Joseph told the ministry, at Nauvoo, long before his death, “let no revelation go to the people until it has been tested,” that is, before the assembled quorums.

We have had occasion to make good use of this idea since our arrival her, from the fact that polygamy, blood atonement, tithing the poor, the Adam-god and hundred doctrines, when viewed in the light of this argument stand out as the evidences of one of the rankest apostasies that have ever cursed the Church; the Scriptures, the Book of Mormon, and Doctrine and Covenants being the standards of appeal for evidence concerning the genuine “customs and methods.”