Show W C MORRIS FUNERAL according to the order previously announced the remains of the late william C morris were conveyed from the family residence in the fourteenth ward to assembly hall sunday morning jan 13 the stands organ choir and sacramental table were draped in white and there was a prolusion profusion of flowers and evergreens ever greens the casket was placed immediately in front of the sacramental table and upon the latter stood a magnificent floral easel a tribute from the fellow craftsmen of the deceased there was also a floral lyre the gift of the fourteenth ward choir by ten the building was well filled but people continued to pour in from all parts of the city until it was densely crowded on the stand were apostles P F M lyman H J grant and J W taylor president angus M cannon members of the high council and other prominent brethren the services were begun by the singing of an appropriate hymn by the fourteenth ward choir which was greatly augmented by singers from other wards it was led by elder henry gardner the opening prayer was offered by counselor T E taylor and was followed by a funeral anthem by the choir BISHOP GEORGE H TAYLOR of the fourteenth ward addressed the congregation if we had had our choice we would have had brother morris funeral in our own ward where as many as possible of his brethren with whom he has haa been intimately associated might have had bad an opportunity of speaking their sentiments concerning him but his widespread popularity and the circumstances of his death made it impossible to have his funeral in his own ward with satisfaction to his friends of brother morris talents I 1 do not wish to say much and will speak of his home qualities his inner life as it were he was a good man in that sense which means a great deal he was kind sociable and affectionate he was a member of the young mens mutual improvement association cia tion and labored earnestly in its interests his lectures to the young people were very interesting and profitable to them he was a verv useful worker among them and had great influence with them I 1 have had repeated conversations with him upon religious subjects wi thina year or two and found his mind was being much drawn out respecting them and in an effort to acquire religious truth this has been especially the case since his labors in the manti temple he seemed very desirous to perfect his talent as an artist that he might be an instrument in the hands of god glod for beautifying the temples which the saints are building we loved him for his kind and genial ways he was a loving husband and father and nothing in his power to obtain was too good for his family he would stand up and bear a simple honest testimony to the truth of the gospel and I 1 believe in my heart that he was a true and honest man MADER JOHN NICHOLSON next spoke I 1 was familiar with brother william having been acquainted quain thed ted with him from his youth and like many in the community I 1 had learned to love and esteem him just before he started from home he called to see me as was his custom before leaving on prolonged iro longed visits and told me why he was going I 1 had an unfavorable impression and wished to say to him that I 1 saw no necessity of his going but refrained no 1 lest it might discourage him I 1 learn that similar feelings were entertained by many persons intimately connected with the deceased I 1 understand that his beloved wife very reluctantly gave her assent to his big going these impressions were like shadows of coming events being premonitory of the incident that has caused so much sadness among brother morris multitude of friends I 1 am familiar to a considerable extent practically with his profession as a decorative artist and have known many of his class but have never known one so excellent as he in so many different lines it to is said that labor in a sense is worship this is true it is the exercise of those talents god has given us and in using ng them to beautify the earth and make it a more delightful place on which to dwell we are engaged in practical worship brother morris character Is suggestive of the saying of the savior in reference to nathaniel behold an israelite in whom there is no guile everybody who knew william loved him was this because of his great talents no it is said that what a irna man n sows bows that also shall he reap he sowed bowed love and sympathy and these sentiments being sowed bowed by him in the hearts of the people there returned to him a plentiful crop in kind F everybody everybody loved william because william loved everybody his sympathy was extended to all who came to him in distress not excluding the tattered and down st at the heel beel tramp on one occasion his sympathies led him to employ a vagrant rant the latter instead of reciprocating cipro cating by tokens of gratitude robbed bobbed his employer of a quantity of i gold leaf the fellow was caught in the act the foreman said to william you keep him here till I 1 bring a policeman while the boffl oer ger was being brought our deceased friend began in the softness of his heart to sympathize with the man who ho had wronged him and finally said d in substance now if you do not get away from here quick an officer will soon have you in charge the policeman came and asenet by an apology from william for letting the poor fellow go he weib as overflowing with the milk of human kindness and his memory will ill be cherished by the community he has left many X narks arks of his genius behind him they ey axe are on the corners of build bulldogs in the windows of public places in houses of worship and in he most sacred structures cfall of all temples dedicated to the most high god we his oo co speak of a future association with those we love we will again meet with brother morris he kept the faith and of such it is promised they shall have eternal life I 1 pray that the spirit of peace and comfort like the gentle dews of heaven may rest upon the wife and children of brother morris ELDER GEORGE GEOEGE HAMLIN read an address written in behalf of the fellow artists of the deceased it expressed their sentiments towards him in a manner to prove the high worth they ascribed to him it praised in the highest terms his talent as an artist and his qualities as a man ELDER 0 B R SAVAGE next made a few remarks I 1 always feel in the presence death the ma jesty of the eternal god and I 1 feel this sentiment with greater force when in the presence of the death of one I 1 love when Bil billy lyP as we always called him was a fettle school boy he displayed remarkable talent in drawing and when I 1 gaze upon some of his work and note the rapid improvement he was making matrin gj I 1 am impressed with the belief that we have lost a really great grest artist brother morris was not given to the sentiment of moneymaking money making but he was devoted to the good the true and the beautiful he probably never would have become great gnat through wealth but he was great in the hearts of the people APOSTLE JOHN W TAYLOR spoke as follows my dear brethren and gl sisters aters I 1 took my seat at in the congregation this morning prefer ing rather to listen than to make any remarks feeling that I 1 could enoy enjoy an hour or two much better in silent thought and listening to the remarks of others than by making any remarks myself my self I 1 have known wm C morris morr or billy as he is known among his associates and friends ever since I 1 was a small smal boy I 1 have always had a high regard for him he was one of the most modest unpretentious men I 1 have ever met during my whole lifetime and in thinking of wm C mor moris I 1 always put him down on the list lid of those who are meek and lowly of heart he seems to have been endowed with those godlike god like attributes of admiring the creations of our god he could not paw pass a little flower unnoticed if he passed a running brook he would make a remark ada admiring dring the same am to his companion if he went into the canyon or the mountain he would always admire the evergreens ever greens and the crystal streams the beautiful snow crested created moun toward heaven there was no color god has placed in the variety of flowers but what brou brought glit forth bursts of admiration and in this I 1 have alway thought I 1 was comparatively deficient in admiring the creations of god I 1 desire to say that william 0 morris was a man who had he been permitted to live would have excelled in his art and I 1 also desire to say unto the latter day saints that all the works of man like paintings upon walls and canvass and in the temples of our god will fade away like other things created of man but that which is created of god the spirit he possessed will last for ever I 1 say a man might become the greatest artist the world has ever produced trod and spread upon canvass the beautiful sun in all its ite splendor the grandeur of the stars in the dome of he avenand the glories of heavenly bodies he might attain to all the perfection possible in painting the tints of the rainbow the color of the flowers the trees of the forest and all a the creations of godan god in such splendor as to deceive us and the snow crested created hills and the heavenly tints of the clouds in an evening sky yet if that man fails to accomplish com one thing he foils falls short of the greatest blessing any human being can enjoy and that is if he falls fails to spend a little time every day of his life in coloring the great picture of the future that is before us he falls fails in his mission here on earth I 1 have gone into the studio of wm C morris in his private life and found him spending a portion of his time every day he was not engaged for others which probably never came to the knowledge of hio hia friends in painting a beautiful picture for himself it is one of the grandest designs ever conceived in the mind of man in which was planted beautiful trees in all their foliage and healthful vigor lovely gardens vineyards figures of human beings and all the most holy thoughts associated with heavenly things were here represented I 1 beheld on one side of the picture a place where there was to be no weeping and sorrow no trouble or distress but where union and love met together and where charity and forgiveness kissed each other I 1 beheld the glories of the creations of god in their supernal beauty where children of god labored for the good of one another whenever he had any time he was working on this picture which seems to he be but a begin beginning and which will lead him on to toe the highest achievements of man I 1 say these paintings here on these walls will fade and sink away but he has engraved upon the canvass of this life and the future upon his hearty and upon my heart and upon the hearts of us all the creations of god that will never fade away they will last forever and while he has been working upon this great scene through the shadows of the trees of death a bright and glorious light has shone in magnificence and splendor upon his picture and today he has finished it I 1 behold this plainly before me I 1 know there is no human artist who can excel that painting for upon the great canvass of the future to is it placed there to remain forever as a monument of beauty and grandeur where in the resu resurrection breedon of the jurat in the morning of the righteous we will behold it and it will not be excelled by any workman or master hand band it was wrought by a master hand a finished workman that man cannot approach and that picture re is cc eternal coeternal life 11 no ho man can be more that than good and wm win C morris was a good gabd man I 1 desire to say that all who keep the commandments of our god here on the earth are building a future a picture which wah remain and brother morris has not finished his work but according to the revelations of jesus christ he will go on in learning and gaining intelligence telli gence and will there go 90 OU on unto perfection in his art even as our father 16 heaven is perfect wm 0 morris will become an artist not only of painting upon ta canvas but when worlds are to be created he wall ha associate with the gods and sit in council in planning and beautifying worlds that are to be peopled he will assist aam in beautifying and designing worlds as they roll into there is no attribute placed d la man but what will be further and more perfectly developed in eternity and if wm 0 morris was capable of beautifying our homes and places here with his limited means what may he not be able to perform as he goes on in perfection in the things of god brother morris was a good man my heart always went wenton wen tox cufr for him I 1 know he had d afkind kind and sympathetic pg nature and I 1 have the do privilege of expressing my feelings I 1 win will say god mims aap the memory of 4 Bi brother rother morris way may the lord bless his family comfort their hearts and a nd make happy th the c howe home of those hie he has left behind and let us take upon As ats the responsibility that was formerly upon him and se see that we a truly approbate and follow the sentiment the widows heart shall share my loy joy the orphan ori hn wad ad oppressed shall see I 1 jove jote the sweet employ to the distressed may god blabs blebs bless you all and the fan family aly of brother g rother mo morris that they may maj grow up waki njg in the footsteps of him who lii lias left us doing the wor works ka of bf righteousness that they may ve be raised up in the morning of 0 the first resurrection and be able to mingle with their husband bui band and sire throughout ari all the ages of eternity is my prayer in the name of jesus christ amen APOSTLE H J next spoke very briefly Is none one of us can d any more alian be good and that brother morris lea the life of a good man and was kind kind andt charitable all will agree who knew him none of us us can say or do anything which will add to or take from brother bretl morris he has bu set us an example worthy of being followed APOSTLE F M LYMAN said my acquaintance with brother morris was but slight yet I 1 feel justified in saying that I 1 endorse what has been said mid of him that we may rem remember emper where brother morris is I 1 will read the alth and verses of the chapter of alra alma now concerning the state of the soul between death and the resurrection behold ft har ha r been made knoon unab TAS me b by an angel that of at al men PA as soon as they are departed from broj this abu mortal body yea toe the spirits spirita of all men ipen whether they bo good or evil are taken home to that god who gave thein life and thea shall it come to pa pass as that spirits of those who are righteous are x e into a state of happiness which is called paradise a sate state of i rest a state 0 of f peace where they shan ru refit t from frim all their troubles and from all W I 1 care M and flon ow ac that is the state of elder morris his troubles trouble cares and sorrows are an ended around me I 1 see today a new depar departure tul the draping of these stands iii id white this I 1 commend to all tatter iatter day saints we clothe ofir our dead in white not in blackness it to is not such a serious thing to die especially for the righteous oits and it is proper that we e should die when hen bur our work Is finished many men might live a hundred yeats years and not accomplish as aa much as brother arother morris did yet he passed paned away while still a young man reaid als was a floe fine art arf souli sod ile lived the life of a sal saint nt he was as a jewel of the first water and his hi family and friends may well be proud of what he has accomplished his works will not fade as rapidly as we might suppose but his most enduring works have been wrought in the hearts of the latter day saints 1 pray that god may bless his family and that they may be abundantly consoled his works have been seen and and admired |