Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-06-01

the second council Of authority In the
Church. Though compelled to leave
Missouri. he, in the absence of the
imprisoned first presidency-J oseph
Smith, Sidney Rigdon and Hyrum
Smith-directed the winter exodus of
the pluhdered and homeless people.
ouTwITTING THE MOB.
Az early as July, 1888. the prophet
had instructed the twelve apostles to
take Il mission to Europe, ana the reve-
lation commanding II gave the date
upon which they should depart from
the temple LOT In Far West This was
before the mob troubles began. before
the saints We're driven, and before there
was any prospect of such a calamity.
But now all was changed; the eSpul-
sion was an accomplished fact, and it
was as much as a Mormons life was
worth to be seen in Missouri How
was the word of the Lord TO be full
filed The mob leaders. aware of the
prediction, had sworn that it should
never be fulfilled. Before daybreak,
however, on the morning of the day
appointed-Apri1 &c. 1SS9-BrighaIu
Young and others of the twelve rode
into Far West, held meeting on the
temple lot, ordained two apostles, ana
started thence upon their mission; the
enemy meanwhile wrapped IN slumber,
oblivious to what was taking place.
Delayed by the founding OF their new
city, Nauvoo, in Illinois. and by an
epidemic of fever and ague, which
swept over that newly settled section,
the apostles did not cross the Atlantic
until nearly a year later and even
then this intrepid man and his no less
intrepid companions arose from sick
beds leaving their families ailng and
almost destitute, TO begin their jour
ney.
Landing at Liverpool. penniless, on
the 9Th of April 1870. Brigham Young
and his brethren remained in Great
Britain little more than year. dur
ing which time they broadened and
strengthened the foundations of that
important mission, previously laid by
two OF their number-.Heber G. KIM
bali and Orson Hyde-with their assoc
ciates. Seven or eight thousand souls
were now added TO the Church, and
branches raised UP in nearly every not
ed city and town throughout the Unit
ed Kingdom The Book of Mormon
was republished, the Millennial Star
founded, gospel tracts and hymn books
printed and distributed thousand
emigrants sent to Nauvoo, and per-
manent emigration agency established,
which sent annually across the ocean
hundreds and thousands of souls TO
help build up the Church In America.
II was during this mission that Brig
ham Young gave the first great proof
of his rare ability as an organizer and
an executive.
He had returned from Europe, and
with the ma jority OF his quorum was
on a mission In the Eastern states.
when the prophet and the patriarch
Joseph and Hyrum Smith. were muir
dered In Carthage Jail. Hnrrying back
to Nauvoo, President Young and his
tgt Ia. lima n 1aTnnt
certain ambitious designs upon the
leadership of the Church, and to main
tain the right OF the twelve apostles to
succeed the first presidency, now no
more
ANOTHER MOSES,
A veritnble Moses to a modern Israel,
Brigham Young led his people in their
historic flight into the western wilder
ness, and commanded in person the
pioneer band, which entered Salt Lake
valley on the cath of July. iSi1. They
had penetrated to the heart ~ the
Great American desert" a region de-
scribed by Daniel Webster an "a vas;
worthless area" unfit for civilized oc-
cupancy and impossible TO reclaim
Here they founded salt Lake CITY, ths
parent Of hundreds Of cities, towns ana
Villages that have since sprung from
the barren bosom of the waste, as Nor
moniams gift 10 civilization.
Tlinging 10 the breeze the Stars and
Stripes. these pioneers took possession
OF A country just conquered from MoXl-
co; a portion Of the invading army be-
ing the Mormon Battalion, furnished to
the government by the migrating
church, at Council BUNS, in the sum
mer OF 1916. Al tho close OF the Mexi-
can war pending action by Congress
upon their petition for state govern
msnt, our peOpl. organized the provls-
iOnnl government Of the state OF Des-
oret, with Brigham Young as the unanl-
mously elected governor, Congress de-
MED the prayer for statehood. but or
ganzed. on tho 9th ~ septom-
Der, 1850, the territory OF Utah,
with Brigham Yonns as governor,
by appointment Of the president OF the
United states, lfe served eight years
on two full terms, being reappointed up-
on 4 memorial signed by Mormons aud
non M0fmoDg, aud was sucetded by
Hon, Alfred Cumming, utah's frat nen-
Mormon executive,
DECLARED MARTIAL LAW
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