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Abide #23: Official Declaration One

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In September 1890, Wilford Woodruff, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, met with his counselors with a vexing problem. How could they, as prophets and the First Presidency of the Church, prevent their religion from being squashed by the federal government over the practice of plural marriage? They ultimately decided that the Lord had confirmed to them that “the time [had] come…to meet the requirements of the country, to meet the demands that have been made upon us, and to save the people.” When his counselors and apostles vowed to support him, Woodruff called for more than 1000 copies of his Manifesto to be sent “to the President, Cabinet, Senate & House of Reps & other leading Men” in order to end the arrests of polygamists. The Declaration was accepted and sustained by common consent at the next week’s General Conference.

Most Latter-day Saints seem to have approved of the decision. However, some Saints abstained from voting, tacitly rejecting the Manifesto. At least one Latter-day Saint “remained silent,” his arm remaining at his side “like lead,” unable to approve the revelation.[1] Another Mormon man wrote, “Many of the saints seemed stunned and confused and hardly knew how to vote, feeling that if they endorsed it they would be voting against one of the most sacred and important principles of their religion, and yet, as it had been promulgated by the prophet, seer and revelator and the earthly mouthpiece of the Almighty, they felt it must be proper for some reason [or] other…A great many of the sisters wept silently & seemed to feel worse than the brethren.”

In this episode of “Abide: A Maxwell Institute Podcast,” we discuss the origins and implications of the revelation canonized as Official Declaration One, also known popularly as the Woodruff Manifesto.

My name is Joseph Stuart, I’m the public communications specialist at the Maxwell Institute. Janiece Johnson, is a Willes Center Research Associate at the Institute, and we will be discussing each week’s block of reading from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ “Come, Follow Me” curriculum. We aren’t here to present a lesson, but rather to hit on a few key themes from the scripture block that we believe will help fulfill the Maxwell Institute’s mission to inspire and fortify Latter-day Saints in their testimonies of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and engages the world of religious ideas.”

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In September 1890, Wilford Woodruff, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, met with his counselors with a vexing problem. How could they, as prophets and the First Presidency of the Church, prevent their religion from being squashed by the federal government over the practice of plural marriage? They ultimately decided that the Lord had confirmed to them that “the time [had] come…to meet the requirements of the country, to meet the demands that have been made upon us, and to save the people.” When his counselors and apostles vowed to support him, Woodruff called for more than 1000 copies of his Manifesto to be sent “to the President, Cabinet, Senate & House of Reps & other leading Men” in order to end the arrests of polygamists. The Declaration was accepted and sustained by common consent at the next week’s General Conference.

Most Latter-day Saints seem to have approved of the decision. However, some Saints abstained from voting, tacitly rejecting the Manifesto. At least one Latter-day Saint “remained silent,” his arm remaining at his side “like lead,” unable to approve the revelation.[1] Another Mormon man wrote, “Many of the saints seemed stunned and confused and hardly knew how to vote, feeling that if they endorsed it they would be voting against one of the most sacred and important principles of their religion, and yet, as it had been promulgated by the prophet, seer and revelator and the earthly mouthpiece of the Almighty, they felt it must be proper for some reason [or] other…A great many of the sisters wept silently & seemed to feel worse than the brethren.”

In this episode of “Abide: A Maxwell Institute Podcast,” we discuss the origins and implications of the revelation canonized as Official Declaration One, also known popularly as the Woodruff Manifesto.

My name is Joseph Stuart, I’m the public communications specialist at the Maxwell Institute. Janiece Johnson, is a Willes Center Research Associate at the Institute, and we will be discussing each week’s block of reading from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ “Come, Follow Me” curriculum. We aren’t here to present a lesson, but rather to hit on a few key themes from the scripture block that we believe will help fulfill the Maxwell Institute’s mission to inspire and fortify Latter-day Saints in their testimonies of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and engages the world of religious ideas.”

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