The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-14
SAYS THAT MORMONS
FLAUNT THEIR INFAMY
Rev. H. v. GivIer Denounces Them for
Their Defiance of the Law.

Yesterday morning at the First
Methodist church Rev. H. V. Givler
preached from the text, For this cause
shall a man leave father and mother
and cleave to his wife, and they twain
shall be one flesh
In part the preacher said:
We could not have believed, ten days
ago, that there were men living on the
face of the earth who had such effront-
cry, and whose lives were marked by
such shameless defiance of law, men
evidently so lost to every sense of pub
faunt their infamy in the faces of the
civilized world and say to US, There it
is, there it iS-it'S none of your bust
ness!" and that is what they have said
if not in so many words after all that Is
what they meant.
That is to say this is religion that
claims a divine revelation and that the
United Staes has no authority to deal
monism today has any significance at
all as bearing upon the question Of the
sanctity of domestic life in the world.
we have a right to assume that stripped
nothing in this world. but that here is a
religion that is marked by the worst
aspect of domestic life of which we
have any knowledge, and that it has
been vigorously propagated and has pro-
duced an inferior class of people, an
anonymous population.
The United States senate is perhaps
the most dignifed body of men in the
world. I think that all American people
have a right to congratulate themselves
that for legal acumen, for intellectual
breadth, for StateSmaniike power, for
high character it is not exceeded by any
body of men in the world. and it ought
to give US a large measure of comfort
that this eminent body, to whom We
look and have right to look, as men
charged with great responsibilities, will
do right It is not a small matter in
the presence of that and this and other
things, that we have reason to believe
been finished whatever may have been
the incidental outcome of it about specific
statutes concerning domestic life, about
had this great satisfaction that this di
vine instftution--the family-where one
man shall live with one woman. according
unit of human society, and that what
God has. for ages written in His word
shall have the sanction of the most
dignified body OF men on the earth.
The United States senate, we believe
and trust, shall SO give its appreciation,
its approval and sanction to the ques
ton of domestic and family life that it
shall cause men to hesitate concerning
lie, concerning things in Utah and else
where; for, when it shall once be known
that by. the mighty enginery of law in
these United States-where law, in the
nature of things. must mean a very great
deal-the family shall be guarded and
protected, and that children and wives
as well as men shall realize the strong
hand of the law, there will rise respect
for this institution larger than we have
had up to the present time.
There has been some hope and ex-.
pectancy that out of this Mormon investi-
cation there shall come national mar
riage law. Suppose there should, have
we not an international, universal mar
riage law now? Is there not a law
originating in heaven, governing the
whole question. where Jesus Christ Him
ton broadly that in the original idea,
in the divine conception of the family,
according to heavens decree. there was
absolutely no provision for divorce?