148 The Fundamentals covenant; and if you abide not that covenant then are you damned: for no one can reject this covenant and be permitted to enter into My glory. . . . And again, as pertaining to the law of the Priesthood, if any man espouse a virgin and desire to espouse another, and the first give her consent; and if he espouse the second and they are virgins and have vowed to no other man, then he is justified; for he cannot commit adultery with that that belongeth unto him and to none else; and if he have ten virgins given unto him by this law, he can not commit adultery, for they belong unto him; and they are given unto him; therefore is he justified.” ( “Doctrine and Covenants,” chap. 132.) Now, what is this but a depraved and cunning bribe to every kind of social immorality ? And that has been its direct result for two generations, with the iniquity still going on. I t is difficult for any one to study this Mormon system as a whole, without coming to the conclusion that there is some thing in it beyond the power of man, something positively Satanic. And does it not seem to be a reproach on the Chris tian churches of this country that, after eighty years, such a system of downright heathenism should still hold the people of one of the great states of the West in absolute bondage, and through its hierarchical power, by means of colonization, be able to influence the election of senators and representatives in Congress from five other states? This latter fact makes it a national and not a local problem. The one important thing to be done is to double the Christian missionary forces in Utah, in order to bring deliverance to those who are in bondage.
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