Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-06-24

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The pretended revelation was read a
the close of Young's sermon; and pur
ports to have been given to Joseph Smitl
July IL, 1S43. 1t is very lengthy, con
sisting of twenty-five sections or para
graphs. Those who feel any interest in
this device of lustful scoundrels can find
it in fnllin Burton's City of the Saints
and in various other publications. The
whole is blasphemous jumble, calculat.
ed to bewilder weak minds and enslave
those who put their faith in the wicked
inventors. 1t pretends to be new law
and covenant, and that he who abides
not by it shall be damned, &c.
Brigham Young is the great polyga-
mist of the world. He had at last &C.
counts between thirty and forty wives
and was searching for Others. He has
married more than one since the passage
of the anti-polygamy law in 1862. One
at least, Of his wives has died a raving
maniac, and his first and only lawful
wife is subject to fits of insanity. Mo-
hammed had only twenty-five, and left
only one child, and she died soon after.
Heber G. Kimball, who was at the time
of his death the second man in authority
in the Mormon church, had over twenty
wives, and boasted that he had seventy
children. He was a gross, british being
and his wives were treated worse than
slaves. The other leading men, many
in number, have from two tofifteen wives
1t is estimated that about one sixth of
the adult Mormon males of Utah are
practical polygamists. Indeed, Utah is
a perfect pandemonium of debauchery
and crime.
This practice, so revolving to the in
stincts Of humanity, is only sustained by
connecting it with religious duty, by
which means the ignorant and deluded
women who are enticed to Utah are in
duced to embrace it. Under its most in
viting presentation it takes constant and
persistent preaching, threats and appeals
to revelation.to make them observe it,
They are told it is the only way they
can be saved and exalted" in the world
to come, and that if they are true to this
celestial law they will be "queens" in
heaven. Their fears and passions are
thus excited, their love of glory stimulat-
ed, and all tie influences Of education
and church authority are used, together
with every devilish art of cunning men,
in order to force this revolving practice
upon unwilling minds. The women are
first brutalized, and their modesty des-
troyed by the coarse, low, vulgar and
obscene talk of hoary headed sinners at
public meetings and social gatherings
Despite all their efforts through sermons
and other inventions, it ap-
pears nevertheless that the women are
restive under this degrading slavery.
Mr.. Cragin then quotes from sermons
and speeches by Elder Grant, Brigham
Young and Heber G. Kimball, showing
the condition of woman in Utah, and
the estimation in which they are held
by the Mormon leaders. Kimball said |
N one of his sermons -
!" 1 would not be afraid to promise |
man who is sixty years Of age, if he will
lake the counsel of Brother Brigham
and his brethren, he will renew his age.
have noticed that man who has but
me wife and is inclined to that doctrine
oon begins to wither and dry up, while
man who goes into plurality looks
resh, young and sprightly. Why is
his? Because God loves that man, and
BECAUSE He honors His work and word.
some of you may not believe this, but l
lot only believe it but, / also know it.
'or a man of God to be confined to one
goman is small business, for it is as
ouch as we can do now to bear up un-
er the burdens we have to carry, and /
o not know what we should do if we
ad only one woman apiece"
blush to utter such stuff in this
and sicken at the recital; but
moving as / do that the Christian men
nd women Of this country are ignorant
the depths of cruelty and wickedness
racticed by the leaders of this mon-
rous fraud and delusion l feel bound
} hold it up in its hideous deformity,
rough its worst features cannot be ex-
ibited here. "Oh, Religion what
rimes are perpetrated in thy name."
Such is the Mormon idea of woman
nd of the marriage alliance. Woman
regarded as an inferior, soulless being,
reated for mans convenience and pas
ons, and marriage but another name for
centiousness. By all Christian nations
oman is regarded as the equal and COM
anion of man, and the contract of mar
age, by which man and woman are
,pioiped in the striefaat soc;otr for l;rn |