Show BLUE lam bam LAWS chronicles CHAPTER charter 9 behold a great man many years ears cars ago upon a certain land th there dwelt a certain pe people ciple a people very zealous yea so zealous that they did worship god as they chose and sought to make every one else do so likewise and they did form what is called a commonwealth yea and they did say we are now colia colla biting and dwelling I 1 together thue therefore fore we will enact decrees fonto Forto for to maintain peace and union a decent government should be established and our decrees shall be in con the gospel which we profess sg 4 and after this manner did they reason together for they were an upright people and had ad suffered much because k of their righteousness therefore they desired others to suffer tha that were not upright even to make them become upright therefore they were a straight peo i pie in their walk yea they walked so straight that they leaned over backwards C and it came to pass that they did de fine what was lawful and what was unlawful and there were many things un on lawful in those days yea it was not ot lawf lawful al to chaw chew tobacco until the chewer was twenty f one years oid old told yea and in order to n chew acceptably i one must receive a license from the court for the same neither was it lawful to use strong water in the way in which many sought to use it and in so doing they were in danger of having a lock upon the leg nay it was not lawful to utter strange speech nor to wonder dor strange wonders and many things were dei creed that seem strange to us in our m day nevertheless wonders never cease for though thought tho we dwell in a great day f wherein there is much greatness mani mant tested bested behold old things are being re for fori say sayi our greatt men behold are we not of the seed of the puritans 4 therefore we will walk in their footle steps and even as they in their day I 1 enacted strange decrees even so we ve in our lay day who hath power will enact decrees that will wil ibe the strange yea acain in n that the puritans were they living would hide bide their faces im Ini shame for is not this an age of wonder an age a ge of enlightenment and an age of great progress and again are not aurl acts open to the eurid M we mean not our secret acts yea we are arc morally inclined we have much fervor for religion I 1 we incline to walk straightly therefore we are a pattern and we desire all men to pattern after us and inasmuch as they pattern not after us we will make decrees yea and they shall be strenuous for the things lin I 1 m the past that we did are only a foretaste of that which is in the f future we must pursue the course we have purposed for the end justl justI fleth fieth the means 6 yea were it necessary for our salvation for our cause is one of purity in to intent we could enact decrees something in this wise whoso choso upon a woman and lonseth to marry her hath already committed matrimony with herin her in his heart and if he be a married man already be he hath committed cohabitation and shall be punished again it shall not be lawful to desire to marry when yc ye are in a sinful state and ye shall snail not believe in this thing else ye can in no wise enter into citizenship zen ship for verily this plurality must be stopped and whoso choso keeneth pigs s and chickens must from henceford hence henceforth fori pair them off male and female for was not this pattern set us in the days of noah yea the animals should be held in subjection lest they do commit sin neither shall the fowls in the air nor the fishes in the sea be permitted to offend our moral sense neither shall shail it be lawful to teach nor to expound this doctrine in all this broad land for whoso choso any of our decrees others so to do shall be in of the judg 3 ment but whoso choso veth all of 01 our ar decrees and tea cheth others so to do shall be c great in our estimation ag again ain aln whosoever shall seek to hide his plural wife when the de deputy auty hunleth for her shall be in danger da nger ager of contempt e and any plu piu plural ral rai wife that to hide to evade the giving of her mony at our comm command and shall likewise be in contempt yea all men and some women shall from this time forth be closely watched for it is only nece S sary that ye surmise that a wom woman an bo be f married when ye shall straightway take her before the commissioner for unto this end do we employ deputies that they be extremely vigilant in this thing else they shall not receive their shekels shekels ifor for be it known it is only for the people who call themselves saints that these thin things are intended yea they are they who are vile but un unto to those who are one with shall be unto them the law of libert ilbert liberty y H yea ea 1 they may have women not a f few t P 10 for tor r they have them not as wives yea v they may use much strong vater for 8 strong wate water r strength eneth their nerves when they go 0 upon perilous journeys to serve yea if it they chew tobacco or smoke it with much smoke they shall be guiltless for ye not that these things bilings shall a a not be counted as sin unto them and many more things of a like nature may be decreed to td come forth in id the latter days even so much so that all the sinful may be punished have we not already chastened chasteney chast ened this people in missouri and illinois yea with a grievous chastisement insomuch that we did drive them from kneir homes yea we sought their lives and took many we caused their houses to be consumed with consuming fire lire yea their dumb brutes ws we w e caused to bo be put to death lest jest they partake of the tsie ways of the people and our purpose Is relentless lent less and great are we therefore in this thin thing we are merciful yea our mercy rs is not strained after the tiie order of Ha hades desfor for behave the tile milk of human kindness largely in our bosoms therefore while our charity last tb ith these sinners in biers may y come into our rold iad I rad ad yea verily verity we wait with anxious care for fon them to repent and this is a day of warning unto them but inthey if they harden their hearts and still hold out scenes of old shall be renewed unto them yea yen ins in much that their houses shall be mad made unto cunto them de desolate solite yea until there shall be none of them left to pollute our moral sense for we are arc backed by ministers by lawyers by doctors by the houses of lawmakers law makers and by the king himself not forgetting the I 1 judges all of which shall surel surely y come to pass for we are firmly purposed in this thing thi therefore ere fore be ye warned in time and repent before it is too late for these things will be recorded in the blue laes laws when they are formulated but there is no god iii in this thin thing and we f fear ear car not to offend ills his people yea and many more mure wicked things do they purpose to carry out but the wise will not nat be shaken in the knees they will wait walt p patiently for their deliverance for it will speedily piedt come and they will inherit the land and will continue to honor god and keep ills his statutes for the time of the end cometh even so amen |