_How the Lion of the Lord Roared Soft_ But with the coming of spring some fever that had burned in the blood of the Saints from high to low was felt to be losing its heat.

They had held the Gentile army at bay during the winter--with the winter's help.
But spring was now melting the snows.

Reports from Washington, moreover, indicated that a perverse generation in the States had declined to accept the decrees of Israel's God without further proofs of their authenticity.
With a view to determining this issue, Congress had voted more money for troops.

Three thousand men were to march to the reinforcement of the army of Johnston on Black's Fork; forty-five hundred wagons were to transport their supplies; and fifty thousand oxen and four thousand mules were to pull these wagons.

War, in short, was to be waged upon this Israel hidden in the chamber of the mountains.