The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-23

nonieIesS spirits; they must go wailing
through eternity, with no abiding place
IN any OF the Mormon heavens-the cast
OH. neglected children OF the eternal Fa-
ri tneri consequently they have but a
seeking to be born. Every woman is
SonS cons tantly surrounded by thousands,
millions million. OF them. peading for an oppor-
'umi.y 10 get into the world.
The prime object. OF course. is to cap
Iure the most desirable human parents.
Especially blessed are those who are
states. in the families Of the saints
The supply Of human parents is so
snlan; however, and the multitude OF
conSt rained to enter the world under less
desirable conditions Some Seven submit
Willingly TO humiliating parentage; the
children is Que to their incessant plead
inss. And the competition is now wax
ing acute as there is only little time
left: in few years the millennium Will
be here, the first resurrection will come
the reign Of earthly man will be over.
and there will be no Further opportunity
have not become human beings by. that
time will be doomed TO outer darkness
through limitless eternity.
Polygamy Is EXaltation
The word for heavenly bliss. in Nor
mon mon Theology: is not salvation" il is
saved. but all may not be exalted"
This transcendent glory is largely de-
pendent upon ones matrimonial achieve
ments Marriage, in the Mormon church.
! is different from anything known In
any civilized country. There are sew
eral ways in which Mormon may wed
for this world only. precisely are all
| Christians-"until death do you part"
The Mormons teach, however. that fam
( lily relations In the future life are to be
resumed. and that a man will go on
living with his wife or wives. and con-
tinue TO rear children. To be married
! has his wife only for this life. and that
at the resurrection she and ali her chill
dren-his children. too-wlll be strang-
crs to him.
Children Born In Next World
| Therefore III Mormonsm the only mar
riage that really counts is the marriage
! Is not marriage" but sealing" That
| is a man and woman are married
for time" but they are sealed for
life" The great majority of marriages.
are for both time and eternity" =
man and a woman live together in this
life. and when both have gone beyond
the veil'' they placidly resume their
domestic relations and continue to have
children throughout eternity. In many
man for time. and sealed" 10 another
for eternity. Children born to her in
such a marriage do not belong TO her
temporal husband. but will go with her
into the celestial Kingdom and become
part OF the posterity OF the husband to
whom she has been sealed Thus a
TO one good departed saint can still.
without Infringing divine law. become
the wife Of another saint, merely for
time. Joseph Smith. the founder of
Morrnonisrn. left many wives who had
been scaled" TO him: Brigham Young
tool; about half OF them for time, and
Ueber c. Kimball the other half. Many
obIiging saints permit unmarried women
10 be sealed to them, hundreds were
supposed to have been sealed TO Brig
nam Young Such sealings have no
"aiidity in this life. though the married
relations begin in the celestial world.
Man With Increase May Be God.
And what the orthodox Mormon yeams
for above all else is Kingdom" and
an "in"-case." Unless he has this he
angel" Those unmarried. or married
only Tor time. will get no farther than
the terrestrial Kingdom; Their chief
serve as '.rninistering angels" or SER
wants OF those in the celestial world
And in this celestial world God reserves
the highest glory for those who have
the largest posterity.
Eyer since Brigham Young planted his
polygamous theocracy in Utah. In 1871
Mormon history has been one continu-
ons conflict with the government for the
preservation OF this phallic form OF wor-
ship. For nearly forty years our failure
nationai reproac ci Many sporadic at
fcnpts we're made. several laws were
passed, but the efforts always ended ir
failure.
clnded that this uncivlized situation hac
lasted long enough. and entered upon
II went into the campaign with dead
ily- seriousness. determined TO destroy
poygamy destroy tho Mormon church
in that year II passed the Edmunds law
I'll IL r. al nrnirlom.
this time the government had learned tht
futDity Of attempting TO punish polygami
as a specific crime. In order to ccnVlc
on such a charge, ii was necessary t'
r prove polygamous marriage: ana ln'
: secrecy with which these marriages Wer'
; / performed made IL virtually imposslo'
Z To get the legal evidence.
Congress therefore determined to as
sail the Institution in the only practica
way-by making the outward naniiesi!aa "a.
tion Of polygamous relations the speeli
[ onensc Under the EdmunGs law, thcre
fore, IL was not necessary TO prove tna
n man had married plural vic: aii ,hs
"oy common habit and repute lived IL
the marital relation with more than on
woman. The Edmunds law. thereiore
described new crimc-that oil uniu"
ful cohabitation."
ION the Underground
Under this law there followed th
period In Utah history which Mormon
writer's usually describe as me tiof'u I,S,,
sent out. as chief Justice. Charles >. Han
nf Illinois Abraham Lincolns successo
4 In the Springfield law firm OF Iincor
& Herndon. Judge Zanes arrival wa wa
signal for a general flight OF polysamls
Mornlon6. Almost all the leading &c
=. cIesiastics suddenly went into hiding o
os the underground" or left the country
0, For several years only three or four apos
Ia ties were present NJ the semi annui
Y, conferences OF the church. the rest Wef
fugitlycs from Justice, a large PaFt
the anti Mormon population. official an
4 unofficial Joined in the chase Hunt
u ing "coha bs"-such was the name apple
10 those accused Of unlawful cohanlta
tion-bccamc the chief occupation nt
horde of deputy United states marshai
assisted by small army OF cieIes
men. newspaper reporters, banKcrs; .n'I
chants and even women ana chllure'
II In those days the appearance ol
- stranger in any Mnrnlon town "as hsua
" A.. EaiI...rad L.. liz scu nlncrlng Of n cor