| Show WE NM here are adew a few thoughts suggested upon beading Yea eadi ding niB the report ol of go governor baor bests visit to the penitentiary yester yesterday 1 i I 1 1 11 j i 4 1 religion Eel irion while very widespread wide spread throughout christendom has 1 but a hold upon spoil the people cology to flay certainly i not enough to influence men and romeu to make any great sacrifice to maintain any of at its principles the material out of which martyrs are made cannot 4 he faung found among the modern christians itis t Is fashionable tobe to be lt a church mem member berand and with but few exceptions the contributions in money and landt time ivae made by good chris toan aa peb ale are more or less boverly speaking aUng like bank pe det I 1 posits oal s to be drawn on i needed for far like a bank account the heavier it is the more extended the influence there ire are thousands of professed prof eased christians today who atko are such from purely business motives to be a church member especially ally a fashionable one means more business means meana more moneymore money more money means mo more influence and to be wealthy is the acme 01 the fians ambition as well as the who sees other roads to wealth then than what he would term themore the more tedious christian paths baths thereto I 1 I 1 THE TRUE POSITION tae lattur day d saint is made of alto altogether ethea different ferent if material the first act 0 0 nearly neaily every true saint gaint was an act of and aua up to the p present abent he continued has to make sacrifice ii ce andaas and has thus prepared himself to endure whatever pay may n be necessary to further maintain tho the principles inci ples he ae has ha espoused Aliea already dills his religion has cost the loss losi of ef his dearest darest friends the los nis ills earthly air in comein some in stances ep map many y times ay over er ile he hasen dure dured moann in 0 loin g pa cical torture imprisonment ai an and a eath death d rather than yield his is firm convictions his children are imbued with tow sime seiw spirit many times ti M es intensified and W 1 ill prison and if needs be to d death eliar rather than yield to the popular clamor of fifty millions or even one thousand millions of people the T he people who feel most kindly toward us cannot understand why V we are so persistent in continuing practices that are so distasteful to the world orld at large and reason as did our governor in his remarks to apostle etow that you are suffering and causing others to suffer and you are injuring tha prosperity of jhb territory and all for aad j you yon cannot accomplish com anything by it they cannot appreciate our feelings our fath nor our knowledge in n relation to the practice of this athis principle of plural parri marriage age they wu will not believe belaev e god has spoken comman commanding diAll us qs to observe ve this anis law in addition to the revelation on celestial marriage to be found in the bk bick of doctrine and Cov covenants enano I 1 will wil quote the prophet joseph smiths words spoken by himself a few weeks previous to bis is death speaking ia in reference to SOW some conspirators who had banded themselves together to destroy him and those who adhered to hiu headd he aid they accuse me of polygamy of belg being a false at se prophet and abid many other th things S which do not now remember but bu irl I 1 am no false fa Js e maui no im t haye had a J I 1 no dark revelations revel ationo t hoye haye gotten up nothing lipchin of myself the same god who has t thus up far dictated me and ened me in 14 thi this W qa gave me this revl revelation atiq a and al commandment in on celestial and aln plural mafrige mar Lri ige and the same god commanded me aio to obey it hp he said tome to me that chat agless f J ace accepted apted it t and introduced it and practiced it I 1 together with my people would ae be damned and cut 01 off from this time cimei 11 i 1 s we I 1 have kot got to observe it ii it is ts an eternal principle and aas was given by way of cowman commandment nt and by way of in ww amy ah er oi of eq equal 4 importance r e lou touching ching upon t this 14 principle mig might s be quoted but tl this i enough lor for ther resent present we hova hav received this rev revelation aaion as a command fron god we d I 1 A no ask nor for il 11 awe we belleve aleve it avit all aur oar hearts we know that 0 our justification carion toda today to da day and our eternal glory hereafter ef eater depends upon apon our observance of this law because of this principle of at our aily holy r religion many oens of us have hav eaken aken more tha than one ot of the daughters of live eye to wife and they vave have become our alyea bara nse of their 41 faith th JIB n this law of god clr set hear entwined around each coph ot other pr we b haye 1 11 V entered into an ets eternal nai compact 8 sealed 12 Leby by a holy marriage aap covenant reach reaching log into the w worlds that are re yet to cyme P e 1 ck children ildren feasts like olive p plaats have sprung sprang up tip around 4 making the bond more complete and binding you now ask us to break these bonds sever these ties annul this eternal compact by cashing off toese loving wives and ignoring these tender buds of promise fobbe tor be it remembered the cows construction que tion of the court is PM hat s uch such women are concubines and luch uch children are bastards and consequently in law cannot be recognized i deeply Wee we reply ply ask us something ria more humane ne something that does not outrage our man manhood hoop and we will consider it talk no louger longer about the majesty of the law while it bristles all over with indignity oppression injustice and downright down iowa right wickedness mormonism with this important principle plural marriage included stands un untouched touche 14 0 to oday though every conceivable weapon has been hurled at it with the greatest ea est aaa precision sion and that at too coutino continuously usla aai and d yom from every nar ery for lif one eha half ll 11 I 1 of a a century continue to administer and execute this cruel and unjust law etli le utmost severity possible and we w wall ill be compelled to endure it as best we may mayl because to give ive iio up that which is dearer to te us than life life a principle n cl le of 0 our ur h noly oly r religion 6 li gi 0 al t to 0 abandon a aud outcast cast om off our loving wives and help helpless leal children chilom vo we cannot we d dare not INTEGRITY SaI fLake city may 1 |
