Show FRANCIS 31 LYMAN ii in he death ot of francis al lyman which last saturday as noted elsewhere in i lils ala issue not only fillmore and tho state of utah but tile the antro entro wi al has lost ono ot of her best and most useful sons coming to tile the west ecat when but a lad ho he has typified that brand ot of pioneer with which tile the west could not have been developed to such fluch a 1 state of efficiency fici ency as she Is today to him and tomen to men like him site she owes much of her vast improvement As in other phases of his life flo BO was ho he to his adopted faith sta staunch tinch and true in nil all things and millard county has cause to know that hat without him many of the things that were done tor for her benedit would havo have been loft left undone tile tho salt balco tribune in an editorial in its sunday edition aptly deec rles his life and tile the story Is given herewith death has taken one of tile tho strong men of the latter day saints church francis HI al lyman president of the quorum ot of twelve apostles was first in line of succession to the presidency and had lie ho lived to assume that om ce would have been ono one of tho the anost respected heads of the church while apostle lyman was not faar ed as a brilliant theologian lie he was essentially a religious leader from boyhood ho he had displayed a devotion to religion which marked him out as a leader in tile tho spiritual realm of his own church and yet lie he was a practical man mail withal hla his leadership was neither mystical nor theological ho he was no anchorite looking out upon the world and its affairs from tho the dim remoteness rem of komu cloistered coll cell ito ho was a man mail of oc affairs and no matter to what station the church might havo have called lilla him lie ho ouia have been prapai prepared ed as an all executive to manage its affairs wisely and well As AB a perfectly sincere chur churchman chian of simple ways and kindly outlook lie ho won universal esteem his was the strong pure vigorous character of of tile the best of tile the pioneers who laid the foundations of the west and tile then painstakingly through halt half a century bullied and honestly the mighty structure ut OL its greatness to men ot nf Fatic I ancis ts 71 Lyma nii iia mold the west owes much for what it la is today the weak and the incompetent early succumbed to the rigors of tile the pioneering beering dayi day the natural leaders came to phd front for without them the worl of the west would have failed and would have lave passed away is as did the grotesque company of eng ilea gentlemen who came over to colonize virginia but who never lad had been inured to work and who did not know the first principles of pioneering the wilderness apostle lyman ne reared among the pioneers it wise a hard school but it was the only school capable of fitting men to conquer the wilderness arid and make the hie rudo rude beginnings of our rich elv liz aaion francis at lyman was one of chii the of a raco race that Is ing just about the time that civilization had bad obliterated what was called the the that race of mighty men who founded and organized the west began to wane slid and vanish wo we ahall not know their like again we llull have our lider leaders brilliant and energetic and cultivated but wo we shall not havo have pioneers and among tho the pioneers francis BI 11 lyman was one of the strongest and most revered |