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Show DISCUSSION BETWEEN PRATT AND ORSON PROF. POLYGAMY. ON for sound J. they DISCUSSION. DAY'S SECOND ARGUMENT OF LADIES ME3SRS. UMPIRES AND against therefore. fell and do his duty; of the utmost and me, to right, by to it did 1 the but best that this have n importance should respectable, ao not by ability. of my audience, clear of was under desire 1 now before answers I xx from their own had states that her mother, they. families more, the Mormons as binding. the called "Mor page 56 of his work Bolton and Mr. married a woman Jr., a do you or that which you keep God's law, through His servant Moses. literal two sisters, here means not this: another if it sisters; and, whereas, the that brother «Didn't was married!" Boaz. The divine gate of appear the at but yet that required law to city before the shall this marry rael children already, to that that general, is one unto be take wife I this law, judge that laid down, I shall is said a man he went CONVENIENT. BIBLE Pratt and was sanctioned -not it was prove a by was God by thousand practised evidences by ancient Is days, would that ancient in of by the best Bible, old patriarchs, in the cob and others, have right no commands law because the practised extensively mentioned the are who saved practise to Moses yields the point! I why has he in all that clever book, the Seer, attempted he did because know him, ask writings, and We this is if especially that prove to of, Ja it." respectfully his not we it, men Abrabam and Kingdom of God. they position, Then of the in because it his etc. another," then it? and I should practise By no means. that you any reason must get a command independent of that, which we bave repeats Ilis commands, and received. God frequently His servants are required to obey Ilis commands when they are Saints in this Territory practise poly The Latter given. there which "Neither ber, We because he either marry her or say that he was disqualified the proof in was already a married man; and there is no than this, old Bible that Boar had been married; nay, more that the reason why historian, asserts Josephus, the Jewish did not marry Ruth was thathe hnd a wife the near kinsman to divorced be busi- and he after second wife. "Supposing that we should from tho Bible, that polygamy man should elders, the and it; 27, admits, mark you, admits that none of these together, in this can afford passages, nor all of them day a Gives it up! warrant for the practice of polygamy. Turos his own words: I will read to you- from the Bible aside! have not the was that do to a Professor I will kingman. whether the know Boaz took THE Take was he near is ed another asked is It that demands and a of and Mormon great the right a Bible she speuk kinsman near nes3 God's is bad and law? Certainly Tamar. of near kinsman, "There Boar soya, Boaz, her. Nay, more than and, whereas, Ja law. 29 given me say case to Davis Mr. a family Evidently the preservation inheritances. And now I challenge the this married her could not have been a married man, because Then take the case of Ruth. had to wait until he grew up. afar off beyond her noble Mahlon lost You know how shel and goes returned to Bethlehem, she Jordan, and sha'l they and of the instance, For object the is gentleman to bring forward 21 solitary instance in obey this law. where a married man was compelled to That wickedness: i3 of said it is it What thing practices. verse, al and one is Moses 14th chap. and Ilyde, Nay, of for Mr. sisters, and that three married n question is, I.3 married the same If the number. this of Moses obeyed here or not! and supposing the law a means two literal sisters, gentleman can prove that the text and two literal sisters are married here, then I afürm that to It so and the the inform clear is John us that Sharkey attentive definite and terms of the question; the that I had gentleman to and, which he adduced to the passages them then. hour, I would have produced standing that neglecting his prohibition law sisters; not are who a woman and her daughter; that Captain Brown married of the viola These are illustrations her two daughters. tion of the law. More than this, Leviticus xviii, 18, prohib informs its a man from murrying (wo sisters; yet Mr. Ilyde to complain gentleman me the understand yester arguments adduced n his Scriptural I did not answer him. llo, the responsibility is upon did not, If I day. defined and analyzed should have the affirmative, being in to do that. It, but he failed under debate; question the I the take a wife and with fire, both ho and Yet Mr. monism," GENTLEMEN: AND receive And if a man bo burnt NEWMAN. J. P. DR, not do wives agree that a another thing. is not Leviticus in two will jurists do or do NEWMAN. P. take to permission 8 DR. man a AUG. TRIBUNE. LAKE SALT 2 in prac the two married tice of polygamy right from the Bible? was Why did he at CAPTIVE doctrine that Ged worked a miracle on Leah and Rachel CONCERNING WOMEN. with me in the it in his controversy New York Herald? tempt Now and, whereas, it is hero said that they might have children; and 18th 17th afternoon. Wby has be attempted it from this stand! Why not.like a man, Mr. Pratt refers me to Numbers xxxi, hare something to do this regard so also were were of polygamy, miracles an approval this the said system here, not be to original manuscripts, in remark A passing cone out and saydidthat we practise the Divine verses: miracles an approval of incest; if it be true that God sanctioned it; not because law You sit such prophets: cause the Jews or written by Moses, or Joshua, and kill overy two wives, at Jacob having Now, therefore, kill every male among the little ones, certain inan it years ago; but because a the head to did not express disapproval name of Smith to a friend; you take it into your letter man by lying with him. disapproval of his having two sisters; woman that hath known down to did he express of was to be a revelation that this form marriage letter; the originaldraft you care | neither received that hare not known a man by lying with But all the women copy that letter; you copy that silence in the one case is an offset to him, therefore the divine friends, can see the logical conclusion, or keep alive for yourselves.. to the the flames. practised! You. my it is given nothing about,-whether silence in the other case. Even you are driven in other the illogical bearing. Now, I come to the as the divine words, polygamy. tables of stone on which the passage has nothing whatever to do with I about the two This care What this conclusion, either to my interpretation of this passage by the gentleman. the sumptions of this military expedition that I have a written. so true copy It is an account of the i esults of law was original shall n take wife, -two ofthe another is correct,- -neither man I will de of a portion regard to Eve. the Midianites; their slaughter PRATT'S ASSUMPTIONS. one in Mother Jewsagainst PROF. word law ? And now admit that this passage means two liter wives, or you must If the Fall came by the influence and their reduction of the remainder to slavery--name people or forbidding poly fend the venerable woman! that there is no law condemning First, in violation of' God's and in either case you live al sisters, dwells happened to upon thirty for domestics. My friend man, what would have ly the women woman over one that? of one gamy. llas he proved Second, that the lebrew nation, friend to choose which for distinguished It is my law. What were these had More, ifone more thanone wife? it the I two thousand women that were saved! was in the wilderness, world if Adam had when the Mosaic code was given, thank 08 him for the com horn of the dilemma he pleuses. two and a-balf the world, then people numbering the Jewish nation--a Ilas be Can he find in the among I a proved that? woman, under monogamy, brought woe into here as he paid me, philanthrop was -that came pliment the lie Virgin the blessed Mary, brought time they left monogamist, from the whole history of the Jewish nation for these dear men millions? a in heart ist. I only kindness my have verse. I xxi, 10-13th think they are Aly Deuteronomy into the world; even! deemer lIe quotes 40 Egypt to the time they entered the land of Canaan, can he had womeu; and not this kindness filled my heart; and the any supposes that Almighty might have created more than one instance of polygamy? Perhaps be can find friend iron, civil law, could have re When thou goost forthito war against thine enemies, and the Lord thy find 1 believed in o crushing, and thou hast taken them I will be glad to receive that information, for I am a hath delivered them into thine hands, number of women out of Adam's ribs; but Adam had not ribs God two. the truth But 1 come here believing poly mained in Washington. against captive, to day throw down a challenge My friend speaks seeking light: and enough to create fifty women. the privi woman, and hast a desire man itis Jesus, and I am glad to say that I have the captives a beautiful seest And among than one. as more than two or right of woman to have more husbands your eminent defender of the faitb. to produce andry, wouldst have her to be thy wife; lege of speaking what I believe to be God's truth in your unto her, that thou bring her home to thine house; and she shall share instances of polygamy Sci from the time the Jews left the land of of progeny. Theu thou abalt Ile bases his argument upon the increase hearing. Canaan. I will assist bim in her head, and pare her nails; Egypt to the time they entered that where polygamy or polygyny, or a plurali ence affirms shall and And she shall pat the raiment of her captivity from off her, research and tell him one, and that was Caleb. Now, there is a tendency to a preponderance big fall of wives provails, 3 OF PRIMOGENITURE. remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her motherhusband, LAW should be committed in your that a murder city, the other, either male or her supposing of one sex over unto her, and be or predominance month: nud after that thou shalt go in would it be fair for Eastern papers to say that the Mormons female, which amounts to an extermination of the race. The gentleman quoted Deuteronomy xxi, 15-17, which is and she shall be thy wife. No, I would rise up in defence of the people? and is of designed to preserve the treatment are 8 murderous B the law of primogeniture, This passage is designed to regulate to the I would say that that is a crime and an injury I.A W SANCTIONING POLYGAMY. for a wife, woman desires her you: NO GENERAL of by the who descent property: conqueror captive Yet, during a period of forty here! years we And one people do it to than bas beloved, aud another batod, and they the gentleman's and has no more to do with polygamy will reply, in due time, to remarks 111 If a man have two wives, one millions practising poly. out of two and a half of people is said about aud if the first Inan children, both the beloved and the theft or Not solitary word eg borno him murder. and with other Scriptural characters, have regard to Gideon and gamy, and my friend comes forward and assumes that the 13hated: hors that wasthe born is that the man is married, no mention made or what is known a3 the regard to prostitution, he polygamy, maketh his song to inherit that which raelites pecially in were polygamists. Then it ball bo, when that where we find jurist will agree with o every me therefore given to regulate But first, was the object of the gentleman among them social evil. hath, that bo may not make the son uf the beloved fi.at-born before Third, that tbese laws were or by the may enactment of the hated, which is indeed the firat-boru: a"general law we judge n special was to discover u already existing. Ilas he proved that? It general law for the sanc institution Suppos yesterday an of the hated for the firat-born, by the son But beshall acknowledge 1 ganio fundamental principle. tion of polygamy. Did he find that law? deny it. prove that Moses attempted, or did legislate for ing he could giving him a double portion of all that he bath: for ho is the beginning as it did exist in of his strongth: the right of the first-born is bis. Egypt and else the regulation of polygamy, SEDUCTION AND RAPE. LAWS CONCERNING legislation establish a sanction? 18 LAW? would such Wby, in Why, he first assumed the where, flow did he apply this law? xxii, 10-17 and lIe quoted Exodus Deuteronomy xxii, 28 Paris they have laws regulating the social evil; is that an ap wilderness, the in the the legislative will; law is the of polygamy among Jews is the of prevalence expression Law There are laws in most of the States families and 29: proval of the social evil? as ltis the law of and then said the law wag made for polygamous manner in which A11 act is performed. excise Do and controling intemperance. laws regulating lie says an lie It is "inasmuch polygamy with her, be tend centre. woll as for monogamous. gravitation that all things to a common Aud if man entice h maid that is not betrothed, and intemperance? Nothing of kind. sanction the For ar in the law of God, hur to be his wife. fan-like leaves is we are entitled to el:all surely endow law in botany that the flowers open their nowhere condemned the money that Moses If her father attorly refund to give ker unte him, he shall pay gument': sake, I would be willing to concede to polygamists." But I have of' this law as the kisses night. app'ying to the light, and close them beneath construe arrording of virgins. to the dowry that is to regulate it, to did legislate in regard to polygamy. xviii, 18, i3 a positive probibi that Leviticus defining how the citizen Simply shown already What i3 the civil law! its evils; and yet my friend is too much of a legislator is said: conÎne therefore, Deuteronomy it this passage be inter In must Simply defining the tion of this law, and, should act. What is the moral law that laws regulating and to and assert defining I stand here that which I have quoted. propose to crect virgin, which is wot betrothed, and lay pro Laws are mandatory, preted If o man find a damsel that is conduct of God's moral subjects. to -day, were an approval of a system. every lie with her. and they be found; and try scriptural hold on her, and should be done; balance argument and permissive: commanding what the hibitory men. applying to all Fourth, that these laws were general, the man that lay with ber shall give unto the damsel's father Then which he has produced in the scales of justice. what permitting what prohibiting should not be done, and Ilas be proved fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled that? I proved to the married aud unmarried. a to God's solemn law, Neither shall you -' produc 1 have recited And yet, where has the gentleman her, he may not put her away all his daya. to day. showing that in the passages which he quoted may be done. contrary I in ed this general law, which he spent an hour searching friend appeared to confound these two laws as if they man take one wife unto another:" and will try every pa3 remote intimation that the men were there is not a solitary spent an hour here that My friend yesterday remember this law but the first is the law of And then must sage by this law. reference to the same crime; for yesterday? married. bad law; a minute I a in seeking a general in general seduction, gave you the was the law polygamy! Perhaps it is not necessary to repeat while second of rape. In both sanction LEVITICUS XVIII, 18: THE GREAT ORGANIC LAW. friend. How natural is this suppoeition that where a his victim; but in our definition of the word sunction." My learned law. cases the defiler was required to marry opposition these that he love the last & let us, in to wives in succession, assumptions, remember me as to the definition may would Now, have respect, has two if the father of the seduced girl for whom agrees with case of seduction, the than I believe that it is that by God in the innocence of better the first; and monogamy was established a little common not solitary then the usual for the of that terin, therefore we need spend consent to the marriage, sum not and that polygamy, like idolatry the first. of the and. human race, out. here to love the last a little better than And further these two points. should him and the was touching of a virgin be paid offence ment dowry drunkenness, and | is the father blood revenge. murder, came into for the wife to infuence slavery, nature it second vital point in to the how natural There is another reference But In that case what wus the penalty of rape? expiated. it existence after the apostasy human family, aud that of his property so that he will confer the disposition there must he 2 in his victim of law. In legislating any subject, married upon there was no ambiguity,- -the ravisher these crils hare any other origin, so tar as appears of neither While the children of the first wife, poor principle, or prohibitory upon her child! But great, organic central mandatory her father ufty pieces of silver begides. what paid and man. of We admit from the Bible, than in the wickedness of the in reference to that subject; and all other parts par has this to do with polygamy? lie says it is a general law woman, perhaps dead and gone, are deprived of their prop the corrupt nations, just asa any that polygamy existed among is the of this passage rights. But supposing meaning so, as of the general be interpret because it wellas code must erty This cannot be ticular law and apolies to married inen. existed; and other evil or vice or crime now, when (lod had be construed, by therewith. two wives alt. the same time, this cannot with the great law of Leviticus xviii, 18. in harmony is in conflict for Ilia people. to separate them tho Hebrews own chosen of interpretation, into & sanction assump any of' the accepted rulcs I tell you, wy friends, tbese are simple downright the heathen, lle gives them for the first • time a code of from is just if it can I can prove that sheep stealing IN of' polygamy: is and therefore these passages OF THE LAW GIVEN LEVITICUS X\HI The position first taken, EXEGESIS tions. of especially on the subject the commerce of the laws, and had eaid, "For authorized. For it is as if Moses goes as divinely to sustain that position; and thig gentleman adduced principle of that code 1S, ou this are And what is the central AGAINST POLYGAMY. sexes. that so of prevalence of and you is in the polygamy, have men It a tre view that all these are married men. vili, Read Leviticus 18- Neither shall man take on to subject! to this afterooon, simple, and transgressed God's law of monogamy as to a law a girl or committed a produce mendous fact that, if a man seduced far forgotten Now I propose one wife unto another." this shall not work is It i3 a tre direct and positive, that polygamy forbidden in God's holy take two wives at the same time, therefore are forbidden: Incest, rape upon her, he was bound to marry that girl, In this code the following things law of primogeniture, the first-born son Leviticus 18 it is written, word. In xviri, •Neither shalt, the abrogation ofthe mendous fact that the same law gives to the father the right of polygamy, fornication, idolatry, beastliness, etc. We there learned my will friend tuke out 1 will do pencil, his cob to-day. it for he LAW will ' the | a I to . 1 WHAT a My • I - 4 a thou take one wife to another, to nakedness, besides the other in her of' law in condemnation polygawy. what have I tho body wife sides to her the is as it text it reads, read the of sister, I her, my argument Mr. •If dwell in margin the man' " I believe, word margin, and refer will not work both vor fact stated in this law. Now it is necessary monogamy for law: and to expound proper for me to say margin, is sustained sical scholars by the Jewell, other it said. this but that take man the to it a be the upon as margin, find the G that refers the to Cookson, biblical biblical by the It is canon of be in the and clas Bishop -by Dwight and accepted must be eminent scholars. this of may given Christendom of given. is of Leviticus first The are few prefatory. In verses the the of 3rd. 18th | And if verse it sat is stated he What | the doings of the land of Msypt, wherein ye dwelt, flor the of tv lat of Canaan, whither yo not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances. Altar y Egyptians the Both the practiced inecst. Canaanites idolatry, sodomy, adultery, and G polygamy. From is to verse 17. inclusive, the law of consanguinity laid down, relationship defined and the blood -the limits within which -and in verse 18 the law persons were forbidden to •Neither #hait thou take a wife against polygamy in given: shalt thou, to her sister," but as we hare giren it, •Neither take one wife to another," oic. According to Dr. Edwarda, the words which Are tian«. lated a 'wife" 1 are found in the or Hebrew but eight times, and ebjects, ruchns ises. (tc., and the as, same Such then which den, the the thou shalt not the is the it that this sisters at ing twe nowhere in law. the push coupling take one wife to Such were the ordinances and the another. Canaanites forbid sainc n little further. argument does not prohibit a than marry time, then such n marriage If simply In DeER verse of was 14, is thou shalt said not uncover the naked brother;" 80 I infer that it would be to uncover the nakedness of a mother's • father's criminal cqually brother, though it is not so stated. In verse 16 it is said. ••thou shalt not the uncover nakedness of thy brother's I infer wife," that shall FO not 11 the uncover laD his wife's nakedness of sister; that is, if two brothers shall not take the same woman, then two women shall not take the caine man, for between one man and two sisters, and one woman and two brothers is the same degree of promixity, and therefore both are forbidden by the law of God. Fur thermore if, for argument's two literal sisters, then this sake, v'e prohibition consider is that it priv a is BREACH therefore daughter, law Cad's is | passage next the regent. among fore JEHOIADA. Chronicles, 24th king; and, when be Ile wag more than Joash the high priest. My friend the power the he took when that, Bus kings. two the began of King died, to was this was be buried regent, ITa8 and not this a meang permission thrao ante her, then shall she'ge out free with Do you keep mole, ment and that is the significant the points this in are They presage? the free were certain should death not. conditions: extend of her First, beyond master, six at or was of jubilee. The next condition the girl. son should marry What, Simply clude from this passage! the period of years; the should the coming of the year master or his that the therefore. this, are that we to neither who con friend was to were on is the of the Lord ther a wife of committed great a lot Chapter And the Lord said lores. and chidren of whore whoredem, departing from the interpretation literal the you and to-day, then, challenge time, for proof the deny occasion monogamists of the character that at another on The gamists of Bible times. Jews had been out years in slavery, and they were brought and an outstretehed arm. hand and four hundred with that, I poly strong 0• nation, as Jews were polygamous. One or two instanees, n8 I hare already remarked, can be adduced. We may BAy again that these if, 28 he assumes, laws were given to regulate the ex this does isting system, not sanction it than the more any He said same thing sanctions sheep -stealing or homicide. the these laws were unmarried. There is ze applying to all men, it? This is wholly general. las he proved married or gratuitous. word in either of' these passages which permits married man to take more than one wife at D E •I for the proof. It is time. challenge the gentleman no eridence of the sanction of polygamy to bring passage after he knows, if construed in favor passage which, of polygamy, direets or a polygamy must he in direct Leviticus xviii, 18. of law THIRD the argu by among a wifo from says Newcomb, for spiritual fornication, remarkable is, determined the that ret HOSNA. OF referred the word unto hath for the That And verse. of give polygamous was distinctly, it confliet with the organic great DISCUSSION. DAY'S conclusion. CASE my 2d Go, take laad to doRis: Lord. be and beginning "The her logical lat passage lorea here? law THE The of that nation the deny We, great Joach, he be is, 1t reign, that--be character he fact 31, etc. wires for the portraying in because honored and that deny definitely, will 2d of man. said that, was 20 highly has it AND the is was case Jehoiada father the marriage. of JOASH The PROMISE. OF of his refusal annul to these: there girl that he the Israelites. friend My gives this is fO literal a LADIES We session divinity of as question, sanction our of very a bare you OF PROF, PRATT. N: ourselves assembled have third the the ARGUMENT GENTLEM AND this in discussion, congregation in consideration vast take to into important institution is already heard, of the Bible. Tho the Bible' "Does have already been polygamy?" Many arguments on the side of the affirmative and also on the side adduced This afternoon one hour is allotted to me of the negative. in the discuseion, bring to forth still further evidences, which the son the girl, but simply betrothed her; biblical scholar says will nor interpretation, whereas this distinguished close the debate, so fur as is father marry the concerned but rather spiritual; in other that is. engaged her. promised to marry her; but before the ! that it was not literal fornication, then to be followed by the lev. Dr. Newman, which will words. idolatry, for in the Scriptures. both 01d and the finally close the discusrion. marriage relation was consummated the young man changed the New Tratoment, idolatry is mentioned under then his displeas. term fornicahis mind, and God Almighty, to indicate Polygamy is a question, or, in other words, is an institu himself the husband of Israel. and tion Clod called this chos fixes an institution tion of the Bible; catablished, as we have al urc at a man who will break the row of engagement, nation owed en llim the fidelity of a wife, Exodus the 34th penalties, shall provide namely, that he for ready shown, by divine authority; catablished by law--by the following | whom he ba- wronged, her food. her raiment woman, dwelling. Then are the facts; and the gentleman that either not proved, the gentleman cannot prove, the lle says the father or the son scarry the girl. honored term "wife" is there. that term! Honored God blees It is an honored teria, sacred us the nature of angels. Jet I hare to inforin my distinguished friend that the word wife is nor in the Greek, but neither in the Hebrew simply "if he this and has her another, and then another," that is if he betroth change then, is the gen his mind, he shall do thas and to. Where, gencral law in approval of polygawy? tlemau'e LAW Bible my friend. forbidden by of thy if -According te the Jewish law a destitute Jew permitted to apprentice his daughter for six years for and to of this consideration: guard the rights is pronounced incestuous. That is the To which Ireply that such a mur is ringe and sequence analogy. As for ex ample, where the son, in the 7th verse, is prohibited from marrying his mother, it follows that the daughter shall not her father: marry yet it is not no given and precisely stated. objection Now is rigbts." well, |take practised. this pasenge the the of Egyptians to they refer to inanimate cherubim, tenons, mort together one to another, passage wings eiguify propose said l cach in Now WI jR an shall go 1 bring you, set thom do are indenture shall his very SueDe r. chapter that do; AN of wires;" axi, 7th to re in his regency, and this royalty entitled passage is Exodus 11th verses was royalty The second | there All that is said in laws of SIr. Pratt says him to be interred the royal mausoleum. to the of breach promise. ferring King Jo an epitome but he did Chronicles is simply -a y summing up, that polygamy, in his opinion; this proves or furors It does not that he had them at the ile indulged in an episode on say ash bad tro wives. not dwell long upon this text. I give you Now let u3 inquire iato the meaning game time; he might have bad them in succession. the lost manusoripts. in 1609. illastration: Milton was born in London He John this an of passage: and a beautiful poet; was an eminent scholar, a great we go oat man she a daughter tat• a maidservant, shall full his I stop. And if There Are you to and John Milton bad three wives. do. a, the menservanta that John Milton had those three wires 10 aha please not hur mastor, who hath betrothed her to himself, then infer intorpretalion of to sell bor auto u etrange nation be whall sball he let her be redeemed; Why you might according to the gentle had But have do tomor, scsing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. this passage. John Milton them in succession. But And if he have betrothed bor auto his son, he .ball daal with her alter• more than this, for argument's sake grant the position assumed the maunor of then the of the argument my friend, numerical clement wife, ber food, ber raiment, aud ber duty of by If he take him another must come out, and marriage• hall he not diminish. a man call only have two wires but 110 RI law of the interpretation that the scope in determining the sense portion of the considered of any law. and it in equally binding upon us to ascertain the iniod of the legislator, from the preface of the law when such preface two in king 'near a3 eminent most out cheated he have LAW CONCERNING well is will if a •If a shall steal an ox man ilege go also are these words, it restore and sell it, he shall five oxen or d sheep an•l kill and four sheep for the sheep." If the for the ox he stole latter of polygamy, then the assertion is a sanction assertion can we all go is a sanction of sheep-stcaling, and after the doeks this afternoon. in of comments •Now interpretation. history learned distinguished thereby said that thou consider the nature it understanding, to your that by sail speech his in refer to 113 to the in shall not the rule it in poor margin; A that will not fa is a poor rule Such. then, is the polygamy. it favor it her is that the to ways; if the to do so, and you brother is translated he mode of reasoning: his accept I shalt together': this the be margin, from Pratt yesterday. the of mAy There nakedness, her uncorer well, Very to in enough in have the liberty, It uncover to time." drair brethren the reading time." the in life gentleman text, her, life •Neither her other ad hominem, vex to reads vex The next the 5th to FOR TIE pareage the 10th is PRESERVATION recorded verees, in to OF FAMILIES. the xxv, and from preservation of families: If brethren dwell together, and one of then die, and have 10 child, the wile of tho dead shall not marry without onte a stranger: her hua band's brother phall go in onto her, and take her unto him to wife, and brother onto her. perform the duty of a And it #hall be, that tne firstborn which she beareth *hall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel. And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his bro ther'a wife FO up to the gate unto the elders,and say, My husband'# bro ther refueeth to raise np nnto hia brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother. Then elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if e stand to it, and say, I like not to take bor; Then shall h a brother's wife come auto him in the presence of the elders, and 10060 his shoe from off his foot, and spit in him fare, and shall answer and say, So shull it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house. his his name Phall he called in Isracl, The house of him that' hath aboe loosed. And and verse: 15th thee a make with the inhabitante of the lowd, and they coda, and do unto their gods, and one 60 a whoring after their *all shee, and thru eat of him The 14th verse thos "for corpus ut the same of shalt no worship lle therefore one riago nal idolatry, other god: for the indignation. with power of of join sad, thyself name in after this, he directed ny and go to love also cites the case of and an where examples Ho the designed first and the con do in special with prople. case The polygamy. It for extinction. the Where, is of has consanguinity only a modification preservation therefore, the Task, or families the is nothing exception of Israel general law? di this fact, that after having But my friend bag forgotten the first wife for adultery. a« he a vorced bad right to do. in chapter take 2d ii. and anotber 5th wife. verses, This is be is then directed not polygamy. this prophet, was It to go and represented us here. yesterday, that Hosea, first W18 to take a woman guilty of adultery or fornication. commanded was and the representation and then 10 take an adultereas. to made that whereas, that tho challenged was I he them and Mr. I'ratt had trad a prophot divorced the first if took had at them little further, wife for the he time; would adultery, and whose must words be the Rev. by are sanctioned recorded by the in the Newman Doctor evidence to any whatever than two polygamist families forth there that prove during in Israel more the time of their sojourn in the wilderness. At least this is what I understood the gentleman to any. I shall now proceed proof. to bring forth the 'The statistics of Israel in the days of Moses show that there to were of males, over (Numbers 40th.) war, Eren three i, twenty all they that wore numbored, thousand, and Ave hundred and was admitted It yesterday in Ilis 10 bring course, of Lawgiver, Yesterday were mar hence, and great Divine Bible. is 5th to 10:h verse. xxv. from Deuteronomy Now three cases were merely typical; the frat two were to set forth more impressively the relations between Banguinity. from whore had cites these adulterous My friend Woman. God makes an exception to a general law. case of Abraham offering up his son lanac, God Lord, command: to or spirit. committed fornication should raise up children who. by the lost they the torriblo of example, might lay themselves under idolatry. The prophet is directed a wife of to get to ness 11:00 forg those who pays: chapter God." whoredoms; Deuteronomy referring Chapter that there were two and I shall take the position that were far thaw tion of this for this more them were over afternoon, by millions the of females and males; twenty years I of Newman, Now Dr. the among the that Israclites mean that age. [ por assume from of yeara destroy every male child. ruler were commanded to sec one go Israelites. All the that they people and thrown into the river Nile. How long but continued is unknown; great destruction that to thousand, mix, hundred the Israclites was to this able the birth of Moses down until out of Egypt, some were brought ha.' elapsed. the mule of The destruction how commenced before the birth of Moses; before, I know not. The order of King Pharaoh reason. that the time years eighty children had innny nuincrous that were and age of fifty. half a years male child to find was annually destroyed, he en thousand yearly. every This it were subject to destroyed a period if we this suppose and persons two hundred fifty would amount to the number of the ditwonld soon begin totell in. |
