Show I 1 DEATH OF DAVID WHITMER 1 il deveret na 4 ila I 1 alfa dispatches of this afternoon bring atif ell gence of the death of david Whit inex at his home yesterday in I 1 richmond missouri ile was the I 1 sole survivor of the witnesses to tile divine authenticity of the book of mormon chose testimony appears to 11 connect fort with that record ile was one of tareo who had the glorious I 1 privilege of beholding the angel of the urd exhibit the original plates before I 1 I 1 their eyes from which the book was translated and who pard the voice of god declaring I 1 tho record to be true ot one of the entire thirteen esses whose testimonies appear i 1 2 aitho opening ot the I 1 aled the declarations contained in r the in but I 1 the last even within the last three geeki mr whitmer in the presence of his grandsons grand soni with uplifted band 1 made the declara tl ii so often anun 1 1 1 elated by him to president angus am Cailo oli who reee jasd ii i i I 1 I 1 0 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 f I 1 I 1 wl I 1 I 1 I 1 r 4 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 A 1 I 1 ilk il k a 4 7 ak tl 12 1 the part of the country where the deceased veteran resided lie has ro heatedly peat edly made it to numbers of people many of whom would gladly have listened to a renunciation of his original testimony but he was in that immovable atud consistent to the last HIS testimony and that of his asso clates in the same connection are in force in all the world they are au bained by overwhelming internal int evi benco the work itself and by the discoveries that are constantly be ing made in the form of relies found upon this continent of highly ci peoples ito upon it agos ago and choso whoso history IS inelly given in the record the rv of david whitmer is lamol entitled respect it for no other reason than lio nestly adhered to his testimony to the last sandwith stood all the J men used to induce him to take a different e not reached the ripe age |