We maintain with abundant authority that Joseph Smith the Prophet introduced Celestial Marriage, that is, marriage for eternity, into the Church. This fact has been admitted by many members of the "Reorganized" Church, notwithstanding they attack us on this doctrine and say it is not a doctrine of the Church. And while they attack us the better part of them hope it is true. What is there so terrible in the doctrine of the preservation of the family union in eternity? What right-living God-fearing man is there but would be glad to meet his parents, his wife and children, in the kingdom of God and know they were united never again to separate? While this belief is not taught in the creeds of men--including the Reorganites--yet there is a hope burning in the bosoms of many people that this doctrine _may_ prove true! Well, it is a Scriptural doctrine, and it _is_ true, for the Lord revealed it to Joseph Smith. In the beginning, the very first marriage was one intended to last forever. Do you not believe it? I quote from the Inspired Scriptures: "And I, God, created man _in mine own image_, in the image of mine Only Begotten created I him, _male and female created I them_, And I, God, blessed them, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."--(Genesis 1:29-30). This was a spiritual creation, man was created in the image of God, _male and female_, first in the Spirit, and told in that spiritual creation that they were expected to multiply and replenish the earth when they were placed upon it to subdue it. This we prove from the second chapter of Genesis beginning with the fifth verse: "For I, the Lord God, created all things of which I have spoken _spiritually_, before they were naturally upon the face of the earth; for I, the Lord God, had not caused it to rain upon the face of the earth. "And I, the Lord God, had created all the children of men, and not yet a man to till the ground, for in heaven created I them, and there was not yet flesh upon the earth, neither in the water, neither in the air." Verse 23. "And I, the Lord God, said unto mine Only Begotten, that it was not good that the man should be alone; "Wherefore, I will make an help meet for him." Here the Lord declares that it is not good for man to be alone, and therefore he gave him an helpmeet, Eve; and this union was formed before _mortality or death came into the world_, and there is no indication that it was meant to have an end. If, therefore, it was not good for man to be alone before the days of mortality, will it not also be good for man to have a helpmeet _after_ mortality has passed away? Paul thought so, said he: "Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, _in the Lord_."--(I Cor. 11:11).