| 417 flesh; and all this that the earth might answer the end of its creation; and that it might be filled with the measure of man, according to his creation before the world was made."-Doctrine and Covenants, page 161. Witness also the marriage contract as used by the church and based upon the foregoing fundamental law, to wit: "You both mutually agree to be each other's companion, husband and wife, observing the legal rights belonging to this condition; that is, keeping yourselves wholly for each other and from all others during your lives."-Doctrine and Covenants, page 330. These we submit to your honor as being wholesome laws and in harmony with the position of the church in defining her relation to governments and the duties of her members therein. The practice of Utah Mormons is so absolutely the opposite being in violation and abrogation of said laws that to call them "Latter Day Saints," appears at once a misnomer, they having abandoned the faith of that church and by virtue thereof should by right be called polygamists-the correctness of this position will appear at once when we consider the fact that their representative men, Orson Pratt in debate with Doctor Newman at Salt Lake City, and Delegate George Q. Cannon before Judiciary Committee of House of Representatives last winter-in answer to the question direct made statement that their practice of polygamy and its concomitants rested not upon the Bible or any other book, but upon a certain document which Mr. Cannon was pleased to name a "purported revelation"-and now as that document sets up a "new plan of salvation;" and is in violation and total disregard of the faith, laws, teachings and usages of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints we aver and ask that the claim set up in this paper be allowed, it being just to all parties concerned, for, if the Government feels to condone the polygamic practice of Utah Mormons upon the ground of its being their religion, then in that case, as now, we ask and insist that the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints be relieved from the reproach and shame sought to be fastened upon their faith by such teaching and practice of polygamy and that the line of demarcation be fully drawn that we no longer be improperly confounded with Mormons of Utah.
The impossibility of any true Latter Day Saint accepting any dogma which would lead him to violate the laws of his country may be seen in the following:
"Let no man break the laws of the land, for he that keepeth the law of God hath no need to break the laws of the land; wherefore be subject to the powers that be, until He reigns whose right it is to reign, and subdues all enemies under his feet."-Doctrine and Covenants, page 177. This we submit renders it impossible for any consistent member of the church to live inharmoniously with the laws of the Government, and he is especially enjoined to be subject unto these laws until Christ comes-and greater importance may be attached to this when we consider the fact that the church received this as the voice of God to them in August, 1831.
5. In carrying on the work of propagandizing, both in the United States
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