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Rh honor Him by obeying, they secure their own salvation, and at the same time eternal blessedness for unborn souls, who are waiting for an earthly dwelling. I venture to assert that in all Utah there is not a single happy woman united to a man who has more than one wife. Polygamy is contrary to nature. You can read nature's protest in the sad, careworn face of every woman whom you meet."

Such are Christian conditions, religious conditions resulting from a belief in the Bible. Christians, that is, those who consider themselves true Christians, curse them, but ‘with what right? Who has given these believers in the Bible a monopoly on their interpretation? Is not every vice, every most hideous act, every crime, that claims to have religion, the Bible, God on its side, justified? And since the weakest are always the first target and the first victims of every vice, every hideous act, every crime, it is but natural that woman should be the first to experience most thoroughly the benefactions of religion. But Mormonism, this masterpiece of systematized hypocrisy for the satisfaction of animal lust at the expense of degraded womanhood, teaches still more plainly than its mother, "legitimate" Christianity, how religion can even serve as a means for making crimes, committed in its name, appear like the greatest boon to those against whom they are perpetrated; so that in the name of "God," the patron of every imaginable barbarity, and horror, they allow themselves to be not only defrauded of