Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SALT LAKE CITY, On arriving at Ogden, you change trains to proceed to Salt Lake City. The scenery to the city of the Saints is very wild and barren; and no wonder that the Mormons, in choosing this spot, considered themselves safe from any inquisitorial traveller; and how little did Brigham Young think that, in electing this spot as a resting-place for his people, in a few years he should draw down the strong arm of the law, and be forced to obey and observe the rules and restraints of a country he affected to despise! What a shadow has now been cast over the dreams of this arch humbug ! How great are the mighty fallen! His hold on his ignorant followers is fast passing away, and in a few years this impostor and his benighted followers will be a thing of the past. What is termed ' Salt Lake City ' is nothing but some few streets of wooden houses, two or three hotels, the tabernacle, and the residence of Brigham Young, remarkable only for the picturesque manner in which the grounds around the residence are laid out. Being curious to observe how the Mormons concluded their religious services, and happening to be there on the Sabbath, I attended the tabernacle—a very large edifice resembling a gigantic egg in form, the interior very gloomy, with wooden benches; and, in front of the organ, three rows of benches where the apostles sit. The great feature of this building is the ease with which a very large congregation can make its exit. The organ, a remarkably fine-toned instrument, is the largest in the States. The sermon was preached by an individual who evidently had received little or no education, and whose principal topic from beginning to end was abuse of every other sect but his own. The ' blessing' was bestowed by John Young, eldest son of Brigham, an oleaginous...