The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-18
Love Letters of Mormon Wife

| the man md the woman become one fesh
| one spirit. enc being. merging their very
| Identity together, and as such rising, step
by step, TO the dignity and glory Of a
god.
WHAT ABOUT PoLYGAMY7
You may ask what has that to do with
tho system poIygomy? IT has this my
child: 1t leaves upon 1t the stamp Of APP
| must say II, the example OF our Divine
Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Let me
speak In detail. Abraham, whom God
chose from out all the world to bo the
father of a race that would carry down
the true faith until the coming OF tho
Lord, was n polyBamist David, who was
over his people and of whom our Heaven
ly Father said, "IIo was man nfter his
own heart" was also polygamist. So
was Solomon. the wise. So was jacob. the
oVercomer So We're thousands OF tho
great men spoken of In the Old Testa-
ment. Last and moro glorious than ALL
jesus, the Son of God was polygamist.
Need ! recall TO your mind that story OF
the marriage in Canaan, at which the
Lord performed his first great miracle2
Need tell to YOU the story of Mary and
Martha with whom Jesus dwclt2 / ask
need | point out 10 you, Alice, the many,
many incidents OF his life here on earth.
to prove TO you that these women were
his wivos7 Who but his wives would have
been at the tomb. and in the manner OF
those days say that they had come to
find out where their lord was laid?
acts OF the apostles down TO the last
epistlcs Of the apostles there liz every
proof for the belief that polygamy was
practiced by the early Christian church
And il was only discontinued when Chris
tianity became tainted with the practices
OF the GentDes OF those days. The heath
en- Romans and Greeks were monogam-
lists But monoGamy was only one OF tho
many Institutions of heather practice
which cropt into tho church. until at last
the gift Of the priesthood was withdrawn
from earth, 10 be restored again through
the Prophet Joseph Smith.
GENTILES AS HEATHEN
This is the reason why the Gentlles arc
monogamsts; they are stlll following the
example of those heather nations and not
tho example OF the Son OF God and the
church which he founded upon earth. Our
family OF husband and wives Is Gods
plan of a family. Monogamy is law
OF man
My wife. / can hear YOU ask, "Why Is
II that the heart OF woman rebels
against polygnmy2' My answer must be,
that her heart Is I'm this In rebellion
against God and not like that OF the holy
Sarah who gave Dagar Co the faithful
Abraham as his wife.
Now, my dear Alice, / must speak as II
Mormon and rs Il man. The heart OF a
man is so made that 1t can receive moro
than one woman 0nd lose not an atom OF
love for the one he welded first. Even
as mother loves the youngest OF her
children with the same ferYor as she felt
for the frSt, so can n man receive sec
ond and a third woman. and even more,
to his heart and love and cherish them
all alike PolyandrY Is Impossible, for
through it paTentagc would be lost There
fore poiygamY being Gods law and Gods
way of building up family, the hrst Wiie
can have no rival I'm her husbands love.
Your reason will tell you that such
thing Is impossible
When the state OF polygamy is entered
through obedience TO the Gospel and when
love leads the way, such a union is holy
pure and heavenly.
When passion enters. such union be-
comes vile. In a like manner, when a
man and a woman live In state OF
monogamy without religion and without
love such is not marriage but merely
state of legulized forncatIon.
Alice, sweet Alice. l have always be-
leyed our marriage to be one acceptable
to God I know it was so with me. Let
me | beeseech you, still believe 1t was.
and Is, the same with you.
NO EXAMPLE FOR HIM.
In support of your contentious you speak
OF Washington Lincoln Lee and Crockett.
My darling their example only makes my
position stronger. Washington was the
born subject of King George OF England
and yet he disregaTded his VOW to his
was right that he do 80. Robert r. Lee
was an officer In the American army. As
an officer he took the VOW 10 support the
find him a leader in a great war against
the United States, Why? Because he
thought he was right. Davy Crockett died
while defending what he thought was
right. Our beloved prophet, Joseph Smith
and his brother Hiram. were martyred
for following what they thought was
right. Our people left their homes In
civilization and migrated to the arid
mountain valleys of the West because
they would not give up what they knew
was right You ask me TO follow I'm a
more especial manner the example of
Crockett My wife. my love, I am Will
ing to do so TO the letter. | am willing to
lay down my life for tho right.
Dry your eyes, my beloved Alice, and
when bitter thoughts come TO you, know
that your husband loves you-in word.
adores his wife and child; and know, let
what betide that he Will ever stand for
truth, love and right.
Write me soon, my darling, and believe
am your loving husband. ORSON.