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propriate to quote the following passages of Scripture 

 in refutation of their so-called Bible authority for 

 polygamy. They mistake erring example for moral 

 precept: Gen. 2:22-24 reads, ''And the rib which 

 the Lord God had taken from man, made he a ivoman, 

 and brought her unto the man. . . . Therefore shall 

 a man leave his father and his mother, and shall 

 cleave unto his ivife: and they shall be one flesh." 

 Christ repeats this law in Matt. 19 : 4-6. The deca- 

 logue, spoken by God himself, recognizes no change 

 in this plan: "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's 

 wife." Ex. 20:17. Lev. 18:18 reads, ''Neither 

 shalt thou take a wife to her sister (margin, 'one 

 wife to another') to vex her." Paul, in 1 Tim. 3:2, 

 12, instructs the true church to follow the Creator's 

 plan. A false church may be expected to ignore it: 

 "A bishop must be blameless, the husband of one 

 wife." Verse 2. "Let the deacons be the husbands 

 of one wife." Verse 12. Eph. 5:33 reads. "Let 

 every one of you in particular so love his wife even 

 as himself." This ought to prevent the deception of 

 the most ignorant. 



2. The second argument is based upon the asserted 

 fact that man naturally possesses stronger sexual de- 

 mands than woman; that these demands are impera- 

 tive ; and that it is not only impossible, but in the high- 

 est degree injurious, to restrain them. 



While it is true, as a fact affirmed by constant ob- 

 servation, that men have stronger passions than 

 women, in general, and that many men demand of their 

 wives a degree of sexual indulgence which is the cause 

 of serious injury to them, and even impossible for them 

 to grant without doing themselves the greatest wrong, 

 it is by no means proved either that these demands 



