But the cries of the vigorous infant were at length heeded, and
in answer to the seventh appeal of the kind, Utah's star was
added to the nation's galaxy.

But let us turn more particularly to the history of the Church
itself. For a second time and thrice thereafter, the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been deprived of its
president, and on each occasion were reiterated the prophecies of
disruption uttered at the time of Joseph Smith's assassination.
Calm observers declared that as the shepherd had gone, the flock
would soon be dispersed; while others, comparable only to wolves,
thinking the fold unguarded, sought to harry and scatter the
sheep. But "Mormonism" died not; every added pang of grief
served but to unite the people.

When Brigham Young passed from earth, he was mourned of the
people as deeply as was Moses of Israel. And had he not proved
himself a Moses, aye and a Joshua, too? He had led the people
into the land of holy promise, and had divided unto them their
inheritances. He was a man with clear title as one of the small
brotherhood we call great. As carpenter, farmer, pioneer,
capitalist, financier, preacher, apostle, prophet--in everything
he was a leader among men. Even those who opposed him in
politics and in religion respected him for his talents, his
magnanimity, his liberality, and his manliness; and years after
his demise, men who had refused him honor while alive brought
their mites and their gold to erect a monument of stone and
bronze to the memory of this man who needs it not. With his
death closed another epoch in the history of his people, and a
successor arose, one who was capable of leading and judging under