Show A nie METHODIST OX ON TIIE tile mar RELATION III HE CROWDS A HEAP OF TRUTH INTO A SMALL SPACE BOZEMAN BoZ eman EMAy M T december 2 1884 editor deseret ams wms through the kindness of some of your good mormon women I 1 received a couple of little mormon b books 0 a tew few weeks ago they are the fir first t mormon works thai that I 1 ever read I 1 was not a little sur surprised I 1 sed while reading mrs Croc herons 49 representative women of deseret to find that so many of your mormon women were fromnes from new england where wisdom is supposed to have originated from the stories that we commonly hear of the ignorance an of th the mormon women I 1 had almost made u up p my mind tha that they must have come irom from some place where they keep kee the run of the day of the week by cutting ng a notch on a stick every I 1 morning but I 1 find that some of them have even come from boston the hub of the universe so you can plainly see that it has not been the reading of i mormon books that has shaken my f faith alth in the PRESENT MARRIAGE SYSTEM I 1 am a methodist of the third generation still when the methodist discipline does not give me the right to think for fon myself I 1 generally fall back onto the constitution of the united states I 1 always liked the idea of running 3 ningon on an independent line but for the the sast past twenty ye years ars at least I 1 have trie tried to make the bible the man of my coun counsel seland and whatever opinions I 1 ma I 1 have on this subject I 1 am indebted to ta in my bible bibie for them and the more carefully f I 1 examine into this matter the more firmly am I 1 convinced that a polygamous system of marriage is taught in the scriptures I 1 cannot see h how 0 any one with a mind that he can call his own can arrive at any other conclusion and if we should lay the scriptures aside all together reason of itself is sufficient to teach us ns that the present monogamous system Is unnatural if I 1 should commence to tell of some of the elili resulting from that marriage system I 1 could astonish some of the lecturers that are arc now roaming over the country stalking tso eso lo 10 loudly dl against the mormons cormons Mor mons 19 13 19 and ana R if there is as much misery and wretchedness in utah as there is on the outside I 1 pray god to have mercy on the mormon i 11 the country is flooded with lecturers on the mormon question at present to hear them talk one would naturally suppose that they had bad VIRTUE RUNNING TO WASTE 1 they I hey talk both long and loud of the evils oi of a polygamous system of mar biag they paint virtue in the most glowing colors they talk of purity with tears in their eyes and notwithstanding all this if some one should onn off onner offer er a dollar a pound for virtue they furnish an ounce for the market they find themselves just where the old oid doctor did when someone some one asked him if a diploma af after ter studying study inga a moment he replied well no I 1 guess not but I 1 have every other 3 yarb arb that grows in the garden ay it if people were willing to DISCUSS tuis als MATTER CALMLY and dispassionately they would soon see that the polygamist has the inside track but they wont boult do that if one merely mentions the matter to them they generally fly into a rage and begin to cry you you yon lustful lecherous latter day saint or something of that sort I 1 generally get even with them by simply asking them it they are virtuous that seems to be a deadener adener dc on most of them I 1 nave have always thought that in order to be a successful preacher of virtue a man mau ought to be very sure that he has a good supply for himself and perhaps a little f for or the public I 1 often hear christians tell of the joy and bliss they expect to feel when they get to BOSOM I 1 dont suppose that they have ever stepped peI pel to think that sarah kiturah Ki anu anti hasar will be there also jacob leah rachel and the two handmaids hand maids I 1 have an idea they will aeve jave to change their minds before the wt ret to abrahams bosom or they a reliable to become dissatisfied with the country after they get there and ture tere will be only one thin thing left for thin to do that mat is to take horace Gre greelis Gr elys celys advice and go west 11 west when the affairs of this world are all s WOUND UP when all tongues shall assemble for the great coronation of the kin kins of kings and lord of lord lordi it does not seem to me that it would be just right to have abraham jacob and all the polygamists of old there and at the same time have the mormons cormons shout out for the crime of polygamy t am going to be thre there my self god being my helper and if I 1 find lind that state of things there you may look for me to come to the door of that great banqueting hall and cry cry at the top of my voice let every kindred lindred every tribe on this terrestrial ter estrial ball to him all majesty ascribe and crown him lord of all oh that with yonder sacred throng we at his feet may fall come join the everlasting song gong and crown him lord of all ali yes come alongie along we wont h have ave 4 any too much music on 0 n that occasion with wit alli alii the mormons cormons on the inside there seems to be something in poly polygamy that some at least are afraid of I 1 1 teli teil them that I 1 have never lost any sleep on account of it tile the fact of the business Is the idea is too big for their heads it is like trying to get a number eight foot into a number five live boot but the time has come when we 0 have got to swallow that idea or send our bibles to china butas but AS for me I 1 shall not give up mine precious bible how I 1 love iove loe ioe it I 1 shall keep leep it to the end for in it I 1 nind find salvation from the sinner binner sAying ayin friend oh I 1 how precious oh how precious no sow on jesus to depend yours truly A C reeves reems |