Great minds are with me on this!
Posted on 04/22/2012 12:50:55 AM PDT by Colofornian
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints seems to be engaged in an uphill battle in its effort to convince the public that they no longer practice polygamy. An LDS Newsroom release posted on September 7, 2007, stated:
“For the record, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints discontinued its practice in 1890, and for 117 years Mormons have followed a monogamous lifestyle. Yet careless headline writing or sloppy reporting still causes millions of Mormons to have to answer questions from their neighbors, coworkers, friends and neighbors: ‘Are you a polygamist?’ ‘Is that your church I read about in the newspaper?’ or ‘How many wives do you have?’ We ask journalists to clearly make the distinction between The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and polygamous groups. We also hope Church members and other readers will politely remind news organizations that continue to report inaccurately to make the effort to avoid these mistakes.”
The above press release makes reference to a document released in 1890 by fourth President Wilford Woodruff. Known as the Manifesto, this document makes the following promise:
“Inasmuch as laws have been enacted by Congress forbidding plural marriages, which laws have been pronounced constitutional by the court of last resort, I hereby declare my intention to submit to those laws, and to use my influence with the members of the Church over which I preside to have them do likewise.”
The above excerpt has often been referenced whenever the public erroneously connects modern polygamists groups with the LDS Church. It is true that the LDS Church no longer tolerates a member living in a marriage relationship with more than one woman, and in that sense it has nothing to do with modern polygamist groups. If this is what 15th President Gordon B. Hinckley meant when he stated, “I wish to state categorically that this church has nothing whatsoever to do with those practicing polygamy,” he was not lying. However, what is not entirely true is the assumption that the Mormon Church has completely renounced the practice of plural marriage. How is the public to understand this seeming contradiction?
The solution to this confusing dilemma is found in a concept dubbed “celestial polygamy.” Having more than one wife in the “here and now” is grounds for excommunication from the LDS Church; however, the possibility of having more than one wife in the “hereafter” is still very much a part of the Mormon culture. According to an article in the April 20, 2008 edition of the Salt Lake Tribune:
“Though the LDS Church had disavowed polygamy, it is still enshrined in Mormon scripture (Doctrine & Covenants 132) and some believe it will one day be re-established, if not on Earth, at least in heaven. In his quasi-official 1966 book Mormon Doctrine, which remains in print, the late LDS Apostle Bruce R. McConkie wrote that ‘the holy practice will commence again after the Second Coming and the ushering in of the millennium.’ And by policy, men can be ‘sealed’ for eternity in LDS temple rites to more than one wife, though women are permitted only a single sealing. Three of the church's current apostles, for example, were widowed and remarried. Each will have two wives in the eternities” (“Modern-day Mormons disavow polygamy”).
Note carefully the last sentence, “Three of the church’s current apostles, for example, were widowed and remarried. Each will have two wives in the eternities.”
The three Mormon Apostles referred to in this article are Dallin Oaks, L. Tom Perry, and Russell M. Nelson. All three men are widowers, and all three men have been “sealed” to a second wife.
What is the point of being “sealed” for eternity? Speaking in General Conference in 1994, Seventy Charles Didier stated:
“This [marriage] union is solemnized by the authority of the everlasting priesthood into a holy and sacred ordinance, the temple sealing. It is also called the new and everlasting covenant of marriage, and its purpose is to bind couples together on earth and bring them to a fulness of exaltation in the kingdom of God in the hereafter.” (“Remember Your Covenants,” Ensign (Conference Edition), May 1994, p.42).
In a January 28, 1999 City Weekly article titled “Only for Eternity,” author Andrea Moore Emmett quoted LDS Church spokesman Dale Bills who said, “We have to see sealing ordinances as a promise pending faithfulness and yes, some will live polygamy.”
Mormon women who find the teaching of celestial polygamy unsettling will probably not find comfort in a May 31, 2006 LDS Newsroom statement that reads:
“Question: Is polygamy gone forever from the Church?
We only know what the Lord has revealed through His prophets, that plural marriage has been stopped in the Church. Anything else is speculative and unwarranted.”
If it is really speculative and unwarranted, what is the point of Mormon widowers being sealed in Mormon temples? If temple sealings of this nature have significance in the hereafter, how can the LDS Church honestly say “plural marriage has been stopped”?
A Look at Fundamentalist Mormonism, by Bill McKeever
Lifting the Veil of Polygamy (Video)
Interview with a Mormon Fundamentalist (Video)
Mormonism 201: Chapter 16 - Polygamy (Rejoinder)
Mormon Polygamy: Comedy or Tragedy? (Blog post)
Mormons not only seal two live people as "married" in their temples...
...but can seal a live person to a dead person...
...or two dead people to each other -- as they did for a Roman Catholic priest and a nun (Father Damien, Hawaii)
If you think it's "just religion," it proves you are one of those "compartmentalizers" who think "religion" is boxed in a corner...
And the entire genealogical movement by Mormonism -- which creeps well beyond your "just religion" comment -- proves it never just remains in some controllable box in some tucked-away corner.
Quite symbolic.
Otherwise my understanding is they were rather strict Lutherans
I had heard about Blythe but had not heard about the colony from Switzerland, thanks for the info.
In the early part of the 19th century Indiana was popular with the communist societies, and some of them were into plural marriage ~ or worse ~ no marriage at all, and no sex!
So if other Christians do not believe in the book of Mormon why would they care if the Mormons do not adhere to it?
In an era where one-man, one-woman marriage is under attack — where monogamy is under attack by homosexuals — Do you really have to ask why it’s necessary to defend monogamy vs...
...anything-goes-”marriage”?
...homosexual inroads?
...no bag-limit-on-mail-order “brides?”
Are you telling us you favor current Islamic and current fundamentalist Mormon polygamy with this Q of yours? (Both rape girls...Islam as young as 10...fLds as young as 13-14...And 19th century Mormonism did the same thing...
As the statement goes...
...”As fLDS now are, LDS once were. As fLDS now are, LDS may become.”
I was saying that the Mormons believe in religion as many other Churches do, in my opinion religion is a fraud, but the great thing about frauds is that if one fraud can bring attention to another fraud they will deceive people from discovering their own fraud.
But that is just my rambling, the whole point is that we are supposedly Christians so maybe we should be more like Jesus told us to be.
The greatest thing Jesus said to me is to do unto others as you would have others do unto you.
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Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
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This is the first and greatest commandment.
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And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.
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All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.
If the Mormon people would just forget about their religion and follow the Teachings of Jesus that would be great but the same thing can be said about many other religions, and maybe the same thing can be said about my anti religion comments, even though i think it is right maybe i should not say it.
We all think we are right but if we would spend more time reading the Gospel of Jesus, maybe we could see things a little different.
Several families with hereditary mental disabilities are the core of the FLDS and they pass that around. It's like their church is designed to get a bunch of other people to take care of their disabled relatives.
Like being a Democrat or somethin'
There are some articles about the Swiss polygamists on the net these days. For years and years all we could ever find were the grave sites ~ a guy and his wives ~ and there are a good number of them.
In the early part of the 19th century Indiana was popular with the communist societies, and some of them were into plural marriage ~ or worse ~ no marriage at all, and no sex!
The no marriage and no sex? well i can relate to the last part of that,Ha,ha.
This singular sense also translates directly from the Hebrew where, I believe, that polygyny practiced in Torah was in gross error of that very scripture until the edict of Rabbeinu Gershom in the 11th century banned it's practice altogether.
But, would the rebuilding of The Temple which, by most Orthodox opinion, restore animal sacrifice (which I as an Old Testament believer yet decry as opposed to the Pharisaic evolution of modern prayer), and thus then continue this ancient practice as well? I would pray to God, no.
Yes, and Yeshua Messiah repeated/reinforced Gen. 2:24 in Matt. 19...ONE flesh. Jesus said a couple should no longer be considered TWO, but ONE. (Could we imagine Mormon sister-wives being "one flesh" of one another???)
It's not like the Torah was totally silent on polygamy:
(*) Many Mormon men married sisters -- something prohibited by Lev. 18:18.
(*) 17 He must not take many wives, or his heart will be led astray. (Deut. 17:17)
Yet Solomon ignored Deut. 17:17: He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives led him astray. 4 As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God... (1 Kings 11:3-4)
(*) And then, when we read the contexts & Biblical commentary on Hagar we see:
(1) God never told Abraham to sleep with Hagar for a night. The Angel of the Lord--whom most commentators think is the pre-incarnated Son of God, told Hagar post sleepover to return to her mistress (master Sarai) and to submit to mistress Sarai. (He never said to return to "your husband, Abram"...see Genesis 16)
So. Was Abram a polygamist? No.
Q. Why not?
A. Concubines were not considered "wives." And the only one who ever references Hagar as a "wife" is Sarai/Sarah. (But we never know if Abram slept with Hagar even more than once).
Q. Who continues to deem Hagar a servant/slave after sleeping with Abram?
A. …Abram,
…Sarai,
…the Angel of the Lord (who some say is the pre-incarnated Son of God),
…Moses (Gen. 25),
…even the apostle Paul (Gal. 4:21-31),
…and Hagar herself.
Sarai labels Hagar as a gift as a "wife" to Abram, but I question if a woman has the authority to "consent" on behalf of a slave.
Hagar was considered a slave both "before" and "after" sleeping with Abram. Why does the "before" matter? Just as a minor cannot "consent" to sex, a slave is in no better situation to "consent" to--or deny--her master's commands for sex. And in this case, the command didn't come from her husband, Abram; it came from her mistress (female word for "master"), Sarai (Sarai is twice referenced as "mistress"--Gen. 16:4,8).
Why does the "after" matter?
Because it shows she didn't become a "transformed" person--from slave to wifely status! Gen. 16:6,8,9; 21:11; 25:12; and Gal. 4:21-31 all are still referencing her as either a "slave" (twice in 21:11), "servant," or one who was told by the Angel to submit to her mistress (female word for "master"). By Gen. 25, Abraham is married to Keturah with no mention of Hagar (25:1) and is then buried with Sarah (25:10).
So, to summarize: If we were to call all the key witnesses to the stand, and hear what they have to say:
Q Hagar, after Sarai gave you to Abram and Ishmael was conceived, did you still acknowledge Sarai as your "mistress" in your conversation with the Angel of the Lord? [female master]
A Yes. (Gen. 16:8)
Q Sarai, when you were in your early nineties when Isaac was a toddler, how did you characterize Hagar?
A I told Abraham, Get rid of that slave woman and her son, for that slave woman's son will never share in the inheritance with my son, Isaac. (Gen. 21:10)
Q Abraham, after Sarah gave you Hagar and you slept with her, how did you characterize Hagar?
A I told Sarah, as mistress (master) of her servant, Your servant is in your hands. Do with her whatever you think best. (Gen. 16:6)
Q When Sarah began to mistreat her servant, Hagar, did you intervene like what we might expect a husband to do?
A No. Hagar was Sarah's servant.
Q Angel of the Lord, when you called to Hagar after she conceived Ishmael, how did you reference her?
A Servant of Sarai (Gen. 16:8)
Q And when you conversed with Hagar, did you, Angel of the Lord, acknowledge that she was released from her servant role to Sarai?
A No. In fact, I told her Go back to your mistress and submit to her. (Gen. 16:9)
Q Moses, since you wrote Genesis, how did you identify Hagar in her last reference of that book? Did you link her to Abraham?
A No. I identified her as "Sarah's maidservant" (Gen. 25:12).
Q So in that same passage, you link Ishmael to Abraham, but you link Hagar only to Sarah?
A Yes.
Q Apostle, Paul How did the Holy Spirit lead you to interpret the Old Covenant as expressed through Abraham?
A For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. His son by the slave woman was born in the ordinary way; but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a promise. These things may be taken figuratively, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar. Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children. But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother...Now you brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise. At that time the son born in the ordinary way persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. It is the same now. But what does the Scripture say? 'Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman's son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman's son.' Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman. (Gal. 4:21-31)
It also seems that not one polygynous marriage, in Torah at least, ever evolved to a “happy” state, while the monogamous Isaac and Rebecca came much closer to the marital idea. And in any case there was never any doubt of their lifelong love and devotion to one another. There seems some lesson in that which I believe further reinforces the “one man, one woman” nature of Genesis 2:24.
Isn’t The Bible great?
May God shower His Grace upon You and Yours....
For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. His son by the slave woman was born in the ordinary way; but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a promise.
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I*nteresting..
The Mormons claim that the LORD Jesus Christ was “born in the ordinary way”
and yet Christians know that He was “born as the result of a promise”
and that there was no “ordinary” process about His conception..
No. That's simply not true, no matter how many times it's repeated.
First, the 1890 Manifesto only purported to prevent new plural marriages. Read it; it didn't even purport to discontinue existing polygamy, which slowly died out naturally in the 1950s or 1960s (and I don't have a problem with that; it would have been inhumane to break up existing plural marriages).
Second, the LDS Church continued to practice a small number (most LDS historians say about 250, although a very few set the number at closer to 2,000) of secret polygamous marriages after 1890 in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico - even the plural marriage of a member of the Quorum of the Twelve. That's why the U.S. Senate refused to seat Reed Smoot as the Senator from Utah in 1904, and we had four years of the Smoot hearings. It's why there was a Second Manifesto, the 1904 Manifesto, by LDS President Joseph F. Smith. 1904 is by far the better date for the year the LDS Church officially stopped plural marriages.
Do you REALLY want to state that HYPOCRACY is basically non-existant?
Ok...
Matthew 15:16
"Are you still so dull?" Jesus asked them.
Matthew 231. Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples:
2. "The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat.
3. So you must obey them and do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.
4. They tie up heavy loads and put them on men's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.
5. "Everything they do is done for men to see: They make their phylacteries wide and the tassels on their garments long;
6. they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues;
7. they love to be greeted in the marketplaces and to have men call them `Rabbi.'
8. "But you are not to be called `Rabbi,' for you have only one Master and you are all brothers.
9. And do not call anyone on earth `father,' for you have one Father, and he is in heaven.
10. Nor are you to be called `teacher,' for you have one Teacher, the Christ.
11. The greatest among you will be your servant.
12. For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
13. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.
14. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
15. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.
16. "Woe to you, blind guides! You say, `If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.'
17. You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred?
18. You also say, `If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gift on it, he is bound by his oath.'
19. You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
20. Therefore, he who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it.
21. And he who swears by the temple swears by it and by the one who dwells in it.
22. And he who swears by heaven swears by God's throne and by the one who sits on it.
23. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices--mint, dill and cummin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law--justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.
24. You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.
25. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
26. Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.
27. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean.
28. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
29. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.
30. And you say, `If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'
31. So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.
32. Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your forefathers!
33. "You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?
34. Therefore I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town.
35. And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
36. I tell you the truth, all this will come upon this generation.
37. "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing.
38. Look, your house is left to you desolate.
39. For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, `Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.' "
Mark 7:26-27
26. The woman was a Greek, born in Syrian Phoenicia. She begged Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.
27. "First let the children eat all they want," he told her, "for it is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to their dogs."
Behold, the Lamb of GOD, that takes away the SIN of the world.
Yes, Jesus loves us, and that is WHY He was the perfect sacrifice for us imperfect humans.
His love is there for the taking, to all who wish to avoid The Wrath of GOD which is surely coming.
I have a RESPONSIBILTY to warn folks about it.
I'm sorry if pointing out false teachings and false christs offends you.
Great minds are with me on this!
Behold, the Lamb of GOD, that takes away the SIN of the world.
Yes, Jesus loves us, and that is WHY He was the perfect sacrifice for us imperfect humans.
I’m sorry if pointing out false teachings and false christs offends you.
But one time you will copy and paste a bunch of Mormon stuff and now here you are posting scriptures from the Bible so i don,t really know if you are trying to convert me to Mormonism by telling me that it don,t matter that the book of Mormon forbids polygamy or not because the prophets say different.
Any way i don,t think i want to become a Mormon because even if i could have several wives they would probably be picked for me and turn out to be old hags that no one else wanted, no thanks.
I had a stupid dream for years when i was young, i kept seeing in great big letters G.P.C it finally dawned on me that God was telling me to GO PREACH CHRIST, i tried it for a while and was not doing any good at all and then it came to me that i had misinterpreted the dream.
What God was telling me to do was Go Plant Corn, yes some times the truth does hurt, like me, there are so many people out there who think their mission is to preach Christ so they will go to college and learn a bunch of big words that could mean a lot of things but don,t really mean anything, and call them selves doctors of theology or some such thing.
Jesus said, you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free, the truth is the Gospel of Jesus, but when you go to most Churches how many times do you here the Gospel, well most of them i have been to spend more time on pauls letters to the Churches than they do in the gospel of jesus.
They are preaching to the quire, we need to get back to the Gospel.
The letters Paul wrote was mainly to guide the Church leaders in setting up the Church in a way that would glorify God not Paul, their mission was to preach the Gospel of Jesus to people who had not heard it.
Read the words of Jesus...
Ok...
They are there for the money, just like the religious leaders in the time of Jesus.
And they would crucify him just as quick, some because they would not know him and others because they would know who he is but would not want him to take away their gravy train.
Here is the conclusion of
mark 7:26 and 27
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And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way ; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.
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And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out , and her daughter laid upon the bed.
And WHY is that a PROBLEM?
The early church DID have problems and Paul was addressing them.
Nothing has changed.
Our PRESENT church are FULL ov problems; thus the need to address them.
It is easier to convert a people than to get them to cleanup their act.
MORMONism preaches a FALSE GOSPEL based upon a FALSE christ; thus the need for instructing those caught in it's lies, or those about to.
Trusting in a FALSE jesus will get a person a FALSE salvation!!!
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STATE OF UTAH ) ss:
County of Salt Lake )
HAROLD B. LEE, being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is now and ever since July 7, 1972, has been the duly chosen and appointed President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and, as such president, is now and ever since said date has been the legally constituted CORPORATION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS, a Utah Corporation Sole; that the original Articles of Incorporation of said Corporation Sole were executed by Heber J. Grant, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; that he, Harold B. Lee, is the successor in office to the said Heber J. Grant; that he, Harold B. Lee, executed the foregoing Articles of Amendment as said Corporation Sole.
[signed] Harold B. Lee
SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN to before me this 19th day of November, 1973.
[signed] Wilford W Kirton, Jr
NOTARY PUBLIC
Residing at Salt Lake City, Utah
My commission expires:
2-3-77
First: The name of this corporation shall be the CORPORATION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS.
Second: The object of this corporation shall be to acquire, hold and dispose of such real and personal property as may be conveyed to or acquired by said corporation for the benefit of the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a religious society, for the benefit of religion, for works of charity and for public worship. Such real and personal property may be situated, either within the State of Utah, or elsewhere, and this corporation shall have power, without any authority or authorization from the members of said Church or religious society, to grant, sell, convey, rent, mortgage, exchange, or otherwise dispose of any part or all of such property.
Third: The estimated value of the property of which I hold the legal title for the purpose aforesaid, at the time of making these Articles of Incorporation, is One Million, Five Hundred Thousand Dollars.
Fourth: The title of the person making these articles of incorporation is "President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints." He and his successor in office shall be deemed and are hereby created a body politic and corporation sole with perpetual succession, having all the powers and rights and authority in these articles specified or provided for by law. But in the event of death or resignation from office of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or in the event of a vacancy in that office from any cause, the President or Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of said Church, or one of the members of said Quorum thereunto designated by that Quorum, shall, pending the installation of a successor President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, be the corporation sole under these articles, and the laws pursuant to which they are made, and shall be and is authorized in his official capacity to execute in the name of the corporation all documents or other writings necessary to the carrying on of its purposes, business and objects, and to do all things in the name of the corporation which the original signer of the articles of incorporation might do; it being the purpose of these articles that there shall be no failure in succession in the office of such corporation sole.
Fifth: Upon the winding up and dissolution of this corporation, after paying or adequately providing for the debts and obligations of the corporation, the remaining assets shall be distributed to a nonprofit fund, foundation or corporation, which is organized and operated exclusively for charitable, educational, or religious and/or scientific purposes and which has established its tex-exempt status under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Sixth: The corporate seal shall contain the words, "Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints," and an impression thereof is hereto affixed.
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