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Thread #110284   Message #2319747
Posted By: Alice
18-Apr-08 - 09:30 PM
Thread Name: BS: Texas Polygamist Colony Raid
Subject: RE: BS: Texas Polygamist Colony Raid
From the web site I just linked to:

        
"Questions regarding the described 1886 ordinations

Of all of the assertions made by Lorin Woolley in the 1920, none is more important that his descriptions of ordinations that allegedly occurred on September 27, 1886. According to Lorin's 1929 account, he and four other men then received lofty authority to continue plural marriage:[1]

          He [John Taylor] called five of us together: Samuel Bateman, Charles H. Wilkins [Wilcken], George Q. Cannon, John W. Woolley, and myself. He then set us apart[1] and place us under covenant that while we lived we would see to it that no year passed by without children being born in the principle of plural marriage. We were given authority to ordain others if necessary to carry this work on, they in turn to be given authority to ordain others when necessary, under the direction of the worthy senior (by ordination), so that there should be no cessation in the work..."