The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-04
the HANDS of your ensl-.es.

the hands of your eEsl4les.~
That WAS his warrant 1t had excused
the saints from completing the temple at
Nauvoo and from obeying the command
to settle in Jackson county, Mo. 1t now
excused them from obeying the revelation
ordaining celestial marriage"
1.-The brethren have suffered enough"
said Brer Woodruff; Eight hundred of
them have langu;shed in prison and exile.
we must now obey the law OF the land.
have lately talked behind the veil with
Joseph Smith and Brother Brigham, and
they, with all the heavenly host, say that
the United States government must now
bear the guilt When God shall come out
of his hiding place and vex the nations in his
fury, then will the United States beg US to
interceGc for them and TO live our religion
Until then give place to wrath; and Gods
will be done"
George q. Cannon, next in rank to Pres
ident Woodruff, added his own revelation
that this was the will of God Brother
Woodruff has lately been in executive ses-
sion with the Almighty. The sufferings of
the Saints are recorded in heaven, and will
appear as the brightest page ia earthly his
tory. ] lived in polygs:ny because such
was the will Of God ! now give it up for
the same reason" And SO ends a social
practice which for forty-sevcn years has
been the one great anomaly among the re
ligious sects of America.
July II, 1873, according to Joseph Smith,
the voice of the Lord commanded him to
write that famous revelation beginning:
Verify thus saith the Lord unto you my
servant Joseph, that inasmuch as you
have inquired at my hand TO know wherein
| the Lord justified my servants Abra-
han. Isaac and Jacob, rs also Moses and
David and Solomon my servants, as touch
ing the principle and practice Of their hav.
ing many wives and corcubines, behold
and 10, / am the Lord and will answer
thee as touching this matter"
And when he got orders to spread the
doctrine he was, he adds, so Mortified that
be mounted his horse and fed; but when
he got on the hill east Of Nauvoo mighty
angel stood in the way with drawn sword
and menaced his life So he went back and
was sealed" TO Olive Frost and Eliza
Snow and the Widow Fuller and nobody
knows how many more; but when he
sought Nancy Egdon and Martha Brother
ton they gave the whole snap dead
away" and there was row in the church.
1t was smoothed over, the Apostles were
first converted, and Brigham Young took
three extra wives IS p starter. Then Joseph
Smith tried to capture the wife Of William
Law, and there was another row; Smith
was lodged in Gentle jail, and there was
murdered by mob with his brother Hy-
rum en- the 9th of June, 1874.
The Mormons then put forth circular
denying the existence of polygamy among
them, and continued to repeat this denial
for nine years after the revelation. All
this time they were extending the prac-
tice But when their ENJOYS had convinced
President Fillmore that there was no
polygamy in Utah, and re bad appointed
Brigham Young governor, they came out
with the truth in September, 1852. So
among the MormOns has passed
through four st2ges-aecret practice but
open denial for nine years; open avowal
and rapid progress from 1852 to about
1865, gradual decline from natural causes
till 1882, and thereafter rapid extinction by
force of the Federal government, to final
abandonment in October, 1890 And let
all the people say amen"
J. II. BEADLE.