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Show -THE UTAH EVANGELIST.- <br><br> [plural]ity of wives in the name of the gospel, even in the name of the perfection of the gospel, going backward under pretext of progress; they confound the church with the synagogue and with the mosque, and they assume to place under the keeping of Jesus Christ and his angels that which was formerly an infirmity, and which would be to-day <br> AN INFAMY. <br> Polygamy is incompatible with Christianity. Jesus Christ brought marriage back to the state of its perfect origin, to its two primordial or rather eternal laws; unity and indissolubility: "Have you not read that in the beginning God made the man and the woman, and said. ‘Man shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. What God has joined let no man put asunder.'" <br> It is thus that he has formed the union exclusive and indissoluble of the one woman and the one man, the natural law of the human family, the supernatural image of his own union with one only Church which he will never repudiate. Woman has been rehabilitated by Christian monogamy in the high dignity from which she was degraded by polygamy, the daughter and mother of sin. There are only two divisions of the contents of the world, persons and things. Things are comprised in that category of objects which are without intelligence, without rights, without any moral value and which are used by the persons for their pleasure or their interest. Persons are beings endowed with intelligence and conscience, having rights and duties, which they enjoy and perform in the equity of justice. In the polygamous state, woman descends in the manner from the rank of a person to the level of a thing; she becomes in the matrimonial union either a vile instrument of pleasure or a noble instrument of maternity, but always one instrument, a thing, which is used, and not the gentle companion which is the object of an undivided and eternal affection. By nature the duties of paternity and maternity are subordinated in man and in woman to the <br> DIGNITY OF MAN AND WIFE. <br> These come first. This dignity demands that they shall give themselves entirely and exclusively the one to the other, taking each other for the direct and supreme purpose of their love and their union, and permitting no other to penetrate within the pale of that sacred intimacy where two are made one not only in flesh, but in spirit. Physiological considerations ought to be made subordinate to psychological and moral exigencies. Without doubt paternity is a sacred family duty, but it is only legitimate in the unity of love. <br> The learned Pere concluded his address with a most touching and fervent prayer for all mankind, and especially for the earnest inhabitants of these valleys, whom he prayed might see the great wrongs they are doing themselves by this grafting from paganism, and eventually drop it altogether from their system. <br> The meeting was a united one of the non- Mormon churches in the city, most of the ministers of which were present on the stand. Rev. Mr. McNiece explained in English the argument made by the Pere, and Rev. Mr. Iliff pronounced an enthusiastic encomium on the great divine's work, and on his noble character as a man. <br><br> LETTER FROM PROF. COYNER. <br> CHICAGO, May 6, 1884. <br> Leaving Salt Lake City at 7:30 p. m., and being comfortably quartered in a Pullman, one does not realize that he is beginning a long journey, But when we awoke the next morning one hundred and fifty miles east, and looked on all nature covered with snow, we began to realize we were leaving home. <br> Two hours' detention at Denver Junction caused us to miss connection at Omaha for the south-east, and it being Saturday, a regard for the Sabbath caused us to spend Sunday, April 20th, at Omaha, feeling that while "man proposes, God disposes." and that "He does all things well." <br> We enjoyed the Sabbath services very much, worshipping with the Rev. Mr. Hurshead's church. <br> The most of the week following was spent at Maryville, Mo. <br> Here we heard Boston's great lecturer, Joseph Cook, deliver his lecture, "Does Death End All Things." The lecture was a powerful plea for an accountable immortality, 1st, from one's own instincts, 2d, from organic developement [sic], and 3d, from revelation. <br> Sabbath, April 27th, as spent in St. Louis, where in the forenoon we listened to an able gospel sermon from Dr. Brookes. <br> The first of the following week was spent in visiting the public schools of the city, especially the kindergartens, for which St. Louis has a National reputation. There are over 5,600 children in these schools, and they well deserve to be popular. Under proper control and direction they are certainly the schools for the young. <br> Leaving St. Louis on Tuesday, we spent two days at Pana, Ill, and reached Chicago on Saturday. <br> We spent the Sabbath, May 4th, at Valparaiso, Ind. 40 miles east of Chicago, returning to the city on Monday, in time to meet with the Prebytery of Chicago in the Presbyterian rooms on Wabash Avenue. From here we propose to go East via Logansport, Fort Wayne, Harrisburg, Pa., reaching Saratoga by the opening of the General Assembly, Thursday, May 15th. <br> We have enjoyed our trip thus far very much. We feel like a boy that has been shut up in close quarters, and being let loose feels like clapping his hands and shouting in the outburst of his joy. <br> Five things have impressed themselves upon us: <br> 1st. The remarkable growth of our country in all that constitutes a great nation. <br> 2d. The great interest that is taken in the affairs of Utah. Truly, the native, at least the Christian, element is becoming aroused on this subject. <br> 3d. That while there is a growing feeling that Utah must be brought into harmony, and that speedily, with the institutions of our country, there is no feeling of animosity toward her "peculiar people;" but rather that of sympathy for their condition. <br> 4th. That the redemption of Utah from a loyal standpoint is to be along the line of Christian education and evangelical influence, rather than from political control. <br> 5th. That the Christian people of America are willing to give all the material aid that can be wisely used in bringing the country now controlled by the so called Mormon Church into harmonious accord with Christian Republicanism, believing that measures that appeal to reason are more to be desired than those that appeal to force. But that if the former fail in the great contest now going on in Utah, through the persistence of the violaters [sic] of law, there must be no hesitancy in using sterner methods, for the nation must be the true and faithful custodian of the sacred trust given to her by the God of nations. <br> J. M. C. <br><br> PERSONAL. <br> Mrs. Blackburn, teacher at St. George, is suddenly called to Kansas, owing to sickness in her family. She will return in the fall. <br> Miss A. R. McCracken, who has conducted a successful school at Smithfield for the past two years, left for her home in Pennsylvania last week, being called away from the work by sickness in her family. <br> Pere Hyacinth was in Salt Lake City for a few days last month. He delivered a discourse in French on Church Unity*, at St. Mark's on Thursday evening, and one on polygamy at the Methodist church, on Sunday evening. The houses were packed on both occasions. <br> Miss Mary E. Moore, for the past five years principal of the Grammar School Department of the Collegiate Institute, Salt Lake City, goes East this summer to spend the vacation with her relatives at Springfield Illinois. This will be her first trip East since coming to Utah. <br> Joseph Cook arrived here on Wednesday, May 14th, to remain until Monday. His object is to gain more fresh and definite information about the state of affairs in Utah. So that the American and Christian cause here may expect still more powerful help in the future from this remarkable man. Mr. Cook is the guest of Rev. R. G. McNiece. <br> Miss Kate Best, one of the most efficient teachers in the Utah Mission Work, who for the last two years has been conducting a school at Wellsville, in Cache Valley, under all kinds of trials and discouragements, has been summoned East by the Home Mission Board, to travel and lecture during the summer on the Utah question. She goes first to Saratoga, to the General Assembly. <br><br><br> *phrase "Church Unity" is italicized <br><br> |
