many concubines as he desired.

9. MOHAMMEDANISM.--Of the 150,000,000 Mohammedans all are polygamists.
Their religion appeals to the luxury of animal propensities, and the
voluptuous character of the Orientals has penetrated western Europe and
Africa.

10. MORMONISM.--The Mormon Church, founded by Joseph Smith, practiced
polygamy until the beginning of 1893, when the church formally declared and
resigned polygamy as a part or present doctrine of their religious
institution. Yet all Mormons are polygamists at heart. It is a part of
their religion; national law alone restrains them.

11. FREE LOVERS.--There is located at Lenox, Madison County, New York, an
organization popularly known as Free Lovers. The members advocate a system
of complex marriage, a sort of promiscuity, with a freedom of love for
{134} any and all. Man offers woman support and love, woman enjoying
freedom, self-respect, health, personal and mental competency, gives
herself to man in the boundless sincerity of an unselfish union. In their
system, love is made synonymous with sexuality, and there is no doubt but
what woman is only a plaything to gratify animal caprice.

12. MONOGAMY (SINGLE WIFE), is a law of nature evident from the fact that
it fulfills the three essential conditions of man, viz.: the development of
the individual, the welfare of society and reproduction. In no nation with
a system of polygamy do we find a code of political and moral rights, and
the condition of woman is that of a slave. In polygamous countries nothing
is added to the education and civilization. The natural tendency is
sensualism, and sensualism tends to mental starvation.

13. CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION has lifted woman from slavery to liberty.
Wherever Christian civilization prevails there are legal marriages, pure
homes and education. May God bless the purity of the home.

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Marriage.

"Thus grief still treads upon the heel of pleasure,
Married in haste we may repent at leisure."--SHAKSPEARE.

The parties are wedded. The priest or clergyman has pronounced as one those
hearts that before beat in unison with each other. The assembled guests
congratulate the happy pair. The fair bride has left her dear mother
bedewed with tears and sobbing just as if her heart would break, and as if
the happy bridegroom was leading her away captive against her will. They
enter the carriage. It drives off on the wedding tour, and his arms