Men may say that with their single marriage the same promises and blessings had been granted. “Why cannot I attain to as much as with three or four?” Many question me in this manner. I suppose they are afraid of [the] Edmunds [Tucker act]. What is the Covenant? It is the eternity of the marriage covenant, and includes a Plurality of Wives and takes both to make the law. The Lord leads the mind step by step to this point: First that all covenants must be made by his power; Next the eternity of the covenant reaching into Eternity; After this the Lord tells us what the Law is and how he justified his servants. God commanded Abraham, and Sarah gave Hagar to Abraham because this was the law ordained for the fullness and glory of God before the world was. This was the law and from Hagar sprang many nations. The Lord has said that to whom this revelation is given, that they are eligible to this law, its blessings and its requirements. The men can only be saved by acts of righteousness and the woman are under the same law. Joseph Smith declared that all who became heirs of God and joint heirs of Christ must obey his Law, or they cannot enter into the fullness, and if they do not they may loose the one talent. When men are offered knowledge and they refuse it they will be damned, and there is not a man that is sealed by this priesthood [except] by [which he] covenants to enter into the fullness of the Law, and the same with the woman - she says she will observe all that pertains to the New and Everlasting Covenant. Both are under the Covenant - and must obey if they wish to enter into a continuation of the lives or of the seeds.