Wilford Woodruff Quotes

If we are going to do away with polygamy, it would only be one feather in the bird, one ordinance in the Church and Kingdom. Do away with that, then we must do away with the prophets and apostles, with revelation and the gifts and graces of the Gospel, and finally give up our religion altogether.

Wilford Woodruff

• Religion
• Kingdom
• Revelation
• Finally
• Prophets
• Polygamy
• Feather
• Ordinance

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• If we are going to do away with polygamy, it would only be one feather in the bird, one ordinance in the Church and Kingdom. Do away with that, then we must do away with the prophets and apostles, with revelation and the gifts and graces of the Gospel, and finally give up our religion altogether.

  

  Wilford Woodruff
  • Religion
  • Kingdom
  • Revelation