Show ELDER B H ROBERTS His Estimate of the Character of the Hi Estte te te Late President Elder B H Roberts one of the seven presidents of seventies and also one of the lending wrier on doctrinal matters mat-ters of the church said In the wisdom of God as it seems to us each man selected forhe leadership leader-ship has been peculiarly fitted for the time or space when he was called to sere and this to my mind Is strikIngly strik-Ingly illustrated In the case of President Presi-dent Woodruff I Is true that he served In a period of comparative quiet for thp church and yet it was dan of the rst trying times in our history because of chang tag conditions President Woodruffs absolute honesty was one of his most striking traits This Is shown by the fact that it was as general recognized by those outside of W church as by those within it Vhue nonMormons J may have questioned his judgment no one so far a r have over heard ever questioned his honesty of purpose or his perfect IntegIty That character Istcne which Inspired confidence In all classeswa essential to this epoch In establishing cQser relations and better bet-ter f elng among MormQn and non Mormons It W9uld be a great mistake to suppose sup-pose that President Woodruff despite his puppet He great age was a mere puppet was a man of very positive and practical practi-cal views and while always open to reason could not be swerved from any course that he deemed to be In the line of his duty This characteristic was continually manifested throughout his life and he never hesitated to advance any proposition based upon truth and he generally stayed by it until he won In my opinion no man among us could have been found to sere so wen durIng the time that President Woodruff Wood-ruff has and for his honesty devotion be to remembered duty and simplicity he will always |