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Show 182 MORMON WORSHIP about leaving he shook me warmly by the hand and asked that the blessing of the Lord might follow me. He is about the age of Brigham Young, is a large muscular man, and neither his appearance or conversation would lead a strang er to suspect that he was the second president of a reli gious sect. He was a blacksmith before he joined the Mor mons, and looks not unlike one now. He has a Sun- of- Thunder style of delivering his harangues from the pulpit. His elocution would cause Professor Bailey of Yale to faint, and his irreverence would be pronounced profanity by any Christian minister I know, except, perhaps, one ( once met in Washington, who is somewhat of the same manner of man. But irreverence is not the striking pecu-larity of his sermons They often partake of such disgust ing obscenity that a sense of propriety and modesty will not allow me to refer to here even in general terms. And still he publicly declares that his sermons are not prepared beforehand, but he speaks only as he is moved by the Holy Spirit. One might suppose the influence of some other spirit operated. The editor of the Millennial Star was oncf severely reproved for modifying the sermons of Mr. Kim-ball, so that they would not shock the English reader with their vulgarity and indecency. He was sternly directed to publish them literally as he received them. Mr. Kimbal! acknowledges the most profound allegiance to " Brother Brigham," and pays to him all the homage of the most hum ble of the Mormons. He is wealthy, and is reported as hav ing a greater number of wives than Brigham Young how many 1 am unable to say. He is illiterate and vulgar in every sense of the word. Knowing the man by reputation, I did not feel safer or more comfortable after receiving his benediction. Mr. Daniel H. Wells, the Third President, is a man of considerably over fifty years, tall, spare, with a ' hin, sharp face, and a prominent crooked nose, presenting altogether a very ungainly appearance fora Mormon President or Lieu-tenant- General. In the latter capacity he was in the field in command of the army of saints in .1857- 8, when they |