| Show MARRIAGE WITH ERS tim THE chicago chica ro advance greatly deplores the increase of marriages between jews and christians fians and quotes statistics to show that such marriages are becoming be coming moro and more frequent in europe as well weil as america the advance maintains that the usual result of tho the union of jew jews with christians 8 disastrous to judaism the i former generally I 1 embracing the religion ol 01 0 I 1 the I 1 latter atter commenting on this the advance says say in the rays of the r sun eun un of freedom the wandering wande ring zing jew loosens the jewish cloak into which he had wrapped himself so closely while the storms storma of former ages were raging around him and with unconcern throws it aside it would bo be criminal neglect dereve were wole we to take no notice of these disintegrating forces working within modern m 0 israel and threatening its dissolution all great religious bodies have tho the importance of limiting the marriage of bf members thereof to those of bf their own faith falth the marriage of a catholic with a protestant or of a protestant with a catholic hes hep been authoritatively y denounced denounced denoun cel cea by the opposing churches chure h ever since the rlee of anglicanism the union of an isra Isia elite with a gentile was forbidden under the law of moses and the divine command on this point was particularly stringent elther either thou make mart biages with them thy daughter thou not give unto his son nor hs daughter ahalt thou thon take unto thy son deur deut vh vil 3 the reason assigned for this prohibition hibi tion was plain and potent for they will turn away thy son FIOD from following me that they may serve servo other gods so will the anger of the thin lord loid be kindled against you s and destroy theo thee suddenly sud aud denly v 4 the history odthe of the people to whom this law wab waa given demonstrates the wisdom of the commandment and the propriety of the warning while they observed the tho injunction they preserved their thein national strength and religious unity and were prospered prosper cd and blessed of heaven beaven when they rejected tha divine word they became a prey to their ener enemies nies and by mingling with the heathen lost their faith in the true and living god wod and finally went entirely astray from his ways latter day israel or as they are popularly called the mormons Mor mons rave eave have received similar dire directions direct ellorie fone ione to those given to the ancient descendants of abraham Abra harn they have been bien instructed to marry with those only of their ovin ovia own falth faith mis MIA exclusiveness has been violently assal assailed led by boie bome some who are aie opposed to our church and its institutions but experience has haa proven that those w who ho have chosen to violate the rule have in nearly every instance had ample cause to regret their course if a mormon young man or young my lady chooser deliberately to turri turn from the strait and narrow path that unto lives eternal we have nothing i to bay eay about marriage ri agelin in either elther ca case se but latter day saints are earnestly advised to marry within the ranks rauka of their co religionists lats fats and a little reflection bonwill will shoji shoy that the counsel ie it wlee there is nothing upon which either men or women are more sensitive than rost roat matters mattera of religion disagreements on reli nell religious bious questions havo caused untold strife and an d misery to families communities ond find nations it Is therefore there noie foie expedient that hus hua husbands bands banda ana anu wives be joined together 0 t he tho same mind bud the same pa pi well as by the bands of that harmony a d peace peace which is so essential to fam J jy y happiness and th q production t f fhe ibe althy tract tractable ablo abio and joyful cb aik alk dren e afi cannot exist where the ra genta gents are in religious discord sow flow how often has it happened when hen a gih mormon girl has been bought sought jn marriage by a gentile who has promised emphatically that te oe would nover never interfere with her re ligion that after coming under his hia influence and direction she ahe has either been absolutely forbidden to perform her church duties or associate with the saints or else blie habe has gradually drifted into hla hia way of thinking and become perfectly indifferent to things which she formerly deemed of vital and eternal import ancel the bishop of michigan has haa recently declared marriages between catholics and protestants antagonistic to true christianity and also illegal and void from his standpoint he takes a correct view believing fievin lievin i that his church is the true church of christ he la Is justified in the ground he assumes for there is nothing plainer in the teachings of the christian church in its primitive days of purity and divine direction than the prohibition against the marriage of saints with unbelievers believers un the fl mormon church Is not singular then in its opposition to the unequal yoking together of its members with outsiders neither do we think any rational and fair minded gentile will dispute the right and the wisdom of this rule of our churchon church in Jn view of the antagonism that exists between cormons mormons Mor mons and non cormona on matters of faith and pra practice acilee However there are considerations of vast importance which we do not expect un believers in our creed to recognize but which the latter day saints are in duty bound to bf bb governed by A true marria marriage gp according to the revelations of god in our times can only be solem ed in a holy place by one having authority to bea sea seal on earth so that it shall belr bell sealed in heaven it is a union for time and all eternity death has no per permanent manen t effect upon it in the world and out of tbt th world it stands of equal force and effect in the resurrection estate where there is pe neither ither nor giving in marrie marria ze 11 the part ners to thiis thia union claim each other with the offspring pring of this sacred wedlock and herein is the begin ning of a kingdom and a dominion ramar ra ma r be no end by this are the work works of the father perpetuated and continued that he may be glorified and unnumbered worlds created by his power are peopled with hin his descendants begotten sons an and d daughters unto god the vie view w of eternal felicity and power opened up by the contemplation of thib thit celestial order of marriage is I 1 illimitable in its extent and unspeakable in its majesty and might and splendor A marriage so called of a saint with one nol of the faith cannot be solemnized in the manner revealed it ia Is a mere civil con cou contract tract it ends with the death of either party the ch children lidren which may mal ma be uke yeb yet nit bave nave no noties ties to parents when the body is dlF dissolved solved boived f in 6 the world to come the former wife and husband are separate anti and single when redeemed by the blood of the lamb after suffering the just penalties of their fiina they cannot enter into the older of oi the gods wherein are the keys to the heights and depths and breadths of eternal power and dominion but will be as the angels who are but ministering L to those who are counted worthy of a far more and ind an eternal and exceeding weight of or glory 11 1 1 latter day stints by such marriage marriages except with those of their own faith in the manner and mace dace prescribed by the law of the lord are simply cut ott oft from hii bil mil all opportunities port unities of a celestial inheritance aiice and the gift of endless lives we do not expect non to give credence to these things but bat we write for those who profess gs to believe in them so as to put them in mind of their faith and their covenants with the hope that parents will make these matters plain to their children it is neither wise from a social point of view nor light tight from religious grounds for saints of either sex to mairy matry with thise who are not of their faith history the experience of other denominations bound sound policy and regard for the welfare of future generations forbid such alliance and t e voice of god front from abraham to joseph smith in in the code of moser moses mo sefu seit the law elver eiver as well as in the precepts of jesus jesua the M messiah warns his covenant people p I 1 a not to join liev llev le vers verg urs bra while the of everlasting increase and glory in the written revelations are resplendent with heavenly light for the guidance and encouragement of the dutiful and the great and irreparable 1083 loss to the is pictured ictus therein as a solemn warn warning gog fog in colors that are striking and unmistakable |
