El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-01-08
POLYGAMY.
1t is Still Practiced in Utah, aud Nor
mons ell Untrutbs About it.

GIL ClCA uCbo hOOuO AO'
1 see from a copy of the Journal of
from Utah some of them from this city,
are holding conference in Indiana
polls. This is their right and privilege
guaranteed by the constitution OF
the &c neral and state government. 1t
Is to be regretted. however, that when
they visit the eastern states they do
not present their doctrines as they are
taught and prscticed in Utah: They
pres Mt their articles of faith that
sound much like the belief of Bible
Christ ans, but when they aexplain
those articles in Utah they are found
TO be widely different from their APP
parent simple statements. 10 illus
trate this point: They teach here in
Utah that Adam is our God-tbe only
being to whom we may look TO" saliva
ton. Their definition of God is this:
"What l am now God once was; what
he is now 1 shall be- That ia, Adam
was once a man, he is now God; 1 am a
man, 1 shall be God. Hence they are
polytheists. They believe there are
many gods; of whom jos Smith is one,
| Brigham Young is another; and every
good Mormon who lives in polygamy
| and becomes the head rOf q numerous
posterity is to be a God
Brigham Young, the prophet. seer
ana reVolAtOT,- S1lu III d oSIIbOu Ii
this city. April 9. 1852: "When our
father, Adam, came into the Garden of
Eden he came into it with celestial
body, and brought Eve, one of his
wives, with him. He helped tt make
and organize this world. He is Michael
| the Archangel, Ancient of Days, and
about whom holy men have written
and spoken. He is our father and our
God, and the only God with whom We
| have to do"
I How does that sort of blasph envy
harmonic with that first article of
their creed: 1--WE believe in God, the
Eternal Father. and in bis Son Jesus
| Christ, and in the Holy Ghost?' They
teach here in Utah that Jesus Christ
was uolvgamist, married to Martha
aud Mary, and probably to those other
women who sOrrowed at his cruel
ixion. Here is the teaching of their
catechism:
Q .estion l. What kind of a being is
God?
Answer. He is in the form OF man.
Question. Has God body, then?
Answer. Yes, like unto a man IS
body in figure
! Chapter 4, question l. Are there
more Gods than one?
Answer. Yes; many.
They teach also that Christ died to
| ave Us lTOu olu, anu ohoe
men must save themselves from per-
sonal trsnsgression. They teach also
that we can be baptized for the dead
who have died in impenitence, and by
that means save them out of purgatory
They be ieve in continuous revelations.
| Hence, ice Smith got his revelation
authorizing and commanding plural
marriages, or polygamy. Tha1 revela-
ton ihre atens with damnatiOn those
who do not ceive and abide in ''thia
new Covenant This ia the language
of that bogus revelations: "Behold! l
reveal unto you a new and everlasting
convenan aud if We abide net in that
covenant then are ye damned" This
conveuant was concerning po)ygamy
Hence the Mormon church has not
given up belief in the doctrine and
duty of polygamy. In thu Journal OF
the 14th inst. the Mormon elders are
reported as saying: 'Po!ygamy was
abandoned by the church in 1890, when
the courts ruled against it." Here are
,wo falseboods, First the courts ruled
against polygamy at lesst four years
before the church pretended to aban-
don polygamy. In May 1896, Gov.
West visited tho polvgamists in the