Show MEMORIAL SERVICES services in honor of the late president james A ganfield garfield were held in the tabernacle on monday september 1881 commencing at 2 p m the interior of the spa clong building had been previously prepared for the occasion the stands were draped in solemn bisck black festoons fes of crape hung from the coll frame of the grand organ and emblems of similar material were suspended at intervals in among the decorations already arranged around the extensive gallery upon the stand in their accustomed places 11 aces were the first dency president fr apostles P br lyman and jolin john H smith patriarch john smith the j presidency of the stake president elias smith of the high priests quorum elders john van cott and W W taylor of the presidency of iho tho seventies presiding bishop edward hunter his Counselor sand iother lother officers of the Melchi meichi sedek and Priest hoods avery A very large congregation assem bled ia in the body of the building and while the public were being seated or joseph J T daynes rendered An selections upon the organ the meeting was called to or der by president A M cannon and the tabernacle choir jed led by professor edward beezley sang the hymn creation speaks mith aith with awful voice prayer was offered ered as follows by ELDER LDER 0 W V rE penrose NROSE 0 god the eternal father who art the god of abraham and of isaac and of jacob thou art our god and we ve worship and adore thee we approach thee in the name f jesus chri A thy well beloved fjon FOB as our father aa as well as our god and our ring king wilt thou port por rout out upon us the s spirit of grace and campli catl cation 0 ri and aud grant that our desiria de sirca and our words come may u acc abc p ep ably before thee thou rul aa tin in the heavens above and ove all ali al things upon the eart earr A beneath the issues of all are la in thy hands an A thy provi dences control their 7 we desire to reco row h b g thy axe na nr h affliction as well wel j as in rel cing sa ad to bow in sad ead sao to thy will we hn h 9 father nibe to tomo mo TO SO assed iW bled bied our man among 1 juthe irn inn ira the tha loss of a great nation SV has mm jaen the ite an atno ignoble been heen smitten down b hand land and ourselves we tion B before thee in this afflic Eiff this ima boef raw abnot at not only do we sorrow on j as ye we ia sion ailon millions meet today to day hold hoid ii 00 dp and bow bb w before thee be bei i r in 0 god godl a nation is at thy feet th every part of this great republic eier eien lesof of the people ascend unto nee flee they put aside side today to day their of creed and of harfy of religion and of politics and unite in ien len wilt thou hear their cries 0 lord and do thou grant that this national affliction may be sanctified unto their good daymen aay men and nations leam learn and comprehend the lessons which thou design est in this occurrence may rulers rulers and statesmen and leaders learn leam that their lives are not in their i own hands bands that at any moment they may be called hence to give an account for their acts both as i bulera u leps leas and as individuals may they see sep ee inthis lathis in this event the need to restrain logout to put down monocracy to punish murder to protect all people in their rights lest the spirit by which our president edt was stricken down in his hia might may run riot in the land and spread s strife and bloodshed and murder until destruction comes upon our cherished institutions and liberty is lost in anarchy and confusion we pray thee our father for the mother who mourns the jobs joss of a noble son may the spirit of consolation con rest upon her we pray for a stricken wife who grieves for fon fora fona a loved husband I 1 do thou astren strengthen g then her to bear this great trial we pray for the children bereaved of a fathers care and aask esk that they may be able to bow to thy will and that they may grow up disposed to serve and obey thee that they may by and by meet the departed dead to enjoy that glory which thou shall assign unto them we pray that out of this event good may result unto thy church thy people whom thou has called to a special work to bear a message of truth unto all the world to preach the gospel unto all nations and to prepare the way fon for the coming of him whose night right it is to reigie in irk the softening of their hearts under this affliction may the people of this great nation who have looked with hatred upon thy saints and treated them harshly feel disposed to regard us with charity and tola tp lerl leri tion and be willing to accord ao to us our rights and leave us to carry earny carry out oat the work assigned unto us in the establishment of thy kingdom 0 god wilt thou grant that in the fhe humility which they feel today to day blessing may come unto all people peo pie rie may the spirit of repentance be poured out upon them thim may they turn from their follies and eions and crimes and feel after thee may they become disposed in their hearts to receive thy word that thy servants may go forth among them and bring them to a knowledge of the truth and 0 god wilt thou bless thy who are called of thee to this great work bless biess those unto whom thou hast bast given the keys of the holy priesthood for the guidance of thy people grant 0 god godi that their lives may be preserved that the spirit of murder may not strike them down that though thy servants joseph the prophet and hyrum the patriarch were slain by cruel hands and und many others of thy saints have sealed their testimony with their blood abee thee these thy servants who now stand tand at the head of thy thi work may be spared unto us to live many yeara d to bear off thy kingdom and instruct instruct thy people bless them in body strengthen them in spi bpi spirit f rit them with thy power bless all ail who seek beek to promote truth an ane righteousness and peace among ehll till j nations riat ions lons and creeds and PP aples les ies prepare the way whereby tl th ae gospel p may be carried to every r k indred land and tongue and the honest i gathered out to zion haste A the glad day when strife shall faase rf nen hen dis union shall shail fier fler wll i awa ewa awaya when sh shai all ali prevail peace shall bhan K be and the spirit of god help helel I 1 ared allred out upon nil all flesh A 0 nord lord to discern thy P ro aenes atnes fences to acknowledge lete thine ad nd in all things arid and to bow in humble lumble reverence to thy will we thank hank thee that while we feel the spirit spi ribot of mourning and realize that death reigns in the earth as a necessary experience for thy children millions upon millions have passed massed away and all must feel the grasp rasp of the destroyer that yet we know through the atonement and resurrection of jesus our redeemer all shall come forth from their graves and stand in their bodies before the eternal judge to give an j account of their earthly deeds help us 0 god we pray thee to keep these things in fn mind that we may be constrained t to serve thee and keep thy laws to ned act well our part in this life that we may be counted worthy to enter into stand at thy right t hand ha u d overrule the sad event which we mourn today to day to to the good of iho ibo people and the glory af f thy bibly name an l when the daya daye day of tho lord savl dawn and all murders and crima shall cease cense and nations nation ishall shall be or hiu dued unto thee and men shail shall be s t their swords into ploughshares plough shares id their lra spears tra into pruning hooks books sn end shall study war no more when lite ifie i it I 1 kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdom of our god and of M I 1 ir christ when satan batan shall be w and death shall be destroyed and all allu people shall be redeemed and fram every part of this globe from the islands of the sealand se from the depths of the great oceana ocean from every thing that breathes the breath of life shall ascend the song of praise and joy and glory to thee may we stand in thy presence enter into thy rest and be crowned with the falness of thy glory and to th thee ee we will ascribe the praise for ever and ever through jesus christ our deemer redeemer Ee amen the choir rendered the hymn I 1 rest best mor tor the weary wea 7 til fil soni i the following address address was then delivered by APOSTLE ii r M r LYMAN my brethren and sisters and friends we meet upon a sad occasion the second of the kind in the history of pur republic both of which have come to us within seventeen years the first eighty elgh ty yeara orthe exis existence tence of this nation witnessed nothing of this kind but in the last seven teen rk years four fow presidents have been elected and two of them thern have been stricken down by the hand of the assassin ass aspin there Is nothing left arnie me tobay to bay say that has not been said in reg regard ard to the character of prel dent garfield ayery good thing hat that can be mentioned of man has hns been jeen mentioned of him it has passed d into history it has been pu published b in every daily paper and in the land lana and not only n our land but in all lands the deed is coul consumed mn ed by the entire world we ve llo ito not mourn alone the whole world joins jolus with us in mourning the loss losa of our president there is 18 no dr adequate punishment for the he must answer the end of ahw tha thaw bat vengeance re god it is a sad or us upon when we consider arthe the reau roat reat at of improve Uthe tue the great teat revolutions which lave been becu fu maue mave ch orso u bertli vc james fames As A Guril eld eid in 1831 the terr tern ibl ibi event occurred in the midat t the century a time ohp c la s perhaps unequal led in the astory f man ti pon on this earth for rp ini im and rapid ad advancement n the aits ai ts aud sciences think of the tro aro grosa gragg made by the of steam and electricity tri city the events that aade trans tran spir pr 4 and the great jhc thc lave have been chronicled bince cellis his hia arthr artal ihl he helas was one of the nobles mong men although bom born in low estate he had the genius of no f stilly within him he had the latent though it was and the will po power which propelled him upward from poverty Jo verty from his is low estate state to the top ranks to a height aa great orent as any man mar has bas gained among jing the E nations of tha the dah earth hah he was not allowed to serve berve his bis country long in that position putdown cut down in the flower of his manhood having a constitution that might h haye have aye ate lasted him a hundred years one ont half of which only onik he be lived it seems cruel that auch such should be his hia ate ate yet christians are required to acknowledge the hand band of god in this there is no people or party panty who can better sympathize with our nation than can day Saints for we have lost ont oui leader twice in 1800 years 0 once when the savior was crucified and again when the prophet joseph smith was martyred marty red in cold blood in the state of illinois my own native state and our patriarch and others of oc our people and friends who haye have been cut down by fhe the hands handa of assassins I 1 eay there are no people whether in the united states stales or any other part of the world that know sowell so well weli how bow to sympathize with and appreciate an occurrence of this kind as do the lat ter day saints I 1 before remarked there is no adequate pun punishment ashment ish ment for tho the perpetration of such a deed the law should take its course and no doubt will in the present case ease and the villain will meet his just deserts as far as the laws of man roan cara cart go but it remains with our father vather in heaven to mete out the the tho remainder to him and to all others that have taken part in like scenes it appeared to us when the sad intelligence telli gence reached us of the assassin atlon aaion of president lincoln Linco lh which at that time cast the nation in mourn ing that another such a thing could never occur in our country the shock that the nation sustained in that sad event made us to feel that anial in all ali future years the hand that would grasp the weapon of the assassin would be paralyzed by the thought ol 01 Te repeating prating such a scene but another tragedy is upon us and will there stul nili another occur we trust not note in this as in im all the affairs of peoples and must therefore acknowledge a divino divine providence as well us as in the death of president Presh tent lent lincoln and alid others but in doing so prayers ascend to the father that such things may noticed to be repeated in the future but that we may be preserved from them and I 1 hold that when a man is chosen in a free country by a free people to nill fill an office ia in a precinct in a county in a state those these who have called him to this service should stand around him as a bulwark of defence so that he should not be approached violence that he should not be destroyed that ha he should not be or harmed and the man who is the choice of thia this greatrex great republic ic ab should ouid beso bebo be so far removed from lawlessness and recklessness an and d from murder and assassination that ha he could not be smitten down for the whole people should rall nall rally raily y around armund him he should live in the public heart as did washington who was first in war first in peace and finst first in the hearts of his countrymen and there should b be no room for fon or the assassin upon our oun soil he should not be tolerated there should be e no sympathy for the them among u and ind I 1 presume there is none in iii such times as we have at present leace pervading our land and abd afos smiling upon our labors why should assassination corrid norrid to destroy destros our quietude at this particular cillar moment in the day when president lincoln was stricken down there was zarife in the theland land the country divided father against ion son bon huld buld against household city against city we could see some somer shadow of excuse if excuse could be made at all for something of that kind butin peace and joy and happiness why should such a blow as thisbe this bo dealt deann us the president was not by lna ina act made president of the united states stales he did not ilot by force foree of arms arm into the whitehouse white house hoube and seat himself in power but he was put there by the consent and will of a great and free people and under those circumstances why should ho he have been stricken down why should this spirit of assassination monocracy and murder run rqn rampant in hi tf it free coun we are not crow erow crowded ded dod wo we have an plenty of land la n d as fruitful and fertile as carabe can be found anywhere we ve have evely ovely everything thing necessary to make usi ual happy and comfortable we have havel the home homo of the free and we invite all nations fo come unto us we boast of our liberty and our freedom we boast of our happiness and we wd stand first among the nations of the earth for fon god has given ua us the constitution ution that we live under today to day I 1 it t was not male maie ma ie le of or man etwas t of god he ile inspired it and inspired ins the meil men who wrote it and who stis sus 1 bained it and who bo framed the declaration iara lara la of has had bad his hand band over this nation for good he not only gave to us the constitution ution through inspiration from on high but b u t lie ho inspired the men who first discovered the cour cout country k try and who proclaimed its existence to th the a old world and it jj IL he who lias moved upon the thie people everywhere to come and bet tle the country and make it their home it is he who he has hns ts arrange arranged 1 all th thess these ess ese circumstances es that his kingdom might be built bulit up ul that he 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