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Show LAID TOJBST. The Last Rites Over the Remains Re-mains of Isaac Bullock, Impressive and Touching Ceremonies at the Meeting-house. TheFiremen's Band Headsthe Cortege, Rendering Some Solemn Selections. The funeral services over the remains re-mains of Isaac Bullock, were held in the Tabernacle Sunday morning.March 22, 1891. At ten o'clock the funeral cortege, headed by the Firemen's Band, playing play-ing a very solemn and beautiful dirge, started from the residence of the son-in-law of the deceased, A. O. Smoot, Jr., where the body had been lying. Immediately following the band came the pall bearers, and next came the casket, followed by the family of deceased, de-ceased, the High Priests' quorum, and friends and sympathizers. Arrived at the meeting-house, services ser-vices were commenced by the choir rendering the beautiful hymn, "Hark, from afar, a funeral knell." After prayer and singing, Wm. Kelsey, of Springville, addressed the congregation. congrega-tion. He alluded in a sympathetic strain, to the solemn occasion which had brought the people together, and of the good qualities of the deceased, saying he loved him as a brother because be-cause of his amiable character; and had never labored with any one that he had felt so drawn towards as he did towards Isaac Bullock. The speaker traced part of the life of deceased in coming tc Utah at a time when this land was a desert, and how he had helped to make it bloom, saying, he has left the earth better than he found it, and by his actions has made his calling cal-ling and his election sure. S. S. Jones alluded to the beautiful symbol that Bro. C. Twelves had laid on the casket (a sickle, made of flowers, flow-ers, and in the centre a sheaf of grain fully ripe,) saying it was a very appropriate ap-propriate token. Strangers, said the speaker, coming here, are enraptured with the beauties of Utah, and it was only by the strenuous efforts of such men as Bro. Bullock, that the Territory Terri-tory is developed as it is to-day. II. II. Cluff next addressed the congregation, con-gregation, paying fitting tribute to the work of the deceased, both temporal and spiritual, and spoke of the hope the resurrection gives unto the christian. chris-tian. A death here is but a birth beyond. To us, death is not a stoppage stop-page to progression, and this "hope is the anchor of the soul." Joseph W. Taylor, of Salt Lake City, said he had been associated with the deceased for a great many years, and" spoke of the integrity and goodness he possessed. lie congratulated the relatives rela-tives that they were connected with such annoble man as the deceased, because be-cause he had been faithful to the end; he had not lost but gained by death, ith is the gate to life. Jmoot said the saints had no i"ijinoj6'ag others do, as they I .frjffie beyond to buoy them. up. vSTe'nad been acquainted with Brother Bullock a great many years. He first got acquainted with him in 1852, at St. Louis, when the steamer "Siludia" at that place, was blown to pieces, caused by the boiler exploding. The deceased was on board that vessel, but he escaped with a few injuries, although one hundred people were killed. I know he was a good man, a truthful man and a man of sterling integrity. The speaker exhorted the congregation congrega-tion to live lives that would merit the approbation that Brother Bullock will receive. Jos. W. Taylor stated that Geo. Q. Cannon and others had authorized him to tell the assembly that owing to pressing engagements they could not be present. Their sympathies were with the bereaved, however. The services were concluded by the choir singing an anthem, "Rest, spirit, rest," benediction being pronounced by Elder Simon Eggertson. The casket was then taken into the entrance hall, where the remains were viewed by the immense congregation. While the casket was being carried to the hearse the band played the beautiful hymn, "Peron." The cortege then formed in the following order, lirst the band, playing a mournful mourn-ful and touching dirge, next twelve pall bearers, the hearse,coutaining the casket, covered with beautiful floral bouquets, among them a cross of evergreens ever-greens and white lilies, the family and relatives of deceased, and, bringing up the rear, hundreds of friends. In all ninety vehicles formed the cortege. At the desire of Sister Bullock, the cortege took the same route from the residence to the Tabernacle,as was conveyed con-veyed the remains of her daughter, the deceased wife of A. O. Smoot, Jr. |