Mormonism: its leaders and designs./ By John Hyde.

THEORETIC AL POLYGAMY.
the flood, he was far more holy than many subsequent polygamists. But God destroyed the inhabitants of the earth,
because they were ungodly and corrupt. He saved Noah
and his family in order to repeople the world with upright
and holy descendants. To obtain this end a second time, he
a second time instituted monogamy. Had he selected a
polygamist, he would have contradicted his prior sanction
and institution of monogamy. To produce the same result,
he adopted the same cause. "Therefore gave he one, because
he sougyat a godly seed."
4. God sought a godly seed by means of monogamy. Was
it a godly man who first infringed this law of purity? Gen.
iv. 19, 23. Lamnech had two wives, Adah and Zillah. But
we learn from ver. 23, that Lamech was a murderer. The
Mormons believe that the "mark" put on Cain by God was a
black skin; that he and his descendants, the negroes, are peculiarly and especially cursed; that in fact they can not be
saved in the "celestial kingdom." They also contend that a
murderer can not be saved "in this life, nor in that which is
to come." Lamech, this twice-cursed man; cursed in being a
black descendant of -Cain, doubly cursed, according to their
own faith, in being a murderer, was the first example of polygamy. In adopting the principle, they have accepted a murderer as their model.
4. The Mormons make much capital of Abraham being a
polygamist. One important fact must be observed here.
There is a great difference between exampl1e and precept. To
adopt any practice, because- a certain good man did so, is
often folly. Christ is a model in all things, because "in him
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