Show A GOOD GOOP M MAN GONE GOM tim tile ladt L kt tributes of respect to the I lalo lato elder john L child the funeral services vices over the remains of the late elder john L child were held in the second ward meetinghouse Meeting liou se at 11 am january lt let 1883 there were ou on the stand presidents L J and C I middleton the bishop of the second ward his counsel and many other leading elders the house was well filled with ith relatives and friends of tile deceased bishop robt rio called the congregation to order and the choir sang the hymn creation speaks with awful vaire hark itt its an universal groark after which elder joeeph parry offered ered prayer after the hymn p the morning flowers display their sweets and gay their silken leaves unfold was eung lung ELDER joslen HILL first addressed ed the assembly ho ilc arose with very peculiar feeling to speak on the purpose for which we had assembled in in this house he ile spoke by special Ep ecial adalu request re I cot and by vy his ills desire to add a mite to comfort the mourners and console the bereaved bar we as A people manifest our union and are gravitating v to one point he ile wished to on the motto inscribed on the tle casket of the dei de ceased blessed arc are the dead who die in the lord thus spoke the angel to john the revelator Rev clator and there vms a reason for they rest from front their labors and their works aull all follow them there arc are sey sev t ral resurrections there is a first resurrection ng as we as a people understand der den stand it this is the resurrection by which all who died from the time cf of father adam to jesus I were from the dead I but that is not the re i lion tion we are looking tor beaus submitted himself to be put to death because it if had lad boon boen so designed but he ile had also power to lay down ilia his life and take it op up again he was tho redeemer and by his blood we ire have been redeemed from the tt c original or in alsin sin E even as in adam all dia died so ao in christ we were all made alive again this the speaker explained very lucidly showing how christ I lia had vcr redeemed all mankind by his I sacrifice I am the resurrection and the life said he ile hence all I who had lad departed in the lord from I the time of our first fin t parents dawn down to I the time of were resurrected when he ile was now christ ban has as a bended into beavon Ilea where he remains until he ile shall come again to reign and rule with his saints when he ile will also show himself to lie the house of judah this was I graphically depicted depleted by elder hall nall I from froin the scriptures what is tile object of the dead rising from the grave it is the joyful reunion with our dear and aul beloved ones from whom there will be no more parting part the speaker then spoke in a feeling manner of the deceased one of our friends of our kindred i one of us in christ jesus he ild reels rests I with the dead in the lord while his spirit lias has gone to the spirits af the jagst behind tho the veil where he continues with the oilier other spirits in the york work of the lord by sorrow or grief until the trumpet of god shall shull sound round and hf twill be reunited with bu hii hi i family and his friends it ii so diu dif Terent crent with ua us irom from what it h i i with the world we expect that with the some body the decee deceased zed has laid down he lie wilt will live alrine again filled with immortality united with ili li liia his wives and children and continue increasing rearing inc through the count countless lem ages of eternity elder hall then spoke jf of elder child highly eulogizing hia his unswerving lion uty his probity and faith for all of which iio lie waa as exemplary hla ills s strong his faith unshaken une linken lie waa among how whom the poet calla calls the noblest works of god an oil honest man the speaker closed liia his coni fortine discourse with ith a firm that we shall tec eee again our deceased brother and with it prayer that the sun of peace pence muy ever abide in ill the habitations of the dec deceased easm brothers wives children brothers nu aal i sisters and that they thoy may inay so live as to be reunited alln in the realms of eternity the neit next speaker was PRESIDENT C F r middleton MIDD LETOy in tho the midat midst of life wo are in death but it ia is alo also taid that in the midst of grief there is is joy J were it not for du duties ties we lye are required to perform per forin on earthie ear thit would make very little dienge fi us when we leave the afflict ions I pail pain I sic tave ess mourning of this life if we have lived in faith wo ire can die with an assurance ase urance of endless blees ing the speaker had been intimately acquainted avith the decease de ceas ed since 1854 he related incidents from times of probation for fur instance when he be with others were surround e el I by savage indians and elder john L child volunteered among others to climb the mountains face the winters storms and went to the rescue of their brethren president middleton paid vaid a glowing tribute to the dece ased wed for his un sullied record of honesty and vr tuc tue and admonished his family to follow ili his good examples the then tile they would be certain of a glorious resurrection and of uniting with the jut just where sorrow and pain are no more L j next addressed the tile stating that lie and elder hall had been specially s e i ally requested ed by tho the family to ro do s so the latter day saints v I I have peculiar feelings on oil occasions like thi thip P tho the nearer they live to their principles the more inore they will love une one another and the more acceptable cep table they will be to goil god the speaker lid did not mourn for the dead but for the living living mourners who lave have lost a good father husband and friend elder john L child passed hence ence without he ile always ays been true to hia his friends to his covenants and to his god he I lias fought the good light fight the speaker Ppe aker if lie could would not recall elder child to his tabernacle the deceased is in a land where the tile wicked cease from troubling and the wenry are at it reel president ent herrick then dilated on the principle of resurrection riving giving valuable instruction st et ou on this important topic we have the liss assurance urance of ft it glory that never ends a ay oy that never fades it is this that takes away the fear of the dread of the grave there is ix no death to the righteous who die in the lord it ia is only a i n away from a sphere of drudgery and affliction into a sphere of happiness happi new joy and everlasting peace goda gods waya and ours are not the tame same we may ask why is it that brother broth er J john p bu is taken from us but we acknowledge the hand of the lord and submit to the ordeal as did jesus in the night of his agony at mount olivet all this gives us hope and bears us up from the grave and exalts us in the pre presence ence of god elder child ia is now it in tile paradise of god laboring a in the ministry associated with congenial spirits we shall always remember him as a husband a father and a friend as an honest honorable god fearing man and president herrick was proud to eay say that there is not a roan man in the community who has so many frienda friends L aa IM brother john he closed with asking god to him the bereaved tile widowed and fatherless and his frienda friend and to give us all s to live our religion and keep the faith the dosie dis discourse courso was delivered ina in a feel trig rn manner by another eld old time friend of the tile deceased rodent who spoke in warm words of the excellent qualities tirs of the deceased rave grave the mourners the sincere consolation of his heart and pointed out the glorious eri rewards awa awaiting itin t the faithful in tho resurrection of the tild just and the everlasting exaltation in the mansions of god the choir sang the hymn commencing farewell all earthly pleasures I bid you all adieu aeu benediction was offered by elder lorin farr and the impressive serviced servi ca camo me to an end tho the funeral cortege which was long then took up its solemn march to the I cemetery where the earthly remains of elder eider john L child were laid to reft rest until the trump of god shall sound john L child was ivas the sou of alfred B and polly barber child ho ile was born in morris town now called hammon st lawrence county new york october 1830 his parents embraced the GOO goepel about the tie year 1836 an and gathered gather with the latter atter day saints auts in caldwell Cald corint county missouri in I 1837 the entire distance with a team being about 2000 miles I when the p unions commenced i there in 1880 1831 ralley they were compelled I to leave lea e that state with their co religionists they then went want to quincy where they remained one year having located a farm in lee county iowa the family removed there ii in 1839 they remained in this placa about coven koven year during which lime time they open edu ed up and aud improved other large tr tracks of agricultural land in that place ajl this valuable kropi property arty wan wn sacrificed to the ravages of their enemies in their persecutions against the latter day saints in addition to a largo farm of which i th they were robbed in misouri Miso mis aari ari in I IM 1640 they moved with the saints ii who ho were mere were expelled from nau nall I von to remained I their till 1852 in 1850 john L child was married to miss mi eliza E liza jane courtl s daughter of uriah and phoebe M Cur curtiss tits in the summer of 1852 the whole tt hole family crossed the plains and arrived in bait salt lake valley oct estand ast 1st and came imme immediately diatel t to weber county where they kave have since arwid resided od john L child adopted agriculture as his occupation in which ho lie continued until 1877 when ho lie entered the mercantile establishment of his brother warren gould child in ogden city here lie remained in lie the faithful discharge of his duty as a confidential clerk until about three months since when he lie was compelled through failing health to retire from his duties in that capacity capaci CY it was fondly hoped that by rest leisure and good nursing he would recover and te be again able to return to o his post in the establishment but in this his friends were all grievously tand ing all human skill in this place could do for him he succumbed to the power of death deat at on saturday at evening dec m 1882 previous to his death deat ho lie called his family around him he lie bore a faithful testimony to the truth of tho the doctrines of the church of jesus christ of latter day Sai saints jaue and urged upon them the importance of remaining faithful to the truth of god as long as they live upon tho tha earth and to fulfill the covenant and promises promis esthey they have made to obey the command commandments of tha lord ho ile then shook hands bands with them and peacefully fell a asleep leep in the lord and was gatli gathered ered to ilia his fathera fathers the diseased which was the final cause of his death waa was or can condition of the stomach but he lie had been in failing dg health for several years the deceased el hail lad seven children four sona and three daughters and thirteen grandchildren most of whom are now living to perpetuate his name nanie and revere bis his memory john L child was a member of the quorum of seventies |