The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1852-08-19
NO. XVIII.
GA Means of Grace.

The Mornons may be doing wrong, but then thy
DO SO with so much earnestness. and pod viii, tn; t
| I almost amounts to virtue. What other people
ane excuses for, they advocate az a duty, and ths
very cnnes that sutj.cts people in New York to tho
state Prison. preached Up in Utah as cone Of tie
means of gace, Bibl. doctrin, for tn, gl,1ifca-
tion of the Lord,
The ollowins bitter fom one Of the Elders of Zion.
wo find in q late He aid:
GREAT SALT LAKE. CITr.>
UTAH TERRITORY, May, l, 1852. :
JAMES GORDON BENNErT, ESQ.,
In the Herald of the 9th March, in your comments
upon Gen, Grants reply to the sshyng couft" or
"Babes in the woods," late ON Utah, soc you sa-
gaciously say the latter Day Saints must SNAKE up
their minds 10 submission to the dea author itles,
and Come down TO the established arrangement ofon,
wife at tlme or abide the consequence ola hieh-r
aw," Now, sir, in all Difference I, yonr unique opia-
ion, permit me to dissent, because the constitution
has no power over reliy ion, neither has Utah's Cor.
g:css; "the federal authorities have no control over
nofality-that bel,ngs to the g1cd old book, the
word ct the Lord, and yon know that God allowed
any good man. such as All aham, Jacob, Gideon,
OF wives. "PIaise ye thee Lord;'' aud uness sll
chrisendnm shall, by their ''sacerdota clergy De.
titon Jehovah, and repeal Kirg James repugrant,
and as believe, "wondc fu wiving law" we shall,
as religious community, hold To tights, guar
anteed by the constitution and revelation 1t is irst
as holy and just wise for the Mornons to obey tn.
scriptures now, in the days Of Moses or Jesus for
Jesus said, "sufer little ch'd.en, and fnbid them
not 10 under me, for Of such is the kirgic OF
heaven" You know also, that among olhnr meat
promises to thu Latter Day SAINTS, s'ar hundred Id
Of mothers ami child en- is Promised You conid not
have the children unless you had the wives mo'h.
ers, to bear them. Some Of tn, oil Ihe,s said.
seven women shonld take hold uf one mar" S.;
but think it is no whee said that seven men should
take hold of one woman, IS is s)mcwhat fashnonabi:
among the elite of mary nations.
yon have not received communication ON Dr..
J. VI. Benhisel, on the III ality Of wives. being a
dialogn, between Judge Bogushrs and the Kings
Foil call him fJr il, and let the REQ, l. have it,
and think your own wifi. system will s:rk sIral
as our racing Gipens, "diity cotton Cou ~ CT
two evils mormon chooses neither, brt es in fr
all good and more ,od, which, if, as Solomon said,
god wife is od thing, then the more you hay,
the more 3od you have; that when the sufeI1y
FINAL kind, til, great globe acqua nted with
the fict that 'the dausht Of kings ano~g the
Logd's honorable wives in heaven, (Psarn 49, AMI
OF the rish. hand the Queen, IN Ii Cf Oph r, you
will hear of more holo allie women clnsing to the
holy priesthood than you ever thought of, or a ma
row, contracted christian clergy, drove i;o CORFU
tin their night cose:iays, because their deeds are
Brother Gordon, look into my almanac f,r this
year. aid on the s2i are you will otsa:Te an e.
count Ct the eternal Mother" and the 37th,
"the Philosophy Of the avens.'' Try ttIa Of the
NJ 'rmon Classir. 60 in for Hebrew, Creek, La;i',
French, Italian, Sranish. aai any other language
which conveys t.uih,
Should you grt the communication mon,io1ei
above, | think what have written Will do fr VI,
and i, and othos, calculate that the cons ittiOI
Of the United States actually allows ami women
TO love, get, ald do all tn, good thoy car. c the
Bible, foln the book Of Mormon, f ON the wAl',
and even fom on? another. "Prise ye liz Lo ~
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