Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-09-09

a letter from which we clip the follow
ing extracts was rcad at tho funeral u
Colonel S. ". Wood. killed some time
since Ia tho county scat war IN KanraA
Away back Ia the Kansas border trou.
blcs Wood was a fighter and q free state
man. ~ determined aud desperate as tho
band led by Old John Brown himself
After tho troubles were settled Colonel
Wood remained q fighter. twas Ia the
blood Of the daring frontiorrnan. Local
quarrcli stirred bis soul after state aud
national ones wcro siillod. There wcro
not many years Of Lis oyoniiul lie IN
which he was not mixed up Ia some kind
OF Elunbble.
Being man 81 such character the
letter rad az his funeral seems strange
It brcathos throughout u spirit Of peace,
genilcn,.a aud good will that one might
expect from q clustered priest or preach.
er living apart from the world and ript
In spiritual meiitationi but from u
stormy fighter md lawyer. never. It
was written fSoycars ago. when Colonel
Wood believed himself on his deathbcdi
To Nv FANuY-l.st my funeral be- as quiet
asp0silhio. I do not wnt' any hhow or parade.
Would prefer II no show were made u my
body. Don't wear any mourning. | am not
dead. What 1nl ncu OF me u only my body.
Tor which un longer have any use. aud Caat
it on as would a cult ~ Old cluthcs. | wish
there was - furnace where Il could be- reduced
10 ashes and thus dissolve lisclf Into H. oflgl-
nal elements aud not have 10 BE- buried, nlllng
tho alr with uufluus gases, cndau 'urlug ths
lives NJ the living. You tan bury only my body.
! have departed from u, a. Mo always departs
irum death. ! GA, with you. lwitucss your
every act. Ohcrf un. 'dfath O. uhly tiauis
tlon." "mnn, thuush Apparently dead, st.u
lives" lives ~ a conscious, distinct entity, !
Tel af writ, thlsuo cunveu fuf the future.
am persuaded by study ma research that llfu
IN tie spiritual world commences whore itouds
hurv, hence thu advantage ct well np,nt lives,
fan ~ good works
Since Col sentenced mankind 90 "cat bread
Ia tho sweat Of their own brown" % has boon q
struggle 10 make somebody else do tho sweat.
tug. Heaven uud hell ore conditions, not
places, Ny rrliron IL a sincere desire 90 10
rlght-to do he most possible ruud Ia hit
world. I lolluNu sincerely Ia tho "latlrfhund
Of God aud The brotherhood " man." AL
have lived. 10 nm willing tn die, For thcso
reasons want nu religious ceremonies over my
body. lat minI,iors and churches quit wurry-
ing thcmsolyas nlnut the afior No aud go to
work and solve the problems % this llfu. u
possible, prepare the people 10 live hcroi teach
/ Us our duty Ia each other aud 20 mnuklnd,
Icannut conceive any commencement ~ thli
I world, leannnt conceive H. uul. Generations
may come and 20. but tho earth will continue
forever,
| Matter and spirit may change their form, but
| there u no such thing A. humiliation.
] believe nfmly Ia q future life, or rather I
l know there "a q futlro life.
/ l must quilt ball the separation from tho
body, called death. rs Joyful change.
] Read this, u you Will, ~ tho reason for ~.
] !rctlng ull ceremonies At my funeral.
/ realize thu hardship Ia parting with friends
hurc, but have hosts on tho other side wait.
tlg Tor me. ! am, beloved, yours,
4 y Mnnn