| Show GENTILIS 31 NOT emor CMOR zionism 31 tile trin revolting crime which has made such a sensation in this neighborhood during the tho past few days Is something of a novelty in utah seduction and abortion are foreign to the sentiments and practices of the great body of the people of this territory the report of such a case as that which has come to light Is horrifying to this community the mormons cormons Mor IMor mons are vehemently opposed to any sexual intercourse outside of the marriage relation and to the destruction of human life total or matured sexual sins they look upon with the utmost aversion and count them as capital crimes the church of jesus christ of latter latten day da y saints has always inculcated chastia chastity and classed it among the essential virtues and its written standards as well as its living oracles have ever denounced noun ced in he the most positive lang language aage I 1 any departure from the law which forbids illicit sexual relations latterly president john taylor has been more than usually outspoken against licentiousness lasciviousness and all those offenses against god and his church which tend to pollute the polson poison the fountains of lifshe has proclaimed the rule that the adulterer and the seducer hhall bhail not be permitted to enter the temples of the lord nor have a standing in I 1 n the church of christ behas he has repeatedly warned the bishops and others in charge of the saints in an organized capacity against permitting persons guilty of unchaste conduct to partake of the blessI blessing of the house of the lord and made them responsible responsible sible sibie for the rooting out of iniquity reston ty in their several fields of labor the leading elders ot the church have supported the president in the stand he nas has taken on this question and the rule has been established and enforced that no person who has committed adultery after receiving the covenants of the lords house shall be permitted to remain in or reenter re enter the church foeticide yoet Foet icide and infanticide are regarded by this church as murderous and inexcusable those who are cuilty guilty of such crimes cannot have place among the latter day saints this has bee been n announced by the highest authora authority t y in the church and it is well understood as the wora word of the lord those aho vho who assist in or help to cover u up such iniquities unties 1 I 1 become parties to the S sin n and will share in its responsibilities and douse consequences ances such of fences against god an and society cannot be viewed with the leat least degree of allowance they are to be shunned and contemned contemn ed by all right thinking people and must be looked upon waltg with abhorrence and abiding disgust b by y every one professing to be a latter litten day da y saint the necessity for the positive and outspoken tea teachings chinis which have been delivered at the general conferences during the past year or two I 1 has arisen from the introduction into t this his territory of persons from abroad who have brought with them usages and customs which prevail r evall evail among professedly respectable spec table tabie e people in the united states and in europe and aud which are winked at if not encouraged by so called ministers of religion as well as by many medical practitioners the greatest opponents of the system of marriage which god has revealed to the latter latte r day saints alemany of them ahemad advocates of very limited responsibilities this is quite natural it Is the le legitimate iti itt outcome of their theories T they hev are opposed to family increase and anh therefore seek to check it in their own experiences they array themselves a against a ast gods law for the multiplication t ti li cation catlon of his children on earth and become subject to that influence which leads to destruction the work of delty deity delt Is to llev elop life the work of the evil one Is to destroy and bring down to i death deaths that the men and women who adopt the suggestions of satan and destroy human life in embryo or prevent its inception cep tion should make war upon the cterne god given ven yen system of present and eternal increase is not to be wondered at it is as consistent as it is devilish the athe case which has caused such painful interest Is not an outgrowth 0 etli of mormonism as some disingenuous I 1 persons e Is ons wish to make appear it is antagonistic to mormonism in eve eye every sense of the word it Is one of a kind ki common in the civilized worlds there such things are also condoned seduction Is among the practices called sowing wild oats the se ducer dueer unless his ylie vile acts produce a scandal that cannot be winked at is not shunned in high society but the fast young manly man is often lionized and admired abortion has an ugly sound and when it is exposed is openly condemned and yet reputable physicians admit that it is widely practised practiced and thattie that they are frequently beset by ladies of standing stank stany ingin in church churchard chur chand and soc society gety fety for aid in the accomplishment of thedell the hellish purpose of destroying their own imperfectly developed offspring these are arc gentile not mormon sms sins mormon women are vulgar enough to have harfe large families they are simple enough to think that bearing children is a duty and a privilege they are so old fashioned and unsophisticated as to believe that children area are a blessing an and d the more mote children the more ble bie blessings ss mormonism mormonism teaches that good men under certain regulations may have more wives than one but that intercourse with the opposite sex outside of the marriage relation is a deadly sin and that the practices of in seducing women and destroying ying the consequences of such ini famy are damnable and hell deserving and not to be condoned or excused or palliated pallia ted with the introduction of christian civilization into utah has come the long train of bylls which mark its progress all over the world drinking saloons gambling dens the bro brothel thel the assignation house the arts of the libertine the drugs of oi the abortionist he ac appliances of surgical and medical science for the prevention and destruction of f fontal foetal aeta oeta lite ilfe the nostrums strums no for the cure care of secret diseases and implements to aid indulgence in impure desire and protect toe debauchee from the consequences thereof they have had a very slow growth in this community because the spirit andreach and teachings and tendencies of he faith of the great body of the people are so diametrically and powerfully opposed to them but they are here I 1 and they have their advocates and ana supporters and the effects thereof begin to appear let it be known and understood t thal that ha this church and its authorized exi exl exponents 0 are uncompromisingly ut at enmity with such influences measures and practices and all who aid and abet them I 1 we despise them as the th e very portals of hell we have no fellowship tor those who countenance them or seek to cover them up or save the perpetrators thereof froid from the just penalties for their diabolism noia nola no man n or woman can retain the tile spirit of god or a real standing in his hla church who revels in these iniquities the thy child murderer is guilty of innocent blood infanticide is murder Is a crime in the same category death deatha produced by drugs Is just the same jn in effect and intent as death by any one who thinks to the i contrary Is blind and self deceived i the deep damn damnation atLon ot of the cowardly wretches who blot out the lives of unborn innocents no pen can picture they are fit to become angels to the devil for their crime is devilish woe be unto them who dabble in these pools of pollution I 1 their unseen sins cannot remain concealed that which has been done in secret will be revealed upon the tile housetops it will cry aloud in the ears of the universe and will sound their death knell kneil in the day of eternal justice the curse ot god will blight the hands that prat prad practice tice this infernal infamy and every kingdom of glory will close its gates against the souls that are dyed with this crimson shame while outer darkness will be their doom and misery be I 1 their portion let the latter day saints beware of the insidious and satanic influences of civilized and shun even the appearance of evil they have come out from among them now let them be entirely separate and touch not the unclean thin thing I 1 |
