As to plurality of wives, not two per cent.

of their whole 200,000 had more than one wife.
His own father, a rich merchant and a church-hierarch, a "stake" of the tabernacle (much as we should say a pillar), had but one--his own dear mother--and he scarcely knew any one with more.

It was quite a European misjudgment that many followed Brigham Young's doctrine, which never had been Joseph Smith's,--and the present chief, Taylor, had but one.

He showed us many cabinet photographs of Salt Lake City, his own family, leading Mormons, and the like: especially of the Old Tabernacle, like a monstrous tortoise, and one from a finished drawing of the new, of even more tasteless architecture, being the most gigantic piece of perpendicular ever perpetrated, and full of unsightly windows.

When asked about the golden book,--well he had never seen it, but believed in it thoroughly; because all the twelve apostles had seen it and he trusted their testimony.