TESTIMONY OF BENJAMIN F JOHNSON

This interpretation of the parable of the talents is a correct one:

On the 1st day of April A.D. 1843, [Benjamin testified,] President Joseph Smith, Orson Hyde, and William Clayton and others came from Nauvoo to my residence in Macedonia or Ramus in Hancock Co. Illinois, and we[re] joyfully welcomed by myself and family as our guests.On the following morning, Sunday April, 2nd, President Smith took me by the arm for a walk, leading the way to a secluded spot within the adjacent grove, where to my great surprise, he commenced to offer to me th...e principle of plural or celestial marriage, but I was more astonished by his asking me for my sister Almera to be his wife.I sincerely believed him to be a prophet of God, and I loved him as such, and also for the many evidences of his kindness to me, yet such was the force of my education, and the scorn that I felt unvirtuous that under the first impulse of my feelings I looked him calmly, but firmly in the face and told him that, "I had always believed (you) to be a good man, and wished to believe it still, and would try to;" and that, "I would take for him a message to my sister, and if the doctrine was true, all would be well, but if I should afterwards learn that it was offered to insult or prostitute my sister I would take his life." With a smile he replied "Benjamin, you will never see that day, but you shall live to know that it is true, and rejoice in it.. . .He also told me that he would preach a sermon that day for me, which I would understand, while the rest of the congregation would not comprehend his meaning. His subject was the ten talents spoken of by the Savior, "unto him that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundantly, but from that hath not (or will not receive) shall be taken away that which he hath, (or might have had.)" Plainly giving me to understand that the talents represented wives and children as the principle of enlargement throughout the great future, to those who were heirs of Salvation (Joseph F. Smith, "40 Affidavits on Celestial Marriage," book 2, pp. 3-5, Church Archives).

Hopefully, people will wake up from their deep slumber and will live it willingly instead of by force of circumstance.  And NO, I am NOT a polygamist - but we as a people will have to return to the principle of it generally speaking prior to obtaining Celestial glory.  The Law of Consecration is the key into the Terrestrial Kingdom, the highest form of it (plural marriage), is the refiner's fire to qualify one for the highest degree within the highest kingdom.

Where there is a blessing that is promised, there is always a law associated with it - as we learn it in the Temple.

This is simply what it is and how it will be.  If you have hang-ups, the problem lies with you.