"The duties and requirements of a woman, fulfilling her sphere of motherhood, absolutely demand certain periods of continence, which if not granted her through thoughtful solicitude for her welfare by her husband, or herself assumed, by virtue of the dignity of womanhood, or by the divine right of free agency, the principle of her life and health is encroached upon, and she is forced to perform her ever increasing labors and duties with a decreasing store of vitality.

"There is nothing tn the economy or requirements of a man's life which requires this abstinence beyond the temperate limit of his powers of vitality, and this to me is a proof unanswerable and prima facie on the spheres of manhood and womanhood, of the divinity and I believe is a necessity for the salvation of the human race, of the truth and divine origin of the principle of plural marriage.

"With this principle nniversal, but limited and governed by laws of marriage inhibiting sensuality and selfishness, insuring to the wife the literal fulfilment of that part of the marriage ceremony which provides that she shall be 'nourished and cherished and be provided for,' and the children be hygienically and physiologically clothed and fed and properly educated, the solution to the growing social evil would be found. Every woman could be what every true woman's happiness depends upon, a happy wide, and mother, queen over her own increasing posterity, and men, honored patriarchs, which are divine rights of both, given by God as a law unto man on earth and throughout all eternity. Were this the order of the world, abortions, foeticides, infanticides, seductions, rapes and divorces would be relics of the barbarous age, while intelligence, light, peace and good will and love would be the motor forces of the world—in short, the Millennium would have come."