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Show 62 te':rms and fater-'aoceptanoe ot tbose rema,rks aa from :Prattts defin1 t1ve or the s1tuat1on? that both men held the fut1tamental le t conoernlng point of view the fl!l?l" Henoe, they both {SS9umed that 1 t was not the ease that the Bible both sanctioned end did not practioe ot' polyg,amy" 1.e. command, a whole the the disoussion p:rooeeded Pratt and As lnterp:retng the nature of the point seemed to be Nennan I ,analonJ am. Frat t held. th.at, is sue di fferently" tt at if W& ean :rind one law ';., ,¥,rh a1" e a established on of 19 oommant' monogamy.nn fl, thtn gl'ven. p1 ural 1 ty of w1 ves w111 be pel'manent tooting, equal. in legal! ty to th.at Hhe:reas, Netan in'sisted that .. "the matertal question to be deoided is, \,rh1.oh 1s the authorized system ot ma.rrlag .. polygamy, The or ,.9 monogamy. following xeerpt \' trom the Dtlerat . tor August 13, 1870 introduced the printed renorts cussion of the dis t)etwe'en Oraon t'ratt anrl Dr. J. P. Newman: At ,t'wo ' olock yesterday afternoon Profess o,r ratt't;lnd'.Dr. NewmAn,t with t'helr t:rlend9 and the umpt r es met in the stan<.'l of the He\-! 'I'abet"nSlolej tbe two fOl'mer gentlemen -prepared, fo,r the dis o , oussion of the question, "Doe" the B1ble sanotion '* An aUdlenee of three or tour tholls,and-Polygamy? at least halt of 1.rhlch wae of the ,rltler sex-tUJetmbled to he&X' the discuBsion. At a few minutes p8at two. the uid.. 1enoe :w'as, ,oall.ed, to arder by Judge O.M. Hawley. the umpire of Dr. Newman, on the negative, he (fol't\mately we presume) bG!lng abIent from ,his district at this Junctu:r."--Eitnd E).dEir John Taylor offered tb. openlns pra"r The •• me umpire, who somehOw or othe had. got the idea tha,t he 'Iiaa the mQtter ot oer'$mQnlea on the 00 aq10nt nnlJ that he, 1'Hould 't'e11eve the um c e the , ,'>, ------- ' |
