The Women of MormondomTullidge, Edward W. (Edward William)
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The Women of Mormondom
Tullidge, Edward W. (Edward William)
Latter Day Saint churches -- History; Latter Day Saints -- History; Polygamy
When the sons of God thrice gave their Masonic shouts of hosanna, the
daughters of God lifted up their voices with their brothers; and the
hallelujahs to the Lord God Omnipotent, were rendered sweeter and
diviner by woman leading the theme.
In the temples, both of the heavens and the earth, woman is found. She
is there in her character of Eve, and in her character of Zion. The
one is the type of earth, the other the type of heaven; the one the
mystical name of the mortal, the other of the celestial, woman.
The Mormon prophet rectified the divine drama. Man is nowhere where
woman is not. Mormonism has restored woman to her pinnacle.
Presently woman herself shall sing of her divine origin. A high
priestess of the faith shall interpret the themes of herself and of her
Father-and-Mother God!
At the very moment when the learned divines of Christendom were
glorying that this little earth was the "be-all and the end-all" of
creation, the prophet of Mormondom was teaching the sisters in the
temple at Kirtland that there has been an eternal chain of creations
coming down from the generations of the Gods--worlds and systems and
universes. At the time these lights of the Gentiles were pointing to
the star-fretted vault of immensity as so many illuminations--lamps
hung out by the Creator, six thousand years ago, to light this little
earth through her probation--the prophet of Israel was teaching his
people that the starry hosts were worlds and suns and universes, some
of which had being millions of ages before this earth had physical form.
Moreover, so vast is the divine scheme, and stupendous the works
of creations, that the prophet introduced the expressive word
_eternities_. The eternities are the times of creations.
This earth is but an atom in the immensities of creations. Innumerable
worlds have been peopled with "living souls" of the order of mankind;
innumerable worlds have passed through their probations; innumerable
worlds have been redeemed, resurrected, and celestialized.
Hell-loving apostles of the sects were sending ninety-nine hundredths
of this poor, young, forlorn earth to the bottomless pit. The Mormon
prophet was finding out grand old universes, in exaltation with
scarcely the necessity of losing a soul.
The spirit of Mormonism is universal salvation.
Those who are not saved in one glory, may be saved in another.
There are the "glory of the sun," and the "glory of the moon," and the
"glory of the stars."
The children of Israel belong to the glory of the sun. They kept their
first estate. They are nobly trying to keep their second estate on
probation. Let the devotion, the faith, the divine heroism of the
Mormon sisters, witness this.
"Adam is our Father and God. He is the God of the earth."
So says Brigham Young.
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