# Charles W. Penrose on Agency — President Wilford Woodruff is a man of wisdom and experience,…

> President Wilford Woodruff is a man of wisdom and experience,…

— Charles W. Penrose


President Wilford Woodruff is a man of wisdom and experience, and we respect 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.

Heber J Grant, letter to Mrs. Claud Peery, April 13, 1926, typescript in Lester Bush paper, University of Utah Archives.

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