| Show PRESIDENT WILFORD F president wilford woodruff of the mormon church is dead deed that ia is ead sad news for the people of utah he wae was a beloved leader who gave his lifes work to up building the religion of which he was the tle head his ills kindness ot 01 heart vigorous manhood and evident sincerity in all things be he undertook and an d advocated won von the respect and admiration ot of not only bis his co but of the foll followers oviers of all creeds who came in contact with him he ile was over 90 years of age which of itself is evidence of 0 a lite well lived from the time when he be was a boy until death took him from the scenes of this life nearly neatly a century of the thi a greatest triumphs of man fas nas compassed and thu the sociological conditions of the world underwent a complete cb change anize bec amsa ot of the practical application of great inventions vent ions today we read of the war oi of 1812 as we would a page ot of ancient history and yet at that time wilford woodruff was well along in childhood and even more Mor than ethan thirty years afterward saw the mormon battalion recruited for the mexican war and led a pioneer band into the wild and unknown realon of the west that was su so little known in those days as to be classed by daniel webster as a desert strip overgrown with cactus and fringed by perpetual snow enow wilford woodruffs earlier lita life was filled with hardships and adversities because of his devotion to his religion his ills was the lot of that little band of pioneers who fled from nauvoo to be driven who finally settled in the intermountain legion surrounded by all the uncertain ties of the wilderness and who palsied pas ed through the bitterness ot of an anti poleg amous crusade dating over forty years but the closing years of his career must have been lull full of contentment and peaceful joy as the years of strife passed away and gave give place to days of rest and tranquility as though the master had already said thou good and faithful servant the spark of life went out with a soft t glow like the mellowing beams it f a western sunset that give promise of a glorious tomorrow and his work was ended he ife was waa a noble man |
