MORMON MARRIAGES.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3739, 18 December 1880, Page 1

MORMON MARRIAGES.

An intelligent gentleman, who has recently spent several weeks at Salt Lake City, supplies the following notes to a San Francisco paper:—"The Mormons hare only, for eternity only, for both time and eternity, and by four kind* of marriages, namely, for time proxy.. If a Mormon marries a Gentile woman, it is for time only.fl^Lt death he goes to Heaven, and she goes to purgatory or perdition. He can call her oat if he. eposes, bat her union with him does not ensure her salvation, as it would if she were .a believer. If a Mormon wants to save an unmarried woman, but does not want to add her to his harem, he basher sealed to him for eternity only. After the ceremony of Beating, they have no special relation to each other, or reciprocal rights and duties in this life. But in the life to come, the Mormon maiden secures a place in Heaven through her spiritual union with a masculine believer; for the Mormon theory is, that unmarried men and women are imperfect, and as suoh not immortal. Marriage is necessary to complete a personality that will survive " the wreck of matter and the crash of worlds."

The usual Mormon marriage is between, believors, and for both worlds, and the more wires a Mormon has, the holier he is.. But this does not apply, vice versa, to the women. The proxy, marriages are baaed on the provisions of the Mosaic Code—that if a man die childless, hit. brother should lake his wife and raise up seed to his deceased brother. An old Mormon dies without children. The faot is supposed, •in some way, to offset his celestial felicity. So in order that, hif bliss may be perfected, some young Mor* mon takes his wife, as a proxy, in addition, to whatever wives he has already honing that children may be born who will be counted not as his, but as belonging to his deceased brother Mormon. Wonder* ful are Mormon ideas of marriage!