Show DAVID HOAGLAND CANNON A cablegram received this thie morning from president Preel dent Suba error of the swiss swim and german mission briefly convoys the abe terrible intelligence that elder david hoagland cannon died this morning at al 9 lock the message gaves glam no DO particular but as aa it gentl irks the news as aa having been received from elder hugh J cannon it would indicate that the two brothers were together when the sorrowful ul event occurred they have both been laboring as missionaries in the north hermaa conference though only rarely being I 1 in a each othere company david was waa in an missionary field eastward atward ea from berlin while hugh was wag assigned to duty in that city find and more westerly points hamburg kiel etc ek A reply was at once sent to president asking that it if possible the body be sent home and that hugh be permitted t pany it toe ane deceased was the son of president george Q cannon his bis mother was waa the late elizabeth hoag land cannon whose death in january 1882 occurred in this city while her husband was abent in washington battling for thi the rights of his people and her two eldest sons were abroad on foreign missions sione david was her third son living and he was waa then but a child he grew up to be a young yeung man of superior gifts and extraordinary promise his age was 21 years his bis birthday being the of april 1871 A little over live five months ago la in the latter part of april he set out upon the mission to which lie be had been called and gehis im medi mediately began his hia labors in the northern part of the german empire from the very outset he evinced uncommon zeal and as a result of a persistent striving for the spirit that sto aforetime retime characterized the labara of the elders elder he resolved to travel without puree pune and scrip writing home he be declared that he felt he be would be under condemn nation it if he did not thus place his hie trust in god he doubted not the power of hie bie heavenly father to supply his needs after much prayer ano and iu im spite of the discouraging advice given him by some gome of his associates he resolutely entered upon this line of action this UK too before be had bad m mastered or even had sufficient time to part partially ialy master the language he gave to the poor all his hia clothes save those in which he stood and to the same game purpose devoted all his pocket mony even with this he be was waa not content he wrote home requesting queuing re his hia father to cause that the money coming to him here be given in the same way and that the family in tead stead of sending bending means to him ex in the manner suggested this much of explanation is in necessary to an understanding of the last letter received from him which we are permitted to publish it was to his big father and was written as will be see een days daye before his hie death september 29 1892 my dear father and brothers and slaters sisters I 1 will address this letter to father but my feelings and desires you canall can all know and this perhaps you will accept as an aa I 1 answer to your letters I 1 cannot describe my feelings I 1 have I 1 had so much joy in my labors in the I 1 last week the lord has baa opened the hearts of five persons and they have come to me and asked to be baptized and the prospects are if it is the will of the lord that at least that many more will be added to the branch in a short time when angels could feel happier than I 1 have felt at times their joy must be very very great for it has seemed to me once or twice that I 1 could scarcely remain on the earth my heart is in filled with love and gratitude to my heavenly father and words cannot express to him my thanksgiving but he can read my heart and th thoughts u abts and has shown me that I 1 am in his 0 an hands my food cornea comes to me day after day without asking I 1 have never yet asked for food and a place lace to sleep in is always given to me lecause because I 1 have done so much traveling raveling my shoes are worn so that I 1 have walked the last week with a little corner of the bottom of my feet on the ground but bat that mattered not I 1 could walk just as well and had money to buy another pair I 1 asked the lord in his own due time to give me another pair and yesterday I 1 was led into a shoo shoe shop and measured for a pair of shoes shoe and I 1 I 1 go today to get them the ele person erson who took me there being responsible for the pay I 1 could relate many instances where I 1 have had direct answer to my ray era and will mention one last week V found myself about dark walking in the woods with my hat off praising the lord and thinking over his wonderful ways and I 1 felt that hat the very trees and grass could understand my feelings they were all created by him as was wag 1 I but darkness soon overtook me and I 1 had bad no place to eat or sleep nor more important octant than all to speak I 1 kneeled down and asked the lord to open the way and give me what was necessary and then proceeded on my way scarcely was I 1 out of the woods when I 1 met some women coming from the fields I 1 had met two before and they were anxious to know my success I 1 was invited in the house to wait until the men came from work as they had heard of me and wanted to know what I 1 bad to say after eating supper during which I 1 was talking and explaining our doctrines they in cited the people to come together and I 1 spoke to about ten or twelve for somo some time one man stood up op and said he be lieveld in nothing beyond this life and laili laughed hed and sneered at my words but I 1 told him his laughing and sneering words would stand against him and con I damn him it he did not repent and seek forgIve forgiveness nees from toe the lord for all that occurred in our meeting our speaking and thoughts would be remembered when we stoob stood before the judgment bar of god I 1 told him I 1 trembled for him to hear him say may that the lord if there was such a being was unjust for the time would come when all would acknowledge that his pigments judgments just but to the wicks wicked it would be to their eternal dadi damnation nation I 1 told him the lord had given him as he had to me a soul which we could not destroy that 90 had given us no the opportunity here on the earth to choose eternal life or eternal damnation and that when we throwaway threw away the opportunity here it was gone never to return but that it was our own owl thoughts words and actions that would condemn us I 1 told him that people wished to live now and feared death bat the time would come that the wic wicked ked would seek to destroy their souls but could not do it that the death of the righteous was is as a sleep and is something they do not dread for by it they are freed from satan bitt but the life and death ot of the wicked andun and un believers unbelievers are biter for they do not understand pheob the object the lord had when he placed them on the earth they are in darkness and ana imagine all others are like them that J 1 when they die the servant of darkness they cannot expect to live through eternity with those whose souls are enlightened here on the eartle with the spirit of the lord I 1 said much more to liim him which it is not necessary to write and it had a very good effect upon the listeners and before I 1 retired for the people insisted on my remaining over night the man of the house told me that he believed my words and I 1 had spoken the truth he asked me what he should do I 1 answered him from the bible and again gave him my testimony that it ithe ache gospel was on the earth again and that a very short time would show that the lord would punish all who would fight against his hia work for great and terrible plagues would sweep over the earth I 1 retired to bed praising the lord the next morning my first thought on awaking was to thank the lord for sweet sleep and health and strength I 1 turned over in bed and found by my bedside a glass of milk and sweet bread and butter I 1 could not restrain my tears what could be nicer than this arising I 1 kneeled down and thanked him who reigns on high and who can put into the hearts of even my enemies to give me what ahac I 1 need during my meal the frau fran came in with tears in her eyes thanked me for comin gand bade me goodbye as she went to her necessary work I 1 then visited a house where I 1 had been before and I 1 learned to my joy that brother bahr and hugh rewriter he writer a brother had been there to seek me and had returned to another village r seven miles distant to await me there I 1 fairly flew fiew over the ground to where when D I 1 again met my dear brother and our jua meeting was truly joyful B but u t there was not time to sit long for I 1 had made an appointment in ancher ano her place the same evening so we started out together four of us for with us went a young man whom I 1 have since baptized and of whom I 1 spoke in my other letter on the way we left brother bahr r with th a family who nave have been very kind n to va me as he had promised to return to berlin the next day y we othree three pro cee deden 1 I on our way and spent the even 1011 tp explaining Pla ining to a few people who came together pother what the lord has said he would do in the last days we arose the next morning and went from house to house one i taking one house and another an other ft until il our companion mr wallaw returned to his home and hugh and I 1 proceeded eded lurther further i 1 11 need act say that we were very kind ly alss treated and had ad always food and a that fat and hugh was overjoyed at rh what he adful 5 I 1 01 had been and heard it is won time sm alti 1114 we could and did the th whole bm here hs talk in german while I 1 have WO only four and a half months and passed bed remark lark about it several times would n we would speak pa english we we soon again drift into german as could bettea ater express our thoughts hugle helped 1111 me in the th baptism and we bade baSS or the five ave aud and this morning to berth each bye boehe he to return with a ald Har bamburg fiburg we e remained this very kod good famil y last night nt and bye e moraine the nt after ther a good vl Hagh had hart man 10 ran after us to learn if understood money to buy his ticket as he and would we traveled ba without phout money can call I 1 say billingly Illin W gly ke give it to us ns what after hla wt should we doubt the lord rd cannot can noti wonderful preserving care I 1 ii doubt m my ability to kee P H hia is quires of 8 and to do what at W he e re hors here on the tha mae but 10 on HI him m and his K work rk very very verv earth S nl I 1 have no 0 o doubt he is 1 I feel f under unS I 1 to me e many times bow greats condemnation oem nation yet will he we erport firato to in me he gi givel ves me friends sleep rk ana 0 oh lood bood and add places to how very little I 1 do for himl him his hia mercy and goodness are great beyond my comprehension or power of description and I 1 can only thank him in a very weak way now I 1 hear that the pastors are seeking me in one with whom I 1 have spoken or at least he will become a pastor I 1 found a very different spirit to what a servant of the lord should have he was very angry with me and would not allow me to come in his bis house I 1 hear today that one ot of the chief pastors visited the young mens union last ing to find we me therland there and had asked where I 1 lived 1 go there next sunday evening if the lord wishes it and I 1 will speak with him before his flock fiock if he can show me wherein I 1 am wrong from the bible I 1 will repent and do better and I 1 hope it will be same with him I 1 know of course what it means mean 9 and that is persecution seo se but in this way the people will hear the warning in a way they will remember it and whatever happens to me when I 1 do my duty will be what the lord wishes you yon speak of the sickness here father but I 1 do not fear it in tire least the lord ard can do with me as he wishes and if it is to leave this earth I 1 have no desire to remain here concerning this young man father he is full of faith brave and has bus a burning desire to warn this people from these approach approaching hi ang judgments the lord had already revealed to him concerning these plagues before I 1 met him and he be had spoken omen with a nu uber of families sout about them he has had bad to doctor himself for for years and has gone through very much trouble and has only regained hils health through the strictest attention to the commandments written in the bible also found comfort only in talking with others about these theme things should he not hold the priesthood and that too in view of the great work to be done here here very shor shorey Jy I 1 trust you are all enjoying good health concerning the money father that is due me I 1 trust it is used prom promptly t that nothing will remain to my er credit ti it appears that brother the president here has paid 25 from what I 1 had in berne to the temple and if abram has done the same there 50 has been paid in of course this makes no difference only that I 1 intended it to be paid from there and therefore am overdrawn in berne as I 1 have given out here our works and have said I 1 would be responsible for them can abram pay W 25 or 30 would be better to henry reiser reiner in salt lake to be placed to my credit here to replace this 25 overdrawn and something over to stand for books people do not pay me for I 1 would also like to ask aak is it not right to speak a great deal about the book of M mormon 0 rmon with people who believe the bible and endeavor to get these people to read it people are anxious after reading our smaller books to read this but some aw alle against my giving it I 1 cannot agree with them in this with much love to all I 1 am your affectionate son DAVID after the tore foregoing going was waa in type 9 the following cablegram was received oct 17 1892 president george Q cagnon ca anon salt lake city brother sob Sab tole telegraphs graphs david cannon died hie morning no particulars particular tic ti have ordered the body em bahmed my deepest sympathy BRIGHAM YOUNG at 4 this afternoon no additional news had been received as ae to the cause of death |