pioneer, converting the wilderness into the fruitful
field, as an Apostle in the councils of the Church,
we everywhere find him a man of no ordinary
type, but one whose ability and strength of char-
acter marked him as a leader among men, even
where great men were not lacking. It would be
difficult for us to pick out any one special depart-
ment of life and say in this he most particularly
shone, or select some other and assert in that he
was most eminent. He was great in all. To the
sons and daughters of Scandinavia he was perhaps
greatest as a missionary—the first Apostle who
bore the glad tidings of the Gospel to their father-
land. To the weary toiler beneath the sultry sun
of Southern Utah he was best known as the in-
defatigable leader, who planned, devised, contrived
and arranged for their progress and made prosper-
ity possible in one of the most arid, most forbid-
ding regions of this great continent. His prudence,
his wisdom, his foresight, are admitted by all—as
a counselor he had few peers. His ripe experience,
joined with his sound judgment, gave a weight
to his words and a strength to his counsels that
all who heard felt. Moreover, he possessed, uncloud-
ed by stain, those two great virtues that give a
man power with the heavens—integrity and