| Show LAID TO REST BEST the funeral services over the remains i of the late bupt supt richard ballantyne founder of the sunday schools were held in the ogden tabernacle sunday nov 1898 hundreds viewed the remain at the residence there being many sunday school children there was an unusually large at tend tm danee fance the stand was wals beautifully decorated with flowers gifts from the sunday schools ov over r the white casket hung bung festoons fes of smilax interwoven with white chrysanthemums surmounted by a sheaf of wheat and a sickle of flowers above the casket hung a bed of flowers on which appeared the inscription the father of our sunday schools on the head and foot of the casket stood a large harp and a lyre mado mada of smilax small fern leaves variegated chrysanthemums roses and pinks while a white dove perched upon each potted palms terns ferns and other plants adorned the various elevations of the stand the organ was draped in white and all in all the decorations presented a picture of simple beauty touching in its subdued cheerfulness ful ness plainly betokening that while sadness filled the hearts of the assembled multitude they felt joy at the release of a brother who had so faithfully labored during lifes battles joy that such a servant had been called home by his god on the stand were elders C Q F middleton and N C flygare of the stake presidency and the various bishoprics bishoprick bish also presidents geo Q cannon and F D richards and elders geo goddard jos W T C griggs levi W richards L J nuttall wm B dougall jno M mills J W ure lorin farr and others the second ward choir chair together with sunday school singers from all the city wards furnished the ibe music shortly after 1 bishop edwin stratford of the fourth ward where elder ballantyne had resided many years until his death called the congregation to order and the combined sunday school choirs under the leadership of wm hinchcliff sang nearer my savior to thee prayer was offered by elder lorin farr when wanted on the other side was sung elder george president emt franklin D richards and president george Q cannon spoke in the order named bearing testimony to the unflinching integrity of the deceased and delivering excellent instruction and kind blessings to the li viner between Bel tween the sermons sister uzzle lizzie blair sang I 1 know that my redeemer lives set to music by a a son of deceased joseph ballantyne now studying music in new york and elder C P ferrin sang 0 my father 1 bishop E Ek stratford ratford made a few closing remarks and benediction was pronounced by elder john M mills the sunday schools formed in procession and marched atter after the hearse to the cemetery followed by the flamily imily flam fla llY each son and daughter in the order of their age then the general public in carriages the whole forming a line reaching nearly from the tabernacle to the cemetery la fa distance of over five blocks at alt the burial lot the heber stake academy choir under prof R T haag sang a selection end and the grave was dedicated by elder J w elder Ri chiard ballantyne lived a pure and noble life which will shed sim sunlight light upon many generations to come while his remains were yet in the tabernacle a beautiful ray pay of sunshine stole into the building from the perfect day without and rested dire directly otly upon his casket las as if pronouncing a sweet benediction upon his noble life he was the father of twenty two children eighteen of whom are living at his hai death he had bad eighty eight living grandchildren and one great grand child EDW H ANDERSON |
