The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-08-23

was required TO marry his victim; but in the case o
seduction e The father OF the sequced girl would not
dowry OF virgins should be paid him; and thus the
offence was expated. But what was the penalty Of
rvisher married his victim and paid her father nifty
pieces OF silver beside But what has this 20 do
applies % married men THIS cannot 10 So because
WIN rs IN eonnlct with the great law, leviscns
are simply s1 you my ,snd nos
ZION ~ first taken, and then these passages
we, we addoced 10 sustain that position; and
were married men. IL IL a tremendous fact that II
ah , y, seducing girl, committing rape, was
ater Oh the girl the night OF refusal OF his daughter;
anu ere,ore Tue father mas the power to annul
the next passage is Second Chronicles, xiv, 3,
ana so iorll IL Is the case or Joasn the King VINO,
and Jehoada was the ,yS was seven years OF age
than tbls--hc was the Regent; and nv friend boasted
on 'iis great man mat because he took wives
lot tne Ming Joasn ne was highly honorcd that
when he died he was buried among the kings. But
You must remember thathe Regent and there
was royalty In Ms regency, and this royalty entitled
him TO be inferred an royal maasoleum, All that
Is said In Chronicles Is simply an epitome, a sum-
ming up, That KING Joash mad two wives. Ii does
not say he had them al the same time lie might
have had them in succession. i viii give you an
lllustration:-John Milton was born In London II,
1909; he was an eminent scholar, q great statesman
and beautiful poet; and John Milton had three
we on pners STOP , Are you az liberty 70 infer
Dusty You may, according TO the gcnteman's in-
depreciation OF this passage. But the fact Is that
John Milton had them IN succession. But more than
this: For arguments sake granting the position
suined by my friend, that JOash had two wives. then
the numerical element or the argument must come
out, and u man can only have TWO wives, and no
more. Do you keep TINS law up hercY Yet that Il
lhe argument that is the logical conclusion.
The last passage my friend referred to was in
Hosea l., 2:--"rhe beginning the Word of the Lord
by Hosea. Anu the Lord said to Hosea, Go. take
unto thee wife OF whoredoms ana children OF
waofedoms; for the land hath committed great
wa9redom departing from the Lord.n
"lnat H." says Newcome "a wife from among
Ihc Lsraeliies, who were remarkable for spiritual
iornication." My friend Is determined on q lite
tion OF those words whereas this dlstingusned
lpnca scholar SAYS that it was not literal fornica
For in the Scriptures, boh in The OLD
testament ana IN The New, idoatry is
God calls himself the husband or Israel. His chosen
nation owes linn Tue ldeiity OF wife. See Exodus.
Xxxlv. l0-"Lest thou make q covenant with The
inhabitants OF The land, ana they go u whoring after
their gods, ana do sacrifice unto their gods and one
call thee and thou eat OF his sacrifice" Fourteenth
verse-'For thou shalt worship no other God;
for the Lord, whose name Is Jealous Is u jealous
Cod" He therefore says, with indignation, "GO join
mlttcd iorncat,on idoatry against Me, anu
raise up children who. by Tue power OF example,
VIII themselves show the terribleness or idol
AIRY" The pIoht H. directed TO get vile
Of whoredOm idola.ry, and after that hc d.
rected To 20 and love AN adulieress. My friend
ton 10 the general law. He also CITES the OF
Abraham Offering up his Isaac anu the case Of
y.
the INST three cases were merely typical actions.
The first two were designed TO set forth more I'm
Presslvey The relations between God and HIS people
! me case OIL c0nsangulnity has nothing 10 do with
polygaIny. 1t Il on.y modification or exception IN
special cases to preserve the families OF Israel from
| extinction Where therefore, ask Is the general
lawS But my friend has forgotten this fact that
alter having divorced the irst wife for adultery AS
nc had r. ht 10 DO (cnap H., 2-5) he Is then d.
rec,ed to take another wife. This Ia not polygamy.
II was represented TO US here yesterday that the
prophet Hosea was first commanded 10 take
aduiteress and the repres ntation was made, that
ne took them at the same time, whereas II Mr..
Pratt had read along Little farther he Woulu have
found that the prophet divorced the rrst
wife for adultery, aud he had right
then he went and took second wiIe
Professor Pratt admits that none OF these passages
nor all OF these together can afford us Ia tins day
warrant for tue practice o. polygamy; gives II up,
turns the Bible aside. viii read TO you from his
own woris:-,'.supposlng that we shall prove BY u
| as practlsed by Israel, was sanctioned by God in
ancient days, would that be any reason that you and
shall practise it2 by no means. We must get a
command independent OF that which they received.
God frequently repeats his commands, aud his SER
wants are required 10 obey his commands when they
are given. The Latter Day Saluts IA fhis Territory
practise polygamy, not because the law Of
Moses commands 1t. not because 1t was ex-
tensIvely practsed by The best men we know OF
mentioned IN the ble the old patrIarchs Abraham
| and jacob and Others who are safe IN the kIngonl
OF God we nave no right to practise II because they
did, Then he yields the point. aud respectfully
ask him. II tins i Ms position why, then, does he
clever book called THE seer why aid he IN his
controversy with me in The New YORK HERALD,
why has ne from this stani attempted 10 prove the
practice OF po'ygamy right rom the Bible
why not IKE man come out and Say that prac-
Use this system here, not because the Jews did It,,
not because The divine law sanctioned 1t years ago
but because a certain man by the name OF Smith re-
ceived revelation that this form Of marriage was
10 be pracised. You, my friends can Judge OF the
ioglca connection. mother words, you can see the
| illogical bearing.
| / come now 10 the assumptions OF the gentleman.
First that there Is no law cOndcmn.ng forbiddlng
| polygamy. Has he proved thati That the Hebrew
Mosaic code was given, was solycamonsY Has he
| proved THAR Can he nd in the whole history or
thc jewish nation, from the time they lett Egypt TO
The time they entered the land OF Canaan can he
nnd more than Que instance OF polygamy2 Perhaps
be may ind two. Will he glad TO receive that in
formation. Tor am man seeking light and to-day I
throw down the challenge to your Z ninent defend
ers OF the faith to produce more two Instances
OF Egypt to the time they entered the land of
Canaan l can tell him OF one that may assist him
IN . MS r ,ns was Caleb Well now, sup
would It be fair Tor the Eastern papers to say that
.ne ,i Mor r,n were murderons peorles No, [
| ~ crime an an injury to the people. Here, then
Is one man we can find out OF two millions and 4
poiyl ps'Sa ana az l0 yss
my friend comes forward and assumes that
a nssums saSi'es w Sas His next
TO regulate among them an insutntion already cx
sting Has he proved thats Surprising he could
prove that Moses attempted or dldlegislale for the
regulation OF polygamy As It had existed and did
exist In Egypt and elsewhere, would such iegisIa-
lion be sanctionf why, IN Paris they have laws
regulating The social evil Is that an approval OF
the social evli There are laws In most OF the
States regulating The evil OF intemperance. DO the
| excise laws sanction intemperanceS Nothing OF
the kind And Tor arguments sake would be will
Ing to concede that Moses dd legslate in regard TO
p0lyRamy-that Is 10 regulate It and 10 cOnfine It's
limits And my friend Is too much OF log ician 10
stand here and assert that those regulating laws
were the divine approval Of the system.
he assumes again that those laws were general
ana applied TO all men, married or unmarried Has
| ne proved thatY ] have proved to the contrary.
that IN the passages which he quoted there is not
| SOLITARY or remote tntimatiOn that the men were
married Now let Us, IN opposition to those assump
ions. remember that m0nogamy was established in
| me innocence or the human race: that poygamy
IKE Moatry anu slavery, and blood. revenge, and
urunkenness ana murder came to exist after the
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