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Show Pyper, Whitney, Spencer and G-ddaid, ; Apostle Lyman pi. mounted the dediia- j torv player, i tie cwll'm was lowered, and souu a lU'itiml of eai lii.Civeicd w ill) tl .w- ers of white and reen blanches, mark- j rd the last resting place of 1'iesideist j Daniel U.W Ps j PRESIDENT WELLS I UNEIUL Following are the last of the funeral fun-eral services and should have ap , peered before but circumstac.es pre-I pre-I vented. Apostle HederJ Grant arose and read the followini letter received re-ceived by or.e ol the sons ol the deccas ed from Apostle Moses Thatcher, who had been unable to reach the city. The reading was lestened to with the most rapt attention. Loc.an, Utah, March 28, iSor. Elder Junius F. Wells. Salt Lake City: Dear Brother When informed by President Woodrufl.by wire.cf the death of your father.shortly alter its occurrence I was gteatly grieved, surprised and shocked; lor up lu that moment I lid received no intimalion ol his illness, in his death Israel sustains a great los, but hosts beyond the vail wi;l rejoice, while we mourn. Yourself and the menibeis of your father's family have in this hotii ol your deep bereavement, my most sincere sin-cere sympathy. I am awaie of how impotent im-potent rue wolds, even though conveying convey-ing Ihe profound sentiments ol beans moved in sorrow, and yet I know, undet such conditions, they at least do no harm if unavailing for good, II weie in a single word io attempt to define true moral courage, I should say that Daniel H Wells was its peison-ifiealion. peison-ifiealion. We cannot afford to lose such as he; and yet we must bow to the de-ctees de-ctees of the Almighty. He goes to his rest, lite an ear of corn well ripened. Not many, if indeed any, who have lived in this generation have passed away more tespeeted and beloved than your great good father. I shall never forget the inspirational remarks re-marks made by him in the old Social hall 011 an occasion of a Young Men's Mutual Improvement association gathering there when he spoke so beautifully about tlie tiead of coming Israel, whose footsteps he could hear. The light of heaven shone in his grand lion-liks face the wrinkles of which weie softened and made to glow like rays from the throne of God The sound of the tread of Israel's approaching triumphs and glory will ever be in his ears in the land of peace and eternal progress whither he has gone. This generation has produced no more courageous soul than he, greatest when most humiliated, and grandest when most environed by grave condition condi-tion fanght with danger to hmself and people, conditions winch, in ill aes ol the world, have made small men smaller and great men greater. When the history of the great latter-day latter-day wotk shall have been w ritten, iti leaves will contain no brighter pages than those devoted to the life ol lianiel H Wells. Naturally a leader, Jnihtary ; in his genius, bow beautiful thejlioUjjht that Ins life should be rounded hy the ! loving wuik which he found in t e Manti temp e w hile diiecting the bear of the I children to the love ol their dta father! : Modsst as a child while her-.-, embarrassment embar-rassment Will bung 110 bhisl to his cheek when be meets the vaf it ones gone before. With Joseph am Hyrum and Bigham and a host of othe: ,he will remain a striking figure anwn; Israel's modern leaders. Ever pr.iying lor your peace ; d happiness hap-piness and that of each membe f your mother's family. I remain, with 11 earnest earn-est desire that you msy emulati lis example ex-ample to the end when yon otnay peacefully rest 011 the other sho Your Brother in the Go A, Moses Thatc r. aposti.e snow pronounced a feeling benediclii and the great throng quietly dispi d by the east, west and north gates, aving the yard ad the south fates clear r the formation ol the poccssioil. Ov sixty carriages were filled those imn: iate'y following the hearse being occn d by the family, and a detachment o President Presi-dent Wells, co workers in the Manti temple, who attended in a bod The bands played along the march ; both sides of the street were throng with gazers I01 several blocks out to east The cemetery was readied at .( lock, and when an appropriate anthf- "Not Dead but Sleepeth," had been 1 lered by a mile qu.utettc,oiisisting o essts f ( |
