116 Sioux City Academy of Science and Letters. 
The times were then ripe for it, but he was not the 
man, and his colony scarcely made an impression on the 
large number of them that were even then in South- 
western Iowa. His followers remained chiefly those 
whom he had attracted by the publication of his paper at 
St. Louis. He never really had any clear idea of what 
his belief and mission was, and could not make plain to 
others that which was a fog on his own mind, and he 
concealed his thought in a great mass of words, prophe- 
cies, revelations, proclamations, orders, decrees and sys- 
tems which were ever being changed. 
Read before the Sioux City Scientific Association, January 11, 
1898. 
