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Walker (search for this): chapter 20
as it is given to us, and to enjoy the blessings offered by God to his obedient Saints. Taylor is no doubt right. The system of White polygamy, which droops and fades in presence of the Gentiles, springs and spreads in presence of the Snakes and Utes — a fact of facts: the full significance of which is hardly seen by Taylor and his brother Saints. No sooner was the railway built, the valley opened, and the stranger admitted, than a change of view set in. Some elders, including Godbe, Walker, Harrison, and Lawrence, began a new movement, favouring liberty of trade and leading up towards liberty of thought. They tried to bring in science, and to found a critical magazine. Stenhouse was of their party, though he had not yet seceded from his Church. Belief in polygamy as a divine institution was the first thing to go down. On turning to the original seer, these critics found good reason to conclude that plurality was one of the additions made by Brigham Young to the gospel taug
Stenhouse (search for this): chapter 20
he priesthood; and an elder so remiss in duty was unable to get on. That rage in favour of plurality is past. Some leaders have renounced the practice, others have denounced the dogma, of polygamy. Elder Jennings is living with a single wife; Stenhouse, Elder no longer, is living with a single wife. Why should not plural families increase? asks Taylor, in a tone which begs the whole question of fact and theory, this increase is the will of heaven. We have to live our faith out openly bchange of view set in. Some elders, including Godbe, Walker, Harrison, and Lawrence, began a new movement, favouring liberty of trade and leading up towards liberty of thought. They tried to bring in science, and to found a critical magazine. Stenhouse was of their party, though he had not yet seceded from his Church. Belief in polygamy as a divine institution was the first thing to go down. On turning to the original seer, these critics found good reason to conclude that plurality was one
Brigham Young (search for this): chapter 20
he may marry three or four sisters, an aunt and her niece, a mother and her child. Big Elk and Pied Riche saw in Brigham Young, what Red Cloud and Black Hawk still see — a White brother, whose big chief and medicine man, Joseph Smith, was shot ed-skins are of sacred race, no less than for preaching the Red doctrines of common property and plurality of wives. Brigham Young, on the other side, regards the Red-skins, like his leader Joseph Smith, as a peculiar people, chosen though chastiserew in number and the facts became a law. To legalise this system of plurality and incest strains the utmost power of Brigham Young. Are plural families increasing in your Church? I ask Apostle Taylor, as we wander in and out among the Temple shing to the original seer, these critics found good reason to conclude that plurality was one of the additions made by Brigham Young to the gospel taught by Joseph Smith. Smith had only one wife. That lady, still alive, asserts that neither in publ
Joseph Smith (search for this): chapter 20
nd Black Hawk still see — a White brother, whose big chief and medicine man, Joseph Smith, was shot in Illinois for asserting that the Red-skins are of sacred race, ns. Brigham Young, on the other side, regards the Red-skins, like his leader Joseph Smith, as a peculiar people, chosen though chastised, and holding in their custodyitions existed among the Indians of Vermont and New York, in which countries Joseph Smith resided in his youth, as well as in the prairies of Illinois, where his systny squaws as they could louse, and sought for blood atonements in their feuds. Smith tried to introduce these principles of the sacred race, as well as to diffuse ality was one of the additions made by Brigham Young to the gospel taught by Joseph Smith. Smith had only one wife. That lady, still alive, asserts that neither in Smith had only one wife. That lady, still alive, asserts that neither in public nor in private was the prophet ever sealed or given to any other woman than herself. The prophet's sons denounce the doctrine of polygamy as the spawn of he
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