Show REMARKS ny nt ja at t the ibe funeral I 1 his hi titter fanny banny soung young june 12 mg 1859 BY G D WATT I 1 will make mako a few remarks on the occasion which has called us together to te pay our last respects to our ou sister raister there is something solemn in thee duties I 1 feel willing to acknowledge the baud or of god in fit this as I 1 thoin all other death is said to be the king of teri terr tenors terrors ors and I 1 believe that most of the human family feel a terror of death we part with eur fur friends see them struggle str uggie urgle in the last pangs of nat kattre na tire tre ire and yet in such scenes there is hii hit g which gives tives joy consolation and satisfaction to our heal beat ts tile the gospel of salvation revealed re by the ministry of angels to the prophet joseph mith mi in the last I 1 ast days d ays which ch wr we have become acquainted with has ihas measurably taken away she the sling of death and allayed the fears so disagreeable to the great gleat majority of the human family our sister has paid the last demands of the penalty adut dut thou art and unto dut du t thou must return this lot awaits us all and ere lone ione ion lon we must pay the debt do I 1 feel to moti mote mourn rel rei ye yes I 1 feel to mourn on this occasion as I 1 have done lone on many other ilke like occasions in the course of my life forty four years ago today to day I 1 mourned the he csc loss of our mother when we laid her in the silent tomb since that time lime the head of the family hiis has departed from this life and now our sister fanny has gone to the spirit world the greatest th ng rig I 1 have on my my mind is to so order my life fire and apply my heart hearl unto wisdom in honorine ho the holy Priest priesthood hodd hotd and the religion of jesus christ that I 1 may be pre prepared pared Ps our bister wa to meet my last moment moments my heart is in comforted when I 1 realize the blessing blessi Dg of be she everlasting goppel gopel that we have a hope full ull of immortality arid and eternal life W we do not mourn as those who have no hope tint but we rejoice and contemplate the time lime as not riot being far distant wilen when we shall aidain embrace our friends in that land lard where death sickness arld and sorrow will have no mci Ace dominion minion over u us mr aly prayer from day today Js Is that I 1 may be constantly prepared to rest iest in those mansions which ale aie prepared for the faithful children of god in the world we have tribulations and we rejoice in them for they prepare us for a glorious glo gio ricus resurrection we must go one after another and I 1 sometimes think that it would be rather rooe moo roo e 0 pie pleasant nt if a number of the saints could go together but this does riot not seem to be the omer order of heaven I 1 rejoice when I 1 contemplate that in the mornine of the resurrection I 1 lam iam am to meet my kindred spirit my father mothers mother brothers estere Eh terE and the saints of the most high to part no m more mone ore my alv exhortation to my brethren and bisers is to live our religion that we may be prepared for the society of the blessed that we may have the testimony of christ within us its continually and know that we are aie born of god and are heirs of salvation according to the lite promise made lc to the faithful when we have this testimony we have a great boon of beaven leaven my bly prayer is that we may all so live as to keep the testimony of jeus within tib tip ii for we know not file tiie ile lip day hour nor minute when we may be called upon to pass the vail and enter into another siege sege of acton action which is now unknown to us many of our brethren and friends are taken as it were in a moment and it behooves us to be ready to be looking for the coming of the son of man who is to appear unto his saints without sin in unto salvation that we mav may be prepared to treet him I 1 rejoice exceedingly before god that the eos vos gospel of salvation has been reke rete revealed repealed aled in these last days clays and for the principles of the kingdom of god which have been revealed by his servants sen fen ants from time to time that we can know as the ancient saints knew and come to an understanding of the principles of sal bal salvation vailon I 1 do not feel in regard to the things of this ibis world nor that wilch is to come as I 1 used to before I 1 became acquainted with the principles of salvation I 1 feel solemn and end yet I 1 feel to rejoice these call upon me upon you ia do our work ight as we 1 pass alon aion along gand and to reckon with ourselves understand what we are about and how thing things are between us andoor and ans our god let us do right all ali the time for if we do a wrong we must make it right or make restitution let us its have the perfection of righteousness ni nl hin bin us continually thia this gives us comfort joy and consolation and we are prepared at all times for anything and everything that awaits us here in this vale of tears I 1 have been called upon to part with my father mother five sisters and three daughters all my brothers are still alive I 1 never could weep at the loss of or my friends but does this prove that I 1 do not feel not at all hil 1 I do not think that a man roan or woman that can neep on such occasions feels as keenly as pis those these who cannot when my father died in quincy illinois nois I 1 was some seven or eight hundred miles from that place though so far from me lie he bad been company for me every day and when I 1 heard of his death I 1 felt lonesome for fona fora a whole earket ear yet I 1 could not weep and I 1 have been affected in like manner at tiie the death of all my friends who have lave died I 1 hae hate felt lonesome because I 1 was deprived of their heir society and of their words of consolation ard counsel which used to cheer me we eel feel the loss of our friends we cannot gain again mingle in their society here until after the resurrection they have fallen asleep have passed the abe vale of or death and we feel it yet we feel to rejoice when one ore of our friends is called I 1 to lay la f down the body though it was bil bel but yesterday since we saw our sister struggle with the last pangs of nature I 1 have realia d today that she is exulting in the society of the blessed of oar our beloved prophet and kind kindred red spirits who have gone pone before in exploring the fields of paradise multitudes of worlds lik ilk like ethis this would be no temptation to I 1 sister fanny to come coine back here and aad suffer the sot act of ancher another mortal life nor to any other pert on that makes their from here I 1 rejoice in thi hi and the tinie time is not far distant when we must depart but thank tho be lord meshall we wo khall shall ba be tog tor together ethOr there and the ilme lime will come when whence e shall again be together on planet jor for I 1 believe belleve bat but this will be the home of the thi saints when it is and all things are fulfills wll wil leh ash have been promised let us strive to make our escape as our beloved sister llster ha and like ber her live a life of right she sought ear earnestly nestly neatly to be prep prepared dred ared for the day when her spirit should be separated irom from th mortal tabernacle I 1 know that she rhe he fought ought abood fight au aud and d finished her tier course with joy I 1 know that she thecae bas bab has kept the lite faith falth am ani so 0 o far as the deeds done in iid the body are con concerned cernei cernel 6 prepared to enter info into the rest that remains for all who are faithful my prayer in the name of jesus christ christy is that we may be prepared to follow ller lier and like her tier fall adeep in the arms of our savior to meet and associate in the blessed othere dath death bas las no dominion do mirion mirlon over us u amen |