During the time of this crusade thirteen hundred persons suffered from fines or imprisonment.

July 25, 1887, President John Taylor died at Kaysville, Davis County, Utah.  He had been in exile for over two years; but the brave spirit was now away from under the power of persecutors, and the Saints could but look on the peaceful form and face of their beloved leader.

Topics.—­1.  President John Taylor. 2.  Plural marriage. 3.  The Edmunds Bill. 4.  The “Crusade.” 5.  The Edmunds-Tucker Bill.

Questions and Review.—­1.  Why was there no danger to the Church at the death of President Young? 2.  When was the First Presidency organized again? 3.  Who composed it? 4.  Tell what you can about John Taylor. 5.  Tell about the Jubilee year. 6.  When and where was plural marriage revealed to the Church? 7.  When was the first law passed against this practice? 8.  What is meant by a law being constitutional? 9.  What was the Edmunds Bill? 10.  How was it enforced? 11.  What was the Edmunds-Tucker Law? 12.  When and where did President Taylor die?

CHAPTER XXXVI.

PRESIDENCY OF WILFORD WOODRUFF.

At the April conference, 1889, the First Presidency was again organized.  Wilford Woodruff was chosen president and he called the former counselors to act also with him.  President Woodruff was eighty-two years old when this high calling was placed upon him, but he was still quite strong and active.  His life had been devoted to God and his cause.  He joined the Church in 1833, so you see he had been with it from the beginning.  He had been an Apostle for fifty years.  It will give you an idea of how busy President Woodruff had been when you are told that from 1834 to 1895 he had traveled through twenty-eight States of the Union, three of the countries of Europe, and six islands of the sea.  He had held 7,555 meetings, preached 3,526 discourses, organized fifty-one branches of the Church, besides doing a great deal of other work in the Church.

[Illustration:  PRESIDENT WILFORD WOODRUFF.]

President George Q. Cannon, first counselor in the presidency, came with his father’s family from England to Nauvoo in the year 1842, and from that time had been an active worker in the Church.  In 1850 he, in company with other missionaries, went to the Sandwich Islands.  Here Elder Cannon translated the Book of Mormon into the native language, and sometime after he had it printed.  He labored as an editor and a publisher of Church papers in San Francisco, in Liverpool, and at home with the Deseret News.  In 1860 he was ordained an Apostle.  In 1866 he began to publish the Juvenile Instructor.  He spent many years in Washington as delegate from Utah.  President Cannon was the General Superintendent of Sunday Schools to the time of his death.

The second counselor in the presidency, Joseph F. Smith, was born November 13, 1838, in Far West, Missouri, a few days after the time when his father Hyrum Smith was taken by the mob and ordered to be shot.  As a nine-year-old boy he drove his mother’s yoke of cattle across the plains with an emigrant train.  President Smith has filled many missions to Europe, to the Sandwich Islands and to various parts of the United States.