Elder Wilford Woodruff reasoned on the inconsistency of trusting a matter of such importance as our salvation to the direction of God and His servants, and yet being afraid to be dictated from the same source on our temporal affairs. Referring to gardening and agriculture he said,—"I have visited your orchards, and am glad to see them. They are bearing apples and peaches and apricots. In setting out on orchard set out good fruit trees. In sowing flax, it should be sown thickly on rich land, and it will yield fine lint. We must sow clean seed of every kind we sow; and we must fallow our lands, or weed our crops, and mow down the sunflowers and other weeds out of the margins of our fields and streets. We must learn to make our own clothing, or become bankrupt. I have heard President Young preach to our sisters about making their bonnets for the last ten years. Listen to his counsels and the counsels and advice of others of the servants of God and the Lord will bless us." We have reason to have confidence in those who have lead us for half a century, and lead us con- stantly in the right way. We should have confidence in such men if we knew comparatively nothing; but when we may know the truth of their teach- ings for ourselves, by the revelations of the Spirit, our confidence is doubly strong. The Lord will prove his ser- vants and handmaidens, and if we are faithful we need have no fears.