Someone had taken the apple. Both denied they had had a hand in it. Each accused the other. The truth did not appear. For an hour the man tried his best to arrive at a just decision. Joseph Smith shook where he stood and fell frothing at the mouth. He was of Vermont mountain stock. His birth among the poor white trash there had not even been thought worth recording. Yet a vision came to him of the marriage in Cana. Christ drank the wine and Martha and Mary her sister became his wives--so to speak. It is the truth. The world shall be saved anew, said Joseph Smith in the mountains of Vermont--where the mushrooms are so plentiful among the fir trees. Who had given the boy the apple against the father's express orders? Had he taken it himself--which he denied or had the girl gone into the store room--as he asserted but which she denied--and selected it herself? Where was the truth? In Illinois Brigham Young was recruited. Off they set with fifty oxen for the Promised Land away over the prairies and deserts--through the Sioux country, in search of Zion. The whole world they would leave behind and for the truth's sake they would live in that far country--to be discovered, to which the Lord would lead them. Go upstairs sir and take your clothes off. You shall go to bed for this lie--I'll say I took the apple Daddy, said the boy sobbing violently, but she gave it to me. In minute detail he repeated the story of how the apple was picked out of the basket by the girl and handed to him to eat. Lions of the Lord. The boy would not give up his bride to Brigham and was _altered_, as a rebel. She went mad. In '49 a party of gold seekers came by accident into the valley they had found. They were gently received. A warning was given of hostile Indians and a special guard was appointed to conduct them safely on their way. But Brigham had had a dream. Men must not wander into the valley of Zion to disturb the ways of God's holy ones. A blood sacrifice had been demanded of Brigham by the Lord. John D. Lee was selected as he who must lend himself to the Almighty will of God for the good of the church and state. Slowly the party of gold seekers departed for California. At the narrow defile at Mountain Meadow the treacherous business was performed. All but a child were killed and Brigham and the Lord were revenged. Later John D. Lee was convicted of murder by government authorities and shot. A poor ignorant tool in the hands of that most mighty Lion of the Lord.