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Show 356 WESTERN WILDS. " There is not a case of plural marriage reported in the Bible but what it led straight to quarreling, and sometimes to murder. The whole Bible only relates thirteen cases of polygamy among the right-eous race, while it tells of hundreds of patriarchs, prophets, and kings who either had but one wife each, or none at all. There was Lamech: the first plu-ralist men-tioned, w a a the second murderer mentioned. Abraham ' took up 5 with the hired girl, and she had a baby; his wife abused her, and he sent her and her boy away to die or live in the wilder-ness. Isaac, the best man of the outfit, never had more than one wife. Jacob was swindled into plurality ." BEHOLD OUR LAMANITE BROTHER." by njg heatlieil father- in- law; then swindled his father- in- law with the trick of the peeled rods; and after it all his children quarreled, their mothers quarreled, and ten of the boys sold another into slavery. " That was a nice family for us Americans to pattern after, was n't it? Then there was David married one widow before her husband had been dead a week, and had another man killed so he could get his wife ; and after it all, his children quarreled like cats and dogs, and one of them rebelled and drove the old man out of his own house for awhile. And Solomon he violated their law, which says the |
