The Constitution or The Restoration Shall Hang by a Thread?

 “Even this nation [church] will be on the verge of crumbling to pieces and tumbling to the ground and when the Constitution [Restoration] is on the brink of ruin this people will be the staff upon which the nation [church] shall lean and they shall bear the Constitution [Restoration] away from the very verge of destruction.”

(Joseph Smith Papers, LDS Church Historical Archives, Box 1, March 10, 1844.)

Only the elders of the church can save the doctrines and ordinances of the Restoration from ruin by opposing the influence of a corrupt oligarchy over the leaders of the church.