A revelation on the “Eternity of the Marriage Covenant and Plural Marriage” (D&C 132) was recorded, giving fuller meaning to the “new and everlasting covenant” which had been mentioned as early as 1831. The Prophet had explained the doctrine to a few, and plural marriages had been performed in 1841. 1844 January 29.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Liahona > April 1980

Gordon B. Hinckley

This has arisen out of a case of alleged child abuse on the part of some of those practicing plural marriage. Even in countries where civil or religious law allows polygamy, the Church teaches that marriage must be monogamous and does not accept into its membership those practicing plural marriage.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Ensign > November 1998

James E. Faust

Church discipline is not limited to sexual sins but includes other acts such as murder, abortions, burglary, theft, fraud, and other dishonesty, deliberate disobedience to the rules and regulations of the Church, advocating or practicing polygamy, apostasy, or any other unchristianlike conduct, including defiance or ridicule of the Lord’s anointed, contrary to the law of the Lord and the or...

Gospel Library > Magazines > Ensign > November 1993

Dean Jessee

Dean Jessee Ensign June 1979 Well-educated Edward Partridge was a successful hatter in Painesville, Ohio, with significant property holdings, and his community’s respect. He and his wife, Lydia, enjoyed their comfortable home, five children, and

Gospel Library > Magazines > Ensign > June 1979

Lavina Fielding Anderson

Lavina Fielding Anderson Ensign October 1979 This year, for the first time in the history of the Church, Latter-day Saints will have an edition of the King James Bible whose references and supplementary material reflect the unique illuminations shed

Gospel Library > Magazines > Ensign > October 1979

James B. Allen

James B. Allen Ensign October 1972 In November, for the forty-seventh time in their history, campaign-weary American voters will complete the momentous task of choosing a president. For over a year they have been deluged with ever larger doses of

Gospel Library > Magazines > Ensign > October 1972

Sheri L. Dew

Moving into the Twentieth Century During the presidency of Zina D. H. Young (1888–1901), Latter-day Saint women endured intensifying national scrutiny and ridicule because of the Latter-day Saints’ practice of plural marriage. When in 1887, with the passage of a U.S. Congressional act against plural marriage, Utah women lost the right to vote (a right they had had since 1870), Latter-day Saint women joined the national women’s movement to support suffrag

Gospel Library > Magazines > Ensign > March 1992

Russell R. Rich

He also “excommunicated” the Twelve, moved his organization to Beaver Island in Lake Michigan in 1847, had himself crowned king in 1850, began practicing plural marriage, and was fatally wounded on 16 June 1856 by two men who took refuge with Strang’s enemies and were never tried for their crime.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Ensign > September 1979

Carol Cornwall Madsen

Teaching enabled her to survive until her marriage to Daniel H. Wells in 1852. Emmeline and Zina Young Williams were selected to attend the 1879 meeting of the National Woman Suffrage Association held in Washington, D.C. While there, they also personally solicited the help of U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes in forestalling punitive action against the Latter-day Saints for the practice of plural marriage.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Ensign > July 2003

Jaynann Morgan Payne

Samuel recalls visiting his grandfather McMurrin during the latter’s six-month prison sentence for polygamy: “It seemed cruel indeed, to see my dear, kind grandfather behind prison bars; tears came to all our eyes each time we made him a visit. I truly believe that he tried to live this principle of plural marriage as nearly perfect as it was possible for mortal man to live it.” When Samuel was 17, his beloved grandmother developed cancer.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Ensign > February 1974

Don L. Searle

He passed on lurid secondhand reports and speculation about plural marriages. By the late 1880s, punitive legislation aimed at the Church had in effect stripped those who practiced or believed in plural marriage of the right to vote, disfranchising both men and women.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Ensign > March 1993

Douglas F. Tobler

Douglas F. Tobler Ensign July 1987 In a recent article, a non-LDS scholar gave a fresh and interesting perspective to the development of the Church and its spectacular growth throughout much of the world during its 157-year existence. In his essay

Gospel Library > Magazines > Ensign > July 1987

And the most effective means of getting federal intervention was to create a national revulsion against the Mormon practice of plural marriage.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Ensign > October 1971

Spencer W. Kimball

We warn you against the so-called polygamy cults which would lead you astray.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Ensign > November 1974