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Show Sun day Services. At Jt. Georgo TaDernaclj. Sunday, July 19, 1896. Bishop James Andrus presiding. Bishop Andrus road a telegram to president Mc Arthur, stating that apostle Abraham H. Cannou died this morning. Funeral service ser-vice will bo held next Sunday. A. W. Irin , president or the Mexican Str.I.f, said that wherever tho Latter-day Saints are as-tembled as-tembled to-day, where there is selegraph communication, they aro 111 mourning over the death of apostle abraham H. Cannon. He gave a description of the apostles and Saints in the days of the Saviour and of the shameful death of the Saviour and his apostles; that Peter was crucified with his head downward, because he did not consider himself worthy to die the same death as his Lord and Master. Also showed how Jesus appeared to the inhabitants of this continent and established his church on this land with apostles and officers and put his church in order, in the same order as it was established in Jerusalem. Also showed that the same gospel that Jesus established estab-lished in thi3 day was again on the earth in this dispensation and that John, tho Baptist, had been sent to restore the Aaronic Priesthood Priest-hood which ho held in his day, also al-so that Peter, James and -John, 1 apostles of Christ in his day, have 1 been sent also and have brought the apostleship and restored it to the earth in this our day. And as the Lord has always had his holy priesthood upon the earth whenever when-ever he has had a people on the earth to whom he has revealed his will, so he has this same Priesthood Priest-hood on the earth in our day, and many of us are blessed with the great blessing of the Lord to hold this Holy Priesthood, which is a greater honor than any potentate can confer on any man on earth. Spoke of the great and good man Abraham H. Cannon who has departed. this life today. Spoke of his life of usefulness that he has spent, although one of the youngest of the twelve apostles of this our day. ! He appealed to the Latter-day Saints to uphold the principles of truth and virtue and frown down iniquity, wherever we see it. Bore testimony to tho truth of the Gospel as taught by the Latter-day Latter-day Saints. |