Keep in mind that the head of this church is not the President of the Church. The head of this church is the Lord and Master, Jesus Christ.
In each dispensation when his gospel has been upon the earth and his Church has been established, the Lord has appointed and has vested authority in one man at a time in each such dispensation who has borne the title of president of the Church, or prophet, seer and revelator to the Church. Such titles, or the conferring of such authority, does not make of one "the Head of the Church," which title belongs to Jesus Christ. It does make of him, however, God's mouthpiece and the one who acts in God's stead and through whom he speaks to his people by way of instruction, to give or to withhold principles and ordinances, or to warn of judgments.
If you want to know the last revelation that has come to this people, you get down the last conference report and read carefully especially what the First Presidency said. You will have the best and the last word that has been given from our Heavenly Father. In addition to what the scriptures have told us, we have what the prophets today are telling us here and now, and it is for us if we want to be saved on Zion's hill, when these perils come, to hear and obey.
A lot of our people would not have accepted Him any more then than they can accept the doctrines that come from the teachers of righteousness inspired by that same Savior. When we cannot accept those who represent Him here, it would not be a bit easier to accept the Master Himself, were He to appear.
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