The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1854-12-30
The .dofmons Their Views -. Their
ives.

W thNaNN can lnlht up ffA.-ble H1t llif
from the Dcscrot News which comes in
packages once a month. The News Of the
9th Of September says:
President Brigham Young must be spir-
il rapper, If We are to believe his statement
y 10 hpw he gained wealth. In lecture at
!, tiv Ta'--runclc, b. ssil O.
"Thousands of dollars worth Of property
inhouscs and land, which the Lord gave me,
a'e now in the East, in the hands Of our On
! smics. never said they were mine, they
were the Lords and was one of His stew
ards When went 10 Kirkland, had not a
cent in the world, for previous to this had
given away everything that possessed, that
| might he free TO 90 forth and proclaim the
plan OF Salvation to the inhabitants Of the
earth. Neither had | a shoe to my feet, and
| | had to borrow pair Of pants and pair
Of boots ! stad there five years and accu-
INFLATED five thousand dollars. How do you
think accomplished this2 Why, the Lord
Almighty gave me those means have Of
ten had that Aonc to me that has caused me to
marvel. know as well as know that am
standing before you to-day, that | had mon.
cy put into my trunk and into my pocket,
| without the instrumentality Of man This
know to be n certainty
So too with president Kimball who says:
"As for my going into the immediate pre-
sence of God when die, do not expect it,
but expect TO 90 into the world Of spirits
and associate with my brethren, aud preach
the gospel in the spiritual world and pre-
pare myself in every necessary way to re.
| ceivc my body again, and then enter thro
the veil into the celestial world shall new
;.,,N 10, Of Eatb., md
God, until have received my rcsurrcctcd
body, neither will any other porson, and |
| doubt whether oil those who profess to be
saints will ever be gathered with the spirits
! Of tho just in the spiritual world; but they
will be left where they attain TO. The right
eous are gathered to the spirit world to pre-
pare for the resurrection os their bodies
We have seen il stated that the property
of male Mormon, at death, goes to the
church, not penny being reserved for his
harem Of wives, or even for his children -
! President llcbcr Kimball, in discourse is
reported as follows:
'Do you suppose am afraid ofthe world?
No. have nothing TO do with the world,
with the devil with any of his servants, or
| with his commandments All that have to
do with is the Saints. belong to the King
dom Of God, with my family and everything
| possess on earth, or in heaven, is the
Lords, and am his servant, and | devote
all have to Him, and to His cause it is all
at the service of this church and people. ]
have said to my family, and ! say it now
when have finished my course pertaining
to the flesh, ! am going to decd all my pro
perty to the church, and the church shall die
tate them from this time hcncciorth and for
! ever"
II has been asserted that some Of the Nor
mon women believed in the homely adagc,
'saucc for the goose, sauce for the gander,"
and hence plurality of husbands should be
allowed. The following rcproofofprcsident
| X. shows that the "strong minded women"
are asserting their rights among the Nor
mons and demand q plurality of husbands
| The President thus "rakes down" the uneasy
| women:
| "Thcrc are some ladies who are not happy
in their present situationr; but that woman
who cannot be happy with one man, cannot
be happy with two, and man that is not
happy with one wife cannot be happy with
two, even though they are good women
You know all women are good, or ought to
be- They were made for angelic being, and
i would be glad to see them act more ahgc-
lie in their behavior You are made more
angelic and little weaker than man. Man
is made of roughcr material, to open the
| way, to cut down bushes, and kill the
snakes, that women may walk aloug through
life and not soil and tear their skirts. When
you see a woman with ragged skirts you may
know she wears the unmentionablcs, for she
is doing the mans business, and has not
time to cut off the rags that are hanging
around her. From this time henceiorth,
you may know what woman wears her hus'
bands pants
According to Mormonism, the people OF
the Union must look out for castgation
"about these days" President Grant, in
speaking of the shedding of the blood OF Joe
Smith, and the consequences to flow there
from, says:
at is no matter how much they deal in
compromise measures, or how often they try
to Just difficulties that thickcn around them
1T is n stern fact that the people Of tho
United States have shed the blood of tn,
prophets, driven out the saints of God, re
iectcd the priesthood and set at naught th,
holy gospcl and the result Of rejecting tn
gospel has bccn in every age, a ,sita,io,