Hmm. Brigham Young said Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives, and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned. [Contributor 5:56] Joseph F. Smith said Some of the people have supposed that the doctrine of plural marriage was a sort of superfluity or non-essential to the salvation of mankind. In other words, some Saints have said and believe that a man with one wife, sealed to him by the authority of the Priesthood for time and all eternity, will receive an exaltation as great and glorious, if he is faithful, as he possibly could with more than one. I wish here to enter my solemn protest against this idea for it is false.... The marriage of one woman to a man for time and all eternity by the sealing power, according to the law of God is a fulfillment of the celestial law of marriage in part... But this is only the beginning of the law, not the whole of it. Therefore, whosoever has imagined that they could attain the fullness of the blessing pertaining to this celestial law by complying with only a portion of its conditions, has deceived himself. He cannot do it... Man cannot recieve the fullness of the blessing until he fulfills the law, any more than he can claim the gift of the Holy Ghost after he is baptized without the laying on of hands by proper authority, or the remission of sins without baptism, though he may repent in sackcloth and ashes. I understand the law of celestial marriage to mean that every man on this church who has the ability to obey and practice it in righteousness, and will not, shall be damned. I mean this and nothing less, and I testify in the name of Jesus it does mean that. [Journal of Discourses 20:28]
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