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

PRACTICAL POLYGAMY.
Not only the prospect of securing their own salvation is
held out to these misguided beings, but that of entailing salvation on their children. The Mormons believe that the pure
seed of the house of Jacob can not be lost: they are "children of the covenant made to Abraham." It is also believed
that Brigham's children can not be lost: they are "children
of the covenant made to Brigham!" It is thus with all those
who have been "sealed up to eternal life." Every woman
has a strong love for her children, even when they are only
prospective. It is a chord that can be played upon, that will
send out deep vibrations. The Mormons play on that delicate
fiber of the female heart. The woman is told that by marriage with this young man, he may apostatize and be lost;
she would share his fall and ruin; her children, assimilating,
not to her, but to his character, would be lost too, and that
thus she would barter eternal loss for a little passing pleasure.
To marry this old, well-proven, and sealed man, would not only
secure her own salvation but that of her children; and if not
to- enjoy all the temporal happiness she might with the young
man, she should enjoy more of the Spirit of God and secure
eternal gain by suffering a present loss.
If this be not enough to persuade the deluded victim, previously confounded by bad argument, as to the scripturality
of the practice, and bewildered by pretensions to infallibility
by the Prophet; then they use another and more powerful
appeal. Who knows not the love that clings around the
sacred memories of the dead? If these men can perform
such works of supererogation as to save children yet unborn,
they can also save people who are dead. This is inevitable,
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