This feeling had begun in Salt Lake City, for there he had seen that the house of Israel was no longer unspotted of the world.

Since the army with its camp-followers had come there was drunkenness and vice, the streets resounded with strange oaths, and the midnight murder was common.

Even Brigham seemed to have become a gainsayer in behalf of Mammon, and the people, quick to follow his lead, were indulging in ungodly trade with Gentiles; even with the army that had come to invade them.

And more and more the Gentiles were coming in.

He heard strange tales of the new facilities afforded them.