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JFS comments on how much more beneficial plural marriage is in eternity than monogamy.

Date
Jul 7, 1878
Type
Speech / Court Transcript
Source
Joseph F. Smith
LDS
Hearsay
Scribed Verbatim
Reference

Joseph F. Smith, "Plural Marriage—For the Righteous Only—Obedience Imperative—Blessings Resulting," Journal of Discourses, 26 vols. (Liverpool: William Budge, 1880): 20:30

Scribe/Publisher
George F. Gibbs
People
George F. Gibbs, Joseph F. Smith
Audience
Latter-day Saints
Transcription

But, indeed, the benefits naturally accruing to both sexes, and particularly to their offspring, in time, say nothing of eternity, are immensely greater in the righteous practice of patriarchal marriage than in monogamy, even admitted the eternity of the monogamous marriage covenant.

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