“Only 20% Attending to Prayers”

What event caused Presiding Bishop Edward Hunter to bemoan the fact that only 20% of the Saints attended to their prayers?

a.      The expulsion from Nauvoo

b.      The Crickets eating the Saints crops

c.       The Utah War—the arrival of Federal troops

d.      The arrival of the transcontinental railroad

Yesterday’s answer:

a.      The Mormon Railroad

Another ambitious excursion took the school to Ogden on the recently built Utah Central Railroad “in the Mormon Car on a Mormon R.R.”

Thirteenth Ward Sunday School Minute Book, 1867-1880, especially 14 July 1869 and 22 May 1870.