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Show MORMON CHURCH. POLYGAMY. 117 allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how or when they may. 13. " We believe in being subject to Kings, Queens, Presidents, Rulers, and Magistrates, in obeying, honoring and sustaining the law. 14. " We believe in being honest, true, chaste, temper ate, benevolent, virtuous, and upright, and in doing good to all men ; indeed, we may say that we follow the admoni tion of Paul ; we believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured very many things and hope to be able to en-, dure all things. Everything lovely, virtuous, praiseworthy, and of good report, we seek after, looking forward to the recompense of reward ; but an idle or lazy person cannot be a Christian, neither have salvation. He is a drone, and destined to be stung to death, and tumbled out of the hive." This strange admixture of doctrines, culled from the tenets of almost every religious, as well as pagan sect, is modified from time to time to better suit their materialistic views, in crease the despotism of the church, and sanction their lustful pleasures. There are many very absurd doctrines now taught, which are not warranted by the articles I have quoted nor taught in their original works on theology. Materialism is hinted at in the articles ; but is very plainly taught in some of their writings as well as in their discourses. Orson Pratt, one of the " Twelve," a noted writer in the church, and ex pounder of the faith, and perhaps the smartest man among them, in explaining their belief in this particular, is guilty of the following irreverent and profane language, as recorded in " The Seer" a work edited by him and published in Liverpool : " The Father is a material being. The substance of His person occupies space. It has mobility, length, breadth and thickness, like other matter. The substance of His person cannot be in two places at the same time. It requires time for him to transport himself from place to place." Again he says : u The resemblance between God awd man has refer- |
