Leonard J. Arrington records Gordon B. Hinckley teaching that the Church is led by 15, not just 1, man; when the President dies, there is "abundant backup."
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Gordon B. Hinckley to Seminary and institute teachers, August 22, 1986 in Leonard J. Arrington, Adventures of a Church Historian (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998), 144
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"The president, after all, is just one of the fifteen prophets, seers, and revelators, so when the president is not functioning, we simply carry on with the remaining apostles.” As he said, “there is abundant ‘backup’,” and when the Saints sing “We thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet,” they are expressing their joy in being led by not just one man but by a council of fifteen.
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