The law of adoption was a ritual practiced in Latter Day Saint temples between 1846 and 1894 in which men who held the priesthood were sealed in a father–son relationship to other men who were not part of nor even distantly related to their immediate nuclear family.
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“The law of God is a law of change, and ... when the Churches set themselves against change as such, they are setting themselves against the law of God.”
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