In this way we can become king of kings, and lord of lords, or father
of fathers, or prince of princes, and this is the only course, for
another man is not going to raise up a kingdom for you. 3:265-266.
But the whole subject of the marriage relation is not in my reach, nor
in any other man's reach on this earth. It is without beginning of days
or end of years; it is a hard matter to reach. We can tell some things
with regard to it; it lays the foundation for worlds, for angels,
and for the Gods; for intelligent beings to be crowned with glory,
immortality, and eternal lives. In fact, it is the thread which runs
from the beginning to the end of the holy Gospel of Salvation--of the
Gospel of the Son of God; it is from eternity to eternity. 2:90.
When a man and woman have received their endowments and sealings[A], and
then had children born to them afterwards, those children are legal
heirs to the Kingdom and to all its blessings and promises, and they
are the only ones that are on this earth. There is not a young man in
our community who would not be willing to travel from here to England
to be married right, if he understood things as they are; there is not
a young woman in our community, {303} who loves the Gospel and wishes
its blessings, that would be married in any other way; they would live
unmarried until they could be married as they should be, if they lived
until they were as old as Sarah before she had Isaac born to her. Many
of our brethren have married off their children without taking this
into consideration, and thinking it a matter of little importance. I
wish we all understood this in the light in which heaven understands
it. 11:118.
[Footnote A: In the Temple--For Eternity.]
Our children who are born in the Priesthood are legal heirs, and
entitled to the revelations of the Lord, and as the Lord lives, his
angels have charge over them, though they may be left to themselves
occasionally. 12:174.
There is no ecclesiastical law that you know anything about, to free
a wife from a man to whom she has been sealed, if he honors his
Priesthood. 8:345.
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