. . . Marriage is regarded by the Latter-day Saints as a sacrament. Under its higher ecclesiastical law it involves an everlasting covenant. That does not end with death. The marriage does not take place in the resurrection, but in time and in this world. It is the nature of that marriage in the Garden of Eden between a man and a woman in whom then there was no death. It was a wedding of immortals. That which was lost through sin in the "fall" was restored through obedience and the atonement of Christ in the regeneration, and the resurrection brings the parted pair together again as one, "no more twain but one flesh"—spiritual, but tangible and eternal. That which is sealed on earth to-day by divinely revealed authority is sealed in heaven and remains, in spite of death, immutable, and abides forever.

The family thus formed is the basis of an ever-increasing kingdom and dominion continuing worlds without end. . . .