Show CAPITAL correspondence Littre in the silent city of tho dead pron provo mr out corr j EDITOR what a singular life tills this ie is I weddings and deaths so closely intermingled that we no sooner get into the spirit s p irit of ali tha connubial thun we 11 have a va to mourn with tho bere bereaved avet the jovially of the holiday season is 13 frequently marred by the somber ceremonies of the thus in th abc c midst of lit life e we are in in death while whilo cupid fills the matrimonial realm realms and reinforces the ranks of i the family circle old time ina his sharp sickle e gleans glean his harvest of ripe ripe i humanity I y and the sexton 41 gathers them in it I was forcibly struck on oil visiting our cemetery lately at nt the very large iti increase crease in the tile number of graeca since my last visit about three years ago the village on in the bill hillside ide liaa has grown intorn into an nn extensive town gitig it is indeed the the city of the dead the old and the young the hili high and the tile lowly the strong and the weak all mingled together grether to form forin quite a quaint picture for forthe the imagination im aa but the reflections reflection s are very different Terent di in looking at OUR from those I felt in in observing the monuments in greenwood cemetery here wo we see the stone that marks tho the resting pince of tho the lion honest pioneer 10 beer the religious martyr thep the faithful saint the pilgrim from r a foreign land who left the tile place of his birth for Cliris christs ts sake and died in full fellowship of odthe the everlasting E ver gospel but in the gigantic gigan mausoleum of brooklyn we see the rich tablets of the merchant kings the sarcophagi of railroad royalty r tho the sepulcher of financial grea greatness tum who died WITHOUT GOVEL as revealed from heaven in the century people who lived and died A without V phout the chopo of a glorious resurrection rev rov ur lie there in pomp and rich estate to await the found sound odthe of the angel s trump which shall bring them forth at the close of christs millennium tho the thought made me rue sad ead and I felt to weep as jesus wept at jerusalem Jeruta lem we part but fur f or a little while is the common expression of the latter day saint as he lie comforts tho tile mourner gono gone forever is the thought of mana many who lose their loved anes ones from thi this s world of fashion nui and frivolity GALLIC SALT LAKE ciar dec 10 |