The Beauty and Merits of Polygamy In a letter from Salt Lake City to the Morning Post," Mr. Maurice Low writes:—It is a curious feeling one has to talk to a man of the English-speaking race whose father hag two wives, neither of whom 1s divorced, but both are his legal wives, both living in the same house, both on terms of the greatest cordiality, and, what is still more curious, the two wives sisters. Yet that was my experience a few hours ago. It seems contrary to human nature, but the whole institution of Mormonism is contrary to preconceived idea.
My: young man betrayed no embavrassment in talking about his extraordinary family relations; he made no apology for Mormonism but, instead, defended it and was proud that he was born and lived iw the faith, The Mormon religion wag founded on polygamy, but polygamy no longer exists, that is officially. When Utah was admitted as a State of the Union, Congress exacted as a condition of admission that the Constitution of the State should forever prohibit polygamy, and as an additional safeguard an Act was passed by Congress making poly-aay & iclny; Dut. the bubente of polygamous es were required to support them, although the relation of man and wife should terminate. For many years after Utah came into the Union it was asserted that polygamy was still prac-tizad, that the wives still remained wives in fact, and that certain high officials of the Church were allowed to contract polygamous marriages. How true this is I am unable to say.
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