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Show John Tanner and His 364 Family responsible positions. His name is also honored in business circles. I hold the position of President in the Relief Society and it would be readily inferred that I have a fair understanding of the faith and principles of our Church. I have seen crimes and missdemean know well the spirit of ors imputed to the apostate element, and often wonder at the uncalled for bitterness of people who leave the Church. The wisest are liable to err and if our judgments are sometimes at fault, our principles are upright and honest, and comprise the good and pure of all religious doctrines. Our religion is founded on the Bible and on Revelation: and holds nothing, and know nothing of the this people by our defamers. I in itself nothing that is corrupt or offensive. Polygamy I know to be a sacred principle. Like all sacred principle it is capable of being abused as marriage itself frequently is: but every safeguard is thrown around it that can be brought to bear on any religious service, lest any should enter it unworthily. There is no accounting for or directing the dispositions of men and women, and many live unhappily together, where there is but one wife. I believe it is given for the regeneration of mankind. There are no healthier, or better developed children, than those born in polygamy. I cannot recall a single instance, as far of my observation extends of idiocy, malformation, or deformity among those born in polygamic relations. physical blessing to needy women.) thought to promote jealousy, but I believe it allays it; for our ladies certainly have unbounded faith in their husbands, which I am told, by those having opportunities for observation, the Gentile ladies who visit (It is a It is among us have not. The manners and customs of the people are varied, as they are taken from so many nationalities. Experience and observation must teach all thinking people that it is impossible for a large number of people to understand alike on all the given subjects. There are as many varieties of of temperament, but they are united on general principles; is sometimes necessary in order to carry special points for colonization or other purposes, to impress on the minds of the masses thought as although it that they must follow They meet twice advice. year at the simi-annual conferences, and vote to sustain their leaders and hear the principles of their faith expounded, together with their other numerous meetings, and it is quite proper they should follow the advice of those they profess to sustain; therefore comes from the pulpit the "Do as I tell you" which our enemies make such an a offense of. Every thinking person must understand that it is impossible for any rulers, either of Church or State to manage affairs in a profitable manner for those they cannot control, and the simple meaning of those words is, that if the people will follow the advice of those holding authority set of |
