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Show I 5 2 PRACTICAL POLYGAMY. some may be putting away their unlawful wives, and others refuse to become polygamists, it is as popular in high places as ever. Only a few days before the date of this writing a considerable excitement arose in Zion because a young daughter of the editor of The Telegraph, sixteen years old, was married as the fourth wife of a son of the president, while the principal merchant of the city had previously applied to her father for her as his fourth wife, and was refused. Brigham Young would make it appear that he is more strongly impressed as to the propriety of polygamy than he ever was before. At the last semi- annual conference when a large congregation of people from the rural districts was assembled he made this a special subject. These peo ple know but little of how polygamy is regarded out of Utah, and are a class who regard their prophet as next in wisdom to the Omniscient, hence his desire to impress strongly upon them, their duties and privileges in this respect. On the occasion referred to, he addressed them as follows : " The last time I was in the City of Lowell there were fourteen thousand more females than males in that one city. This was many years ago. They live and die in a single state, and are forgotten. Have they filled the measures of their creation, and accomplished the design of heaven in bringing them upon the earth ? No, they have not. Two thousand good, God- fearing men should go there, and take to themselves seven wives apiece. It is written in the Bible, * and in that day, seven women shall lay hold of one man, saying, we will eat our bread and wear our own apparel ; only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.' The government of the United States does not intend that that prophecy shall be fulfilled, and the Lord Almighty means that it shall. " Do you not think that the Lord will conquer ? I think He will, and we are helping Him. It is the decree of the Almighty that in the last days seven women shall take hold of one man, etc., to be counseled and advised by him, being willing to spin their own clothing, and do everything they canto earn their own living, if they can only bear his name |