Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Erastus Snow (December 14, 1878): Only the President of the Church "holds the keys of [the] Holy Order of Matrimony"

  

[Erastus Snow] concluded by remining the congregation of the Rule that when a man is worthy to enter into the Holy Order of Plural Marriage, his application after being recommended by his proper local officer, must be made to the President of the Church, —the only one man on the earth who holds the keys of this Holy Order of Matrimony. (James Godson Bleak, The Annals of the Southern Mission, December 14, 1878, in The Annals of the Southern Mission: A Record of the History of the Settlement of Southern Utah, ed. Aaron McArthur and Reid L. Neilson [Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2019], 515)

 

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