| Show correspondence 4 U A METH D arso iise ON i bozeman bozeday BOZ emas eman emas EMAy 31 T october 7 1884 editor deseret metes I 1 have been watching the struggle that la is now going on in the country over the polygamy question with some degree of interest hoping and praying that justice and may mayo bedone Q goneno nor matter what the consequence our out constitution gives each and tand every citizen the right fight to worship god ineis or her ow htway according chedic to ta their own consciences none daring to molest or make them afraid it gives the methodist the rig right to to say amen as loud and as often as he pleas pleases it gives the tho baptist under the wat eror ezor or td 0 stanop d dry lan ian land it even gives the dunkard t the night hight vt ta avash wash his f feet and the roma is t right to count his beads th this 9 being the casei case casel I 1 should be very sorry to see uncle sam tarnish his knod nanie name by interfering with the revisions rights ot any citizen either etther male maie or female and I 1 cannot cannoth canno tb elleve believe for a moment th athe will be guilty of turning loose upon the coit cott country at af army of unprotected zin protected babes when god made madd man the very first command that he gaye gave him was tobe to be fruitful and multi multiply pl and that COMM command was repeated oftener than any other commanday com command mandAn in the bible bibie Lamech was the first that did a whole i sale business I 1 in obeying that thad command 7 all AU the account we have of him is that he slew a man in self seif defence it doe snot cay kaj ay what whitt the quarrel was about 1 I suppose likely some one was vas meddling with Mith his peculiar institution sol soi him at all ali I 1 should have hav edone done just as he chedid did abraham Ab was the friend of got goti and the t hevery very father of our religious system god said unto him walk bofo before me aej and b be perfect and we have no accounts acco unto of any fault being found with yelth him for being a polygamist iacob xa jacob cob the nan man yaho who wrestled rith avith the a angel vf 61 and prevailed was wag a an and if it nad been beem wrong hedw fida how easy eusy it would have been for the angel to v sper indis in his ear now jacob before I 1 g 61 qu you byoir must give rive 11 ap three of those thomb omen oman 11 but he blessed b essed him there and bald aid ald nothing about it caleb the man of whom it is said he wholly flip folio illo tved pred tho thu the lord was david the theman man after goi got gods Is own heart who who made the law of god his bis meditation day gika nd nig njg ngit had a score of komeh w omen and we have no account of his gyer syer e ver being beins judged J ud ed for fon adultery except fa the case daso bf of bethi beth sheba another nian sr wife the e lle lie ile he bouret 4 contempt upon p princes dinces and them td wander in the wilderness where there is I 1 no way yet zetteth aier he the poop poon fon ron on high from f conr afflict affliction lort acci aad mm im families like a flack th the e ri shall see it and rejoice and all equity shall stop her mouth we have no account of christ or tor hial uial apostles ever eyer instituting grin or in any way polli pointing ting out lout a different differ eilt marriage lage system loah idah that thad which had been practiced fra from Lamech and abraham down we find also tuat moses made that tem hence we must necessarily boh conclude that a polygamous poly gamoua system Is all the system there t ere is s laid down in the scriptures st paul says in chis his epistle to timothy let a bishop or dr a deacon be the husband of one oue wife but he does not say how bow many alid aad he be does not say that john sm smith th or peter snyder may not have as aa man manx many as they rants tants yer yet fhe the stat states g today to da day y N we ve s eafrom ee from one fourth to one third of our women la in houses of bf I 1 ill lii fame farue another third refuse to obey gods command to tobe be fruitful and multiply then after theold the old oid maids as aa they are commonly called are subtracted tire tile other third it leaves a pe c e of r bomp si that are trying to perpetuate the human race if I 1 had dd a flock bf slice that did not do better than this I 1 sho should ul surely send them to the tho butcher and I 1 cant see how god caUlo it in any other light He here in the gallatin Gallat ln valley and it is a pretty good sample of the whole country there thene therel Js from one third to one tri ha hail half f of tha the married men who hay ellke elike mccarber McC awber grown thrown ray gray rny waiting waited x for something to turn up if they were to dieto die dle today to day their names would be buried with them tol tomorrow morrow to and their old coat boat and hat would be all th that would atwould be lef left t to tell teil that they ever had a bein heln being heing in the ele world not jchick or a child to tellin tell teli in years 5 ears to come the noble deeds of their cirps if things run ruri on inthis in this way a few years longer we will faveto have to depend an on utah to furnish population for the whole country the same as montana now f furnishes urnis hes bes the beef beet and brains As things now st stul stand stil IL if aman a man wants to obey gods godsho commands in raising d a family he hrs has gocpt got to pick them up wherever he can tind them and raise them on a bottle how some of the women of the present generation will be disappointed if th they ey shall at last be permitted to roam 1 midst the bowers and by the streams of heavens hea yens delightful shore to find that jesus had already prepared 1 the be crowns the harps and t the t e robes bior for tor their child children neif reif and their childrens children down to a thousand generations bought with his own f precious reci ous blood lood there are no children in hell no tuo little footsteps are ever heard no sweet little lullaby is ever sung in hell while mile of infant souls compose the family above c therefore that family or thid that t home that has hast no children in it is more like hell heil than tham heaven I 1 do not believe that any woman has a right to stand in t the I 1 way of her ller husbands raising children let her be barren or not poa I 1 believe it will be required of him at the judgment seat of christ A century has not I 1 passed since sinco the father of his country left the shores of time yet there is nothing left to tell that there ever eyer was such a man except the records of his acts the great orator and statesman da Daniel Webster lias has abotsi a single de wei Wel dant daut on earth parth to tot perpetuate mite urte his name namey the hamd I 1 think may be said of thomas he HP benton hebenton and ana a host hos of the noblest blood of our oun anyo mau malf who will refuse refuge to 16 perpetuate her husbands name deserves a hard time here and a hot time hereafter I 1 am acx afraid alu aiu that they study ledon leron the maglake marriage relation more edothe go zlia scriptures he teaches that it destroy the young but atit no harm barm in Ja taking preventatives luthere lV if there was a haagmans hang mans maas tree levery jevery nive five smiles i from east bast to west and from north to boutil south a and mersill all ali 1 the infanticides and child mur mar murderers e w wenel erel banger hangea mba th ere would not be ou one barren tree amongst them all and the bority of them would break down with their L hop ethe time will come when the woman that refuses to raise children to her hen husband uen her hen country aucher and her god willbe wui be banished to the dry Tortu as if they had done dofie their duty tiie Tire would be ar nation of a hundred millions today to day instead of nifty fifty mii millions and it athe the enemies of ofir country ever get the advantage of ti athey they will vill pethe herthe cause of it and yet et bellave them gadding around allover the country contending for the right to vote I 1 wonder tonder if that would make them anymore any more fruitful we milt try it itI a least east if some poor gir giri is led vay by her desire to ha have va cha children aldien a these hes bes e same worthy vort by dams would gd be the first to kick hd herout henout rout I 1 avon vonder vonden der which ia the purest in gods eyes that scriptures the teach polygamy is as pla pia plain into to me maas A that t they teach salva salvation tion by faith in the lord jesus christ I 1 would be willing to uey ber tried on that issue issues before a jury of school boys very small boys at that reason and tm the very beast bea stai of the field avill the present marri ageo ager system is unnatural and consequently it if some one should go aland write writa up the dissatisfactions ir the ule jenious jealous ys thenIs the miseries erie erle and the brutalities of the p present resent marriaga system it would throw mrs Stu houses tell it all into eter eteri 4 i nal nai shade if there is aloman in utah that lt it to be heibell her rell reli zious clous duty to remain in p poly oly i gainy tho Government th is bound to protect her in it and the power that world molest her would forbid the i baptist to practice immersion or tho methodist at odis oa o a t t ead his class meet meetings mee angi ingi The wina remay be bd same abuses under your system that you would do well to correct I 1 know nothing about you one iway ky oran otner do I 1 care bareto to know I 1 am a mem ber ben of the methodist ia lam iam certain that you have bhe one one ohe ldes ides that I 1 hope to seo see spread all over the country while there isz isa housa houm of in n our pur lanot kand I 1 shall shail in y yoni conr way while there a woman id lethe bhe the land that will not raise laise up children to her god and their country I speed speeds while there Is 14 an n old oid in the land I 1 shall set t preach it myself my sincere sincer e prayer to god is that heinal he luay inay purify you and multiply you and makei makes you a zealous of hood A C |
