Gentiles—Joseph Smith a Candidate for the Presidency of the United States—The Apostles his Electioneerers—The Martyrdom—Return of the Twelve to Nauvoo

CHAPTER XLIX.

  Choice of Joseph's Successor—A Miracle—The Mantle of Joseph Falls
  Upon Brigham Young—Heber C. Kimball his Right Hand Man

CHAPTER L.

The Work Moves on in Spite of Persecution and Apostasy—The Nauvoo Temple Finished and Dedicated—The Saints Prepare for their Removal to the Rocky Mountains

CHAPTER LI.

  The Exodus—Heber's Prophecy Fulfilled—Evacuation of Nauvoo—The
  Camp of Israel on Sugar Creek—Brigham and Heber Lead the Church
  Westward—Arrival at the Missouri River

CHAPTER LII.

  Destination of the Saints—The Call for the Mormon Battalion Heroic
  Response of the Exiles—Brigham, Heber and Willard as Recruiting
  Sergeants—Departure of the Battalion—The Camp of Israel Goes into
  Winter Quarters—The Fall of Nauvoo

CHAPTER LIII.

  The Word and Will of the Lord Concerning the Camp of Israel—The
  Pioneers Start for the Rocky Mountains—Names of the
  Heroes—Incidents of the Journey West

CHAPTER LIV.

  Arrival at Grand Island—The Pioneer Buffalo Hunt—Heber Kills his
  First Bison—The Spirit of Levity Rebuked—The Pioneers Reach Fort
  Laramie

CHAPTER LV.

  The Pioneers Cross the Platte—Governor Boggs and the
  Missourians—Col. Bridger—"A Thousand Dollars for a Bushel of
  Wheat"—The Pioneers' First Glimpse of the Valley of the Great Salt
  Lake

CHAPTER LVI.

The Pioneers Enter the Valley—Exploring and Colonizing—A Renewal of Covenants—Selection of Inheritances—Return of the Leaders to Winter Quarters

CHAPTER LVII.

  The First Presidency Reorganized—Heber Attains to "The Honor of the
  Three"—Second Journey to the Mountains—Sickness and
  Distress—Heber's Character as a Colonizer

CHAPTER LVIII.

The Cricket Plague—Saved by the Gulls—Heber's Famous Prophecy—"States Goods" Sold in Great Salt Lake City Cheaper than in New York

CHAPTER LIX.

  Heber C. Kimball Chief Justice and Lieutenant-Governor of
  Deseret—In the Legislature—Laying the Corner Stones of the Salt
  Lake Temple—Heber's Consecration Prayer—His Prophecy in Relation
  to the Temple—He Predicts Another Famine

CHAPTER LX.

  The Famine of '56—Heber a Second Joseph—A Savior to his
  People—Vilate a Ministering Angel—A Strange Piece of
  Counsel—President Kimball's Letters Descriptive of the Famine to
  His Son William, in England

CHAPTER LXI.

  The Hand-cart Emigration—Perishing in the Snow—Heroic Conduct of
  William II. and David P. Kimball—President Kimball's Plea and
  Exertions in Behalf of the Sufferers—The Utah War—The Great
  Rebellion

CHAPTER LXII.

  Some of Heber's Family History—A Patriarchal Household—Names of
  his Wives and Children—Episode of Abram A. Kimball—Peter, the
  Child of Promise—Heber at Family Prayers—David H. Kimball's
  Story—Heber P. and Solomon F. Kimball in the Black Hawk War

CHAPTER LXIII.

  Anecdotes and Reminiscences of Heber C. Kimball—The Man as Others
  Knew him—Golden Grains from the Sands of Memory

CHAPTER LXIV.

Gems from the Words of Heber—Spirit Rappings—Address at the Funeral of Mary Fielding Smith—Love, Unity and the Courage of the Righteous—Joseph and the Keys of the Kingdom—Cultivation of Spirits—Heaven and Hell—Administration of Angels and the Spirits of the Ancients—The Resurrection—The Spirit World—The Clay and the Potter—A Cause of Apostasy—A Miraculous Cane—The Church in Heaven

CHAPTER LXV.

  Gems from Heber's Words Continued—His Striking View of Time and
  Eternity—His Words and Works at the Last Conference Preceding his
  Death—His Last Sermon

CHAPTER LXVI.

  Death of Vilate, the Wife of Heber's Youth—President Brigham Young
  Preaches her Funeral Sermon—His Feeling Tribute to her
  Memory—Heber Prophesies of his Own Death

CHAPTER LXVII.

Death of Apostle Kimball—All Israel Mourns—Expressions in Honor of the Illustrious Dead

CHAPTER LXVIII.

  Obsequies of President Kimball—Tributes and Testimonies of his
  Brother Apostles—"He was a man of as Much Integrity as Any Man who
  Ever Lived"—Earth Returns to Earth and the Spirit Unto God Who Gave
  it

APPENDIX.

  A Glimpse of the Great Beyond—Thrilling Experience of David Patten
  Kimball—Lost in the Desert—Communing with the Spirits of the
  Departed—David Predicts his own Death and the Death of Four
  Others—The Fulfillment

CHAPTER I.

A PRE-EXISTENT GLIMPSE—GOD'S NOBLE AND GREAT ONES—HEBER C. KIMBALL A PREDESTINED PROPHET—OPENING OF THE LAST DISPENSATION—HEBER'S BIRTH AND PARENTAGE—EARLY INCIDENTS OF HIS LIFE—CLOUDS AND SUNSHINE.

Men like Heber C. Kimball are not accidents. They are emphatically and in the truest sense, children of destiny. If we seek their origin, and would know their truth, we must not halt beside the humble cradle which "lulled their infant cares to rest." We must rise on spirit wings above the mists and vapors of mortality, and survey them in the light of an eternal existence, a life without beginning or end. Says one of old:

"Now the Lord had shown unto me, Abraham, the intelligences that were organized before the world was; and among all these there were many of the noble and great ones; and God saw these souls that they were good, and he stood in the midst of them, and he said, 'These I will make my rulers'; for he stood among those that were spirits, and he saw that they were good, and he said unto me, Abraham, thou art one of them, thou wast chosen before thou wast born."

Again, unto Jeremiah:

"Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations."

What is true in this respect of ancient prophets, is true also of modern prophets, for verily are their origin, their mission and their destiny the same.

It devolved upon the subject of this writing to come forth at a time which has no parallel in all the ages of the past. The day of God's power and of Zion's glory was about to dawn. The Sun that set in blood behind Judea's hills was soon to rise o'er Zion's mountain-tops and flood the world