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Mat she had insisted upon her husband’s relinquishing the 
ifea of taking a second wife into her own household. 
y The rank and file of the faithful are also becoming a good 
“ al enlightened as regards the payment of tithes. They do 
y give | so freely as formerly ; and the loud complaints made 
ignified by the name of ‘church government.” “If,” say 
hose who are averse to polygamy, “we only do what is 
aatural to our race, and refrain from marrying more than one 
V ife, there will be no need then for maintaining a strong 
im ilitary organization, since the incentive to molestation will 
thave been removed.” This argument is one of the chief 
Causes which makes the Joe Smith schism of such importance, 
land it may eventually break down the whole system. I cer- 
i@tainly expect in time that the American forms of thought, 
(which are so deeply rooted in the hearts of the masses, will 
rove to be too strong for Mormonism as it now exists, and 
that instead of any violent measures being necessary to remove 
he obnoxious sect to some more distant wilderness, its tenets 
Vill become modified into some system which can be tolerated 
y hile it lasts; for eventually it will die away, as thousands 
\f other Gintigs abnormalities have done since Christianity 
i s been established. 
_ Mr. Dilke, in writing on this mubett says: ‘“ Mormonism 
somes under my observation as the religious and social system 
of the most successful of all pioneers of English civilization. 
from this point of view it would be an immediate advantage 
0 the world that they should be driven out once more into 
he wilderness, again to found an England in Mexico, in 
Polynesia, or on Red River.” I cannot agree with him ; 
