This son of Jochebed; he was a monogamist, and stands forth as being a reproof to polygamists in all generations.
Why didn't he start with old Caleb and go down and give us name after name and date after date of the polygamists recorded in the history of the Jews while they were in the wilderness?
Hence there must have been hundreds, perhaps thousands, of polygamists in Israel, when Jesus came, who were living in obedience to this law and who would have been condemned if they had disobeyed it.
The silence of Scripture, therefore, in regard to the number cf polygamists in that day, is no evidence whatever.
This chapter gives us a history of the proceedings of this mixed race of polygamists and monogamists called Israel.
How much better it would have been had they been righteous polygamists who would have brought forth a pure offspring that the Lord could have exalted to eternal life.
And the Christian religion must have admitted these polygamists into the Church, because they would have been condemned if they had not observed this law.
I say twenty-five or thirty specially recorded cases, which polygamists of our day claim in support of their position.
I will give you the character of the monogamists and polygamists of Bible times.
This was calculated to make a vast number of polygamists in Israel from that day until the coming of Christ.
The bill did not pass the Senate, a leading argument against it being the assumed impossibility of convicting polygamists under it with any juries drawn in Utah.
They regard it as the command of God; and that is the only reason why it is practised by ninety-nine out of every hundred of the polygamists of Utah.
No; the wives of polygamists in Utah are living martyrs.
And even the thousands who are not polygamists (for not more than one tenth of the Mormons are polygamists) will uphold polygamy, because some near relatives, as sisters or daughters, are practisers of it.
If unlawful, then the children of polygamists were illegitimate children, and disqualified for the sanctuary.
But the children of polygamists were not thus disqualified.
Through a committee, of which the eminent Chancellor Walworth, of New York, was chairman, this body reported against instructing missionaries to exclude polygamists from the church.
This discussion brought out some interesting facts having especial bearing upon the views of those churches which numbered polygamists among their communicants.
In addition it was declared that these converted polygamists "had given credible evidence of their personal piety.
Already a majority of the married people of India are monogamists by practice, although polygamists in theory; their marriages being limited by poverty, although not by law.
Polygamists would continue to migrate to Mormon land, Free-lovers to New York, Shakers to New England.
That with polygamists conjugial love is natural, may be seen in the chapter on Polygamy, n.
Nevertheless the reason of polygamists is taught from experience, that both public and private peace require that promiscuous lust in general should be restrained, and be left to every one within his own house: hence comes polygamy.
And if the non-polygamists demanded it, the Prophets would deny that polygamy was being practiced.
I could only advise him that he should join with other new polygamists in demanding that the Church authorities make all possible reparation to the women and children who were being crushed under the penalties of the Church's crime.
He turned on me to ask, abruptly, how the polygamists had adjusted their family affairs.
Some of the present-day polygamists say that it was I who wrote it.
Roberts) a number of prosecutions of polygamists had been attempted.
Indeed, our utter ignorance as to the way in which the primitive Church dealt with polygamists who wished to become Christians, amounts to something like proof that such cases were extremely uncommon.
Polygamists were exceedingly rare inside the Empire, and the Church had not yet spread beyond it.
It provided that electors should swear that they were neither polygamists nor members of an organization which taught, advised or encouraged the practice of polygamy.
In territorial elections polygamists were so disqualified.
To prevent this would you recommend him to read the lives of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, and the other holy polygamists of the Old Testament?
Yet we know that the Mormons as a class, care for their wives and children; while Christian polygamistsbut too often leave wretched wives to starve, slave, or sin, and leave miserable children a public charge.
The law-breaking polygamists could not have stated their case more satisfactorily to themselves.
Unfortunately for Mr. Colfax, it was Mormon polygamists who did it.
The British suppressed the suttee, but tolerated eighty-three millions of polygamists in India.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "polygamists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
