 | B. Carmon Hardy - Latter Day Saint churches - 1992 - 498 pages
...document, its most significant and oft-quoted part: "And I now publicly declare that my advise [sic] to the Latter-day Saints is to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land." Woodruff's characterization of his message as "advise" provoked derision. The Salt Lake Tribune commented... | |
 | Maureen Ursenbach Beecher, Lavina Fielding Anderson - History - 1987 - 308 pages
...Taylor's successor, Wilford Woodruff, issued his Manifesto announcing that Latter-day Saints should "refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land." For nearly half a century, defending plural marriage had united large numbers of Mormon women and provided... | |
 | Martha Sonntag Bradley - History - 1993 - 296 pages
...to use my influence with the members of the Church over which I preside to have them do likewise.... I now publicly declare that my advice to the Latter-day...contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land. 21 Although it was bewildering for many Saints, the Manifesto formally ended the period of civil disobedience... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Political Science - 1993 - 620 pages
...about twenty thousand Mormons), its polygamists are in compliance with the 1890 Manifesto's wording to "refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land."228 What African polygamists are not in compliance with arc US and Utah laws. Thus, people who... | |
 | John L. Brooke - History - 1994 - 448 pages
...pivotal Manifesto agreeing to submit to the national laws against polygamy and advising the Saints "to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land." The following May the church decided to dissolve the Mormon-controlled "People's Party" and to direct... | |
 | José López Baralt - Law - 1999 - 400 pages
...has used language which appeared to convey such teachings he has been promptly reproached. And now I publicly declare that my advice to the Latter-Day Saints is to refrain Conclusions Concerning the Territorial Policies of the United States up to the Spanish American War... | |
 | Raymond D. Moore - Latter Day Saint churches - 2001 - 401 pages
...church president Wilford Woodruff, successor to John Taylor, issued a manifesto which reads in part: Inasmuch as laws have been enacted by Congress forbidding...contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land.339 After the Manifesto was read at the conference, another top leader of the church took a vote... | |
 | Rebecca Stefoff - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2001 - 152 pages
...would not soften its stand, in 1890 Wilford Woodruff, the president of the church, advised all members "to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land." The Mormons also disbanded their political party. Seeing that Utah was moving closer to the mainstream... | |
 | Carol Weisbrod - Law - 2009 - 233 pages
...Gender: Women, Jurisdiction, and the Federal Courts," New York University Law Review 66 (1991): 1682. my intention to submit to those laws, and to use my...contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land. 25 Outside of Utah, hostility to the Mormon institution continued. In Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day... | |
 | Thomas F. Heinze - Religion - 2011 - 75 pages
...church backed down on October 6, 1890, when Wilford Woodruff, the president of the church said: ".. .I now publicly declare that my advice to the Latter-day...contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land." 1 Will any Mormons who do not have more than one wife get into Glory? There are two possibilities:... | |
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And I now publicly declare that my advice to the Latterday Saints is to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land. 
