Editing 1890 Manifesto (section)

==Formal acceptance by the LDS Church==
Less than a month after the Manifesto was issued, the LDS Church used the procedure of [[common consent (Latter Day Saints)|common consent]] to make it binding upon church members. At a [[General Conference (LDS Church)|general conference]] of the church in Salt Lake City on October 6, 1890, the Manifesto was read, after which [[Lorenzo Snow]], the [[president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (LDS Church)|president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles]], made the following motion:

<blockquote>I move that, recognizing Wilford Woodruff as the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the only man on the earth at the present time who holds the keys of the sealing ordinances, we consider him fully authorized by virtue of his position to issue the Manifesto which has been read in our hearing, and which is dated September 1890, and that as a Church in General Conference assembled, we accept his declaration concerning plural marriages as authoritative and binding.<ref name=LDSOD1/></blockquote>

The conference proceedings recorded that "the vote to sustain the foregoing motion was unanimous."<ref name=LDSOD1/> However, a modern author reports that "at least some voted against the Manifesto and perhaps a majority abstained."<ref name = erickson/> Some members, including [[apostle (Latter Day Saints)|apostle]] [[Moses Thatcher]], only reluctantly supported the Manifesto and interpreted it as a sign that the [[Second Coming]] of Jesus was imminent, after which plural marriage would be reinstated.<ref name = erickson/>