The Lehi sun. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1913-1949, 1922-03-16
MoRMoNs WITH FORTY WIVES
Half Clad Brides at Sensual marrlaoe
Ceremonies.
rrIshtful immortality.

Frightful immortality.
me Infamous crusade in this coun-
Oh the Mormons-or Latterday |
SAINTS, as they call themselves-is |
ousins pubic opinion To a high pitch :,
Indignation. There Is already
eriuenee that the missionaries of this
noTul cult are actively at work In
aisail endeayouring under the cloak
IeHBloh TO persuade young women
" become converts and to accompany
nenl 10 SAT- Lake City in America
the nome of Mormonism.
Glowing pictures of a life of
anu pleasure are painted by ease
missionaries; but the other these
ny, me Ssory mas recently been sac oil
Mrs. Lulu l.. Shepard, a fc told by
den OF Salt Lake City wnr rmer resi-
OF Mormonism is as am use exposure
complete and damning .azing as 1t Is
zion OF the so called .. Her descrip-
mOny' gives " marriage cere-
what unspeakabls .vid impression of
are in store TO- misery and agenies
victim to tho the girl who falls a
TbA wiles OF Mormon.
FrighttaI latest Blasphemy.
Utah aud immortality prevails in
rampaB'' the practice OF polygamy is
declar in. the Mormon Church today
Prieg 81 Mrs. Shepard. "rhe High
Ch' Us are still damned by the
t. Lrch II they do not take at least
N wives. The extent of thu molly
saMy can be guaged by the fi4ct that
mere are $4,000 High Priests in the
Shurch, and the richest acl,ong them
nave no fewer than forty wives.
me latest and most blasphemous
OF an the Mounon slogS ms is that God
sent the Great war to make 10. OOO. 900
"iuoWs Tor the exr ,ress purpose OF
STRENGTHENING and increasing the
numbers OF the Mormon Church
renee tue recen' elaboration of the
eos',y mlsslonar system. Polygamy
ehe MormoHs IL aclare. win be accepted
III sS whole world within ten years
unmarried wp men are utterly damned
"e Cnune n. So. too, is the Nor
aS m Wulnah who dares TO aspire "a
HV,s ptiuh I me husband
mrs. SAoT ard gave US a vivid de
- poo OF the unspeakable agonies
nhS mrs wife OF Mormon when
10 med that by the implacable de
q of tn Church, her husband must
y Aarry otf Ter women.
"Wome n are taught that polygamy
= is a div me institution she said
o This G. uel Church DEGREES that the
o first wife must give her consent, and
h all her superstitious fears, inculcated
l. by the Church, are exploited to en-
a force this consent. Some wives receive
" the privilege of selecting the associ
I. ate wives who will share their nuptia
10 rights. Invariably they choose a sis
~ ter or some other relative"
10 Loathsome Rites In Secret Temple.
The celestial marriage is then seal
ed in the secret temple by loathsom'
!, rites. To understand these incredibly
sensual ceremonies II Is necessary L
~ remember the Mormon teaching tina
ne God is a man of passions; that jesus
eu took three wives at the feast o
81 Canaan, and that Joseph Smith is Hi
be direct descendant. The first wifi
IT. must give the hand of the succeeding
Jet brides to her husband in the temple
he THE stage setting for the sealing,
a. says Mrs. Shepard, SIS a gross ant
OF mixed presentation OF the Creation
In. the Garden OF Eden, and the Fall o
lat Man. Then the seminude eide
,re claps the shiyering, half-clad bride
NO probably some young foreign CONVEX
M. and seals her to the Mormon. Thi
~ ceremony Is preceded and followe,
~. by a narrowing procession through
y, subterranean passages and tunnels
a.. by bathing and the DOMINIC OF thu
:" secret underwear and other parapher
az MALTA, and long, nerye-racking wal
In pitch black room.
nat "rhe ceremony lasts all day, ant
res the benighted bride is often carried
len fainting from the temple"
the Mrs Shepard has In her possession
pa signed deathbed disclosure of thes,
the rites given by a Mormon nurse.
bur Secret Underwear.
OBJ "The Mormons,' said Mrs. Shepard
OF are extremely sensitive about thei
secret underwear, the design of whicl
ua was supposed 70 have been reveale,
mt, by God to Joseph Smith II Is wori
lin. by all deyout Mormons. as a pre-
INF lection from the evil one. and by ever,
nav bride and bridegroom sealed in tn
~ temple. These suits have higI