The Stoddards:
7. This dispensation
is to receive the word of God ONLY through Joseph Smith . . . 10. In this
dispensation, we have not been commanded to follow any man except the Prophet
Joseph Smith. (source)
The Church:
I want to say, as the
President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, that we should
now go on and progress. We have not got through revelation. We have not got
through the work of God. But at this period we want to go on and fulfill this
commandment of God given through Malachi that the Lord should send Elijah the
prophet, "and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and
the heart of the children to their fathers lest I come and smite the earth with
a curse." Ye sons of men, I say unto you, in the name of Israel's God,
those very principles that God has revealed are what have stayed the judgment
of the Almighty on the earth. Were it not for these principles, you and I would
not be here today. We have had prophets and apostles. President Young who
followed President Joseph Smith, led us here. He organized these Temples and
carried out the purposes of his calling and office. He laid the foundation of
this great Temple on this block, as well as others in the mountains of Israel.
What for? That we might carry out these principles of redemption for the dead.
He accomplished all that God required at his hands. But he did not receive all
the revelations that belong to this work; neither did President Taylor, nor has
Wilford Woodruff. There will be no end to this work until it is perfected.
(Revelation to Wilford Woodruff-the Law of Adoption, in James R. Clark, comp.,
Messages of the First Presidency, volume 3)
The Stoddards are, functionally, fundamentalist
apostates who disdain modern Church leaders. They are to be avoided for the false
teachers they are (cf. Gal 1:6-9). It will be only a matter of time that they get excommunicated and/or join a fundamentalist/apostate group.
