Said President John Taylor: “At [an] early period of my life I learned to approach God. Many a time I have gone into the fields and concealing myself behind some bush, would bow before the Lord and call upon him to guide and direct me. And he heard my prayer. … It would not hurt you … to call upon the Lord in your secret places, as I did. That was the spirit which I had when a little boy. And God has led me from one thing to another” (in Journal of Discourses, 22:315).