Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-09-06
RELIGION OF SENSUALlSM
BASED ON W0MAN'S WEAKNESS

We can construe the words,
spoken by last Sundays orator in
4 the Tabernacle, about polygamy, as
a covert notice to all Mormons
that polygamy is still held by the
authorities of the system as much
a tenet of the faith as ii was
twenty years ago, when the peni-
/ tertiary was filled with those
who were there simply because
/ they would not promise to obey
the laws of the United States and
of civilization.
The testimony of Joseph F.
Smith before the Senate committee
( foreshadowed this, for it was not
difficult to read between the lines
of his statement that he was dis
obeying both the laws of the land
and of the church; that he consid-
cred the manifesto of President
Woodruff merely as something
which any succeeding president
might retract 1t will be remem-
bered that the phrasing of the man
ifesto itself was merely suspen-
sion. There " as no repeal of the
prophecy. Fairly construed and
constituting the words as the ordi-
nary mortal would naturally con-
strue them, the Lord did not say,
''the revelation given to Joseph has
done its work; it is hereby annull-
ed. - Rather, a fair rendering
would be, ''You, mys people, have
had hard game with those wicked
Gentiles. 1t is tin for you to dis
semble. - The lions skin is liable
to be punctured; throw it off and
put on the vestments of the fox.
Pretend to suspend the revelation
make any promises that you please ;
get statehood as quickly as possible,
and then Live your religion. -
We mean no sacrilege by the
above We are but reasoning like
an Apostle. The words of the
speaker on Sunday show more
clearly than anything that has
been said of late; that the trainers
of the creed had in mind the same
thoughts that had the men of old
who framed creeds with foundations
laid in promises of sexual pleasures
to accompany or follow the serving
of God. That is the chiefest sub
strata of the Mohammedan creed.
1t was the foundation stone in a
dozen creeds of the early world,
which flourished for a time and
then persisted through their own
nastiness. They originated, doubt
less, in the knowledge that the love
of woman, when once awakened,
causes within her a desire to make
sacrifices for the man she loves.
If to that the belief can be engen-
dered in her soul that it is the will
of God that she shall suppress her
which will add to the happiness
and the glory of the man she
, loves in the world to come, she
becomes an easy victim.
This, under one or another form,
has been over and over repeated by
cunning priests.
Sidney Rigdon was a scholar anc
. knew All tnat history, ana we
, suspect that it was he who incor.
! porated the idea into the Mormon
!, faith. When the speaker on Sun.
! day declared that, despite persecu
ton, this creed was to increase un
= til it shall fill the world, he wa,
> presumably thinking of the Moslen
. faith, which is still growing il
/, numbers and aggressiveness.
! 1t was, in places, a shameful, il
other places a sacrilegious outburst
> but through it ran an exultant tone
, which seemed to say: ''Give u:
but the power to continue to beguil
=. men and women into the belief tina
: what is sensual in other people i
\ but the promptings of the will o
. God, in them, and we will catcl
the world in our net easier than w
s did Senator Warren, of Wyoming.
= -Goodwin's Weekly.