Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-09-10

the Mormon leaders declared they
would only cleave TO one wife there
after
Now. the rank and file of a church
cannot be better than the leaders of a
church. If you have a corrupt pulpit
in time you will have a corrupt pew.
Dean Swift in clerical garb means
Dean Swift with debauched copgre-
CATION. Water by the law of specific
gravity cannot rise higher than its
: source. Yet it is undeniable that there
are many of the rank and file who are
Thoroughly Disguised with the odisus :.
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 go 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 paving
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 cali out, Hello. papav
Uncle Joe must have great memory
to remember the faces of all these chill
dren. He must have a deep well of.
| affection to love all of his progeny. He
must be financial genius to support
all these homes and yet be a poor min
ister.'" Most of us Protestant minis
tiers 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 libernne
walking around and posing as an apos-
tie of God and talking about love. Yes.
be has love. but it is the love of
wholesale libertinism which ought to
push it's 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 II. Smith, an apostle, two
wives; Heber J. Grant, apostle two
wives; John W. Taylor, apostle, five
y1-iuO a,,iD
ing wives and forty-six children; Mat
thias T. Cowley, apostle, three wives;
Rudger CEawsOn, two wives. Now, if
these men are living in open sin, what
are they doing in secret? And if these
church leaders, these apostles, are liv-
ing in such illicit relationship, what are
the rank and file of the Mormon church
doing today? If the. truth about the
| libertinism of the Mormon church could
be fully pictured the walls of Pompeii
would be looked upon as picture gal
lery of virtue and of modesty in COM
: parison. All decency, all purity, all
virtue, should rise up in wrath against
the sins of the Sodom and Gomorrah Of
the Utah plains.
But modern Mormonism stands for
more than financial graft and unlicens-
ed libertinism. 1t stands for the degra-
dation of woman, not only through the
evil door of sin, but also through the
/ narrow door of superstition. What
t Brigham Young and his associates
could%hot accomplish by false means
they tried to accomplish by the blinded
r eyes Of superstition. Where they could
D not overthrow woman by her physical
: weakness they tried to overthrow her
: by her spiritual credulity. The sue
s cessors of Brigham Young are now try
i ing to render her helpless, as the Phil
4? istines rendered the mighty Samson
:? helpless after his betrayal by Delilah
t They try to put out her two eyes and
e compel her to stagger around in the
d temple of GAIA while they mock at her
Il and deride her helplessness.
a An Impossible Task.
s There are two means whereby it is
;. possible to overthrow good woman
u The one is through her heart or by her
e love. That is not what the Mormon
/ leaders can do. Even Brigham Young
: with all his powers of persuasion, could
s not prove to a sensible woman that he
l. could love equally well and at the same
II time twenty-six wives besides a score
Il or more of affinities. The second way
/ for the Mormon hierarchy to overthrow
o a good woman is through her religious
, beliefs. This is one of the ways in
n which the Mormon church accomplishes
e IFS infamips The leaders of that
1t church promulgate these two doctrines
u First they say
Y "a woman who is unwilling to mar
e nv and beget children is woman who
# will have no part in. the glories of the
f celestial life. Therefore it is the duty
J Of every woman, to marry, no matter
f what may be the desire of her heart
: Love or dislike of life has nothing t.
e do with the matter In the Mormon
It world a woman must be sealed to
IS man or else she is doomed to eterna
q death" The second doctrine is Xix,
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