The New York herald., 1870-01-02

O8oue tO tn0 l0oa OF the lndiAn tnAt the more Scdps
he takes In this world the digger Indiann ne WIN
be In the next Jesus Christ has told us that sin
heaven there IL neither marrying nor giving In mar
OF God," az they call themselves, "practise this
principle OF poygamy that they may nave wives and
IN the world to and INC inc
II TO decidef The heart experience Of Mormon
women s one deep' and mournlul wall against the
system. Some are induced to enter into IT from
sense OF religious duty. Some are led into It by
men taking other wives but yet they say they never
vef hspes % s
prlnclpe y wrong. The sad experience Of women
IN Salt Lake, the years Of mental anguish through
broken hearts the martyrdom OF the affections dur.
Ing lingering living deaths-these are but few OF
,.s cneCts T., patrlarcna ria plurality may nave oeen
received revelations that the institution II divine:
but u II il such very holy thing Ms these Mormon
hons OF Christian nations have not yet been edu-
Gated up to see 1t IN that light. Mormon men
pSrasy and S'1 are ~ 'Is tns nnSs Tne
women say that love IL the life and beauty Of the
home, that .'ns home where'sr the heart is,"
wife @ % wnen she Rejects @ IT That '0nSs Ssr husband
is away at another woman's house. ls
this matter especially n IN ssss DAYS " 0 Of %
rgntsr' No' Then neverm0re call by endearng
name the partner OF your Joys Let "mother" be Q
0r anything you please blot Of the literature Of
every language all its tacs Of devotion un: death;
Of tenderness in any woan's ears; never more look
lovingly In any woman's eyes; never dare TO covet
any woman's heart; never more imagine Mary at the
Masters feet; deny that any woman ever wept as
the tomb or at the cross OF Christ 1t TO me,
however, that with reference to the marriage ques
would stil rather heed the voice OF Jesus and the
voice OF woman than the practice Of the patrarchs.
all the revelsrons ever made 70 Joseph smith, or all
George A. Smith, George q. Cannon, Wilford Wood
run, or OF any Mormon monster who would trample
the directions OF woman under foot.
A CLOG UPON THE WHEELS OF CIVILIZATION.
Nor III polygamy the only Objectionable feature OF
THIS Mormon system. Mormonism, AZ 1t Is here to-
DAY, discourages internal development crusnes the
life out Of trade, vilihes the people OF United
states, questions their authority and opposes The
execution VI their laws An article In this very
mornings paper, advocating miBing for iron and
COAL speaks strongly against mining for silver ana
gold, on the ground tnat ut Is demoralizng IN It's
tive Mercantile Institution was established to make
Mormons do business only In stores that hang out
money changers out OF the teDple; Brigham Young
practically drives them in Alludng to the death OF
Joseph Smith, heard Elder Wilford Woodrun say
that somebody has got to pay the bill for the she'd
ding Of that innocent boodn Shedding innocent
blood he SAID, has cost tins nation already four
years OF war; with 2,0OO,OO men laid In
the dust and $4,000, 600 600 in money; andn
he continued, "wOe be to that nation, tongue or
people tnat sheds the blood OF the saints Of Coo or
undertakes to oppose the work OF God In this or any
Woodruff; good again for you Christ taught that
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Brigham Young refused to pay to the receiver the
United states internal revenue tax fixed by the
assessor And OF course in the present sense uncle
sam is Caesar. The Indians recede from the civIllza
tiOn OF the age; the Chinese advance meet IT,
If only Tor the time; but the Mormons, invoking the
judgments OF Jehovah on It, stand boldly in the path
way of its progress II Ia singular that the very
people who nrst leo the way across The Continent
who first demonstrated the immense fertility or the
soil, who have literally made this desert to blossom
the rose, who they boast first discovered the gold
IN California, snOLld now essay to stop the march Of
empire inordinatey tax the products Of the SOIL by
q wholesale way Of tlthing, threaten to make fields
and gardens Wild waste again, say 1t is sinful 70
take the precious metals from the mountains,
oppose the laws OF the United States and. IN ghort
constitute themselves an element lnlmlcal to oer-
aliiy intelligence and progress. By the universal
extension OF the peculiar system, which they say
must inevitably spread over all tue eartn they would
deal q deathbl0w to advancement, reduce religion
to carnai, cooperative business, debase rather
tnan elevate numanisy make concuolnes OF women,
dons and M0rmOns Of Us all.
A LACK OF DIVINE ELEMENTS
But we are told that although the materialistc
tendencies or the ruling priesthood have been Tor
many years encroachtng on the spiritual genius OF
the Church its origin and mission are divine and
the word an evangelical system 50 sublime
SO beautirui, so magnificent ana Immortal, thar
ali tongues must JOIN In the swelling hallclujahs
which shall ever be ascending In Its praise all heads
must bow In homage to the greatness and grandeur
or the prln ncpes 1t contains all minds Will be llu
minared Dy the hood Of light It will shed all the
mysterious operations, human and divine, which
have SO perpiexed mankind in past and present
times; all hearts must melt in tenderness and graft
tude at the unutterabe ecstasy the knowledge OF this
salvation Will give to the human race It's purpose
ls the universal regeneration OF humanity. The
proofs OF ITS divinity to he the clear conviction
it viii shed into the heart 1t is to travel over all
the wide fields OF spirituality, philosophy and
science, ana harmonic them all 70 the complete
satisfaction OF mankind: The true nature aud the
purposes OF God in all His mysterious ways are to
be explained. The surpasslng glOries or ceesIlal
spheres are TO be revealed. Inc unknown wonders
or the stellar universe are to be disclosed.
The darkness that brooded over nature I'm
the beginning" before this world ever was.
man; the various types or manxind that have lived
and died, from the black brutal being OF the begin
ming up 10 the whitest and greatest man and the
farest and sweetest woman OF our tlme the natural
order OF succession OF those races; the designs Of
Deity IN thus creating them; the purposes of Provi-
dence in all the events tnat ever have transpired
the beginning OF the first or the dim and dis
taAt ages TO the leading OF the M0rmOns to the val
leys OF these mountains; the reasons why all the
the natural, philosophical and inevitable of
all wickedness and wars; the true explanation OF
the @ application Of the theory a aoa OF pogsam
to be divine but altogether dinerent IRON
Brigham Young; why the wisdom OF Solomon which
daZzled Sheba's admlring queen Is as fOOIshness
compared with the wisdom vouchsaied TO the seers
Of to-day which have spoken with and seen; the
why's and the whereiores OF everything; the rngma
Of God, the lnigma Of man, the glory OF jehovah
the glory OF Jesus the glory OF angels the divinity
or humanlty-all these and many OLher matters, in
cudIng the comforting assurance to the wicked that
nunan soul IL ever doomed to suffer eternal tor.
lnents, Will be clearly demonstrated and made self
evident To us ALL Truth pure and SIMPLE grand and
universal Is the sum and substance OF the whole.
Truth beyond the highest human conception Is just
at the moment Of its dawn. This new evangelical
system we are told, VIII, in q word, eluciaate the
mysteries OF
Eternal Providence
And justify the ways OF God to man.
THE GREAT soHISM.
To this end, 1t ls SAID, for over year celestial
beings nave been making periodical trips 10 earth
and revealing the wonders OF divinity, whence and
humanity direct TO mortal man the persons OF
two gentemen residents OF this city oil
salt Lake who for many years have. sim
cerely sought through great agony Of soul
to learn and know the truth. TINS is what
they say. They come with a straightforward simple
story, and no one mere, where nearly every person
knows them, seems inclined to doubt their honesty
though many think and say they are deceived. In
reply to this they answer win force and feeling that
God could never be such fearful monster as to pos
sibly permit them 20 be deceived when they sought
80 long and earnestly to know the truth simply for
the guidance OF themselves alone. They say they
are immovably convinced that what they promul-
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