Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-09-02

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lence of the people; but the Independ-
ent's attack is so grossly subverslvC
Of right both as portrayed in demon
strated science and in revealed relig-
ion that we would not be Just to Its
readers who are also readers Of the
News" were we to allow this incident
to pass unnotced. Tho News" re-
mark to which chief objection was
taken is as follows:
| Both sexes should be taught 20
| marry because the married state is
the proper one for honorable people to
| occupy; that II should be for love and
eternal union"
There is but ore issue possible en-
that point: either the married state
Is the proper one for honorable people
to occupy. or It Is not. The News"
nfilrms that &c is both from the stand
point OF the scientist and Of that
which has a stll moro comprehensive
view Of life, the WORD Of God. which
recognizes both spiritual and temper
al. That word is that he who for
biddeth to marry Is not ordained OF
God for marriage is ordained Of
God" The state of continued single
ness was not Instituted by Him. As
condition precedent to fatherhood
and motherhood, He instituted the
union Of the sexes in marriage. He
gave them command to multiply and
replenish the earth. Ir Single bless
edness' were the proper state, then
marital union IN its effect upon off
spring is unnecessary; IL this Single
blessedness" were to be without or
spring then there would be none to
obey the primal command referred to.
With either horn the Single" CON
dition is a violation of moral law. The
best men and women of the world
from time lmmcmorial have not re-
NAMED single. the Independent to the
contrary Notwithstanding. People
who aimed to be good have done so;
but the condition Of the world exhibits.
as a direct effect of that unpopulariz-
ing of marriage. the corollary of dis
regard for marriage VOWS that is
working havoc to the human race.
The Independent calls the News"
statement somewhat remarkable-for
this day and age" doubtless having
reference to modern enlightened view
as being in contrast with what the
News" said. Perhaps our cotem-
porary may fairly plead ignorance of
the position of advanced scientific |
thought in that regard. on this polut |
II is opportune to quote the reiterated |
statement of DIR. G. Stanley, Hail dur
Ing his recent lectures in Provo and |
Salt Lake City. The editor Of the In |
dependent win perhaps recognize the |
fact that this scientist stands among |
The foremost. IL not the foremost, ex-
ponent of recent biological sclence-a
man beside whom Spencer, Huxley, |
md Tyndall. great MS they were, al
'eady are hock-numbers. He told the
eachers, and repeated the statement
n different lectures, that no greater
menace to our civilization could be |
nund than the growing tendency to
egard marriage as doubtful bless
ny; or than the growing tendency in
he world to refuse to pass the torch
+ life" on to future generations. DR..
IAN maintained that the highest mo-
allty which could be drawn from the
tudy of biology was that 1t is mans
Irst duty not only to transmit the
tream of life which has come to him,
ut to transmit 1t pure and holy. At
he close of his third lecture, at Pro-
%, someone passed to the stand Presi-
ent Brigham Young's definition Of
we, as the yearning in every natural
uman heart to find bodies for spirits
1T unborn, and the doctor pronounced
as good definition of true love as
iuld be given.
The Independent refers to the
News" position as "a carnal or sem
lal one, which remark reveals the
lrnal or sensual mind which would so
laracterize the marriage relation
ordained of Cod and which in its |
complication hy honorable people
the highest, hottest, purest, and
ost self-sacriflcing as concerning
Of any relation that exists
tween the sexes. not emitting the
tunted celibacy Of our cotempornry
I'd which is not even that of ,
ire-minded people who have felt {
at In their individual circumstances
e married state was not available
r them, As confirming our dehni-
On of the Independents position on /
lis particular point, note the follow
6 from it's article ON the sentence
ON the News:
Hear that, all We elderly maIdens
lu hachelors' ana hasten to throw