Show expressions FROM THE PEOPLE TIME THE JUDGMENT anti auti polygamy judgments reversed mans agency implies accountability obligation and duty are imperative in ia their demands as influencing his acts and conduct which must conform to the she requirements of duty to be justi asu fled duty implies law and a lawgiver and mans justification must be not only in his own eyes but in the eyes of the law to which he is obligated and for obedience or disobedience to which he must account to the lawgiver titis accounting for his acts must finally be to the great judge of all the earth whose judgment none can escape and the time thereof is called the DAY OF JUDGMENT now nov this judgment does not come to wan roan during his probation but after the period of his bis agency has ceased as it is for the acts and deeds per performed performer formea while exercising that agency that judgment is to be passed upon him therefore as written it is appointed unto all men to die and after death comes the judgment the apostle john informs us that the father gave eave authority to the son to execute this judgment and the hour would come when all who were in their graves should hear his voice and should come forth and all be judged of the son of man his former mission to earth was not oneff one of judgment and condemnation but a saviors mission one of mercy and truth and in this he was su dieme exceeding all understanding so much so that the wisest among men were filled with wonder and astonishment at his sayings and marveled at the wisdom of his words and the miraculous manifestations of his power this same jesus however who ascended irao into heaven it is written willi come in like manner as he went but in a very different character he comes then to execute justice and judgment to take vengeance on them that know not god nor keep his commandments mand ments now for this appointed time of judgment j which in the economy of god is fixed to be after and not net in the period of mans probation all must wait whether in their graves or out of theia their graves it matters not all will be summoned to appear at that tribunal at the bar ot of that great final judgment and before that judge 0 on a whose word the doom of eternity hangs 1 THE GREAT IMPORTANT QUESTION to bo be answered by all living and while living is am I 1 prepared for that awful sentence for the eternal justice which the law demands every man may ask and answer this question for himself hini self but I 1 propose to ask it in behalf of some other parties who are prominently active and find it if nos sible a satisfactory conclusion til this 1 tribunal alb u ual is one of last resort from it dihe there lre is no appeal and in taking our case there it is important that we understand something of the rules of the court in order to determine the probability of a successful hearing these rules have been enunciated by the judge himself and constitute the perfection of jurisa jurisprudence ru prudence dence no injustice can be lound loundro to attach to a sy system 6 so coil completely tte theological in all its divine appointments consequently we read as a rule of action do unto others as ye would that others should do unto you and again As yc have done unto others even unto t the ke e least oi ad these who are mine ye done it unto me these and corresponding rules thu the judge has himself declared he will pass final sentence with this fact in mind man need not go far in his j judgment edgr as relates to his bis acts with his fel low lowman nian we have the written statement of one very verv wise man brought up at the feet of dam gamaliel aliel and learned in the law t that hat he one once e verily thought he w was as doing god service when lie he went about hailing men women and children and committing them to prison but when the higher law was proclaimed to him he saw his error and turned from it to escape the consequences ot such a course we today to day in utah have A MOST FEARFUL exhibition of like madness judges prosecutors roseen borsi officials and deputies ang and a hor horde d e of adders and abettors abet tors doing the same thing hailing and committing men women and children to pr prison ilson all for conscience sake they do not like paul claim to be doin doing god service there is no god in it it is all for the ho honor norand and a applause i se of men it is the joining of ha hands p d with a corrupt partisan administration to sustain a most reckless and damnable policy of oppression OV towards a few who fear god and would do no evil cheh their work of which there are many witnesses is testified of before the great judge THE SENTENCE will be heard as already uttered as ye have done dene it unto one oi of these my disciples ye have done it unto me depart ye cursed the I 1 lie only defense that can be offered in that day is we did it to destroy what was to us an obnoxious system of marriage though claimed to be of divine origin but this defense will be of no avail when the judge shall answer know ye not the law which I 1 gave ve my I 1 commanded this th thing ag and j justified the fathers la in that wherein you condemn others who sent you to be 02 judge over my polygamous fathers of whose seed I 1 am and to whose race I 1 belong in me i is s the law fulfilled that the child shall honor the parent and my people of the last days whom you have so cruelly persecuted for honoring the fathers of my people and my law shall be crowned with an hundredfold of all you have wrested from them whether of wives or of child children renor or wealth of which they have been despoiled despoil od by bonds by flues fines and by imprisonment which they have endured for my names sake aake As ye have done it unto them ye have done it unto me I 1 I 1 I 1 courts here are run by those who have no sympathy with polygamy there the judge and his twelve associates who are arc to sit upon twelve thrones also to judge the twelve tribes of israel are all descendants of a polygamous race and of f fathers athers whose polygamous course will be honored in the fact of producing such illustrious judges as are to determine a worlds destiny polygamous sons w will be heard in that court and judgments of today to day will be reversed while those who have inflicted them will listen to a more awful sentence than they can give and will serve a much longer term of imprisonment in order to pay the uttermost farthing demanded as recompense ense then will god himself proclaim pl c aim 1 I am the god of abraham of isaac and of jacob they are not dead but living as it is written god is not net the god of the dead 17 these fathers for their reward of a right righteous eotis polygamous life have an innumerable seed and lives eternal their glory is secured and the highest honor will be to dwell in their presence as they do in ili the favor and presence of god but when we look in that day tor for the pharaohs Phara and judges who have afflicted poly polygamous amous israel in this world and iaal find them where abraham can neither go nor send because of that great gulf that lies between their cry for one drop of water with which to cool their parched tongue will not avail they may however er look and abd see him and his bis friends afar off enjoying good things while they are in torment with a Conscious consciousness of all their guilt upon them to aggravate their misery THE MISERY OF THE DAMNED this is no fancied picture never to be realized in the justice of god all wrongs must ba righted the oppressor will be punished the wicked must suffer the just penalty of sin rewards and punishments must muse follow a knowledge of the divine law that law is now proclaimed as upon the housetop house top no plea of ignorance can de be urged no transgressions can be excused the lord wall will not accept prostitution in place ot of pol polygamy amy where the latter prevails deate death only is an adequate penalty for the other let the wicked therefore forsake his way and the un nn man his for it is written I 1 the soul that kinneth it shall die sandwith and with what judgment ye j judge adge ye shall be judged 11 the servants 0 of f god are being judged without the least mercy or discretion the law is not antly rigid and severe to satisfy the hate of cf those who execute it most ingloriously and to the shame of a great nation to the disgrace of civilization and the reproach of all honorable men god the father whose children we all are will judge between man and aad man and reward every one acco according arding to his works the en end d near afien violence r shall ha no more be heard in the land the promise is sure S W K R |