It is true that since what is known as the manifesto of October, 1890, some of your our young men who could not be controlled, and who still believed it to be their right to live in the plural order of marriage for the purpose of raising families, took the bits in their own teeth and secretly advised the continuance of plural marriages, keeping their acts concealed until concealment could no longer be maintained, and resulting in the excommunication of the parties in authority advising these unauthorized marriages, the party solemnizing them and some, who knew better, who entered into them, a problem we are still dealing with ...
[Source: Joseph F. Smith, Letter to J. E. Rullison, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1910-1951, Privately Published, Salt Lake City, Utah 2010]
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