Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-11-13
n MoRMoNS.

Few have any correct or adequate IDEA
Of the strength of the Mormol o~rganiza-
ton. BY proselytes and administrative
connection, in Europe and s9ewhere out
Of this continent. In Great Britain there
are $4,000; Scandinavia, 80, 900 Ireland,
600; rest Of Europe, 10000. Total, 74,-
600. Then there is the Australian mis-
sion, Cape Of Good Hope, Sandwich Is
lands, Bombay, Malta. An Elder
writing for the "Galary" says that the
above figures don't represent any but the
catalogue, baptized adults Of the church
communion. He claims that Brigham
Young has six million sterling in tho
Bank Of England; and more money n
moral power in Europe than Uncle Sam
can WELD with all his military and diplo-
matte prestige and cunning; their preachers
are not "spouters' but workers." organ
~i..rs." For Utah the Elder" claims
wonderful progress, and an enduring and
defying power. In "recspitulatlon' no
says that Mormondom now consists OF
274,000 souls. 1--WE have in Utah,
when its bass Of operations covers l76'ooo
square miles, where four-elsvenths OF ito
force 10 working III n mass under the
single strong control Of Brigham Young
and ha, already q powerful organization ;
q hundred cities or settlements; farms
manufactures and commerce; in short, q
commonwealth rounded and complete in
itself. From this great heart there pulses
forth the blood Of Mormondom - the
stream Of missionary work, now actively
pushed by some Thousands OF energetic
men, and sweeping into the center q great
annual immigration Of converts made
abroad. 1t has one State religion, q civil
organization substantially identical and
absolutely harmonious with that religion,
a unity Of spirit which makes the whole
one soul for missions, conversions and
e~migratons, and throughout an entire
subsection Of material good to spiritual
progress"
In the course Of his article, the "Eldsr"
says: THE Church has not grown out Of
~polygamy, but polygamy out OF the
Church. and it 10 just a. consistent that
we may outgrow that peculiar institution.
The church has not grown out Of po-
lygamy, bu, ~polygamy out Of the church,
aud it is just as consistent that we may
outgrow that peculiar institution. II was
not published in England till about 1862,
and we ourselves have fought it much at
frst, and strange to say the men have
done this a. much as the women. It
could not in human possibilities have been
established, save a. a divine institution.
The very virtues Of the people and not
their vice 10 the only explanation OF how
il could ever have obtained among an
Anglo Saxon race, and lived a day in an
institutional form. The Mormon faith
holds marriage as q cardinal doctrine OF
salvation to all Every man u have a
wife. and every woman a husband, and a.
the Mormons, male and female, all man
age, without exception, 70 marry. you
have in that fact much of tho philosophy
and design OF polygamy in q nutshell.
We teiH not make our sisters prostitutes.
They shall be called what they are-wives
though 1t should offend all the world,
and make every city famed for prostitution,
cry Shame! Offspring 10 also a para
mount objec, with the Mormons Of both
sexes. There is an anti polygamic act,
VIC all know. Appropos Of that. has not
the reader fallen across the circumstance
LOT q Jealous missionary, who, having con
yerted . king, with cannibal habits, and
seven wives, insisted upon an anti-po.
lygamic act. The king solved the problem
of getting into monogamy BY going home
and eating six wives. There was more
| logic in him than in the jealous mission
AIRY. Now Congress may pass q thousand
anti-polygamie acts, but it will never get
q Mormon to eat his wives nor prostitute
q sister Of his faith. It would have been
Z noble man who, before the wal, freed
his slaves, but he would be . monster
among those who had once adopted pc.
lygamy. however much mistaken by II.
VINO would eat his wives, or, what would
be still blacker-hearted, though more con
sonant with q too general practice in
civilized society, cast them out as absn-
doned things and bastardize his children.
Do not be troubled over polygamy. 1t
will not hur, tho yirtuous society Of the
States, while most Of Us will be satisfied
if we have one good wife, and very much
indisposed TO run the risk Of getting a bad
one and multiplying trouble. But be it
always understood that doomsday shall
come 6rss, ere we will fall to and eat our
wives, or cast them out, or call our dear