Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Biblical World, Vol. 35
Polygamy furnishes another example of the same method Of reaching an ethical judgment. The Old Testament countenances polygamy, and good men Of Old Testament times practiced it. The New Testament has no explicit word on the matter, save the stipulai tion that the bishop shall be the husband of one wife. The Mormons have until recently not only practiced but definitely approved polygamy. But the conscience Of Christians generally has condemned it, and for the manifest reason that experience shows that it is incon ducive to the development of the highest type Of home life, and so tends to corrupt human society at its very fountain. The method of Jesus, which is to base social ethics on the facts of social need, and the principle of Jesus, which is to subordinate personal preference to common welfare, has again been supreme in the face of Old Testa ment precedent and New Testament silence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
