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Show 63 . 'attlrfrlatlve aide from all hin d,utle e. then lntro du.od P:rofesor Prm.tt to the iludlenoe. whioh .s the l-"roteesor 'I<J'8S $0 well known and the ump1re slmoet unznosn, oreated a slight tl tte. lJ,h1oh. bowever. l1Atened speedily aubaledt Quietly to the Argument and the . assemblage of :Professor OrBon Pratt I appear before this ltu(11.no e to t11aous$ a ButlJeot that 1s 'certainly impQr·ta.nt to us, .and no doubt 16 interesting to the omntry at large. the subJet of· plurality Of wives. or, as namely: H the question is stated, Does the lUble fJanot1on U I would state; by way of· apology to :the Polygamy·' I that Audhmoe. h4v been unacoustomed. nearly all I It is something new to me. debate. life to my (10 not reool1eot or. ever having hel.d more than one or- ·titlQ debates, in- the oourse of my life, on any I th1nk the laat 011.(+ waG some thirty years subJeot. But I feel great ago, in the city or dlnburgh. pleasure this afternoon 1n appeat·lng betor·.e this audienoe for the J)urp.ose of examIning the question I 9h11 simply read what 1s. u,nd.9r d1sCustllon. stated in the Sibl.e, an,d melut such remarks 8S I may oonsider proer upon th. 000&010n.10 . , . It would Reem that Orson Pratt employing first begins his speeoh t1me-ho,nored techniques of eth1oa.l proof. some He la.entities himself with the audience and its problems, plea for indulgenoe in order, per hape' to Then he makes a eetabl1h his sense , of mod'Bt:y ,.;And' 1n the elosing aent enee I I indlogtes the method whioh he intends ln'f, h1n the case. Impllci t in this la@!t to follow in 8etablleb- sentenoe 9$SlftB to be aleo attempt to establish in the mind,,,. ot the aUdienoe" that be will proceed with candor and strlghttorw4rdnes., "s1mply read what i8 stated In the Blblt* him ir3 tht the '0, rCi( Ae the Bible. 11 Xt would aeem to open and ,hut. 'All he h It .1s sood, ,posit1ve fle w1l1 t BUiueat1.Qn. d 'virtual y This he |
