| Show from mondays dally oct ard ardi I DEATH OF APOS ILE ORSON PRATT anora ANOTHER P great man in israel has hasl departed this mornin gaC apostle orson pratt departed this ilfe life in peace pence passing away asaf ina lna in a gentle sleep after most moat of his family thenan the city had been gathe gathered rad around his couch it i 1 1 well known that a little over avea ayea a yeal go rother brother 13 pratt was attacked with rrth diabetes from which he buffered suffered ie it that since thence hen he fias haa b 2 dinin dirin feeble nf the time leing being to leave his room however he h recovered in a great measure from that dis disease Aase oase but flut was much t emaciated and though able to be orn urn and to meet occasionally with hip his br brethren ethien lie was still feeble on sunday september he address cd ed the congregation in the taberna do in a clear clean and forcible manner s speaking taking about twenty minutes nis his remarks in jn th the nm ipa sion Slon monday day th the le ho he then fex lex expressed praised h hi 12 S desire to live that he might zain j azain gain lift up his hl Q voice e aa a missionary to thep then allons of th the e earth barth next day he fib was 70 and felt we well weli 11 ll hd beafter after wards attended some ness meeting in ini relation to the bistor Hist oriana orlana la ns olyce and the exertion of mind told heavily upon him he was seized with vomiting and was again prostrated and gradually sanu sank with brief and firul times of reviving eving re until midnight of sunday when he visibly rallied members fabis family inthia inthis city were ver el su summoned monod wro who gathered erect around his bis p bed and saed razed b 1 evve I venerable countenance before or be b e 10 banh sank k into his last gantle gen sen if ie 1 slum blumber wik bif AA the twe very minute of his bis decease apostle C 0 Rich Eich who has been sick for A a long lone time wa was sending this dispatch to brothe brother milando pratt paris pat pet am H how 11 is your faig fail catheri au anxious anxious ia id hear t J 0 0 Z theada qt brothen brother rot laer laen natt ls do cease hough not bot altogether unexpected was mournfully received telegrams were forwarded to every part of the territory with the sad bad and aud ol 01 sorrow heard oll oil oi e every overy v e r y handt hand lo 10 0 o nian man in th the thu ch church t ir e h was better known or more moi mor e widely respected repee ted than our departed brother his refined and intelligent munte nance silvery hair and veard beard dig and powerful public address ere were ire familiar to a alj all and ne has left afi abi an impression upon the church and the word world that hat will be felt in time and eternity following is a kli kir urier j e ra account c bou ht of his life an and d labors a ORSON PRATT wag was born tore in hartford washington counts new york Septer auen aver 1811 and was the son of jai jal jared ed and charity dickinson Diu kinson pratt his fath or was a descendant descend ant of william Willia tn pratt who wh with his brother john caine came to tills this country from england mth the pilgrim fathers and located at hartford connecticut in june 1636 lid iid having ving as supposed accompanied Rev Kev Thos hooker and others of his congregation from newton now called cambridge massachusetts to settle at hartford william pratt was a member of the connecticut legisla ture during some twenty five or 0 thirty sessions and was one of the Judge judges 3 of the finst first court in new ney london county the parents of orson orbon pratt were hardworking people and he maiac was accustomed cus tomed to labor from his boyhood durin during g which time the family removed to new lebanon in columbia county where he attended school part of the time each year until 1825 acquiring a common school education and becoming familiar with arithmetic and bookkeeping he alsi also the bible from the time h he was vas eleven years yearns s old oid ld he worked at farming in different places attending school in the he winter going goings to lorain bounty county ou nty ohio in the fall 0 of 1827 and in a the fall of 1828 yer ler formed a journey of nearly seven seren hundred miles to connecticut went thence hence to long island and in th the of 3 1829 30 studied geography grammar nia and surveying at a t a boad board ibram ng academy he re was a prayerful as well as sta pta lious ous jvon jyon yvon youth b aitu altu ough gugh ne alier he ht nor non lis his parents connected vel whuang nathe f the religious iou lou denominations in er nis brounk parley 1 ya wim wlm had hac embrace the gopel taught by joseph finith the prophet came with aur ithe elder eider to where WW residing mus icam rw alved ii their mony anoa anya wn balian ed september S 1830 his birth birthday bedrij beau ti TU n nineteen nin ain eteen years old in the month he tra traveled trave telea velea eu two hund huud hundred ria miles to see the Iro prophet phed phet joseph I 1 in fayette seneca county new york and on the ath of november reccie ed through that servant of god hodd th the revelation to be found in the doo tiina anu ana covenants latest edition in which he wa wap callad ad of god to preach the gospel t to lift lilt aphis up his voice both long and loud to cry repentance and prepare the th way before the coming of ho fie lord was confirmed and ordained an elder december lat 1830 1820 a and w went on his first mission to 0 o goi coifed I 1 sent faille broome county new yoo york dand and in the early part of 1881 wen went on foot to kjetland ohio where th the prophet had removed a distance of several hundred huldred miles he hd then performed ft everal everni missions in ohio illinois many converts at a conference in am dierst ohio he was set apart une ath 1832 to preside over the el det dit jers and was sent on a mission t to ghe ehe eastern states FO feh 2183 i ih he was waa s ordained a high ranat he then traveled and preached without purse or scrip through ohio pennsylvania new jersey aut aud and new york city tol to 1 thence northeast through part ot oi vermont into new hampshire preaching and baptizing by the way and making many COD cov erts N X H I 1 Charls charis charlston tonj 17 vermont an and ilen tien then proceeding to the sou jou southern thern thenn part of connecticut 0 ec cut with continued success after iau lalk ting cring inthe in these sep parts till the fall of 12 ISu inu egy he started west ea traveling some three w ired miles preau dreau hing baptizing daining ordaining ar men to ta the ministry and labo laboring ring ting in evany parts of new york and arri ad A in m Kirt Jand ohio beb feb feb lath bibaji lavina traveled on foot about abou 4 W miles baptized log pe persons persona runa runs and organized several naw new branches he here to ne atton attended ded tua school of the prophets prophete Prop hota heta out gut alil alit again went east beast performing another ano othe successful saul mission 2001 six months an i 1 I 1 baptizing apt ver fifty fafty Qs aftel labo laboring on the hal hak so ut the thelora loru urd x i fa started en nov 27 to tp visit the chut chui ches and andra e turned to kirtlen feb travel traveled bd 1 about I 1 1000 miles in thirteen ox day she bhe a he was started out again with elih ti c orson Hyde hydo Hy dema dems olma rima sp k eing absent about two months leveling r Lv eling miles he next 1 with zions ziona cam camp to ils missouri lis beis bc i g captain of a company july ith he was or one ne of thu tins standing high council in zion visited the scattered churches in alay glay clay county and hi Augus august augustias was sent eastward traveling through illinois and indiana to ohio suffering severely through fatigue and ague arriving in kirkland april 26 on which day he h was ordained one of the twelve apostles under the hand hands of david whitmer and ilver oliver liver cowdery 0 on may went on another mission to the eastern states being absent a little over six months during th the winter and early spring h he taught grammar ec hooli in kirtland I 1 d aud and d also studied hebrew and then received rece ce race ived his endowments dow ments menta in im t the kirtland temple his next mis mia vion sion canada west wet on which he left april abail p 1836 1838 baptized many persons and raised up several beveral omni branches piles plies of the church on ori july ath he was married to sarah 31 bates whom he had hadba baptized in sacketts Sac ketts harbor sune june 1835 in the fall having le turned to he studied algebra and after providing a home for his ills wife went to the state of new york and and labo labored red in jn the ministry sluing huang th the winter of 1837 8 in aoel apel ap el 1838 the saints having been orr drw in n from far west he went there aa in fulfill fulfil a revelation and with bevery severy of th thee twelve met at the comer m a one 0 of the temple whence they p tt ted to preach the fos gospel el to foreign nat nit nations ions lons in the fall he be preached through the eastern chur churches chEsi and in th the spring of 1840 embarked of england preached nine months in id mn edin burgh scotland raided up a branch of over persons and in the spring of f 1841 to return to merlea america he wen to nauvoo he took toofe charge of a mathematical school loic it medion findlon me wion through the th riem states in the summer grimmer of isto 1613 1 10 and on un nis nia return in the fall wao was eksted to the city council hoped ho ped to ro draw up tip a memorial to congress k and went to washington 0 o present it in the me spring of bf 1814 1844 he labo labored reci among the churches easl east rill till the news oi 01 the martyrdom of the prophet was received when h he returned to th nauvoo puring the difficulties that buc hue succeeded the death of the prophet and L patriarch he labored with the wela which was the presiding qa gum gam aarn rum of the church in the man lement of its affairs shared in the expulsion from nauvoo crossed the plains with the pioneers in 1817 1847 and on uli the way when weather would rr cp mit mil took astronomical and other observations determining by the aid of the sextant and circle of reflection the latitudes an and lonn ionn longitudes of the most prominent places a a the changes of elevation a above ve sea a level etc in anticipation of the th great highway which even then it i was expected by the saints would span this vast continent ia he was the first to enter salt lake val vai valley vailey I 1 ey having preceded the main body 0 of the company three days in 1848 he was appointed president over all the branches of the church in england scotland wales ireland and adjacent countries starting on the lith of may the number of church members then were about ut elgh eighteen teen thousand which durin darin during ghis ilis presidency of two year jears years were increased to about thirty six thousand in this short period b he chartered and fitted fl out from fifteen to loaded with saints for utah in the midst of this pr press r ot of business he wrote some fifteen pamphlets and published and circulated several hundred thousand 0 of them in different language langu figes att at ait the bame game time ilme he edited the millennial star and increased its cile circulation i ti lation from less than four fohr thousand to near nears j ly twenty th three ree thousand he lectured at diffene different nt times to large audiences in the eri erl IT lal uni nih nin W j blia blaa MX he returned in 1850 and I 1 in n the winter whiter of 1851 delivered a series of twelve astronomical lectures t to crowded audiences in the old tabernacle which were published in the th D eserer NEWS eke he ele was elected a member of the legislative assembly y during its first ses session sign and at each successive session when he nasf was an fn the territory and seven times was chosen speaker of the house in 1852 he was appointed on a mission to washington to take the presidential charge of all the hurches churches in the united states and british provinces east of the rocky bocky mountains and there published the ser seer in the spring and summer 0 of 1853 he again went on a mission t to 0 europe returning the following year ear on the of april 1856 he again went befit to td england and presided over the european in mission assion publishing more pamphlets and returned by way of california while the army was en route to utah arriving home in january 1858 on september 1860 jie was called ona on a mission to the united states being gone goue jabout about on one year on the ot or april 1864 he was set apart for a mission to austria hobent he went to atland th that land but in consequence of the stringent laws I 1 was unable t to pen open the door deor of the kingdom to that nation but iut bore bis hia testimony to the authorities and left going over to england where he e visited the conferences and labored assiduously returning august 4 1867 he went to new york shiw city and tra transcribed and published publish ed the book of mormon in phonetic characters called the reso peso reb ret alphabet in august 1870 he held the famous three days A discussion is c assion with dr or J 11 newman ngn on the subject of poly polygamy gatny gainy totally routing that de deba ter ler for fon which hemeier he never neven forgave the cormons mormons Mor mons at the adjourned generl general conference in in 1874 hid was wis appointed and sustained nedd neff historian and general Chur church cli recorder which position lie he retained till his dec deceive eige eize on the july 1877 he once more lett to cross cros s the ocean this time to transcribe and publish an edition of the boo book of mormon in the pitman phonetic characters he was soon called horn hoin and returned on the se so on the 3rd september Septem beri beni 18 19 he e went east with apostle joseph F smith visiting the Whit mers in D missouri is the hill cumorah and other lher places figuring in the history of the church and returned on the rd adof of october on the 3rd ard of deamber amber he started again for england to stereotype the book of mormon and nd doctrine and covenants aich which he arranged in verses with foot ot notes and references from this hlis important and laborious ion lon he returned sept 2 1879 he sest visited a number of conferences attended the legislature acting in his hie suai sual capacity of speaker of the louse after that t tune e his health was poor he could do little in the th e lis ils moriana is office and at length as icove above related he finished his labors closed his eyes to this world and haa has a one to join his departed colleagues in Q the opening up of the great dis lensa tion of the falness of times he was the last of the original council of the twelve apostles of 0 this his church he crossed the ocean sixteen times on missions of salva ion tion he found time to study the higher mathematics cs and in addition to 0 hiss hiff published scientific books has las left an elaborate work in manuscript nanu script on the differential cal culs ulus containing original principles les ies he 3 e was the father of 16 sons and 16 daug and leaves 43 grandchildren following is a list of most of the th works which he has published divine authority kingdom orn of god in four parts remarkable visions divine authenticity of the book of mormon in ix lix parts reply to remarks on mormonism great first ca cause use new jerusalem absurdities of the seer ID itt eighteen numbers bight eight eight I 1 tracts on the F first arst principles cleif of the gospel cubic and equations hey aey key to th the universe or a sew new theory of its mechanism etc etc ote the funeral wid will take place in the tabernacle on thurida thursday the ath tb dinst will ili lii co celiven convene liven at 10 the morning and services will be bet held heid until 11 when hen the ibe congregation will be dismissed urita urith I 1 at 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