Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-06-25

| PIE were engaged IN the pluTallNy "
wives and these were with but few
exceptions, the very best and trutHt
men among them. for that kind OF mar
riase OF one man 10 more than one
| woman required the greatest unselilsh-
ness and the grandest nobility OF suul
| conceivable In n man. How unselnsh
must true mother teach herself 70
be. how must a good man pure oi
| mind, uncOrrupted by lust ever RESTRAIN
even HIS Just anger and continually
| curb his tongue. a father OF a iainl-
! ~ OF children must ever De- under bril-
| die and rein In order Go govern ana
| bring TO maturity In this HE the souls
entrusted to his care.
Race suicide Is looked upon with
| horror by Mormons They esteem Il
az they do murder the shedding Of
innocent blood, one crime their religion
teaches them which God VIII not FOR
give. so large families were the rule
among plural families and one man
Is said 10 have been the father OF 80
sons and daughters Brigham Young
had f6 children for whom he provided
at his death. In his Will every child
and each wife was called by name and
portion provided for him or her I'm
that document The most Of them are
men and women 20 be proud OF In any
land or age. After carrying on for
years a legal fight In the courts OF the
land to establish their legal right %
marry more than one wife living with
them as his wives during their life
time as plural wives, the court or
last resort decided against such rights,
and the further practise Of such mar
riages was forbidden by the Church
and Mormon plural marriage Is ancient
history even as the history OF the So
cial relations OF the progenitors OF
Jesus Christ is ancient His kindred
for generations married more than one
wife, and according to the flesh our
Savior Is a direct descendant Of plural
families, but 80 called Mormon po-
lygamy' Is dead Mormons believe In
obeying honoring and sustaining the
laws OF the land and In bowling to the
will OF the majority and In republic
like ours they az a people are not
lawbreakers. as liquor dealers and
gamblers very often are, defying as
they do public opinion and the laws
Of the states for the regulation OF the
liquor traffic. as you know has often
been done In your own city.
An eminent divine Of New York city
In sermon lately preached, decred
against woman suffrage, saying that
many OF the advocates Of such rights
for women only engaged in the fight
with the hope that n women were
given the ballot that tandem polyg-
amy" would be better protected and
made more easy by more liberal divorce
laws which would then be enacted by
the influence Of women voters Even
though this man be a great scholar,
a minister Of the most fashionable
church in New York. do not all Of
you think his sermon a vile SANDER
upon the female sex? Tandem po-
lygamy!" What is the meaning Of IL?
Tandem means driving one horse or
other animal in harness directly ahead
Of another, and tandem team may
consist Of two or more. We know that
In nearly all Protestant churches there
are numbers to whom this term will
apply, but that our sex desire such
conditions more than the men, we will
all and every one. I am sure. deny. A
preacher Is but man. and he has no
license to tell a Wicked lie I'm his pull
pit, though men who are licensed 20
preach often do. We as sex have
been mlsrepresented by men from
Mother Eve to Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
We think that Father Adam was
as glad 10 cat the apple
as our first mother, though
she no doubt was the wiser OF
the twain. and really wanted IN know
good from evil and Father Adam, you
know. said that as Eve had become
mortal and subject 20 death, that he
who had not eaten as yet was an I'M
mortal man and by death would be
separated IIpID MS WE therefore ne
must eat out OF his great love Tor
Eve 50 that they both might live to-
gether as mOrtals Who married this
first coupler Mormons claim that God
performed the ceremony. and as at
that time they were both immortal,
God could not have said IN them In
wedding them until death do YOU
part" for death was not yet m IN
habitant Of the earth. therefore God
must have bound them In n covenant
"for time and all eternity" and that
therefore they our foreparents arc
husband and wife In the eternal world
Mnrnons claim that Christ reinsti-
tuted this order 81 celestial or eternal
marriage when he was on earth saying
10 his apostles and elders. Whatsoever
or whom soever We bind on earth shall
be bound IN heaven" Matt. 16: 10
God said IN the beginning: ct Is not
good for man 20 be alone Paul said
For the woman Is not without the
man nor the man without the woman
in the kingdom Of Cod"
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