PROSECUTED POLYGAMISTS.
At Ogden, Utah, on January 16, Judge Powers passed sentanco on Apostle Lorenzo Snow, James 1L Nelson, and James Taylor, convicted of unlawful cohabitation. The former was convicted on three indictments and received the full penalty in each case, aggregating eighteen months' imprisonment in the penitentiary, and a fine of §900, with costs of the prosecution. Snow delivered a long address to the Court frcm manuscript, concluding as follows : The Prosecuting Attorney was quite mistaken in saying : ' Tho defendant, Mr Snow, was the most scholarly and brightest light of the apostles, and equally wrong when pleading to the jury to assist him and the United States of America in convicting Apostle Sno;v, and he would predict that a new revelation would soon follow changing the devino law of celestial marriage,' Whatever fame Mr BierboMermay have secured aa a lawyer, he certainly will fail as a prophet. The sevorest persecutions havo never been followed by revelation changing a divino law, obedience to which brought imprisonment or martyrdom. Though Igo to prison God will not change his law of celestial marriage, but the man, the people, the nation thatopposo and fight against this doctrine and the Church of God will be overthrown. Though the Presidency of the Church and the twelve- Apostles should suffer martyrdom, there will remain over 4,000 Seventies, all apostlos of the Son of God, and were these to be slain there still would remain many thousand high priests and as many or more elders, all possessing the same authority to administer the Gospel ordinances. I solemnly testify in the name of Jesus, the so-called 'Mormon Church' is the Church of the living God, established on the rock of revelation, against which • the gates of hell cannot prevail.' " Judge Powers admitted defendant to bail in the sum of $15,000, with the understand ing that the case will be argued during the present term of the Territorial Supreme Court,
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Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 142, 20 February 1886, Page 5
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321PROSECUTED POLYGAMISTS. Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 142, 20 February 1886, Page 5
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