...plural marriages were not encouraged nor solemnized by said church, and calling on members thereof to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land. At the general conference of the church, held soon after the date of the president's letter, his action...

...teaching, he has been promptly reproved. And I now publicly declare that my advice to the Latter-day Saints is to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land. Wilford Woodruff. President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. At the General Conference,...

...carefully, it appears woefully weak beside the command uttered by Joseph Smith. " My advice to the Latter Day Saints is to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land," are the only words in it that can be construed as an abandonment of polygamy. In court, it is true,...

...concluding portion of your statement, you say: "I nowpublicly declare that my advice to the Latter Day Saints is to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land." Do you understand that that language was to be expanded and to include the further statement of living...

...manifesto is contained in the closing words : And I now publicly declare that my advice to the Latter-Day Saints is to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the laud. How much weight could be given to the declarations of a man who dares to assert that the Spirit...

...preside to have them do likewise. * * * And I now publicly declare that my advice to the Latter-day Saints is to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land." Following is the resolution presented to the semi-annual Conference in the October following. It was...

...polygamy, nor permitting any person to enter into its practice, and he advises the Latter-Day Saints to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land. On the 1 9th of December, 1891, a petition was sent to the President of the United States by the Mormons,...

...carefully, it appears woefully weak beside the command uttered by Joseph Smith. " My advice to the Latter Day Saints is to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land," are the only words in it that can be construed as an abandonment of polygamy. In court, it is true,...

...carefully, it appears woefully weak beside the command uttered by Joseph Smith. " My advice to the Latter Day Saints is to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land," are the only words in it that can be construed as an abandonment of polygamy. In court, it is true,...

...was said. In 1890 the President of the Church, Wilford Woodruff, issued a manifesto advising Mormons to "refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land." Upon the solemn pledge of the Mormon church that plural wives and marriages had been given up, and...