The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-07-11

you; for all those who have this law revealed unto
them must obey the same
T. For behold! | reveal unto you a new and ever
lasting covenant; and if we abide not that covenant
then we damned; for no man can reject this
covenant and be permitted to enter into my glory.
s. For all who will have blessing at my hands,
shall abide the law which appointed for that
blessing, and the conditions thereof, insti
tuted from before the foundation of the world
g. AS pertaining to the and everlasting cove
nant it was instituted for the fullness of my glory,
and he that receiveth the funess thereof, must and
shall abide the law or he shall be damned sayeth
the Lord God.
81. And again pertaining to the law of the
priesthood: If any member espouse virgin, and
desire to eSpouSe another, and the first give her
consent; and IT he eSpOuSe the SeCOund, and they
are virgins, and vowed to no other man, then he
is Justifled he cannot commit adultery for they
given into him. for he cannot commit adultery
with that that belongeth unto him and to no
else
g. And if he have ten virgins given unto him by
this law he can not commit adultery for they be-
long to him, and they given unto him. and there
fore he is justified
On June 18th, 1908, after the manifesto, Joseph F.
Smith, the present president of the Mormon church,
at Odgen before an assembly consisting of 'the
presidency of the stake, the bishops of the twenty
five wards and their counselS, the members, alter
mates and clerks of the high counsel the patriarchs
the presidency of the high priests quorum the super
intendents and presidents of the various and auHl-
larry organizations (the Sunday school, Y. N. & Y.
L. NJ l. associations relief societies, religious classes
and primary, and the state clerk with few other
leading brethren all with their wives, and members
of the President Smiths family, President Anthem
Ium Patriarch Joseph Smith and wife, Apostle
Rudger Clawson and wife and mother, Abraham
O. Woodruff and wife, Bathsheba Smith, William
Spense and wife, William Saam and wife, Joseph
Smith, Jr and wife, President Charles Kelley and
Counsellor Oen N. Stohl of the presidency of the
o1-a 1cad The in
speaking of plural marriages:
| have made no covenants that not made in
good faith, and [ will keep them SO far as [ can.
When it comes to the principle itself, defend it
principle of purity, strictly in accordance with
the gospel To be Latter-Day Saint, must be
honest with himself, and with his neighbors and with
his God. [ have received the testimony of the
truth of the principles of the gospel and | will try
marriages and the endowments, and here is a living
witness to these facts. So |, for | received 1t
of those who received it from Joseph Smith. Now
am teaching you that plural marriage is practiced
or is to be practiced? No. [ only telling you
that it is a principle revealed by God to Joseph
Smith, the prophet, and the Latter-Day Saint who
denies and rejects that truth in his heart might as
we'll reject every other truth connected with his mis-
sion.
In his testimony before the committee privi
leges and elections in the matter of the protest
against the right of Honorable Reed Smoot to hold
his seat in the senate, President Joseph F. Smith
admitted that he polygamst, and living in
polygamous relations with five wives at the time of
the manifesto, and that said poygamouS relations
with said five wives had been continued after the
manifesto and that each of his five wives had borne
him children after the PRONUNCIATION of the manifesto
that God had commanded the MormonS
through a revelation to President Woodruff to aband
don po1ygamy, Notwithstanding the made law
against polygamy and the commandments of God that
oo1ygamy should cease. The testimony in the Smoot