Show POLYGAMY iff IS ISSUE the rev mr huntington of adventist church preaches on much discussed I 1 subject that polygamy Is a it live issue was declared to be a fact by rev S ff huntington of the adventists church in a sermon delivered in salt lake last evening the speaker also said that this and all kindred doctrines are founded upon a wrong conception and misinterpretation of the scrip ture in discussing the question I 1 wish to bo be understood said mr hunting ton that it is the principle involved and not a people against which I 1 find myself arrayed that the doctrine of af polygamy la is a live question there can be no doubt the recent controversy between the ministerial association ot of this city and the 11 mormon ormon church is evidence sufficient to establish that point As a virtue or moral obligation of a church I 1 am fully convinced that the doctrine of polygamy is the outgrowth or fruitage of a long drawn out process of reasoning based upon a false premise so the object of polygamy according to its advocates is to fulfill tho command of god to multiply and this in turn as wo we are told comprehends the incarnation of disembodied spirits the offspring of god which are coristin continually hovering over eliose who aro are already in the fleda anxiously awaiting their turn to be also clothed upon with flesh thus the rea soiling the more wives the more children the more children the more spirits favored with bodies and the more spirits favored with bodies the more rapid the fulfillment of the purposes of god in the creation of man and the advancement of the spirits in their evolutionary progress ss toward their final and celestial exaltation therefore it Is my conviction that polygamy and all kindred doctrines doctrin cEi gnor graving wing out of it as a religious tenet is founded upon a wrong conception and misinterpretation of the scripture relative to its teachings off 05 the origin and nature of man accept the inspired record of the creation of man that mans existence began with the first week of time that bat he is mortal and that his future existence existence res rests ts exclusively clu upon the great fundamental doctrine of A resurrection from the dead and polygamy as a religious teaching falls to the ground contrary to the declaration of god it was the devil who said thou not surely dlo every doctrine or te teaching a e h 1 n g therefore that I 1 involves n a 1 b belief e ll 11 c f i in n the natural immortality of th the 0 soul as thus propounded by satan owes its origin to the enemy of all righteousness Poly polygamy ganly involves just such a premise and belief hence Is as ns contrary to sound doctrine a as S truth Is to error it Is clA claimed tined that abraham jacob david So solomon lonion and other men inen of god in ancient times were polygamists and there roro in view of their I 1 tice god justified polygamy we reply that toleration is not riot justification also that example alone is not sufficient to establish a doctrine tho the pr precept c must also be produced but as every bible student knows there is no s such uch precept b between the two lids oo 00 of th the e bible 0 on n the hypothesis of example alone tho the doctrine doc trino of ot falsehood could be taught with equal propriety for the record shows that abraham also misstated mis stated the truth on at least two occasions also that moses murdered a man that joseph was a that david was both a murderer and adulterer and that solomon worshipped wor shipped idols but what sano man would be so foolhardy as to assume such a position and build upon it as genuine and true why then take the example of polygamy a sin equally heinous in the sight of god as others committed by the same men and declare in favor of it the allegory presented by paul in galatians the sixth chapter shows con elusively clu that god recognized sarah only as abrahams legitimate wife the bible in lev 1818 and deut beut 1717 declares most emphatically against polygamy throughout the teachings of both christ and the apostles the one great truth of but one wife in every instance is most force ably taught polygamy therefore is not of god it has no place in the code coda of morals of the Cli christian ristian church and thus in nowise should be believed or practiced by those who follow in the path of righteousness and truth |