Show 1 I 1 1 I 1 at a REST ir president resident john taylor is gone from fran earth LUTER TO THE til SAINTS I 1 gli Ws suffering sufferings his dignity ml ballach l F jug in courage a emotion of the great people who loved him president john tailor taylor ie is dead the funeral services oer over hia ilia remains will be held in tin th tabernacle at salt lake city on friday july the 1997 beginning at iv elve eh noon the body will lie in state in the tabernacle on tile day of tha the funeral from 7 a in a until I 1 11 JO 0 O a ni the martyred ren remains jains of the great treat man aro are now at the gardo house a gait silt lalie lake city following Is aaa a letter to the tile saints saint abiol OP tilt THE off at nr JOHN TA rl I 1 once more the latter day edn t are railed called upon to mourn the death c leader the bushel has held J the keb keys ol 01 the kingdom of god goll upon earth Jon rAYLOR I de desi si parted this life libent bat tire minutes to eight on the lie evening of mondays july 1837 aged 7 78 years as months and 25 23 days da 9 in communicating this sad intelli ja gence churila Chu oer embich it befi I 1 has to worthily presided for nearly te term beare ear rast erast we are died with emotions too deep for utterance A faithful faith fi tie demoted doted and fe ailese servant of god tho the church in his its death has lost it its mot most conspicuous and experienced experience leader fist tu and immovable in the tile truth few men luve have ever eve lied lived alio hae have manifested sue ruih integrity and such unflinching moral and physical coura courage at our beloved aclo cd president Ire eident who has jus cone gone from ue us lie ile never knew th the feeling ol 01 fear connected with th the m vork ork of god but antho in the face of an M mobs and at other times m when lien iu in imminent tanker dawer of personal violence from those ins his lifo life and upon occasions when the tile were menaced mith public peril he lie neier never blanched his knees never trembled ins ills IL handi and never shook every latter day saint always knew beforehand on a occa ion nhen firmness and courage mer needed where president jons jo us be found and u ahat hat ilia ton w mould bo be lie ile met c every cry issue squarely boldly and in a way to call fort dorthi rt tho of all who a ho paw saw and heard beard him undaunted courage un belding firmness were among bit most prominent giving givin ili him in distinction dib among men who m vert er for the same with those were combined an intense loe love of freedom and hatred of oppression sion ho he ft asa man loan v holn oil all coul could trust and throughout lae ids life he en jol to an extent adby by none non tho the implicit con conEk lenco clence ot of the prope prophets jon joseph ph 11 ram and brigham and all 0 the leading yaw and members 1 of the church Chur cli tho the title of champion 0 oi Li liberty birty alel io lo roxi voLl in nau was al always ays felt ta be most ampro for him to bear but it no only in lite po apselon of the theeo quAh ties that pavlo V LO oa was as crbut ilia judgment nv was remarkably I 1 sound end wid claar and through life be hehle bus been noted to toi the tile of hie his counsels and toach ina ings ili his great made lit hit bug gest ions valuable 11 for there hae ime elcanely been apul a pul lie lic movement of any kind commenced ir ried on cr tapi wed time he le joined tit the church in ill m ilich lie has cot not ukel part but it Is not neco eary ary that vo we should oven even if time permitted ro to he arno the tits event his lon ong and buy busy life Todos to do omd only be to give a greater gretter part of tho tile history of th the church for kith it hie his blo graphy w I 1 inter interwoven moren I 1 the file list last ti giroo me Preel dent ta tailor or a ap sa feared 1 in public was on oil sunday february 1833 1835 on oil hut that occasion he lie delivered del vered a lengthy disco ump lit the Tbt cje in salt luke city rumor Itu morn A had been floating around for som a V time that his arrest was contemplated in fact m while bile returning from a trip to the settlements in A arizona I 1 lie io wits nisa i ill dj in california that ho tie was in great greata danger and it was that per laps haps it would be better for him not to return to salt lake city lie ile to thebe cautions but still resolved to tooji take the file ria risk and came back and fearlessly j went about his business for fora gome boni e time but on the evening of otje fl sunday february ut he lie concluded jo withdraw himself hini pelf from the public performance of hie numerous num croue and im duties in taking ilia thia did so more to preserve prep ervo peace and to remove all possible pos came of excitement eskite b than from any desire lor tor por per 5 anal safety lie ile perceived that there was a determination on the part of men holding official position here to raise fise a an issue and if possible involve 1 the latter day saints in serious trouble ho ile had not broken any law fie ile knew he waa was innocent and that I 1 if he were arrested arre eted and could have s air fair trial nothing could be brought against him he ile had taken every precaution that a man could tak take ander his circumstances to make himself invulnerable to attah attack lie ile was wa determined let that so far ae as be he was concerned lie would furnish no pretext for trouble but would do every everything thin in his power to prevent the people ver whom ho lie presided from being involved in difficulty from that date upwards of tw two lacara vears and a half ago when he left ill hiar home in salt lake city he lie had lad not had lad tile lie opportunity of crossing it again to home and iti joy joys 9 its delightful assoni associations actions and it cappy reunions ho lie bas has been a er he ile has lived as an exile a wan lerer in the land to the development nd ind good government of which lie has ba contributed so much while livin living n this condition one of his wives was tr icken with disease and though his hiag beart was torn with an anguish aish at tit thought of her condition and with wiehl anxiety to sec see her and mi minister to he bey in her deep distress her residence ras rag closely losely watched by spies anil hen ahen she was in a dying condition r as is even searched with the hope of in trapping him I 1 thus she was de S irined of the privilege of looking upon f lie his beloved face fice and he had bad not even evenus he tile cad sad consol consolation Aton of witnessing 0 or taking any part in her funeral j monies jl during the tile two years and a hall a 1 hat president ident taylor has bas been living n vlis ii ila condition he has been en cat cut 0 off rom all till the society and loving minis rations of his family but though his this was so liard hard to boar bear at bis his time 0 of ife life ho be never murmured he ile was always full of courage and 1 ng mg everyone with whom lie wa war in contact and lifting his hi companions ompa nione by his ilia noble ecamp example to S of despondency and discourage I 1 S with witt the tile same courado which ie stood by the prophet of god and anda with a walking cane parried the guns f the mob m when lien they vomited their V sheets of flame and ines of leath death in ca cartilage jail lie confronted he difficulties and tile trials which he be iad had to meet when uben compelled to leave 1 lie big home and the society of those nhom ho be loved his ilia demeanor this long ordeal has ha beer admirable id everyone who mho has seen ilm alm has been impressed by hie his equa alliey and stately bearing always foghis for his courtesy and ind dig 4 anity of character at no period of hie hl ife life did he lie ever exhibit those traits to ae i reater advantage than he lie hae has duriac j ila his exile ezile he ile lias bas never condescended en n to speak evil of abo thoe to abo eo so I 1 I 1 duelly persecuted him a by the miraculous power of god president rei derit dept taylor escaped the death bieh the assassins aasa eains of carthage Cart hago jail jai I 1 to signed for him his ilia blood wae was hen mingled mith ith he the blood of the tile narty red prophet and patriarch he ife 1 since then as a aa 1111 living ving amar for the truth but blit today to day he be oc the plire of a double martyr 3 h jan bulor hw has befu killed rd by bay 4 crup bg of alo vf o ante altein lT ein in taht 11 Terril Ts orv the G en if I As united slater state there is no room f so doul t that liat if he had been pe rm 0 eray the comforts of home the minis in i n IP t ration vf if his hit family the tile exerine ij to which he had been but hut of abich lie was deprived deprive ed hc lie might have lived for many years yet fig bleyl stains the clothes of tile men insensate hate have I 1 ri fredred re reward wardi for his big arrest and have hounded lioun ded him to the grave history i ill yet call their doddi by their or right Z bames but one great greater or than titan a the I 1 i voices of all I 1 historians ll tIan m willya it it vet pronounce their dreadful sentence it is now some months month a since h nr N r TAYLOR was attacked by dis disease easo it t came upon film by deg degrees grees mani j esting itself in the beginning by it welling of the 11 tor for the want ol 01 oje proper exercise ho ile fought he dis 1 I 1 ase with his hii characteristic pluck aal nd f le termination he lie would not beld tie ie would neither allow himself nor eyono else to think that hie lite eick nes was serious Ber loua he ile would not allow ills hipa family to know his tits real condition as ang lie ile did not wish them to have ana an anxiety on oil hh his acco account unto and it itt was al aal I 1 most against his 1 N w ashes the were told liow how pick lie was when mos messages sages were sent by him to them they were always of a re liar acter up ulf to the last 1st day or tw tac he lie was ablo able to sit in ills chair and un til quite recently ho he was ablo able to himself in getting in and out of 0 bed badji rhe strength ho he has exhibited and his tenacity of life have ben very won darful for though so strong ho he had haag partaken of scarcely any nourishment nourish raen m for or the past six weeks so il rl lie pass away and so like a bal bate falline falling asleep that a brief ped xa elapsed before those who sto around liis ills bed were eure sure tha that hie his spirit had taken its flight As the he pad pd intelligence which w now communicate will spread through these valleys and mountains sorrow will fill the hearts of all at hearing of ol 01 the thelast last days of their beloved and venerable president we know how daei dee liae has been the sympathy hat that lias has filled he ilia hearts of the saints for him in bit hit advanced years in thinking of hie his con and of his being compelled t tc ho live h o aa an exile from his ills family and he people the expressions of esteem ind love which have come to hitri from all parts of the land have decal touched tou clied him and caused him great pleasure plea sure in thinking how much lie wa beloved and how much hie his welfare was desired by all the saints throughout ut the earth his ilia constant desire was to do everything in his big power to relieve the lat ter day saints from the oppressions under der which they buffered suffered every pul aaion of ills his heart I 1 beat with a love of ion and a desire for her redemption we ve desired and the desire was gen rd r d 1 we believe throughout the church that he might live to emerge rom his exile and be once mo more re a free fre man among the people w v bom be loved but ut this has been denied us he ile has awe one to mingle with the thet holy and th the pure and to quote his own eloquent words written concerning his dear de joseph the seer 1 the reach of mobs anil and strife tl ret unhand unhan d la in adle nulesia nU lesi se ae it ill Is homes in the iky sity hed wels with tb fit I 1 in r 1 tb b 1 furlou u ri out rs rr go ol 01 0 I 1 m abs fai til and d t though i U we have lost his big presence here his influence will detill be t aielt such men may paes pass from this I 1 life to another but the love which boats eats in their hearts for righteousness ind for truth cannot die they go to in enlarged sphere of usefulness their influence is extended and will be more widely fell felt and zion will feel the benefit of his labors as it has the labors tit of others who mho bave have JODO t 11 1 11 19 wl alt 1 1 it god will mill roll forth one after sifter another of the ilia mighty men menthe abe men who have spent their lives in the cause of godbay para pigs away but this his will not affect the purpose of our ou great creator concerning his ills latter lay work ho ile will raise up others md the work i will ill go on increasing in ilver Low erIA in influence and in all true until it has accomplished ill that god lias ins predicted concerning t wo we feel to pay say to the latter day biinte saints Si inte be comforted I 1 the same god od n v ho took care of the work m when hen jo ceph was martyred marty red ulio ft ho lias has watched iver and guarded and upheld it through the long years that ince since lapsed and who lie has guided its destinies de sti bince since the departure of brigham till watches over it and I 1 makes n at es it the abject of his ilia care john hae has gone but god lives he ile has bag gli binm en hi peo people ale a testimony of this cit cherish eris i h it in your heart of hearts lie arts and live so ah day ahat that when the end of your mortal lives shall come yot you may bo be counted worthy to go wh where ere doseph brigham and john have gone nd mingle w m ith eliat glorious throng hose robes have been washed abit in the blood of the lamb thi is the urnest prayer a fo for r all sainta and for fo Z 11 the honest in heart of your unworthy I 1 servants in christ Q E 0 R 0 Z kj C AN 1 ON joskin F spirit |