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Show 92 THE MORMON LION in Heaven, and a man of only one wife shall not be exalted. Without plurality there ain't no full salvation either for man or woman. . " It'll be borne in mind there once was a marriage m Cana of Gahlee. On careful reading, it'll be discovered that no less a person than Jesus Christ was the bridegroom on that occasion. If he was never married, then his intimacy with Mary and Marthy and the other Mary who he loved was mighty unbecommg and 1mfroper, to say the best of it. According to my tell, i Jesus Christ was now to pa~s through the most piOus countnes of Chnstendom w1th a train of womenfolks like what used to tag him around fondling about Him, combing His hair, anointing Hi~ with rrecwus omtment, washing His feet with tears and w1pmg them with the hair of their heads and He was unmarried, or even if he was married_:_he'd be tarred and feathered and rode, not on an ass, but on a rail. ."Did Jesus Christ multiply and did he see his seed? D1d heho~our H1s Father's law by complying with 1~, or didn t he? Others may think as they like, but I II not charge our SaviOur with neglect or transgression in this or any other duty. He was married both for tin:e and for eternity, not to one but to many Wives. He IS marned m Heaven now · he rides about the celestial regions with his wives in 'a car drawn by four white horses. " God the Fa the:, the Chief and Supreme Head of all ,the gods, also IS marned to many wives. If he am t, h~w could he have begotten Jesus Christ and all the mfimty of the gods what are under him ? Some of you here can remember that great discourse of Joseph on the three separate gods of the Trinity. I had It republished in the Deserct News last July. What di<i Joseph say? Here it is: 'The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man's; the Son also; but the Holy Ghost ain't got a body of flesh and bones, but is a personage of THE MORMON LION 93 Spirit. It has to be, or the Holy Ghost couldn't dwell in us.' . " Yes God the Father married a whole lot of wives and beg~t the race of gods. Among 'em was Adam. He came down to this world and took on an earthly body- a tabernacle of clay. He is the God of this world, and the only God we have anything to do with, or will have- leastways till the year r8go, when Joseph foretold that the Son of Man will show his face m the world. " That is the year of the second coming of the Lord, for which you ought to make ready by. prayer and obedience unto counsel and payment of tithes a~d by entering into the Order of Enoch. That last IS the greatest of all blessings- to co~secrate your possessions unto the Lord by deedmg em unto the Trustee in Trust, the Prophet of the Most H1gh. Lay up treasures in Heaven, in the storehouse of the Lord. Them that trust their all to the Lord, great shall be their reward! "Would to God there was a larger sprinklin~ of righteous men to leaven the lump of your Imqmty! There are more devils amongst you than in all the world besides. This ain't the first time I've denounced your wickedness, and it won't be the last, neither! There are them amongst you here- nowwhat have dared write me 'nonymous letters, threatening me because I have exposed their thievery and lying and all 'round smfulness. Ali them amongst you what are my enemies have the benefit of my most earnest prayers. I do pray for you- I pray God A'mighty to damn you I . " As for you nasty cusses what want to apostatize -what want to escape obeyin&" counsel- I _say, watch out how you, court persecution, lest you g1t ~o much of it you wont know what to do w1th It. Don t you court persecution, or judgment'll be put to the line and righteousness to the plummet. Apostates should be cut off- under the ears. I'll send to hell |