[At fast meeting in the Salt Lake temple:] Pres[ident] [Joseph F.] Smith spoke a half hour at the last and said in regard to Apostle A[braham] O[wen] Wooduff and wife the Lord permitted their death but did not Foreknow their death not plan [sic] the same but they having placed themselves in the way of a d[e]structive element were overtaken and their lives sacrificed.
The Lord would no doubt overrule it for good but He was not responsible for their untimely taking off.
[Source: Seymour B. Young, Diary]
The "terrible swift sword" of the "altogether true and righteous judgments" of the Lord will once again in the future of this land fall upon the heads of all those involved in the abomination and whoredom of plural marriage or polygamy. As it is written, so shall it be done.
ReplyDeleteA.O.Woodruff took Eliza Avery Clark as his 1st and only plural wife on Nov.1, 1900. They had one child.
ReplyDelete"The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether." (Psalm 19:9). 2nd half of verse quoted by Abraham Lincoln on March 4,1865 in his 2nd Inaugural Address.
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