Excerpt:
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 ...