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Show CELESTIAL MAEEIAGE. 279 Look upon those who committed such iniquity in Israel, in ancient days; every man and woman who committed adultery were put to death. I do not say that this people are going to do this; but I will tell you what we believe-we believe it ought to be done. Whoredom, adultery, and fornication, have cursed the nations of the earth for many generations, and are increasing fearfully upon the community; but they must be entirely done away from those who call themselves the people of God; if they are not, woe ! woe! be unto them, also; for " thus saith the Lord God Almighty," in the Book of Mormons, "Woe unto them that commit whoredoms, for they shall be thrust down to hell!" There is no getting away from it. Such things will not be allowed in this community; and such characters will find that the time will come, that God, whose eyes are upon all the children of men, and who discerneth the things that, are done in secret, will bring their acts to light; and they will be made an example before the people ; and shame and infamy will cleave to their posterity after them, unto the third and fourth generation of them that repent not. How is this to be prevented ? for we have got a fallen nature to grapple with. It is to be prevented in the way the Lord devised in ancient times; that is, by giving to His faithful servants a plurality of wives, by which a numerous and faithful posterity can be raised up, and taught ,in the principles of righteousness and truth; and then, after they fully understand those principles that were given to the ancient Patriarchs, if they keep not the law of God, but commit adultery, and transgressions of this kind, let their names be blotted |