Milford chronicle., 1906-01-19

church. IF you nave d corrupt pulpit
In time you viii nave corrupt pew.
Dean SWIFT in clerical gub means
Dean Swift wi,h a debauched cougre-
cation. Water 10y the law of specific
gravity cannot rise higher than its
source. Yet it is undeniaDle that there
are many of the rank and file who are
thoroughly disguised with the odious
lives and false pretenses of those lead
ers. To these honest ones, who long
for better things, we must extend all
sympathy.
A visit to Salt Lake City.
Let us 90 and visit Salt Lake City.
We stop and look in the city directory
to find where the Mormon leader lives.
My" you say, Uncle Joseph must
move quite often to escape paying
rent. Why, here are five different
houses under his name" YES" say,
''he sleeps in one house. eats breakfast
in another house. has supper in another
house, spends the evening in another
house and sleeps in another house. In
each one Of these homes he has a diff
ferent wife. When he walks along the
street forty-two different children can
stop him and call out Hello, papap
Uncle Joe must have a great memory
to remember the faces of all these chill
dren. He must have a deep we'll of
affection to love all of his progeny. He
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all these homes and yet be a poor min
ister.'" Most of us Protestant minis
ters have hard work to make financial
ends meet and support one wife and
three or four babies. but Uncle Joe GER
tainly can do wonders. l have more
respect for the stag lording it over his
herd or the shaggy four legged beast
leading his cattle over the western
prairie than for this human libertine
walking around and posing as an apos-
tie of God and talking about love. Yes,
he has love, but it is the love of
wholesale libertinism which ought to
push its devotee out of all decent So
ciety.
While writing this sermon there lies
before me list of the domestic. me-
mage of the leaders Of the Mormon
church. Francis NJ. Lyman, the presi- !
dent of the twelve apostles, has two
wives; John H. Smith. an apostle, two
wives; Heber J. Grant. apostle. two
wives; John w. Taylor, apostle. five
wives; Mariner w Merrill. seven llv- |
ing wives and forty-siX children; Mat
thias F. COwley, apostle three wives; |
Rudger ClawsOn, two wives. Now, IL |
these men are living in open sin, what
are they doing in secret? And If these
church leaders, these apostles, are liv-
ng in such Illicit relationship, what are
he rank and file Of the Mormon church
loing today? If the truth about the
ibertlnism of the Mormon church could
De fully pictured the walls of Pompeii
would be looked upon as a picture gal
cry Of virtue and of mOdesty in COM
,arison. All decency. all purity, all
'irtue, should rise up in wrath against
he sins of the Sodom and Gomorrah Of
he Utah plains.
But modern MOrmonism stands for
more than financial graft and unlicens-
d libertinism. It stands for the degra-
lation of woman, not only through the
vii door of sin, but also through the
iarrow door of superstition. What
Brigham Young and his associates
ould not accomplish by false means
hey tried to accomplish by the blinded
yes Of superstition. Where they could
lot overthrow woman by her physical
they tried to overthrow her
" her spiritual credulity. The sue
essors Of Brigham Young are now try
ng to render her helpless. as the Phil
stines rendered the mighty Samson
elpless after his betrayal by Delilah.
hey try to put out her two eyes and
ompel her to stagger around in the
emple of GAIA while they mock at her
nd deride her helplessness.
An Impossible Task.
There are two means whereby It is
ossibIe to overthrow a good woman.
he one is through her heart or by her
we That is not what the Mormon
saders can do. Even Brigham Young,
7ith all his powers Of persuasion, could
ot prove to a sensible woman that he
ould love equally well and at the same
ime twenty-sfx wives besides a score
r more of afHnities. The second way
or the Mormon hierarchy to overthrow
good woman IS through her religious
elIefs. This is one Of the ways in
7hlch the Mormon church accompIishes
IS fnfamies. The leaders Of that
burch promulgate these two doctrines
'jrst they say:
"a woman who is unwilling to mar
= and beget children is a woman who
7tH have no part in the giories Of the
elestfaI life. Therefore It is the duty
+ every woman to marry, no matter
yhat may be the desire Of her heart.
owe or dislike Of life has nothing to
o With the matter. In the Mormon
7orfd a woman must be sealed to a
ram or else she IS doomed to eternal
eath.T The second doctrine is like
nto the first: "The highest seat in
eaven for the good Mormon is for the
Iormon saint who takes unto himself
he greatest number of wives and rears