White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-04-20
THINKS MARRIAGE
A MORALPANACE
But, SAYS MORMON SPEAKER,
UNION MUST BE IN THE
CHURCH AND IN SPIRIT OF
RIGHTEOUSNESS.

Apostle Hyrum NJ. Smith who
was a speaker at the Mormon con
ference at Salt Lake City, last week,
touched upon the beauty of flial
devotion, and declared that nowhere
on earth were young men and young
women so dutiful to their parents as
in the stake of Zion.
Apostle Smith then launched
his discourse upon marriage. In
substance he said:
1.-THE normal condition of the
world today is bad. 1t is causing
widespread concern among others
than ministers of the gospel. States
men are much concerned and are on
Quoting exhaustive Investigations.
immortality is rife in the world, and
while these conditions are not so
prevalent among Latter-day Saints,
still some have come close to danger.
"As a remedy for this condition of
immortality. it has been urged that
marriage is the solution. think that
is right. | think it should be advo-
Gated by ministers and others. The
principle of marriage has been for
gotten too long. and it needs atten-
tion not only on the part of the
authorities of the church, but also on
the part of the civil authorities and
on the part of the people themselves.
"One of our neighboring states
published to the world in great head
lines and with boastful words, the
fact hat its record shows one divorce
in every seven marriages. Think of
that
II strongly. advocate marriage
among the young, but it must be mar
riage in righteousness. We should
never speak of marriage in a spirit
of levity for that would deter young
people from entering into the sacred
marriage state.
MANY young men in our midst
ought to marry. Some are afraid
that they cannot support a wife in
the manner in which she has been
accustomed to live. Let me say to
these that their fathers and their
grandfathers reared large and noble
families, and that they started life
with far less than the young men of
today have. By %frugality. industry
and the help of God, those forebears
succeeded, and by the application of
the same principles the young men of
today also will succeed.
1t is also true that some young
women hesitate 10 marry fine young
men because they fear they will not
be supported as they would wish.
cannot bring myself to believe that
any great number of young women
seek marriage only to get some
one to earn money for them to spend
for pleasure and in extravaganza.
Marriage is bound TO bring I'M
happiness unless IL is entered into in
the spirit of God. Nothing brings so
much confusion in the house of God
or in the world as the woman who
has been divorced, and who has had
children by each of her husbands.
Equally is that true of men who have
divorced several wives. In truth the
issue of such people are without
father or mother and without name
|almost-eertainly without name in
the next world.
Our young men who marry
Gentle girls create confusion. They
are not observing the law of God.
Separation is certain to come after
this life. No young man can marry
outside the church without dishonor-
ing his father and his mother and
without breaking the laws of God.
Let our young men and women mar
ry in the church, in the holy places
set aport for that solemn rite, let
their marriage be a part of their
religion. DO not let a Gentle man
and a Mormon girl be yoked together,
for il Will bring attendant misery and
u%nhappiness. A marriage outside the
church is an act in violation of the
law of God"