The Evils of Polygamy

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 21, 1880

The Evils of Polygamy

THERE is a Mormon Bishop who resides near Salt Lake City who recently went through the "endowment house" and came forth with a third wife only seventeen years old, the first and second still living. The tenth child of the first wife was older than the newly chosen bride. While the Bishop and his youthful spouse were off on the bridal tour, wife "number one" died. Her last words were: "An eternity of happiness could not recompense me for the tortures I have endured in this last week, to say nothing of what I went through before in twenty-five years of polygamy." And yet Congress and the Courts continue to tolerate polygamy—the foulest iniquity that ever cursed a civilized country.