The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-31

''What record bring We from the earth belowi"
Then all trembling answered he:
1--WE toiled In poverty all our days,
and my wives all three.
The way was hard but we We kept the faith
And brought our children to Thee"
He opened wide the second Book,
10, there the deeds" he said.
Thou hast won eternal glory here
And in thy trials stead
For every test jewel bright
In the crown that waits thy head.
with these thy wives and children dear.
Whom guile could tempt or win,
Who bushed not to live their Makers laws
Gainst might, and pride. and sin;
Where the gods and saints in gladness dwell,
y. thou blessed. enter in
And then came up to the Golden Gate
Those who stood next behind
Their faces beamed with the certain fate
OF bliss they looked to find
For in their past neither shame sin
Their hopes to check or bind.
''Our record belowq Ny wife and
So happy time have had
Our friends were true and our fortunes best
The very skies seemed glad
We mourned no trials, and wrought no wrongs
To make other creatures sad.
He opened wide the Book of Deeds
And-"Lo. there is naught, he said,
Recorded here in reward for thee
Thy past is blank and Dead
Fo. .hou hast lived for thysef. not God,
And thy idle hopes fled.
''For hath not God commanded thee
Woe to them that dwell at easel
Could not Jesus's words or his dying touch
Thy hearts or bend thy knees2
Thou canst not enter into his joy
Who hath suffered not like these
Then turned they from the Golden Gate.
From the holy light away.
Heard in despair the rapturous hymn
That seemed to saw:
TOO late O, soul! hast thou come to him
He knoweth thee not to-day
What is the moral. if there be anyf That
monogamists are so supremely happy and selfish
as to be unworthy of heaven: that polygamists
are so utterly unselfish and miserable as to in
herit the kingdom of God. There is no doubt
about the misery of polygamy so far as women
are concerned. 'Do you suppose that would
endure plurality if / did not believe that the
principle was revealed by God to Joseph Smiths
Do you imagine that anything but religion
would have made me what ami" said an excel
lent woman to me recently Where the sisterhood
are to find comfort eventually have never been
able to discover. They remain in polygamy
throughout eternity, and as spiritual Mormons,
are declared to be very like mortal Mormons,
with the same passions, the same parts, where,
then, is the most self sacrificing of her sex to
find her heavens Moreover, in celestial glory
there is never an equality among wives. The
first wife is the supreme queen!
"Polygamy is the corner stone of our religion.
said a good saint to me. Far from dying out
this principle is being preached and practiced
MORE than before the passage of the Edmunds
bill in 1882. hear harangues upon It's divinity
in the Assembly and at ward meetings The
church, openly by words and secretly by prac
tice defies the laws of the land, and George O.
Cannon proclaims polygamists ''the elite of the
people" In brains they are so most assuredly
Why2 Because whenever a man rises to the tor
the church bids him take another wife, Once in
poygamy a man is, as a Hule, tied to Mormon
ism for life Outside Of it, he is criminal
Promotion is dependent upon obedience to coun
sci. Men then defy the laws either to crafty
lust or to gain power and money. Women bow
to the DEGREES of the priesthood either because
they are fools or fanatics.