| Show AH arr tur REQUIRE ment MENI A bamut missionary by the name of otas ofas As has hat made some pro pat ant swaton in china but has ran against a snag in tho the shape of plural family relations A man and his hia two wives received christian christianity t aft after r the form ot of the baptist fait falt and desired to enter funter the ohuna C u ra ashmore insisted that the e om d wire wife must be discarded the first wife had no children the therond cond had nau several beveral the mother impe lupe piteously to the missionary gr 1 c de be al lowed with her children to remain with her husband atme claimed that bhe she was waa lawfully carried according to the rites alix arix BD customs of her har country and tha bhe she ought not to be robbed of husland home and hargood her name nod and put in the position of a woman tho rho pretend pretended sa dleon dleo 1 of our luord lund was inexorably thic caso case coming under tho the notice of pa fid american presbyterian mis mib benary he wrote on the subject to the chinese chinesa Be recorder corder and contended that there wlm waa no reason or scrip turo ture for the forcing of a heathen convert who had several beveral wives to put all but one away ho he said agit it would require a very clear command on the tho subject to justify any missionary missid nary nany bay say baying saying ing to a man who Is in the very bame came circumstances that abraham was in when hagar waa his concubine you must send away the mother of your children you must turn her out of hor her heme you must make mako her children mote you must make the woman who hns las hns has been your wife a disreputable woman comai boford before ican lean I 1 can baptise you I 1 unhesitatingly eay bay the lord has given no such command 11 the presbyterian missionary la Is in tho the right our oar lord never gave any command that could bo be construed against plural family relations but 1 did give a command that may be reasonably construed in their favor he ile declaimed against divorce he forbade the putting away of wives a community of practical polygamists ista they were under the dominion of rome romo and were becoming influenced by ROM eom ish lah customs which werm were strictly monogamous but ho he did not teu tell those who had more wives than one to divorce them on the contrary cont raty he declared that god habeth putting away the subject of the disposition of plural wives vives among heathen converts was discussed discue sed in 1831 by the representatives of a number of ame alcan and english missionary societies in calcutta and it was proven that the early apostles did of such sueh separation it was waa then decided that polygamous converts should be allowed to retain their wives after conversion the truth it 13 that no christian preacher or scholar can produce anything from the scriptures on which the tho various creeds of christendom profess to bo be founded that in any an y way speaks against a man having more wives than one and the source of enforced monogamy la Is tian lo la not jewish Is ia not biblical lb lical Is ia not religious at all it ra ia rom bom ibn isu heathenish tyrannical and against the teachings and practice ol of tho the holy men of old oid who are looked up to as exemplars of piety and B oppose d to tho permission and direct mand mandates f 1 tes tea of the almighty god himself rime Hime elf elt |
