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Yet, in September, 1898, President Snow, if he did not instigate, at least authorized the candidacy of Brigham H. Roberts for Congress a polygamist who had been threatened with excommunication for his opposition to the "political manifesto" of 1896 and who had recanted and made his peace with the hierarchy.
"Do you want to know," I asked one of them, "whether I am a polygamist?" "No, sir," he said very quietly. "Would you like me to tell you whether I am fundamentally opposed to any and every system of government?" The man seemed mystified. "No, sir," he said. "I don't know that I would." "Don't you care?" I asked. "Well, not particularly, sir," he answered.
"What God hathe conjoyned", he said, "let no man separate. I am the Husband, and all the whole Isle is my lawful wife.... I hope, therefore, that no man will be so unreasonable as to think that I, that am a Christian King under the Gospel, should be a Polygamist and husband to two wives." He desired to see a complete union one king, one law, one Church.
But the robber and the liar, the thief and the polygamist of this age are cattle of quite another color there has been a radical change in the moral code, the peccadillos of the past have become the crimes of the present.
It was not made obligatory, but those who practised it were to have greater exaltation in the next world. A woman conforming in other respects is entitled to a seat in Heaven, but it is reserved for the polygamist to be one with the Father. Of course there is no room for Gentiles in the Mormon Heaven, excepting as hewers of wood and drawers of water to some Mormon saint.
He told me he was a pastry cook by trade, and said he could cook chapatties such as we eat; and he understood my explanation why Sikhs were riding in the front trains and Muhammadans behind because Muhammadans must pray at fixed intervals and the trains must stop to let them do it. He understood wherein our Sikh prayer differs from that of Islam. Yet he refused to believe I am no polygamist.
Conjugial chastity, purity, and sanctity, cannot exist with polygamists, n. 346. A polygamist, so long as he remains such, cannot become spiritual, n. 347. Polygamy is not sin with those who live in it from a religious notion, n. 348. Polygamy is not sin with those who are in ignorance respecting the Lord, n. 349, 350.
A second protest, signed by John L. Leilich, repeated these grounds of objection to Apostle Smoot, and charged further that Apostle Smoot was himself a polygamist; but no attempt was made to prove this latter charge. Upon the filing of the protest, there was a storm of anger at Church headquarters; and the ecclesiastical newspapers railed with the bitterness of anxious apprehension.
Some of its questions could be answered off-hand, others required thought. "Height?" Simple. Five foot eleven. "Hair?" Simple. Brown. "Eyes?" Simple again. Blue. Next, queries of a more offensive kind. "Are you a polygamist?" He could answer that. Decidedly no. One wife would be ample provided she had red-gold hair, brown-gold eyes, the right kind of mouth, and a dimple.
Beeler went around to the back, but no one answered, so we concluded we would have to try elsewhere for shelter. Mrs. O'Shaughnessy comforted me by remarking, "Well, there ain't a penny's worth of difference in a Mormon bishop and any other Mormon, and D is not the only polygamist by a long shot." We had just turned out of the gate when a lanky, tow-headed boy about fourteen years of age rode up.
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