The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-09-03

and Q murderer No. therefore the other predic-
mad with Ss girl Sac wsS sens away BY Vna
commandment and God said unto Abraham snow
walk before me and he th0u perfect |" These are
the (acts, my friends know mat some VIII refer
you to ketura but this is the fact IN regard to her.
that Abraham lived thirty years alter the death
Scay er energy e 20
tnued after Saran's death. To suppose that he took
keturah during the NE OF Sarah is 10 do violence To
MS moral character. But II IL said tnat he sent
away The sons OF Keturah with presents during his
lifetime therefore must have been during the life
time OF sarah. But he lived thirty EIGHT years after
the death OF Sarah, and he sent these sons away
eight years before his death, and they were from
twenty -ye to thirty years old. Therefore this yene-
raDlo patriarch stands forth as u mOnogamist ana
not as polygamst. manifestations OF dssent.)
Ihen we come to The case OF Jacob, and what are
sanctU OF monogamy, after having robbed mis-
brother OF his birth igt after having led to his Old
Aram, and there he falls in love with Rachel but in
his bridal bed he finds Racheis sister, Leah. He
dld not enter poiygamy voluntarily, but he was i'm
posed upon. A, he had taken advantage OF the
blindness OF his father TO impose upon him. so also
ne was Imposed upon by i.anan IN the dark
ness Of the night But hold this to be- ,rne
that Jacob Is nowhere regarded as sanity
man prior to his conversion at the Jabbok.
After that conversion then ne appears IN a
sanity character. IL 10 remarkable fact that
Jacob lived lat years all told, eighty i've of which
he lived before he became poygamist. lie lived
years after no had abandoned poiygamy. so that
out OF 1i1 years there were only twenty-two years
during which he had any connection with poly
gamy.
wish my friend had refersed to the case OF Moses.
In his sermon on celestial marriage ne claims that
Moses was poy gamist, and he declares that the
leprosy that was seat upon Miriam was q punish
ment Tor her interference with the poygamic mar
riage OF Moses. what are the facts There is no
record Of second marriage. Zipporah
ID me only name given TO the vile
OF Moses. On what, then, ~ his assertion NADER
Simply ths:-lt Is recorded that Moses was content
To dwell with Jethro, and ne gave Moses ZippOran
hls daughter Josephus speaAs Of two daughters
moses Moses one. Ia numbers. XII, l. II Is salt;-"And
Miriam ana Aaron spoke against Moses, because OF
tle Elnlopian woman whom nc maj married; TOT no
had married an Ethiopian woman Now 1t Is at
nrmed that two women are here mention d, whereas
nothing can be more true than that Zipporan and
the Ethiopian woman are ono and Identical. 1t
Is the same person called 10y different names.
Let us see: The father OF Zlpporan was
rles INDIAN and Ethiopia Identical terms, and
apply 10 that portion or Arabia where Jethro lived
SO the appellatlon Mdian Ethiopia and Arabia are
applied to the Arabian peninsula. tSee Appletons
American Encyclopaedia There Moses stands OUT
Moses the Jewish iawgver, stands forth as n mono
gamist, having but one vile. SGrey TIE founder OF
Organic nation, as these gentlemen claim. the
revealer OF the polyganlo law, as mere asserted.
surely he should have set the example. He should
have mad a dozen or hundred wives But the son
Of Jochebed who was moAoeamst, stands forth
as burning reproof OF poiygamists In ali genera
tons.
Now we come to Gideon; ana what about THIS
mann An angel appeared to him. that IL true. But
II the practice OF poly 3amy by Gideon is law u.s.
then the practice Of ldoatry by Gideon Is also law
II there il silence in the BOle touching the polygamy
OF Gideon, there is also silence III the Bible touching
his lido airy, and II the one IL sanctioned SO also ID
the other.
wish my friend had brought up the case OF Han
nah the vie OF Elkanah. can prove 10 a demon
stiation that Hannah was the hrst vile or Elkanah,
but being barren Elkanah takes another wife, bu6
Hannah, III the anxiety OF her heart. pleaded TO tho
Almighty, and God honored her motherhood by
answering her prayer. 1t Is asked, SIS not this
sanction Of polygamya No; a sanction OF monogamy,
because she was the first wife Of Elkanan; aud be-
EIkuuan mad been guilty OF lniuplitV
married another wife, was that any reason why
Hannah should not have her rights from high
heaven and why God should not answer her prayer ?
DO you ask me why she did not pray beloref Can
you tell me why Isaac did not pray twenty years
sooner for his vile lebecca that she might have
cnidreA2 cannot tell, nor can YOU All that assert
Is that Hannah was the first VIE OF Elkanah, and
God honored ana blessed The beautiful Samuel.
Then we come TO David Why did not my friend
bring up David, the great WARRIOR king and poet,
ruler OF Israeli He might have mentioned him,
with ten wives all told. he might also have men
toned MIN an aduterer, ana committing pre-
meditated and ono OF the most cold boodcd murders
on record, and simply to cover up his crime OF adu
terry How often do you hear quoted the words:-
| '.And gave thy masters wives unto thy bosomT
Is thus an approval oi poiyglmyf II you VIII reat
on you Will ind that God also promises 10 give h.
! David's) wives to another and That another should
lie with them in the sight OF the son. Surely, II on,
the approval of rebellion and incest. David lived t
| be seventy live years Old. lie was twentyseveI
Years OF age when ne LOOK nus ms psa we ana l2r tt
| evils crimes and sorrows OF poygan7, and then the
Odlan seeing it's great stu, Thoroughly Tepened OF
IL aNd put IL away from him, and for the last eight
years OF his life endeavored to atone as best he
could Tor his terrible and guilty experience. And
what OF Solomon. VINO was the greatest polygamst
and had u thousand wies Do these gentlemen tell
me that Solomons greatness was predicted,
and therefore MS polygamic birth approved and
his polygamlc marriages also appreciated | can
remind them OF The fact that the future greatness OF
Christ was foretod; but the foreteng OF The great
ness of the Lord Jesus was not an approval vi the
betrayal by Judas and the crucllxion by the Jews;
neither the mere oreteltns OF the future great
less OF solomon an approval o! the poygamic char
acter OF his birth supposed The gentleman Oh this
occasion would have referred 10 the law OF bas-
tardy and have SAID that II my doctrine be true then
solomon aud others were bastards. We could have
wished that he had produced tn It point. He did de-
clare In this temple not long since me law touch
ing baslardy-that bastard should be branded with
iniamy 10 tie tenth generation. But IL PLAIN that
he has misunderstood the law respecting bastards
as contained in Deuteronomy KILL, z IL Is evident
from history that the term has not always been the
same. With Us bastard Is one born out or wed.
lock that IL, monoga monic matrmony. AT Athens,
in the days OF Perices In tho fifth century before
Christ all declared basards who were not chi.
dren OF native Athenians. We here assert to-day
that the gentleman cannot bring forward law from
the cook Of Jewish laws TO prove that child born
OF Jew and Jcwess, whether married or not, was
a bastard. The only Child recognized as bastard
by Jewish law was Il child born OF jew and "a pa
gan woman. Therefore the objection iali5 10 the
ground, ana Solomon and others, who were not to
Diamefor the Character oi their birth, are exone-
rated.
The geometrcal progression OF evil In this system
OF polygamy Is seen IN the first three kings oil
lsrael-Saul, David, solomon. saul lad vile amt
a concubine, two women; David had ten. solomon
O thousand, and IL broke the Kingdom asunder-
God say it-fOr that very cause. Solomon had null
tlped his wives 10 extent that they had no;
only led hIm astray from God into dolatry, but the
very costllness of his haTenl was burden upon the
people too heavy for them to bear said the Other
day that poygainy might do for kings ana priests
for nabobs, but would not do for poor men, Ii costs
TOO much and the people are taxed TOO much to 81 p
port The harem. (ocnsatlon) AM you bring forward
these few cases OF polygamy. Name them, II you
please Lamcch, the murderer; Jacob, who deceived
his Old blind father and robbed his brother OF his
blrthright David WAC seduCcd another mals wife
aud murdered that man 10y putting hun in front OF
the battle, and Solomon, VINO turned 10 be an dola.
Tor These are some OF the poygymlsts. But now let
me call the roll OF honor. There were Adam and
Enoch. ana Noah, and Abraham and Isaac and Moses,
and Aaron, anu Joshua, and Joseph, and samuel,
and all the prophets, and all the apostles. You are
accustomed to near from TINS sacred place that all
the p.triarchs, and all the kings, and all the pro-
phels were poygamists. ] assert TO the contrary,
and these great aud eminent men waOm have Just
mentioned as belonging TO the roll Of honor Were
mOnO1 Amists.