“President Wilford Woodruff is a man of wisdom and experience, and we respect and venerate him; but we do not believe his personal views or utterances are revelations from God; and when ‘Thus saith the Lord’ comes from him, the Saints investigate it; they do not shut their eyes and take it down like a pill.”

Charles W. Penrose – 7 February 1892, Millennial Star – Volume 54, “The Doctrine of Revelation” (Liverpool, England: Brigham Young, 1892), 191.