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Show KEQUIESCAT IN PACE. YeEterday all that was mortal of the late Utah stake president, A. O Smoot, was tenderly laid away from the Bight of men, in the grave. It waB a bright, beautiful dfy. A brilliant sun's beams gilded the towering tower-ing mountains, the lovely valley just awakening from the sleep of winter, and the fair city of Provo where the home neet of our beleyed friend was planted.When the early trains on all the railroads brought immense throngs from all the cities and towns of Utah county and from every county in the i territory, to pay the last sad tribute to ""Ine nfemory "oT ane-cJ-tii? great men of Utah, who had juEt surrendered-the surrendered-the life which God had entrusted to him back into the loving Father's hands. Eighty years of duty had been paid and the old patriarch had so used them that when he faced the grim messenger there was no trembling. For him the fullness of time had come and he was ready. It was a heautiful tribute to the worth of the man, in all the walks and relations of life, that thousands upon thousands of those best acquainted with the worth of Mb ! life's work to them, assembled from afar and near to testify at his grave-Bide, grave-Bide, to their veneration and their love ' , for the trusted leader.the spiritual guide, and their personal friend who has just been called by the Infinite to his rest. No one can doubt that the plaudit, "Well Done" greeted President Smoot when his Epirit reached the land of the leal a few days since. The infinite affection with - which he was regarded was not con fined to any one class of people, to any one church. Such men, while none-the-less devoted to their own views and strict in applying them to the every day business of life, win the af-; fectionate confidence of all, even those of the moBt divergent and opposite ; views. Too broad for mere sectarian ism or bigotiy, they belong to and be come a part of the plan of Infinite Goodness in working out the best good of all. The same gentle regret which bedewed the eyeB of his Mormon followers yesterday sent the tears down the cheeks of bis Gentile friends. This is the tribute won by his rugged and perfected manhood, by his great ' worth as a citizen, as a business force and one of the factors in Utah's greatness great-ness and progress. The lesson of this useful life is: Do earnestly what your hand finds to do and remember that a just God overlooks over-looks all. Not only has a grand church influence disappeared but a good citizen citi-zen and a good neighbor and friend has departed, a good influence has been blotted out. The immense throng which gathered here attested the universal uni-versal esteem entertained for the man whom all knew and whom all loyed alike. Life is woith living, if at it 3 close the world will say of us, a friend has left ns, a good man is gone, sorrow reigns. Only one in I ten thousand receives such an oyation as did President Smoot, but it is quite sufficient when those receive the measure meas-ure of respect to which they are justly entitled. All may win this if their lives are honest, unselfish, pure and praiseworthy. Of course one should do right in all the relations of life, simply because that is duty, but more especially espec-ially because it is right, and the reward re-ward never fails to come. That is one thing that those who live correct lives can always depend upon. The old line of the poet comes to us now who sang: How sleep those who sink to rest, By all their country's wisheB blest. |
