, 1863-06-10
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1.-The world is al a tleeting show.
For tunn'A f1Iuafnn f.iran ,,

The Lords Amounted returned once again ia
the Lion House, and to the Queens Of his Sd.
cred Beehive. 1t is more thon probable that
be had heard and understood the facts of the
At any rate this much is true: the Prophet
did not relish the aspect Of adairs, and like
the Frenchman In the story, he was deter.
mined to t.go and stop that business" This
was not, he thought, hard to do, He is Chief
Engineer On the great Mormon locomotive,
and IS such has the power BY the crook of his
finger, to make it go either back or forward.
Perhaps the most destructive feature OF
Mormon society, always excepting Polygamy,
is contained in The one article Of their creed,
obedience to counsel. 1t is within the limits
Of truth to assert that all the heads which arc
whom the spirit Of apostasy abIdeth not, have
but one brain In moral sense, and that brain
is Brigham Yonng's. If it shall chance that
other than his ideas hare been educed In the
moral labornto1y. they are always held in strict
allegiance to bis ideas, and the latter adopted
instead thereof.
The machinery which has been invented,
the working Of which has produced this result
is most wonderful indeed, and may well chal-
1tnge the world to produce its equal. The
people are taught to believe rs a cardinal
proposit1on, and on which Ill other PROPOSE
lions rest, that Br1gham Young Is the only
High Priest of God, on earth, and by the gin
and power Of the Holy Ghost is a Prophet,
Seer and Reyelator As such, his ntterances
are believed to be as infa!lible as though
spoken BY the voice Of Deity itself, and the
true saint believes, and teaches others to be-
with God, and receives Instructions sand rev
elations from the materiai lips Of the Eternal
One.
For Brigham teaches that God himself ia a
material being, and at one period vas mere
man, and no beLter than an ordinary mortal.
al foF
these nightly communings consists In the sex
Of the divinity, OF rather dirinities, who gra-
ciouely condescend to give him audience,
"nIghtlyn or otherwise. For II Brigham
simply asserted that his e communions were
with godesses instead Of gods, 1t would Ger
tain]y be much nearer the mark, ho xcyer diff
ftrent revelations might be made Of the eub'
ject mntter thereof
But am depressing {very slightly, it must
be admitted, from the thread Of my subject,
and return to what may appropriately be
termed the machinery Of the Mormon church.
This consists Of Brigham, who is greatly
pleased and flattered by the b1esphemoas title
Third Presidents. College Of Twelve Apostles,
Patriarchs, Quoruns Of Seventies, Counsel.
lors, Presidents Of" Stakes,'' Bishops, Elders
and Teachers; and "last but not least, the
DanItes or *'DestroyiiDg Angels" who are
scattered throughout the Territory, and Who
Of the people in every city, village, "sta6e ="
and hamlet in the EaIne. -.
Theee yarious organizations and persons,
from the Second President to the rcd haired
DANTE, who is simply the employed assasian
OF the Great Head, are the Shuts, driving
wheel, cog ana spur wheels, belts and pulifes
such are madc to F.riorm their varlons func-
lions with a precision ard fitness Of things
that is wonderful indeed. Its gTeat motive
power is Brigham Young. In his single
brain, with the assistance OF his counsctloss,
Kho simply act as 1!cmen, the steam Il engcn-
dercd, and when thus applied, ddves with fear-
ful power the most wonderful combination
that tho world has ever Witnessed, either In
ancient or modern times.
Brigham, like skllful engineer, stands on
the platform Of his locomotive With hand
placed upon the lever, sheltered In the c..
booEc, with peep holes in front, on the Eight.
and on the left, and tue crook Of whose 6nger
causes the whole train to move forward or
back, or to switch off on the track ofsome new
dogma, to which he lures on the unsuspectf0g
passengers and precious freight with the catch-
penny whistle Of Revelation !" which is most
pereieteptlS sounded when he hears the restlYe
murmurings 0fthose who may catch but pre-
mon1tory glimpse Of the awful precipice to
Viicb he il hurrying them on, as to terrible
and eternal destruction .
and In that train may be found all that
makes up The hopes and fears. the joys and
sorrows. tie love and hatred of that :. moral
and physical phenomenon"-the Mormon
Chufch-not only here, but scattered through.
out all Europe aud the " Isles Of the Seas"
who hare rentured their all, their lives aud
fortunes, their bodies and souls, on the sola-
lion Of that dearest Of NIL problems to: their
minds: the ultimate triumph Of the "Church
Of Jeeus Christ Of Latter Day Saints " (as It
is tlasphe,nously cailed) oyer all Govern
meEts, POWERS, and Principalities of E nth!
His Danitos, or 'destroying angels" i" are