But I propose to refute this, and I will throw myself on your candor to judge if I succeed.
"'God, in Eden, appointed the marriage of one man and one woman to be the law of matrimony.

"And wherefore one ?" says the prophet.

"He had the residue of the spirit," and could have ordained otherwise.

"Wherefore one ?" The answer is, "that he might seek a godly seed." The arrangement was for the highest elevation of the race.
"'Polygamy is in direct conflict with the ordinance of God.

Of course God never ordained it.