The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-10-28


loins, following in the footsteps of our God,
that we are enabled to enter upon this work
IN eternal worlds. So we marry our wives
Tor time and for all eternity Thus each
mans posterity in this world constitutes the
basis OF his future kingdom; and the power
and glory of his kingdom will be proper
tlonate to the number of his posterity. There
lore the more wives man has, the more
numerous his posterity will be. The great
blessing Jehovah guaranteed to Abraham
was, that his seed should be as the sands of
the seashore for number and God could
confer upon him no greater.
lWlll tell you mystery. Your marriages,
effected by priests and magistrates, are not
binding after death. But those sealed by the
power of the Eternal Priesthood, are of full
force after men are dead because whatsoev-
er is sealed by this power on earth, is also
sealed eternally III the heavens, &c. Man is
an eternal being, and if obedient to the laws
of his God, his progress and increase will be
eternal.
AS to myself have but yet married but
two. This is small beginning, but the day
Of small things must not be despised. You
may believe however, having myself but two
wives, while the majority around me have
more, that feel somewhat slim but wait
awhile. Your "woman worshipper,' in the
state (''of sin and misery as you well re-
mark,) ! trow would scarcely be willing,
even if she had the privilege, to choose " wife
No. 2, who should share her husbands time,
affections, &c. But here it often happens
that women court for their husbands-and
you know they understand the art, and of
course are very successful. SO all the men
have to do is to invent means of supporting
them.
What think you? Our young ladies, ac-
complished and beautiful, often choose
man with ten or twenty or forty wives, in
preference to an attractive young gentleman
who has not one thus showing their good
taste, and regard for age and experience. If
one of your most polite, fashionable and fas-
clnating young gentlemen should come here,
he would find it very difficult to get wife,
and If he succeeded at ALL she would in all
probability be one whom our grey headed
and infirm old men would refuse.
AS to ministerial modesty," | have a
faint recollection of the term, and its signi-
lication; but indeed had almost forgotten
1T, and assure you that among us it has be-
come obsolete; and in our latest edition of
the English Lexicon it is omitted. We talk
Mormon-English, which allows us to speak
freely, but there is now and then a modest
person in our assembly, who has sometimes
occasion TO :" so OUT
But you will not fail to see that we lay
no small stress upon our peculiar institution,
polygamy; and it is therefore a matter of
solictude with every man to preserve peace
among his wives. 1t is true, as you say,
"with but one wife, it is difficult for some
people in the states to live amicably." But
when you consider that it is the desire of
every woman to have numerous progeny,
and her husband many wives, on the ground
that their glory is enhanced, thereby, here is
powerful incentive to order and union.--
Besides, it is the Mormon belief that the
husband is the head Of the wife, and her lord
and savior. and unless she is obedient and
submissive to him she cannot be saved here
is another consideration that vastly tends to
cement the husband and his wives. There
are other influences that operate in the same
channel-all of which conduce so efIectual-
ly to subdue the self-wil and waywardness
of women. that will venture there is more
humanity here in the family of IA man who
has ten wives, than the mass Of families else
where, where one one wife prasides, mistress
of the house, husband and children.
There are instances of from six to ten
wives inhabiting one dwelling, and live am
icably though for the most part. each wife
has her own hOnSp and rifles her own chill