li spiritual nature is the only safe channel through which the tide tlde of womans comans affections can flow to god she must go 0 not to man let le t the love of gog god and his H is holy angels stand between woman and her downward course this is not foolishness or if it is it is the foolishness ef of god whiz which is wiser than polygamists consider the tho the question of community life in ew of the great responsibility bili bill ty resting upon thu the night right rl b t or wrong movements ef of woman L let et herp her hen clamor lamor as she may about the iron iran rule of man oman rules and alid was made to do so she now rules the fashionable world and eo fco by measures rightly carried out she may rule in her true trued sphere and wear the crown of purity wherewith god originally honored her jn in eastern countries women aw aio struggling to free themselves of polygamy y that horrible system of legal legalized legalised red lust whilst here hete in massachusetts sa I 1 hu sc ats where pretensions to ani ank ann professions prope prore ions lons of christianity are the roost moat prominent and high sounding and where the inconsistencies tei tel cles cies of church and state are openly condemned women in their anxiety to discover a way out of their troubles are foolishly seeking to be by law bound to a polygamous life of the most abject slavery my aly sis sisters jers fers isyou if you are wise you will make a full stop here and take advice which is go to those who are able and willing to give instruction st those who are waiting to do you good and are praying for you and who are believing and practising practicing the principle you advocate namely the right of woman to stand side bide by side with man rilan in making malting and forming the lax laws which rule her believers will give you gcoy counsel bounsel dont scoff at ahe the suggest suggestion iou iod bitt bit bet go yet in g be assured you will meet batau satan armed at all points ready to resist you and turn you back to tho 11 beggarly elements of the world n those women who are arc married and those who noho will many of course ln strict accordance with the primitive god given law of monogamy should give their husbands hu good counsel ink and firmly and und wisely gubie the animal i life to its use and not note its abas e but ito as tho the case now stands this cannot be done dont for the parnal mind is not subject to the law of marriage Triage simply for offspring hereford he only uly two oada are 0 open p e m be the one leading women into the lell 11 of polygamy deeper trouble the he other leading her out of iier her miseries nis ennes cries into the glorious liberty therewith vh k christ fi hath made the er woman free I 1 rate KATE eblis cleveland herald |
