Oh God . Her mind went blank and dizziness crept over her. But deep inside Emma already knew. She could see it written all over her mother s face, eyes sunk deep, colorless tight lips. Her father s words became distant as she studied his face filled with anticipation, excitement, adventure.
Plural marriage is the only way to a celestial exaltation.
The Mormon Church is wrong for abandoning it and they lost the priesthood keys when they accepted the Black race into the priesthood. A man named Partridge now holds all the keys of authority and he is the only man on earth that can solemnize marriage. Do you realize that all other marriages are adulterous. And from now on, we ll pay our ten percent tithing to Partridge. Emma could not believe what she was hearing.