“Now I am going to tell a dream that I had, which I think is applicable to the people today -- the 21st of June, 1874, as when I had it. There were so many going to California, and going this way and that way, and they did not know what they wanted...After much thought and reflection, and a good deal of praying and anxiety as to whether the people would be saved after all our trouble in being driven into the wilderness, I had a dream one night, the second year after we came in here...I thought I had started and gone past the Hot Springs, which is about four miles north of this city....When I had gone round the point of the mountain by the Hot Springs, and had got about half a mile on the rise of ground beyond the Spring, who should I meet but Brother Joseph. He had a wagon with...tents and camp equipage piled on...Behind the team I saw a great flock of sheep. I heard their bleating, and saw some goats among them...There were men driving the sheep, and some of the sheep I should think were three and a half feet high, with large, fine, beautiful white fleeces, and they looked so lovely and pure; others were of moderate size,...and in fact there were sheep of all sizes, with fleeces clean, pure, and white. Then I saw some that were dark and spotted, of all colors and sizes and kinds, and their fleeces were dirty, and they looked inferior;...and altogether there was a multitude of them of all sizes and kinds, and goats of all colors, sizes, and kinds mixed among them. Joseph stopped the wagon, and the sheep kept rushing up until there was an immense herd. I looked in Joseph’s eye, and laughed, just as I had many a time when he was alive,...and said I - ”Joseph, you have got the darndest flock of sheep I ever saw in my life; what are you going to do with them, what on earth are they for?” Joseph looked cunningly out of his eyes, just as he used to at times, and said he - “they are all good in their places.” When I awoke in the morning I did not find any fault with those who wanted to go to California; I said, “If they want to go let them go, and we will do all we can to save them; I have no more fault to find, the sheep and the goats will run together, but Joseph says, "they are all good in their places".
(Discourse by President Brigham Young, Delivered in Salt Lake City, Sunday Evening, June 23, 1874, Journal of Discourses, Volume 18, pages 244-245)