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Show 352 TEAVELS AND ADVENTUEES IN THE FAE WEST. shall not state the hah° I do know. What I have said are a few every day items, a few of the first principles of the Gospel of Christ, as believed and practised by the " Mormons." I will tell one more before I close. " Your marriages," says the objector, " are founded upon principles entirely new, and different from the Christian world." I say, without any hesitancy, I defy the world to establish that assertion. I say our marriage relations are nothing new at all. There is no man, or set of men, or nation of men, where the Bible is extant, and they are readers, but what know that the institutions of marriage contained in the Bible, and the organization of families, differ widely from modern Christianity. We differ from' modern Christianity, but not from the Bible. Patriarchs of the remotest ages, that obeyed the Lord God in regard to their marriages and family organizations, have not disagreed with us, nor we with them, so far as we and they have obeyed the law of God. If there is any difference at all, it was more developed among them than it is among us, we being in our infancy. If it should happen to be, that the whole modern world differ from the Bible-have done away with the law of God, and we have come in contact with them, instead of with the word of God, then the boot is on the other foot, and in reality what is said to us applies to them. It is like the farmer and the lawyer. A certain farmer came to a neighboring lawyer, and frankly confessed that his bull had had the misfortune to kill one of his (the lawyer's) oxen. The lawyer replied, " Thou art a very honest fellow, and will not think it wrong that I have one of thy oxen in return." "But," said the farmer, " I am mistaken, it was thy bull that killed my |
