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Show GOOD MAN LAID TO REST With Imposing Ceremonies The Body of Bishop Maughan Consigned to the tomb. Distinguished Speakers Testify To His Many Sterling Qualities. (Reported by Doctor G. F. Philips.) Wcllsvllle, Sept. 4.- Tho funeral or Rlshop Maughan was held here ytster-day ytster-day and was the largest or its kind In tho history or Wcllsvllle Piomptly at 2 o'clock a procession wended its way rrom tho home or tho deceased Rlshop to the meeting house. The pall beaiers, who carried the casket that distance were W. II. Maughan, Jr., John H , Alex, Robert, Thomas, Hcber, Joseph, James, Hjrum, Henry, and Archie, all sons ot the departed. The meeting house was decorated enthrly In white. On the stand, the chair which Rlshop Rlsh-op Maughan has occupied ever since he was ordained to the local Rlshopilc, was diaped In white, his photograph, embedded In Mowers, was placed. Tho tloral decorations were something un- sui passable. The meeting house was packed, theie being no less than one thousand people peo-ple within the building and hair as many outside. Rlshop Samuel Oldham, of Paiadlse, opened with prajer After which Mis. Selena Paikssang "I know That My Redeemer Lives." Richard Brenchley tcstllled to the great worth and Intimate Inti-mate friendship or the deceased, lie was followed by Patriarch Robert Baxter, Sr., who stated that In a life extending 80 jears he had never met a man whom ho loved like lie did Rlshop Maughan and he prayed (iod that some of Ills sons would carry on the noble work ho had done so well. Bishop Owen stated that ho had found In his experience ex-perience as Rlshop a remarkable faith In God and the Gospel of Jesus Christ, as well as a large degree of local pall lot Um among the people ol Wcllsvllle. Wclls-vllle. It was Rlshop Maughan who had prepared the minds of the people peo-ple and led them In this direction Dr. Philips spoke next, and concluded his remarks witli the statement. "Take him all In all, wo ne'er shall see his like again " lion. Joseph Howell who said In pait: "III wcie hi the giave today and piivileged to mingle with splilts or those who have passed, I should want to be associated llrst w llh my father and mother and Rlsh op Maughan and his Sainted wife, Rarbara. I shall alwa)s thank God that He piivileged me to the the extent ex-tent or allowing my lire to be entwined with that of the Maughan family." The choir then sang an anthem. "In P.veiy Land Abiding." Bishop W. B. Preston was pleased to meet with the Saints and sorrj too. Rlshop Maughan and hlmseir were ordained totlie bishopric cither the same day or the day after, he did not remember, but lie did remember re-member that they had been good bos together and he had alwas known that no liioic valiant son of the gospel had ever kept the faith better than Bishop Maughan. Moses Thatcher. "The great question at the end or lire Is this: Have we rought truly? Have we been sincere and honest, not alone to otheis, but to ourselves as well. These questions must be answered an-swered with a most emphatic atlli native, na-tive, as Tar as they related to Rrother Maughan. Here Is a question and 1 put it tojou In this form: Can anj-thlng anj-thlng that comes from God and Is unl-verally unl-verally lecognled as a law of nature be a calamity V Now, death coming from God can not be a calamity Especially when It conies to man like the Rlshop who since his earllst boyhood boy-hood has novel svwrved a hair's breadth from the truth There was a time when he (Rrother Thatcher) knew the a Hairs of all the wards in Cache intlmatclx, when he presided over it in connection with Bishop Preston und M. D. Hammond. At that time It was always said that under un-der the administration of Rlsiiop Maughan, Wcllsvllle wind Inellleicncy, and In proper and foremost report of all the waul organizations was the leading ono hi tills slake. 1 bless Rrother Maughau's family foi the kind vvoids he said to me in the das or my heart's bitter anguish, and 1 place a lily upon his bier as an emblem ol sincere, honest, true love, and puic disinterested friendship." Apostle Penrose, who In behalf of the First Presidency, the Quotum of the Twelve, tendered their hearty sjmhathy to the bercavedfamlly Had thenews of the Rlshop's dcatli come sooner, others ol tho Twelve would have been present, because they all united in lecogni.ing in Rlshop Maughan one or the stal warts who helped to carrj the banner ot tne gospel Into these rock fastness fast-ness of ion, and tlicie hold it unfurled. un-furled. Thero could be no doubt that a great crown was laid up ror tho deceased de-ceased biothei. The spirit or deatli was not present at that meeting but the spirit or lire and immortalltv. We will place in the ground the body which has served as a tabernacle foi one of the choicest spliits that Godevcrsent to earth. In this caso it was no calamity to die, ror he simply underwent a transition rrom this woild of opposltes to a land whore the sun of ilghleousncss shines with no clouds between. Rrother Maughan does not lie in that casket. That valiant sphlt, that stalwart son or God, whom jou have know over 10 ycais still lives, with all the powers or his great mind and soul and spirit and the ebillty to express himself. We miist only say good bye, Rrother Maughan, for wo will, in a comparatively com-paratively little while bo wlicie hols now. KldorC. W. Nlbley spoke next, and said among other tilings, that tho best tribute he could pay to the deceased de-ceased was to say that he was a suo-cessrul suo-cessrul poljganilst. Piesident W. C. Parkinson stated that Rlshop Maughan was a man possessed or the highest honor and excellence. In the shoit time he had known him he had learned to love him John Maughan, an elder biothei-or the Rlshop, stated with dllllculty that in the death or William, a tiuu man and a loyal servant or God had gone rrom our midst. George O. Pitkin was pleased at tho opportunity to pay a tribute to the Rlshop. and lie asked the blessings or God on all present. Thcchoh then sang "Mid Scenes of Confusion" and Rlshop Roskellej dismissed dis-missed with prayer. The procession was seven and a half blocks long. On arriving at the cemetery tho grave was dedicated by Judge W. W. Maughan, a brother of tho deceased. |