St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-02
Something About the New Charity
Organization and the Work
Projected by 1t.
Rev. Mr.. Haupt Arraigns Polygamy as the
Relic Of Barbarism Which Should
Be BlOtted Out.
Regular Sunday Meeting Of the SOcialistic
Club at the Shades Resolutions
Censuring the Press.
The Amusement OutlOok-A Comedy En-
tertainment at the Grand and Other
Attractions.
POLYGAMY AND THE BIBLE.
Something About Jacobs Wives and til
Madam Marrio 0aa of tho Mormopc

Something About Jacobs Wives and the
Modern Marriages Of the Mormons.
Jacobs Wives, or the Evils of Poiygamy,
was the subject of Rev. A. j. D. Haupt's
Sunday evening lecture at the Memorial
nglish-Lutheran church. The gentleman
begaL by defending Jacob and the patri-
archs of Biblical lore who are accused of
polygamy, and who are cited by advocates of
the doctrine of plural marriages as proof of
the divinity of the practice. These persons,
it was shown, were not fairly represented by
the pluralities, as but the fact of the circum-
stance of their having more than one wife
was mentioned, and this fact was surrounded
with the fallacies of sophistical reasoning if
not those of deliberately designed falsehood.
The truth was that Jacobs plurality of wives
was not of his own free will, and he had suf-
fered for this ansgression. God never
ordained any other unity of man and
woman than is embraced in monogamy, and
it was distortion of scriptural teaching to
hold that the good book was authority for the
doctrine of polygamy. There could be no
denying that these characters spoken of had
more than one wife, but if the record was
studied of the circumstances which sur
rounded them, together with the history of
their unhappiness and suffering from this
very cause, it was almost sufficient to refute
the theory of plurality if no other evidence
could be adduced from the sacred word to
brand it as barbarity. From the defense of
Bible patriarchs the gentleman took up the
subject in its relation to the people of the
nineteenth century, and arraigned the sys-
tenn as hideOus relic of disgusting barbarity.
Quotations were made from publications, and
the speaker brought. forward the experience
of a minister of his own denomination who
labored recently in Utah as missionary and
further mentioned the evidence of United
States judge whose lecture he then held. The
latter said the law Of the country in that be-
nighted section was held at Eaught, and it
was taught that murder, rapine and kindred
crimes which furthered the ends of the
Mormon church were acceptable in the sight
of Heaven if perpetrated against the Gentle.
Thousands were willing TO leave the juris-
dicton of the church leaders under which
they had been, and were daily being brought
through the system of proselytism by mis-
representation, but the rifid church plan of
tthing held them in bonds which were equal
to slavery. The nation was called upon to re-
move this, the second blot of serfdom which
stained her escutcheon. The question was
one of paramount Importance and should be
grappled without further delay. Might God
in his providence see fit to remove it without
bloodshed. DIR. Haupt brought the services
to a close in an excellent and impressive
prayer, and throughout was listened to with
marked attention.