n and correct teachings is the reason why so
many are dead and damned, and twice plucked up by the roots, and
I would as soon baptize the devil as some of you."

October 6, 1855 (volume 5, page 274), Kimball said: "If you
oppose any of the works of God you will cultivate a spirit of
apostasy. If you oppose what is called the spiritual wife
doctrine, the patriarchal order, which is of God, that course
will corrode you with apostasy, and you will go overboard. The
principle of plurality of wives never will be done away, although
some sisters have had revelations that when this time passes
away, and they go through the vale, every woman will have a
husband to herself. I wish more of our young men would take to
themselves wives of the daughters of Zion, and not wait for us
old men to take them all. Go ahead upon the right principle,
young gentlemen, and God bless you for ever and ever, and make
you fruitful, that we may fill the mountains and then the earth
with righteous inhabitants."

President Heber C. Kimball, in a lengthy discourse delivered in
the Tabernacle on the 4th day of April, 1857, took occasion to
say: "I would not be afraid to promise a man who is sixty years
of age, if he will take the counsel of Brother Brigham and his
brethren, that he will renew his youth. I have noticed that a man
who has but one wife, and is inclined to that doctrine, soon
begins to wither and dry up, while a man who goes into plurality
looks fresh, young, and sprightly. Why is this? Because God loves
that man, and because he honors his work and word. Some of you
may not believe this - I not only believe it, but I also know it.
For a man of God to be confined to one woman is a small business;
it is as much as we can do to keep up under the burdens we have
to carry, and I do not know what we should do if we only had one
woman apiece."

President Heber C. Kimball used the following language in a
discourse, instructing a band of missionaries about to start on
their mission: "I say to those who are elected to go on missions,
Go, if you never return, and commit what you have into the hands
of God - your wives, your children, your brethren, and your
property. Let truth and righteousness be your motto, and don't go
into the world for anything else but to preach the gospel, build
up the Kingdom of God, and gather the sheep into the fold. You
are sent out as shepherds to gather the sheep together; and
remember that they are not your sheep;