Official statement on plural marriage-- produced in pamphlet form.
Despite everything President Grant and his counselors had issued since he became President of the Church on November 23, 1918, and despite everything which his predecessor, President Joseph F. Smith, and his counselors had said and written during his administration from 1901 to 1918, there were still people who insisted on teaching and practicing plural marriage, contrary to the laws of the land and of the Church. ...
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Office of the First Presidency Salt Lake City, Utah June 17, 1933 To Presidents of Stakes and Counselors,
Dear Brethren:
As persistent reports are coming to us of activity by a group said to be propagating a false doctrine and illegal practice of polygamous or plural marriage, (the group apparently being composed of avowed or virtual apostates from the Church, of persons excommunicated from the Church, and of a few misguided but otherwise faithful members of the Church) we have deemed it wise to issue, under date of June 17th, 1933, and by way of warning and exhortation, an Official Statement which calls attention to the activities of that group, and which points out that neither the group nor its activities are in any way connected with the Church, that not only are the activities unauthorized and therefore illegal and void, but that they are contrary to the rule of the Church and the will of the Lord as revealed through President Woodruff and adopted by the Church, and that marriages performed by members of this group are false and mock marriages.
... Sincerely your brethren in the Gospel, HEBER J. GRANT, ANTHONY W. IVINS, J. REUBEN CLARK, JR., First Presidency.
[Source: Clark, James R., Messages of the First Presidency (6 volumes)]
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