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Show APOSTLE mki;k, J. v,, XT. raid a letter from Apostle Ms:s Thatcher. Choir sang: "Look Dp." Tenei'ktion, Aposth Lorenzo Snow. 'I lie organ played requirem audience dispersed. The procession proces-sion was formed and moved away. The snow was falling fast but the crowd stood in the streets until the List vestage of the cortege had disappeared. dis-appeared. ;. j. Funeral Services At t!u La It .'resident 1. II. Wells Funeral. Jiyen by a Sjeei:il lleporter oi'the Jiegister. Also Items itiul Comments froni Other J'apers. 'Hit re were a great many San Pete people in Salt Lake City on the day appointed for the funeral services of bio. Wells, being dclavedbythe necessity of meet ir.g fii.nds at the depot, I did not arrive until the services had bogun. I Through the courtesy of Mr. Clone, of the ururt-r, a suitable seat was found where I could both he ir ami see. It is always a strangely solemn thing when a great concourse con-course of people meet together, for any purpose, but in the sea of faces turned in reverent attention toward the spot where rested all that was mortal of the noble dead, there was resignation, peace, joy. The second piece of music was being be-ing rendered and the solemn strains filled every heart with that tenderness that is the fairest flower of earth, the bloom of sorrow. 1 low appropriate it was that at tli e same hour that these obsqmies m:re taking place every, church in Christendom was decorated with easter lillies, ami every choir wtis singing: "The Lord has risen." 'The decorations, emblems and draperies were white, the Symbol or purity anil eternal life, not the black decurations that are used be cause they carres pond with the void in the hearts of the mourners, black is the bodge of hopoless mourning an 1 how appropriate it is that Latter-day Saints with their knowkdge should use wh'te. Ts very coltin itself was white, and that was the color most prevelant among the floral decorations which were rich and abundant and the whole was more like a bridal than a burial. Among the stately easter lillies, and waxen beauty of the ca'.las spiral cup were several bunches bun-ches of golden brown wheat bound into minature sheaves, to symbolize a ripe life full of good deeds. I felt some curiosty as to how bis funeral services would be conduced. conduc-ed. This man had stood high as a military commander, as a civil Judicial officer, as a High Priest of God! PRESIDENT W1LF0RD WOODRUEF. Made the opening address. He had known the deceased for forty five years, and in all things he had been true and faithful. The futher .remarks were given in terms of highest comendation of the goodness and worthiness of the dead, an etfo tation and a tes i mony to the multitude present, and a great flood of thankfulness to God for the light and gifts of the gospel, that robbed death of its sorrow and the grave of its sting. APOSTLE LUND Following, referred to the years he and Pro. Wells had labored together to-gether in the Manti 'Temple. The uniform kindness and sympathy that Pro. Wells had shown to the many people who came there to perform the work of love for their dead. The principal of baptism and re-demptation re-demptation for the dead was the sweetest of all the gospel truths preached to him. Thegrsat joy he experienced in his labors, and the deep love and respect of all the people for him. He was filled with unusual benevolence and kindness, and his words were like viewing the sentiments of the people of our County. APOSLE F. S. RICHARDS. Joined in the general grief for this great and good man. Have known him for fifty years. He had been highly respected and beloved by the Prophet when he, Squire Wells, was not in the church. He lived from 1835, to 1876 in. Nauvoo, and had always in his official capacity dealt honorably by the people. As Moses-when Moses-when called to decide between the luxuries and honors of the Egyptians and the sorrows of the people of his own blood he chose honor with humiliation and thus did Daniel II. Wells when the people were driven out of Nauvoo. He spoke of his general characteristics, the different places of honor he had honorably filled. His military genius, his missions and his kindness. His reach and power of reason his in born sense of justice that enabled him to tread unbendingly the path of honor, without wounding any, or doing an injustice. He died the father of twenty-five living children and twenty-four grand children, and was aged seventy-six. Spoke of the glorious joy of the meeting that took place, no doubt, between the dead and those gone before. Choir sang: "Oh aj Father thou thut ttwellcst." TRFST. GEORCE Q. CANNON read a portion of section 76 Doctrine & Covenants, on the resurrection, and made appropriate remarks there on. |