The Phoenix herald., 1879-10-31
MORMON MAxIMS.
Polygamy as Understood
 by the Mormons.
The Reasons Why 1t Cannot be
 Abandoned.

In accordance with his announce
 ment in Fridays DAILY HERALD, MT. D. ". Jones delivered q lecture on the faith of the Latter Day Saints, in the District Court room, yesterday morning After few preliminary remarks, NIT. Jones opened by saying
 Among all nations,a all societies and all people there is certain system of order, combined more or less with certain ceremonies, which must be complied with before certain rights and privileges can be received. For ex- ample among all nations, even the most barbarous, some formality has to be gone through before one can become entitled to the rights and privileges incident to citizenship. The neces- sity of forInalify is also fully recog- nized by the Christian world, in its universally requiring q baptism of water, in some form, as a sign of the renunciation of an old life of sin, and the entering on new life in Christ. Similar to other societies the Church of the Latter Day Saints has its forms of initiation or adoption into its fold. These forms were, as was the baptism of water, designated only by the Lord, as from their very varicdness they could not have been the produc- ton of man. Why these forms were especially designated as being re- quisitc To be gone through can no more be explained than can the s:lec- ton of the baptism of water for the purpose of representing a cleansing from sin As the latter is uYiyer sally accepted throughout Christen- dom, so are the former by the Latter Day Saints, and have, therefore, be- come tenets Of our faith which can no more be dispensed with than can the baptism of water They are as strongly interwoven into our faith as is polygamy CT any other Of our doc trincs All have emanated from an equally divine source, and, therefore, to abandon one would be as fatal as to q abandon the whole, and as people l in their ignorance oppose the one so ! do they tlo other. Polygamy among Us is not regarded as the means, as is !
  satisfying our animal passions, but ! as revelation from Heaven con- ] us to satisfy the desire of | every woman who may wish to be- come mother, and as such it is re- garded by Us with all reverence, many have asked why we do not have a new revelation and get rid of il, as it is the only tenet in our faith that is an objectionable feature. The reason is that we cannot have revela- tions to suit ourselves. They come from higher source than ever was Brigham Young or any other man on this earth. To pretend such hing would be hypOcracy of the Dasest kind. Folygamy is too sacred 10 trifled with; among us are many men who have refrained from enter ing into it for the sole reason that they have doubted their ability 10 live up to its requirements.
 In conclusion MT. Jones said that ne had made these remarks in order hat the people of this Territory might zee the kind of people they were. Some of them, among whom he was )nc, had come into this Territory and settled. Whether many more wonld follow he could not say, but he thought that the scalcity of water would prevent the formation of any large settlements. lie was sorry for his as he had never met better neigh DOTS than the citizens of Arizona This was particularly true of PhG- nix, where seemed 10 strongly exist he hearty old frontier principle of i've and Jet live