Formal Acceptance By The LDS Church
"President Lorenzo Snow offered the following:
- "'I move that, recognizing Wilford Woodruff as the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the only man on the earth at the present time who holds the keys of the sealing ordinances, we consider him fully authorized by virtue of his position to issue the Manifesto which has been read in our hearing, and which is dated September 1890, and that as a Church in General Conference assembled, we accept his declaration concerning plural marriages as authoritative and binding.'
"The vote to sustain the foregoing motion was unanimous.
"Salt Lake City, Utah, October 6, 1890."
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