CHAPTER VIII.

COULD THE MORMONS FIGHT?

An unfulfilled prophecy--Had Brigham Young been still alive?--The hierarchy of Mormonism--The fighting Apostle and his colleagues--Plurality a revelation--Rajpoot infanticide: how it was stamped out--Would the Mormons submit to the process?--Their fighting capabilities--Boer and Mormon: an analogy between the Drakensberg and the Wasatch ranges--The Puritan fanaticism of the Saints--Awaiting the fulness of time and of prophecy.