The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1884-11-19
Midst the bowers and by the streams
Of heavens delightful shore.

Midst the bowers and by the streams
Of heavens delightful shore.
to find that JESUS has already prepared
the crown. the harl,s and the robes fol
their children and their cnildren's child
rem down to Thousand generations.
Bought with His own precious blood
There are no chiltlrcn in hell, no little
footsteps are ever heard, no sweet little
lullaby is ever sung in he'll, while
Millions Of infant souls compose
The family above.
Therefore the family or that home
/ that has no children in it is. more
like hell than heaven I do not believe
/ that any woman has right to stand in
the way of her husbands raising child.
ran. let her BE- barren or not. believe
it will be required Of him at the judg-
ment seat of Christ. A century has not
passed since the Father of his Country
! left the shores Of time. Yet there is
nothing left to tell that there ever was
such man except the records of his
acts. The great orator and statesman
Daniel Webster, has not a single descen-
dant Oh earth to perpetuate his name.
The same, think, may be said Of Thon,-
as II. Benton and host of the noblest
blood of our land. That woman who
will refuse to l,crpet,latc her husbands
name deserves hard time here and q
not time hereafter. ! am afraid that
they study Prof Fowler on the marriage
relation more than they do the Scrip
lures. He teaches that it is wrong to
destroy the young, hut no harm in tax.
ing preventatives If there was hang
mans tree every five miles from east to
west and from north to south and all the
infanticiles and child murderers wene
hanged to their limbs there would nots
le one barren tree amongst them all.
and the great majority Of them wonld
break down with their load of iniquity.
hope the time will come when the
woman that refuses to raise children to
her husband, her country and her God
will he banished to the Dry Torgtuas. If
they have done their duty we would Ike
a nation of hundred millions to-day
instead of fifty millions, and if the ene-
mics of our country ever get the advan-
tage of lis they will be the cause of it,
and yet we have them gadding around
all over the country contending for the
right to vote. wonder if that would
make them any more fruitful. We
might try it at least. If some poor girl
is ledaway by her desire to have child
ren, these same worthy danes would be
the first to kick her out. / wonder
which is the purest in Gods eyes.
That the scriptures teach polygamy, is
as plain to me as that they teach saliva
ton by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. l
would be willing to be tried on that issue
before jury of school boys, very small
boys at that Reason and the very beasts
of the fields will teach any man that the
present marriage system is unatural and
consequently unatural. If some one
should go at and write up the dissatisiac-
tions, the jealousy's, the miseries and the
brutalities Of the present marriage sys-
TEN it would throw Mrs. Stenhousc's
''Tell it ALL into eternal shade. If there
is woman in Utah that cOnscienti0usly
believe it t" be her religious duty to re-
main in poygainy the Government Is
bound to protect her in it, and the row.
er that would modest her, would forbid
the Baptist to practice immersion, or the
Methodist to attend his class meeting.
There may be some abuses under yo'ir
SYSTEM that you will do we'll to correct.
know nothing about you one way "r
the other nor do care to know. am
member of the Methodist Church but ]
am certain that you have one scriptural
idea that hope to see spread all over
the country. While there is house of
ill-farne in our land l shall not lay
straw in your way while there is wO-
man III the land that will not raise up
children to her God and their country,
shall bid you God speed. While there is
an old maid in the land shall set up
nights and preach it myself My sincere
prayer to God is that he may purify you
and multiply you and make you q pecul-
lar people, Jealous of good works
Respectfully yours,
A. E.. REEVES.
Secretary Mcpherson says that accord
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