| Show A distinction WITHOUT lout A D difference IV ferie ferle ch W of utah and editor of tile the wrote rote rotc only a short time ago that polygamy was as not an essential part of mormonism but apostle teasdale of the utah cueve seems to hold a contrary lom in a late discourse in the tabernacle salt lake city the apostle said I 1 dont go back on one principle of the gopel gospel I 1 believe belleve c in plural marriage as much as I 1 do in baptism for the remission of sins I 1 will not give gu c up one of my principles I 1 do not fear to face man As for sor god id fear to go behind the veil vell i eil ell and meet those tt who ho would ouid know I 1 had hid given up the tile first principle of the gospel I 1 bear testimony that plural marriage is 13 a necessity esit t the he church cant exist without it it is one of the landmarks of the tile church which is right the tile apostle or the church or organ gali gaia the foregoing is from the lamoni lowa loa iowa ioa 11 herald erald in the into inta rest of the I 1 josephites josephites i and edited by joseph smith the leader of that sect it is a piece of pettifogging characteristic of the editor and many of his followers they seem to delight in taking advantage of words containing apparent but lut not real discrepancies antt anet most of their content contentions ions lons 1 which are i very numerous among themselves th selves ar are c about verbal differences rather than essential principles they are also aiso very disingenuous often endeavoring to apply meanings to phrases used by their adversaries not intended by those who vilo uttered them dorwar nor warranted by the language it Is the same in tuis case the article in reference to polygamy made to do service in tile the above paragraph from the lamoni herald appeared in the DESERET eve EVENING ning NEWS of december jtb th 1881 not a very y short time a ago go I 1 but i tile the date late does not mot matter much we stated that correctly speaking polygamy is not now and never has h as beena been a tenet of the mori morl morman n an fa faith falth th our religious system of marriage is is different altogether from that which is known in tue world as polygamy this was avas said in answer to the asser tion of president arthur in his message to congress that polygamy was the corner stone htone of the mormon church we showed further that though our plural wife system tein has become an essential part of our faith it is not and has not been the corner stone of the church now wherein does this differ from the statement of elder teasdale we stated that plural marriage is lessen essential lie lle heald headid sald said it is a necessity in answer to the question which was right the apostle or the tile church organ we say and we think any person who understands plain langu language aar 2 and does not want to quibble ivill say sa Y both were right for both said the s same ame thin thing in different words but to make this matter still plainer and to close the mouths of car carpers and those who would make a man adof an offender fender for a word 11 we subsequently explained ully fully f the difference between poly polygamy amy and the mormon system of af pf plural ral rai marriage we defined bigamy and also polygamy the first is in the nature of fraud and deception from beginning to end the second is the mi marrying frying of several wives or husbands or unrestricted matrimony on the part of either sex this we showed is not mormon I 1 marriage even will which h signifies the marrying 01 of several wives we explained was not a proper term to use in reference to mormon matrimony celestial marriage is the correct term for it was established and is regulated administered and entered into under und er a celestial law revealed from hea heaven V en and is not to be compared with any system of asiatic or other p polygamy oli oil amy or practised practiced in the world wora all this we fully explained at the time but the lamoni lamori norald verald did not have the g grace r ace llor ilor the honesty to insert a W word vord rd 0 of f it because the object its in was to ft a conflict of statements between the tho NEWS and brother teasdale and any quotation of our article beyond the two timoor or three words cited would have been fatal to his strained and unwarranted inference but what can be expected of one who shuts his eyes to the most direct testimony on the question of his fathers teaching and practice of celestial marriage mar nage and who answers facts with suppositions and stern evidence with because in his own language he opre prefers f ers not to believe belleve |
