The false and corrupt institutions, and still more corrupt practices of "_Christendom_" have had a downward tendency in the generations of man for many centuries. Our physical organization, health, vigour, strength of body, intellectual faculties, inclinations, &c., are influenced very much by parentage. Hereditary disease, idiocy, weakness of mind, or of constitution, deformity, tendency to violent and ungovernable passions, vicious appetites and desires, are engendered by parents; and are bequeathed as a heritage from generation to generation. Man becomes a murderer, a thief, an adulterer, a drunkard, a lover of tobacco, opium, or other nauseous or poisonous drugs, by means of the predisposition, and inclinations engendered by parentage. The people before the flood, and also the Sodomites and Canaanites, had carried these corruptions and degeneracies so far, that God, in mercy, destroyed them, and thus put an end to the procreation of races so degenerate and abominable; while Noah, Abraham, Melchesidech, and others, who were taught in the true laws of procreation, "_were perfect in their generation_," and trained their children in the same laws. The overthrow of those ancient degenerate races is a type of that which now awaits the nations called "_Christian_," or in other words, _The great whore of all the earth, for her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities_. Where is the nation called "_Christian_," that does not uphold or permit prostitution, fornication and adultery with all their debasing, demoralizing, degenerating and corroding effects, with all their tendencies to disease and crime, to operate unchecked, and to leaven and corrode all classes of society? Where is the "_Christian nation_" that does not prohibit the law of God, as given to Abraham and the ancients in relation to marriage? Where is the "_Christian nation_" that punishes the crime of adultery and fornication with death, or other heavy penalties? Where are the institutions which prohibit the marriage of all persons disqualified by nature, or by vicious habits and practices, to answer the ends of an institution so holy and pure? Where are the institutions which would protect, encourage, and honour the patriarch Jacob, with his four wives and their children? Where is the community who would feel themselves honoured in associating with such a family--although, all corrupt practices would be frowned down, and all persons discountenanced, who, under the name of gentility, nobility, or royalty, glory in their conquests and victories over the principles and practices of virtue and innocence? Echo answers, Where?--unless we look to the far off mountains and distant vales of Deseret, a land peopled by the Latter-day Saints, and governed by the law of God, the keys of the eternal Priesthood, and organized in the New and Everlasting Covenant.