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Isolated in the "Arizona Strip," a barren district near the Utah border, live a people called the Brethren of the United Order, expelled years ago from the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints. Quietly and religiously certain Brethren have been practicing polygamy. Bothering no one, they might have continued to do so had not U. S. relief agents found it out last month. Families of Brethren, reported agents, run from nine to 15 children. Specifically, one 18-year-old had three wives. On this information County Attorney Elmo Bellinger charged into the "Strip," began serving warrants...
...bonds at a revival service, the Rev. William H. Grain said. "I can't understand it. I had them tucked away in my sock, with the bottom of my long underwear pulled down tight over the sock. Mind you, though, I don't suspect any of the brethren...
Maybe St. Paul could help them with his Romans 14:14 & 22, or his Titus 1:15. Of course I would not refer our Puritanical brethren to I Corinthians 7:36 lest they die of shock. This old world must retain a few things to laugh...
Just in case someone wants to hear the most ancient TIMEly exposés of human nature "in the raw," I would like to have our good brethren preach from a text in the cave-lady episode of Genesis 19, concerning the love-feasts of the two daughters of Lot. No condemnation offered there either, in the Book...
...Judah's daughter-in-law condemned by the Book, when she tricked Judah into a public exposé of his fun-loving nature, in Genesis 38. Not being allowed to send obscene matters through the mails in this empire of holy brethren, I can only cite you the passages involved in Holy Writ, trusting that you have a Bible at hand which has not been censored by any members of the cloth...