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Title: Polygamy; or, The mysteries and crimes of Mormonism, being a full and authentic history of this strange sect from its origin to the present time.
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Beadle, J. H. (John Hanson), 1840-1897.
Subjects: Mormons.
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., National publishing co.
Contributing Library: Rutgers University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ore people beadded to the kingdom of the Fathers. But there is still another class of persons who do not quitelive up to their privileges, and yet deserve a salvation. Un-married men and women, and those guilty of various derelic-tions make up this class. They will never progress, but beangels merely; messengers and servants to those worthy ofgreater glory; and bachelor angels only, with no families,and compelled to go through eternity without a mate. Andthis brings me to the last of the five heads of my text: V. A plurality of wives, on which I need add but little, andthat as to theory merely; I have given an account of it practi-cally, and the history of Mormonism is largely a history ofpolygamy. The crude doctrines of sexual resurrection,progress in eternity, generation of spirits, and marriage ofthe gods all interlock with the doctrine of polygamy; and it iscurious how captivating a veil of religious fancy may be thrownoyer an institution naturally and inherently vile. Gross forms
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A PISCONSOLATK PLURAL ^^^FE. (295) 296 POLYGAMY; OR, THE MYSTERIES of religious error seem almost invariably to lead to sensuality, tosome singular perversion of the marriage relation or the sexualinstinct; probably because the same constitution of mind andtemperament which gives rise to the one, powerfully predisposestoward the other. The fanatic is of logical necessity either anascetic or a sensualist; healthy moderation is foreign alike tohis speculative faith and social practice. He either gives fullrein to his baser propensities under the specious name ofChristian liberty, or with a little more conscientiousness,swings to the opposite extreme and forbids those innocent grat-ifications prompted by nature and permitted by God. Of theformer class are the Mormons, Noyseites of Oneida, the Anti-nomians, and the followers of John of Leyden; of the latterthe Shakers, Harmonists, monks, and nuns, and a score oforders of celibate priests. The Mormons are particular to declare that they ne

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