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Show j-r.KSiDENT -vyooDiirrr. .The Mlowin-f" Well mcr'ttcl trac-, t j t ie late beloved PfaS:tlen of la-; .Iomto:i Chnr :h, Wilfcrd A'txclruii'. U cof.ied from tno editoria.l col-imiis of laJ.t. '-.aliud-iy's S. T-. 'i'ri i ir.c: -f V-Jalcr,t WoodtM'T has i,e :n a.p;-,:u-cr.i !y at deal It's (lour many tim:s d ia-t ia-t i f! i! ," t. b'l t. w't'l ;i Vitali! V a !!o. i ; !'. ! ia ' 1'".:..: -,' V-.r.J faieta!.:, ha.i i ,i!i,a! aial ha-; of lac-beer! lac-beer! i-a i.i'niu-f thai, one of hi.i t-loi-.i; '-.'hi c. !y f ' , r dy;3 ayo. 'I b--....a. .;;) i-a-a:i: i ho , -e c: i ary po i n t . ' t x baaa.-i!a ' .; re a:i v d yoytcrday o da .-., v. a I'loi1,: cf a saock than :(aj!n b.!l!..:o.::i 1 icv.s f i f any ofha-r iiia m of 'i " . It is only a few days ri i ii . !,) da-i: yaco'l a loiiy dis .oiii'so in 1,'ay V;.b.;ri:t':k-: irs vuiao was as Htrong ever, iinil the eli'oi-t wiaj al '.-f 'a: i l no unusual fa I iguo, Wilfovd Wi.odyuir was an exiraor-din-iry no. ii. He was boiai in an humble walk (if of lif.y he liegan work while al-:! al-:! .! iii long del lies ami continued thai Wni-k Mi-ailil.v while three generations of men lived and died. He accepted what, came, never complaining, never doubling 11 ml never asking for anything e::ocpt what, with Ids hands and his brain, he could bones! y a hicve. When hu was born the Republic consisted only of a fringe of Stales along the Atlantic, excent that a few people had r.ro.-yied the Alhyghenies and Blue Ridge ;nonn!aimi, and sparsely settled Ohio. iCeniiieky and Tennessee had been admitted ad-mitted into the Union. Thb side o: the Mississippi was 'no n.an'a land.' The breath of the llrst steam engine was heard on the Hudson river in the year that he was born, and he was 3D years of ago before the- locomotive was used in nierica. He was middle-aged before, be-fore, the click of tin; first magnetic telegraph tele-graph was heard the world was transformed trans-formed while he lived. He drove the licit vehicle into this valley, and in the unfolding of this de -ert he has been a oun-picuon.'i ligiu'e from the very lirst. ile lived hete til'iy-ono years; his work v, as incessant; his patience and faith were so great that he was from the first, leaned upon as a pillow; his judgment judg-ment was leaned upon by all his people, from the chief down to the humbles1 follower, and when he attained to the pn .idenoy of his church and people, the thought was universal that he honored hon-ored the great oliioe as much as the oil! -e honored him. We suspect that his sterling honesty was his most, pronounced trait. His beliefs be-liefs were strong: he would have died for them at any time and would have smiled as he died, but he wa.s destitute of all arroeanco and all pretension; his greatest desire was to perform within his sphere his duty, and to do that without the slightest ostentation or self-glorification. No man was ever more loved by his people. There will he sorrow for him wherever there are Latter-day Saints, for he was more ol a father to thorn than president. The sorrow of the least of his flock-was flock-was his sorrow, ami honors counted for nothing with him. For the last tweuty years of his lite at least, he has held hiinselfasmerelyatrast.ee to perform certain work before him. and his life has been ready to make, an amounting at any moment. He has most abundantly abund-antly earned the rest that has come to him. For a long time he has looked as though he was repeating to himsel, the words of another: '1 am thankful for life without pain in this beautiful world. When a little later my work ahall be finished. I shall be thankful for .:ie peace that will be mine.' " |
