Show FUNERAL SERVICES I 1 in the salt lake tabernacle over the of elder D 11 cannon cannen seemingly from all parts of the city and from many places in tile surrounding country districts canie came the immense throng that filled the galleries and body of the tabernacle seating room and standing room on last sunday when tile tho funeral ceremonies over the I 1 mortal D 0 artal remains of elder david II 11 C cannon an n oil were held as well as memorial freiT erricks ices for all the missionaries who have fillen fallen at their post of duty long before eleven in the morning in the hour when the servi service cla C were nere to all the space in n tile building was taken up except the lie center of the lower part or of the house which was reserved for the relatives of deceased miss missionaries ionar lc 8 and these seats eats too were filled up before the services commenced the body was war brou brought 0 ht to the tabernacle from the church farm escorted by a squad of the university cadets cabets schoolmates and tho the dead missionary and was taken into the building at eleven borne by eight of the brothers bathers of the hie deceased tile the casket which ila has lirou brought ailt the remains from abroad is a handsome one and it was IV as placed on the communion table surrounded by exquisite horal floral Jec decorations orations the organ the railing or of the stand the stand itself and tile tho communion communion table were covered with folds folda of creamy crape knotted here and there with silken cord plumes of the beautiful pampas grass and beautiful flowers tropical plants and evergreens ever M greens ornamented the different parts of the stand making a sight to please the most ac aesthetic the singing 0 luring during the services consisted of two tiro funeral hymns and an anthem when the soul is sad and weary seek relief in pray prayer er while a male chorus r sang a beautiful piece not dead but sleeping 0 apostle lyman formerly opened tile services by offering D a prayer for all who have departed this world and asked that gods peace and blessings 0 may rest down and lo lie 10 a balm upon tile the hearts of those hose whose loved ones have been ta taken cn away then apostle franklin D T richards read tile list of those who have died in the har harness neis and showed that many of them had been brought 0 home for burial but that the custom had been discontinued when several of the missionaries died did from froni smallpox or other con b Is diseases apostle cleber J grant crant read a letter from the deceased elder cider written to his fister marnic mamie just six six days before liis his death the i letter breathes a fervent desire on the pait of the young man to carry out all the work that is to tc be dolic dohe and a desire to lift up arid and li benefit everit his struggling C and wretched etched sr fellow creatures lie he shows an all inai insight M ailt into the causes of the trouble that lie has beholding in the wretched elied country in which lie labored and seemed full fall of an earnest desire to to do all that he could to mitigate I 1 circumstances the letter all through C showed that lie was earnest and brave in all matters PRESIDENT rREE IDENT then addressed the congregation 6 a and said paid that his heart zd goes oes out to president george Q C cindon annon and his family in their their distress but lie he feels that the occasion should abo ild not bo oil one of sorrow but rather one of rejoicing for those who die in in the service of the lord will be 11 most ble blessed sed ahert they reach tile the kingdom in tile the hereafter ile he knows that the elder who lias just died is now in tile the midst of tile the righteous in the other world and feels that he will be pros prostero lero s in th the c work LL hu must do on oil the other QI side ie of the veil there are arc thousands to be saved caved on the other side i of tile veil tho those ac who never had an opportunity of embracing 0 the true goepel and and to these must the ri righteous V lincous in the alis other world millis minister and though in this young brother wa was s snatched from tile the world in the midst of his labors labor lie feel that his work woric will be done in ill nil an acceptable manner in tho the life beyond and that lie he will bo be u useful in fur furthering therina gods work with the spirits in prison PRESIDENT P F SMITH then addressed the congregation and said that it seemed for a time that lie he was stan standing dim 0 in the midst or of d death ath and sorrow but when I 1 lie he reflects that this young man has ascended front from the world of trial and sorrow to the world of perpetual sunshine in tile the hereafter and that lio ho died in the service of the lord a martyr on tile altar of sacrifice lie feels that wo we do not stand in the presence of atilt and sorrow but in the alie presence of life and joy if ife e 1 would rather that all his children should bo be snatched thua gloriously glorious li I 1 ii while bile in the service of the lord than that even one should renounce the true goppel it is not stran C that some of our elders who go abroad should be taken away while they aro are gone for they go through so hardship and rid privation and through so much persecution and so many dangers but what seems strange is that so few should die from tile the effects of their experiences an and I 1 that this is the case ile he takes to be x manifestation of the blessings of god that is n poured out upon this people could ono one listen listell to the reading of the letter of this young elder that lie he rent lent to his sister and the other letters that lie he sent to the th e other members of his family w ith out feeling that here was a devout and sincero sincere young man living up to rill nil the principles of his reli religion and willing to sacrifice his hi rill all in ill the interest i n terest of the work of god hoaas iio was good and will receive a great andreat reward would that all the young men of zion would follow in his footsteps and follow by liis his example should they do fo eo there would be no fears of the prosperity of zion APOSTLE FRANKLIN ANKLIN 1 11 RICHARDS spoke also lie followed very much in the sinic same lines as tile the other but also talked of the custom of bringing home those who have died in the harness to be buried in the midst of the people saying that joseph smith said that til aliis is should always be lone done at and id it was done in ill all cases where iMo illo until some of the ims missionaries sion aries died from smallpox and other contagious cont ageous 0 diseases when I 1 the practice was more 0 or r less dis discontinued for fear of spreading contagion cinta gion arno among n g the people tile the services closed with a benediction by apostle john henry S smith ill 1 ant and r then it ell the funeral procession formed and the dead missionary MiSSi was laid in his last resting place in the old city aeme try on oil the hll hill arid and many of those who had known and loved him breathed to themselves 1 re qui escat in pace EUGENE YOUNG you NIG |