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.