Show flost PLURAL MARRIAGE I 1 I 1 if was in ISIO and performed by elder joseph atcy NOW I 1 JOSEPH SMITH SITH WAS THE bridegroom 1 sister TVA ecna tile the ulder rider said that they tin husband Ilus band end and wito provident tolls about tile tho poleg only and other erdl donets bancea tho the first arst witness yesterday tote fon orr in tile taking of dop esiL lous at tho the templeton in the caso case ot of the reorganized Chi the iho church of christ the branch brought in be courts a of missouri for tho the or of the iho temple block lit ili independence mo me was eldur joseph ulca rates noble ot of bountiful abo be la is 93 years old hard of hearing vory very feeble and infirm und oot not possessed ot at ii a I 1 very good memory i except on no matters mailers ID to polygamy first went to in ID 1630 find tono toile there until the exodus in A at t joseph smith was the out oft licar of I 1 the cil oreb lie ho sea nas is a high priest of tho the and counselor to juo judge elias smith now noff dead polygamy 1 v wood taught and practiced at nauvoo by joseph joeph and it 16 birtt artl saw the iho light la in bid house leo county biow Nou voil in 1840 lie ile also enjo a the abo honor of t bat ing tire that gave cavo his alstor to tho the prophet and lo he know for a toot that mat tiny had nored together for he bad soca thom la in lied bell together under cross examination elder knoblo stated elated thul ho be wild ua born in joined the church lu in was bap baptized tired into I 1 aba he ruith ut Kir 0 0 by josoph and took look part in ili the to missouri in at times the patriarch pun lurch complained of belog unwell and of distressed in aud and body so 0 o enuch so BO that lie fie could me dot t to ro evento linyer layer kelly for the rear church tried to have baru him recall focal I 1 aud aud I 1 x pado finally tho the lawyer lout pill cl oco ce ad outi out 1 1 I suppose you fool feel bad on oa account ot of your critney tn in polygamy 1 1 I 1 suppose ko bus the older your cooc lonco a is gnaw loff oh eb 1 ohl yes gi lawing bell awfully ully was tho the tari ar 1 clello response W then you to do fuel feel bad on account of your alas in tho the older elder braced up and smilingly amid not much I 1 thank you affek a wo monts psalm pauso be asked 1 I kui aut ill wont you adjourn aud and lot we me coins another thus ab you wont suffer any on 2 count of your jour orlone crim or loie eoll was tho the reap 0 a sod kod president allon allen of the church ot of C christ bolst I 1 entered a objection to the ibo orl icess 1 being baloc funbar insulted tho excused excelled the witness loutit to I 1 day at ajo a in when his lil cross tiou will bo be concluded rILES IDENT WOODA Urr Tr A acco tee I 1 62 of fifteen minutes was wa thou aalto until ill a was d for president nor wilford woodruff whom tile promulgator arrived ila hu up ap piloted us as octive as a a tons talf fault him age AEO with a cheery bood cod moral mr gentlemen 4 be L took site ilie witness chair ila ho stated lost I 1 lie be was TUB boro born in ID in 1607 joined the church at richland N X Y bo was bs engaged in farming and la in I 1 t wait waa first married at kirtland on april by dr fred r bcd 0 will laws it a bishop i mud aud to joseph from there cut of on a mission tu to canaan had rox I 1 went trent to in 1831 with a band of nod helped to lo zions crimp after tho the faithful fulth tiit wore were arlu bouc ut of Jack jacksch soh county and declared doi dei I 1 that their object in returning tit are I 1 was to endeavor to recover same of the property let lan voice dibon a tile brethren truro compelled to flea Q io L jolla jolio occupied a chair ada 0 in laif ing tile iho resident mud aud abo la in bla bid do ho he would woid whisper to him with the result that a du do calro answer was invariably given this 11 OLLIed lawyer K kolly 0 ily sod bud he bo the to now tile tho fact lu in tile tho record d thus tho ilia witness was wing ix log prompts td I 1 woodruff took ao am excer exception A ion Venti gentlemen vinen said ho he 1 1 I am a nian dian a bior or 85 I 1 of mile and cannot remember nil the happenings of fifty anra ears ugo I 1 helm hao touted to toy my I 1 friend fiend here bore a i great loil dool la in lutc Commin uner well dont doat say iby Is word to bib at all kaiu ke ay iy mr M r woodruff ruff wo a aro are going tolf ui a but 11 I 1 your friend dues duc all adt I 1 iho you hu he speak your out I 1 60 wall can hoar bear life him I 1 ilia hie iod up in ili his chair instanter und with on I 1 each word vord lie l simply said it if you dont scow row 6 tny Y so nod was waa corroborated by nutt nuttall 11 with th thit 14 what I 1 sald the commissioner put ol 01 u stop to lila spat and the ff faits as resumed to concerning tho ilia temple fiock in independence mo the president that la in to u ion it H wim to croat it IL telli templo plO thore tharo tho the tiou was roc cled by J aph eolith jr kind six bli tl lr in 1616 ho be wall aru lo in Nati nauvoo vile anti and on 00 april 26 ISO was VA ut out par eur west mo for a tow few houri houm V while allo there in accordance vo walh fill a revelation culi call 4 low him to thu the bo be received or dilall ato that office in the ibo of ham young orson pratt john taylor giitl bujo allai villon lion questioned la in dLO tile lill eged received by tho the kroph wit flaw lie replied that ho he was looked up ii I 1 dij ibo koplo as aa being a prop loot beer aud and tot lor und and whenever rocla lloD were audo mudo ma koroffo by nedi they were acro received and ac ud by the church as given it aatu attu a great doal deal of evasion the iho fane utoca tilled stated that the revelations v auro ore not bandin upon UIO accepted by br iho vote of tho the church and ud ad linit ted flint ithe be e wui wits guided by that plo ilia when bo be presented tile cho manifesto mn alZeta adyln adv lag th accepted ut at the nocal annual incelli inceL ln it if 1 e all matters presented but e at cry nun had bad the right to tiny any rov elution oo oft the ibo aalmo iino ritu ciple that a man ina had bau to ro boid jact t gud god if lia ila saw raw tit lit to do so to tile tho question no anan onu can saddle upon tile church vill without bout its ir con fiant ft ant nil ho be viltress vilt ness replied that such euch was a A I 1 act c L tito the revelations of IM 1633 relating to I 1 I 1 OK cog and ana the iho disposal of surplus flur plu property pro pony ot of I 1 aw received ut at river no mo where t aljo ion balim wore called upon to boar their resorting lower and that at mill to tile thu of it I 1 for or the baptism for the iho deil de il were read readi anti t be vitalize that they u ore accepted As tho the truth by thu ilia church chu thu or giracca of at von ran TUB THE DRAD BRAD b fco said was practiced to lo 1641 1841 or 1812 and an r b gocr r knew of tin nn order bell to hop flop aliu u coilla a temple could bo be do lind old loon icon joseph j Pir wn at one time in ilia ibo mississippi river 11 red hod und and performed the ilia himself in at at atla 12 at process until I 1 30 was do plated aral ar Ml and at that hour the president pro did to lo dis discant dl cint co thu JL bojt wt wi I 1 lion lien dy by relating to tile tit at soca tot or abo dead had which appear tilt M pago 8 I 1 it the doctrine d boa joi toted opeo fidall otilly about them be b fluid that alj be could no bol i without first consulting 11 bit 1 l journal jo urual tito I 1 fact that lio lie was MI led with john la in editing tinted in biml was brought out dut whon when kioa implies ImP liet we va ittle was in uon bad tan dulux jt it was very 1 that revelations were presented a 0 too booe bocca 10 1 was vas oot not the practice bopre to pre J lant them fl in n ibo be form of rot alutius alu I 1 lo 10 I 1 iho turned I 1 frodi huglund aad oa 11 I 1 turn to 10 a could not atille ot dot act ho be attended any ny conferences no llo I 1 alva wi trusted to hr his lion aeo load aud 1164 memory 1 Y to record events tito ordin ordinance aneo of com eph endowments mere given mid and 1 mid id administered in I 1 J jospph 1 aitt Al tl tt a store atell elt in as in n tile tow itile 1 pip sod mid ad veto giroo at othur Allic wore hold beld in 11 floe mason Ina onlo artl but no iru fur far ng as co could id now MOW remember ordinances wore were rm oh b berv e d there liar or at Joc pha residence dence the alio or ordinance arn 11 aneo of baptism fur the dead wits wn vb me d oral first in A the river in the temple in ili accordance with will tile to ands of a revolution I 1 cioll wilca there aa allhands allo no ale tile tho or dinanno could ion bu mild mid was waft else ham AILI ulu it a it A that thu fit akca bo be performed to a temple temp lri lawyer kelly in ID questioning allm ou on the latter point alid abo wl alib 1 I great abild 1 I wells YOU yon tn undo understand rosand ono one thing 15 Jill was wad a 1 r i at sour mur ind and revelator laior and whatever allis ua revealed to him bint was no nc by US ua WM wa lio ila higher tile law of god cool ito was tho the prophet pro tt I as a higher than the be law answer 1 auy qu quoi cOLIOn ilon ilia 11 rub nib of abo law f from too I 1 missouri U 0 II 11 tho law the church re rc spondee tile witness ila received revelations from tho the lord and give aavo thorn them to u ile II 11 recel t ad I 1 atio he jaw from god a and adeoul com mule att il it to the chomth clio roii then yes do yon oil bit any Y that tho the prophet could not violate thu the law except by direct the president took n long time to con ailder lie ho said ald no a I 1 dh donl may eay bat no ila governed nod us UA after actor too ho load had received con kocl trout froia the ibo lord cavet it possibly pos tor for the lord to change ills filled and onto thing to what lio ila had bad previously revealed to jooris in athar words word it POal lohl anic or him film to reveal d different if to lu 1312 than loan what ho he relocated rueal fd la in 18 N no a I 1 dont think that ile ai would As I 1 said buld before joseph stand next tot to abo he lord and dictated what wits was revealed to title othea tho the ordinances relative to tho the w fishing of foot anointing with oil and baliti cing for the th dead were next handled haon lod wit buld bald that there vita no revelation to lu give those ordinances to tho the public joseph them before his death tied taught them ho wad ira then asked well you say bay thill that never was VM a revelation lalloo reduced to writing referring rc torrini to the ordinances lines for the iho of at tool fool with ull all and add baptism for the dond dead thoy they aro are not published aro are they in manuscript ye YM they have hava boen been JQ a were they 1 not noi to tho the body of the tha church old did you over rod read them lo in manus arl DO 11 1 I board taught by tile pro phat did aou ou ever roud road them front from so fript the president proul doDl took tooh a long timo in which to cisser well he bo auld with an all effort 1 I dont know that I 1 ever road them as received fro from the prop buL bL pid did you yon over ever sea ceo the manuscripts that contained cc talked tb the firo 1 11 I do not now recall seeing thorn I 1 can only say that the ordinances tire given to ID the are given elvon by instruction and aro are not audo mudo public nay isioro thun tsiun masoo ic ordinances are la Is known to everybody baptism Bupt liim to for tile dond dead lit Is also alao BO an ord lounce the wits wa subjected to a ewIn examination atlon relative to the lh knowledge be posos sedof cd of revel recel revel bevelled revelled led ad from time tothill to lime somo of abo revelation she lie said bald joseph kept to himself unit und others ho he to ro veaco to bortalo loom worn bun bots but it was wai only bou the required it 16 that ibey were glen given to the church in 1842 bo fulua of the church on marriage were tho the same s those of common marriages joseph bad hud had resealed to lafin LI in tuo tile CUAL or wanni MAHIl HGr and in time practiced it it was eccel ad at a very early date but lie be did tit t testify to lt it until a year before his douth up to 1913 1812 was there uny tiny law rule role or peculation lation of the church that permitted a man to ila libio a moro more then than eno cne ito wail lime abo be next qu quest lo propounded at a very early age of the church ra replied the dento joseph received nor dor nording dording arding to hid bla testimony a revelation on I 1 ike I 1 patriarchal order of marriage it was waa v r caled to him it lung loog time wrote it was WAI made public there was waa no law siren given to the church asa body but there was wa a rov clatton given to members joseph need it himself 1 I was questioned closely in regard to tho the john 0 06 llon lion nett nott secret wit difo a system but while tie ho bud hua beard bard of it his bis memory nio coory was so BO treacherous that ho he word not speak of it of ills own knowledge that bo be knew that tho the system wa denounced by the church joseph tolu atit the abio same principle iliac abraham of old practiced IVIta oSS believed that bad practiced it und and had dioro thin ono one wife hagar wal wu one and ho he b id ad posterity by her bar 1 in ui opinion it if aurahan bad posterity by bor bar a alho duj aln alfo abo was als alfa whether abo he was called a bond oman or a free woman Ab abraham wax was a rood mood man and would take her tho the lord said laid so lawyer rally then questioned the wit n as in regard to abrahams abrahama other aviv wives em 0 I 1 d endeavored to get an answer time that would ablation in the lio light of a lunor inner but tile preil dent remained firm do it and So solomon loncon were also brought up tip and lawyer kelly told how the lord had bad commanded tile tani I 1 that t they toy should have but one OHO wife alfo and d discard sear d con A as w was no do about abomination I 1 nation in ili ills III eyes a and nil received an antior to tho the effect that this lord probably censured thorn them for the mannor manner in which they pursued plaus title thin point mattied the witness was again brought down to josephi time aud and he swain stated that too lie taught liui glit tile thu of it plurality of wives no might alno almol havo have taught the abo doctrine that a man loan could be scaled to lu his own elta and wm that bo alto taught that a man could bo be sealed to more than ono one on point cna could not aa scot baulo john witness did not foot know that bat joseph taught that in order fur it men to bo be exalted lo Is the ter he bo HAVE VORS THAS THAN OXE ONS alid lid lb that at a worman could not ho be exulted on isa aho wat married As to thy rove int ion concerning tho the of plural a witness know knew 17 ilu did not no ito know ow who held tho the brigina although it WILA wall ju in his possession fit ono one time Bri charol and john taylor kept their own can revel ligons but whenever ho he received roc elvod n revelation ho he generally made li ja public he be wits present tit tile tho conference confer eDco hold bold in this city in auguet 1651 1652 but could no not t to member if t the revolution on ny was presented to tho the people by brigham nor liar tho lila mado by that it was waa a copy find that ammu josephs elfoe had bud burned tho the original orla loal the tito of for tho dead wm was the next subject brou broached brouch ched cd when the p lonford lone ors ord caino into this valley alloy they veto re baptized not DOI because they were aLc oPting a now flow covenant but because they felt illo 1110 it in wit witness noss it did a man DO good to bo be unless the tito wait by a man v A he bo laj boa authority I 1 veto god lawler kully holly I could there tharo bo be two ono abrogating tho the other wal wall answered tho the wit neav lice tit in tho ilia word of the lord find I 1 aoi am dot dol going to cantrAl ct nini nim of intellect tato only to ilia ibo 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