| Show THE GREAT SIN sut OF THE publish today to day the full text of a discourse delivered by president john taylor at parowan Pa rowan it is we well weli I 1 worthy of perusal by saint and sinner we d desire to call attention more particularly to the latter portion in it the great cr crime ime of adultery is touched upon and the duty of men in anthi authority rity alty in relation to transgressors is clearly pointed out this la Is a delicate subject but one that needs to be ventilated As president taylor and kindred sins are the great and cry ing 1339 evils of the tho age this is bim DIM n evil and adulterous F generation en elation chiefly for thib thia reason destruct destruction ioa loh will come upon it the iatter latter div dar judgments Judg menta which are beginning to be poured out are evidences of bodd s anger which is kindled against the wicked because of their sexual in equities the almighty requires rete that the fountains of life shall be kept pure and bated but they are polluted 11 t their very source in all nations ghi ati aj christendom is more culpable be 6 fore the lord than any other portion of humanity because of the greats light it claims and the understand ing it possesses of the theory of vi tue tu many sermons lectures ezaga elbi editorials plays playe stories and iez fez beati ments menta which are published to g world exalt virtue and assail yh vla but those who read and and in too many instances tbt who write and utter those laudat laudal laudato of virtue and anathemas ana themas agu aguy vice act out the reverse oak they advocate and acknowledge be right they worship virtue 0 their lips and violate ils its rules at ant spirit pinit in their lives this will brkl brici the greater damnation Itis it is claimed by bome some thai thes t bin ain la 18 th the tho a result a 0 ignorance fg norance but it ie is he who knows the he mas masters tens will wijnand and aud does it not that shall be beaten with many stripes where there is no lav lay la Is no transgression it is ia vwe the ot the right and the wilful de wrt wre exstrom ext that bring the great conjunction light is ia come into the world borla aad and m men e n love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil abis y generation is able to amire tte ibe beauty of virtue and let itt leth itye a corruption it talks ma n practices vice it is fair on th eiba tiwa bide alde and vile within it la Is and whitened and scented ml antl daintily attired but corruption lurks larks under the surface its pre fences only eniy make it the more guilty mity for they indicate an understanding of purity and society is only shock ea wuen whew secret is exposed it is not that which is done but bui that which is found out that causes ft shock to the UP lip at virtues sacred shrine it is a well known fact that the most vehement opponents of arear timer marmon plural marriage on n in moral oral orai grounds ds are usually alij womer tomed ed to t be rin ran elsah I 1 of corr corrupt pt aa and libidinous lue ilfe there sie sit mra w doubt exceptions but this hay hai bem been proven to be the ruie rule on the othet other hand it Is ia well known to community that the men and women who have entered into the practice of plural marriage are as a bulej people who are and have been careful fu strict and righteous in their relations with the opp oeita bex sex exceptions may be found of course to also rut ruf buethe tle the nature of the plural relation in this church eee fee cial clai covenants and holiness holi hon nebs nees is calculated wa mote virtue for while it ga some men more wives than onela ow makes a deadly sin of all al sexual intercourse ter course outside of the marriage relation men may marry marrs gomen women under strict ecclesiastical regulations but they must not debauch them As in the time of the revelation ot of the tho mosaic law god hi lip means whereby honorable wedlock may be consummated h fc tween his sons and daughters but he has solemnly decla decia declared reds redy thov thod thou not commit yllI this term is used in the world to signify the illicit intercourse offer of pel bons one at least of whom is carried to another inthis in thib this churco chulch Is ia applied to all sexual outside of tho the marriage rel rei atio atlo a young unmarried couple it is adultery equal marring marriage a does not condone tt crime when a man so far fsr fogo the dignity due to himself and tio tie sanctity which should a girl under his ba protect to passion andie andle and leal lead adhel her bei astray or join with her ina in a breach of virtue the only compensation te lit can make to her is ia to marny many herbat herbut the marriage does not change the am aln nor cover up tip the wron lii from tho the hight eight of god the parow are aro guilty and are answer answerable abi abl et to 0 t tae tag h e church what Is ia the law regarding this thu I 1 matter if the parties are merely members of the church and under un der det no special obligation more than their general covenant at baptIS baptisti DI to refrain from sin and a servo e tho the lord in all things they may be forgiven for a first offense offence on trued frueh truel truee repentance pen tance and confession agreeing on a to sin in that way no more nepo titon of the tha offense offence the offender must be cut out off from the church but eat this thia clemency does doos not extend to those who have been in the house of the lorda received the holy endowment and made covenants of chastity if they commit the tho sin bin of adultery it is a sin bin unto death and they are much more deeply guilty than the parties artles to the case ease ca farst mat supposed tie the enormity of the sin and the extent of its ita punish ment mertis mentis Is illustrated in the case of king david as aa described in the bible and in the revelation on celestial marriage while he was a man after goda clods own heart the lord blessed him and gave him wives in to his bosom but when he sinned by taking another omans mans wife and added crime to crime in striving to myer coven up his hia iniquity the lord cursed him by taking his wives away and ind it is declared in the revelation named therefore he hath fallen from hib his hla hib exaltation and received his hia portion and he be shall not inherit them this his wives and concubines out of the world for I 1 gave shemun them unto the lord the case of david clearly shows the great distinction 3 which many people who oppose plural marriage do not perceive perce ive lve between polygamy and adultery it Is ia written that ono eno no adulterer ishall enter the king dom of heaven 32 it Iti is saibo also written that many any shall come from the east and the west the north and the south and sit down with abraham isaac and jacob in the kingdom of god god gave wives to abraham and to david but david took another man mana mans a wife and so while abraham is in called the 99 father of the faithful and nud has hns achas haa entered into his exaltation the rest of the righteous la in paradise Farad fise botas boing called abrahams abrahama bosom navid david hath fallen from his exaltation and lost his glory and dominion in the eternal world it should then be well under tood stood that the church of jesus christ of latter day sainta sainto Is opposed to all that ita its laws and discipline are strict in the extreme in relation to sexual sins bins that men are amm required to refrain from dicent jouan ess ass as well weli as women that adultery Is 19 ranked next to mur mun murdering murder mander derin denin ln its catalogue of crimes that while mercy la is shown lnita inita creed to the repentant sinner binner ft proclaims god cannot look upon sin wlm wim the least degree of allowance and directs its officials how to wh them to bee aee see aae that there is no iniquity in the church it its rules roles are we not properly enforced the fault Is not with the church but in ha thede thele linquest lin quent officials who fail tail to perform a sacred d duty a ty we have always regarded the pure and holy injunctions of this church in regard to personal chastity as among its chief beauties and proofs of divinity and we ve know muo huo that those who have preserved themselves from the sins bins which grow out of lust conceived in the heart enjoy in a rich degree the spirit which h athla t 3 church while those who have haxe corrupted themselves relves and broken their solemn B covenants have lost jost the spirit and gone unless ahr through ough earnest repentance and a great ruggle ruggie et they have fough fought t their way back basic into tha iha and narrow narro W path remarks of president taylor taylon to the attention attenson atte nUon ot of all in authority in the priesthood and suggest to fathers and mothers in carnei israel that the glory of virtue and the infamy of nice vice should be impressed impre saed upon the young men and maidens of our peo plein such a way that we may indeed raise up gsa a holy seed unto the lords luord and that we may truly establish that zion which Is to bi be orthe the pure in heart |
