e the power of working miracles, do not other sects the
same? Like the Quakers, they can dispense with religious forms. Like
the ancient Israelites, they are a peculiar people, but what is peculiar
to them, and that which constitutes the secret of their success, is
this--that they preach to the poor, and wretched, and starving, that the
kingdom of God has been founded upon earth, that it belongs to the
saints, and that they are the saints. Man, they say, is part of the
substance of God, and he will become God. He was not created by God, but
existed from all eternity. He was not born in sin, and is only
accountable for his own misdeeds. Angels, it seems, from what Young told
Hepworth Dixon, "are the souls of bachelors and monogamists, being
incapable of issue, unblessed with female companions, unfitted to reign
and rule in the celestial spheres. They have failed," said Young, "in
not living the patriarchal life--in not marrying many wives. An
unmarried Mormon fills but a low scale in the order of things." Man
being of the race of God becomes eligible for a celestial throne: his
household of wives and children being his kingdom, not on earth only, but
in heaven, polygamy is thus his highest duty, and most glorious
privilege. In the East, polygamy does not answer. The races with one
wife there breed faster than the Turks. In the city of the Mormons,
under polygamy, births are very numerous. The actual wives of Young are
twelve! the twelve apostles own from three to four each. Young has
forty-eight children, and all have their quivers full. The women,
according to Mr. Dixon, dislike polygamy nevertheless.

In this country and among the Mormons the doctrine of polygamy is not
that on which much stress is laid. Here the Mormon preaches temperance,
sobriety, honesty, industry, the need of saving up money, and the
advantages of emigration to Utah. In the _Millennial Star_, the organ of
the community, one brother writes from Wales:--

"The Word of Wisdom is quite a text with us of late, and is producing
very good effects. We see its fruits manifested among the Saints,
several of the brethren leaving off tobacco and other things that are
injurious to the constitution. _The tea is a matter that bothers the
sisters considerably_, but in the face of this difficulty many are
leaving it off, and pronouncing it of no beneficial effect in any way
whatever. I think that much will be done by