Show FUNERAL SE SERVICES ok OF ELDER HORACE IC WHITNEY THE LAST OFFICES OF RESPECT the last offices of respect over the remains of elder horace K whitney were held in the ward chapel today the corpse was carried from froin the family residence to that building by pall bearers selected elected fc from a among 1 uon non old friends and acquaintances of the deceased and accompanied by a large procession of relatives and oth other e r mourners the chapel was crowded to excess many people being compelled to turn away aadi not being L able to gain admittance on the stand were apostle woodruff patriarch john smith counselor joc JOG john W young bishop it 11 T borton president jose joseph ph E taylor and many other leadin leading brethren most of the ward bishops of this city being present pre pie sent the services were ware conducted by counselor R obert robert patrick the choir sant sans unveil thy bosom faithful tomb prayer was offered by elder W WB B barton nearer my god to thee was sugg sune suns by trie tiie choir elder joseph kingsbury was the first speaker he spoke of his long acquaintance with the tha whitney family having known the father of the deceased the tile late bishop newel K whitney before the restoration of the falness of the gospel lie he said he had been connected with trie church 52 years and related some I 1 interesting lite resting nesting experiences of the late bishop whitney and him himself seit he had known the deceased from his early boyhood and had nothing but good to say sav concerning him and telo feio that he had gone to receive the reward promised to tile the ri righteous libeous lite ous the deceased and nis his father riker riter ker ter had been intimate f friends of the prophet joseph smith and the latter had revealed many precious truths concerning the nature and powers of the tiie priesthood to tile the bishop the speaker prayed for the bl blessing essing of the lord upon the bereaved family farally elder joseph etaylor EF aylor next addressed the assemblage he spoke of the past present and future of tile the ill ili telli which god had created showing in that the course pursued by them in one stage of life lite affected their condition in tue onel ensuing lie he alluded to the tiie great friendship mat tuat existed between the prophet joseph and ills lils bishop hop newel K whitney and said thau that the family would hav have a place la in tile the history ot of tila tiia the church forever the naine af the bishop being beitl connected with tue tae revelations of 01 god in tile tiie insook book of doctrine buu kud kind covenants he spoke of tiie tile ot of the bishopric bei bel being 11 g perpetuated perpetuate d in ills his grandson 0 orson i whiitney uney iney bishop of uhe the ward ile he testified to the worth and integrity of the deceased and prayed that the lord might blezy bless biess his family bishop it KT T burton was the next aspea speaker ker he spoke of the modesty and of the cie tle deceased ceased and his genial nature exhibited under the most trying circumstances he had endured the trials incidental incident ai to the persecutions to which the saints generally were subjected in early times without a murmur mis his his children could scarcely realize the difficulties their father had passed through during his career and had never talt lait ered cred in his integrity he expressed a hope that those who were left behind to represent the deceased on earth would emulate his virtues he invoked the blessin blessing of god upon the family elder david mckenzie had been acquainted quain ted with brother whitney for thirty years and never knew aily ah thing regarding him but what was pure and anc I 1 apri upright lit whatever whatever duty was ass assigned ned him he e performed well and kad faithfully ully he e struggled heroically to conquer whatever weakness beset him and he was in ia every respect a true und and ind hon honest est man E elder eider idena A st musser bore testimony to the worth of brother whitney apostle IV woodruff addressed the con congregation He alluded to the fact bactol of the deceased ed being one of the tiie pioneers of this territory many of the older i ru members embers of the tho churan urca had passed away and he wondered occasionally how it was that he the sp aaker yet remained lie he had bad been acquainted with the whitney family for fifty years lie was thatis that it casall was ait alf right with brother whitney Whit ney ncy who had gone to join his friends to in tae tac spirit world among them the prophet joseph by who whom in he would be cordially welcomed ile he had obeyed the ihu law jaw of the gospel in its f urness and he felt it was all right with him we had no cause to mourn on account of ills departure lie he was one of those who had bad been ostracised ostracized in 8 life because ho he had embraced tile the gospel in its ful fui f ulness ness but he would now join the higher circles in ill the other othen world elder robert patrick made a few sew closing remarks testifying to the fact that brother whitney had always been beell ready to do what had been required bequir ed of him in a ward capacity the choir sang bang rest best for the weary soul rest the benediction was pronounced by patron ch john smith after the face of the dead had been viewed by the congregation the cortege a very large one formed lorme forme d and the body boda was colv conveyed eyed to blo cemetery and interred |