The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-20
The theology of Mormonism
Fron the Chtcaqo DAILY Nears.

From the Chicago Daily Netcs.
Much has been said % IN ,rmon polygamy
aud recently of mormon disloyalty, but the
phil )sophy aud theology of mormonism is
almost unknown. | give it as received from
an accurate and scholarly man, long q resi-
dent of Utah.
Matter is eternal There is nothing else.
What we call spirit 10 only refined matter.
God is therefore material He was once a
man like us, bu5 had developed into a
greater man; still physical, however, and
OF like passions with ourselves. He has
wife by whom he started our race. We are
literally "the children of God" A famous
mormon poem Is directed to "Our Father
and Mother in Heaven God has other
wives. through whom he has peopled other
worlds. He came to this world and literally
married the mother of Christ.
As God is mormon, so mormonS are to
be gods. There be gods many" all NOR
mons. Every mormon on reaching heaven
will create new world for himself out Of the
eternal matter that is lying about for the
purpose aud start new race with the wives
that have been sealed" to him on earth. A
common marriage in this world does not
hold in the next-nothing that has not the
"seal" of the endowment house. He who
misses this seal i'll this world must be sim
gle forever, for 'in heaven they neither
marry nor are given IN marriage"
that is the marrying must all be done
here, though sealed marriage does not end
here.
Mormons accept the Bible with the re-
served right to interpret and supplement it
by their own prophets.
1t will be noticed that Mormons are not
only polygamists but also poiytheists. 1t is
not strange that men taught to regard
themselves as incipient gods are not very
submissive either to God or government.
As God is a material body, he can neither
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local bishop takes the place of omnipresence
ard omniscience. By his spies the bishop is
everywhere and knows everything. Every
eighth man is an officer, and has only seven
to watch. The bishops record books, in
which is shown who has paid his 1.-THE and
who has not, are the literal books that God
will open to find out who can go at once to
heaven, and who must be sent TO purgatory.
There is no hell. but all mormons who do
not pay titnes and all gentiles must be
fumigated for few years in purgatory
before they can 60 to heaven, where they
will be privates unless they have sealed
wives with whom they can set up as gods
1t is admitted by mormon women that
polygany Is against woman nature. In
this matter woman is a natural monopollst.
But like the child in the Catholic school, who
mixed up the sacramentS OF matrImony
and purgatory, the mormon wife REGARDS
marriage as state of torment into which
souls enter TO prepare them for another and
better world.
Even the men get some Of their purgatory
in this world, evidently, for mormon law
yer recently said to gentle with great
sadness: "PeoDle think polygamy Is easy.
tell you it is like walking on eggs"
Such being the materialistic philosophy,
such being the polytheistic theology OF
mormonism. it is evident that to destroy ID
education must attack its roots with better
philosophy and christianity with q better
theology, so while the law hews away at
the branches of poIygamY and disloyalty.
WILBUR It. CRAFTS.