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Elder Packer gave this speech in 1981.
"There is a temptation for the writer or the teacher of Church history to want to tell everything, whether it is worthy or faith promoting or not. Some things that are true are not very useful."
"Historians seem to take great pride in publishing something new, particularly if it illustrates a weakness or mistake of a prominent historical figure...."
"The writer or the teacher who has an exaggerated loyalty to the theory that everything must be told is laying a foundation for his own judgement...."
"That historian or scholar who delights in pointing out the weaknesses and fralities of present or past leaders destroys faith. A destroyer of faith....places himself in great spiritual jeopardy. He is serving the wrong master, and unless he repents, he will not be among the faithful in the eternities...."
"In the Church we are not neutral. We are one- sided. there is a war going on, and we are engaged in it."
Source: Brigham Young University Studies, Summer 1981, 263-64, 266-67)