The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-08-18


to express the constitution OF things IN positive
law ana hence the command Inou shat not kill"
ana daughters was not only In compliance with the
Divine command 10 multiply bit was IN accordance
0rdered. Il is an old saying, "Where there IL no
law there Is no transgresslon" Sln s the trans
the order OF nature, or in q positive enactment.
The marriage OF Adams sous and daughters
was unknown to the world Till $500 years after the
creation when, for the first time the law OF consan-
bring up this objection OF incesNof brother and ss.
yer marryings Are there no such cases at the pres
there not sophistry in the objection Gan ws bsvs
faith IN those who urge that obectionS It Is only
urged for the want o. sound and logical argument
16:-"Yet ye say, whereforef Because The Il Lord
hath been witness between thee and the wife OF thy
yet IL she thy companion and the wife Of thy cove.
hant. And did he not make onef Yet mad he the
might seek o cody seed. therefore take heed to
your spirit and let none deal treacherousy against
, Now, what is the Mormon Interpretation Of thiss
II Is here said, And ana he not make one;" They
one p that Is, zone flesh" But the polygamists
say: odd not one God maker' Very well. we ac-
cept It, "And wherefore onef' that Is, according
three gods maker" You see the absurdity, while
either the original Hebrew Or our rsnslaion Then
Malachi takes up the translation OF Moses and hands
Eden. Moses opens the Old Testament with mono
gamy, ana Malachi closes 1t with the same and thus
a Hs sSsRs Of q apS kos e SaS
same words, For this cause SHAH Ip'ss ' mas
leave father ana mother and shall ceave unto hts
wife, and they twain shall be one llesh. Wherefore
they are no more twain but one nesh What there
DOR" First Moses, then Malachi, then Jesus Christ
takes up the same sub1ect-tne declaration of mono
e. pass On 70 10 the ove Sse
wives as their own bodies lie that loveth his wife
loyeth himselr.n For this cause shall man leave
wife, and they two shall be one nesh.,
Now let Us sum up this argument Here Moses
nounces to US the law OF monogamy in the decara-
ton Of marriage In the innocency OF man;
peats It; then Jesus Christ comes. and "He
who spake as never man spake'' reaf1lrms
Paul sss ana az he Who sa
caught up into the third heavens, reiterates what
had been declared by Moses and Malachi and Jesus
and one woman to The exclusion OF the third party.
Our next argument is drawn from Deuteronomy
multiply To h%se ha his SeaTs t"rn not
away.n The MormOns say that this is answered by
snail multiply to II Tny
"Can he not have two or more horses s' The answer
to this Is that there Is no law limiting the number Of
horses, but there Is a law limiting the number OF
wives. The original law, coming down through all
the ages OF the past, Is one wife, Enen they quote
yirginlty.n think 1t is conceded on all hands that
the Jewish high priest that Is the great high
who entered the holy Of HOLES, have but one
wife THAT Is the law Of Moses Is this law Kept
equally distinctly in Timothy ILL.,, IA bisnop,
them must be blameless, the husband OF one wte.'
"Ah!'' they say that refers to bishop, ana means
more wives he can get" That Is their Interpretation
Of the passage. But we affirm That the distinction Is
mot 1afvxy fhn NTnof a
man, but between O man with one wife and man
with many wives; for il the distinction Is between
an unmarried man and married man-~tIat Is, IL q
bishop must have one wife, nolens poLeas-then no
unmarried man can be an elder In the Church OF
God; II minister loses his wife he must cease
according to this argument, what shall we do
with John the Baptists lie was never married.
married he was widower during most OF his apos.
t0ic life What shall we say OF Bishop Asbury. that
came into his presenceg And what shall we say OF
John Wesley, who remained unmarried many yearss
And It had been better for him and the Church II he
doctrine be true no man can be an elder in the
Church OF God or an efficient minister until he IL
married. This liz an absuritY; for 'in heaven they
nether marry or are given In marriage" But II 10
said that ii pOlygamy did not then prevail Paul
ing that letter cautoning the Church against having
O bishop with more than one wife, Now, what are
poygamy 70 very "as sR
extent at that time, yet no pOygamst was admitted
into the Christian n Church and this IS proved by the
every man have his own wife, and let every woman
have her own husband" You see that the first re-
rerred to the blsh0p--tO the mnStry but that this
refers to the laity. Now. If every man have his
wife and every woman her own husband then | ask
does not In here for nothing can be more ex-
pIcit, nothing can be more simple, terms cannot be
more emphatic ma than Let every man have ms own
1t was because OF these assertions that Blackstone,
that great jurst, asserted that .polygam Is con.
And In this connection II IS proper to state pal
pable contradiction in the assertions or the Mormon
from the Greeks and Romans; they also assert that
p0lygamy Was universal at the time OF Chrst and
his apostles This last assertion Is made TO prove
that pOlygamlsts were admitted to the early Chris.
tan Church Now, IL mOnOgamy came from che
Greeks and Romans, then poygamy could not have
that time the Romans held sway throughout the
civilized world, and where they held sway their
:. But they say there were polygamsts in that day.
Very we'll. Let me tell you OF a few. There was
Herod, sometimes called the Great who had ten
70 I'D deaih his his Second wife Mariamine; Who
Antipator, whom he had by his first wife
Doris ana who executed n ,. MS Two sons Alexander
there was merod Antpas VINO married his brother
Philips wives while Philip was still living, and who,
to please a9%e the dancer put JSnn the Baotst TO
pected a traitor both by Jews and Romans. Such,
my friends, were the pOlygamiStS or those days.
Now, we deduce an argument from the equatZa-
ton of the sexes or in other words the equal pro-
portion OF males and females. We assert That the
great doctrine taught By Paul, "Lct every man have
his own wife and let every woman have her own
is founded upon an equally great physical
law. Take, for instance the census of the United
States for 1860. Tine figures are as iOllOWs-
| Excess OF
FL: Il; 5
Great Britlin has an excess of 700, 900 females