The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-08

teries which are scattered throughout
the entire world, and he says Here
is the evidence of my victory over man
kind" The various diseases that affect
the human race take away all that is
mortal. and produce death. These"
says death, ARE my agents. The
numberless accidents that occur daily
by land and by sea, all show that death
is victorious in this life, and after the
victory then he takes us IN spirit to
the homes that are desolate, and to the
friends whose hearts are broken. and
he says to us Here is the sting that
death leaves behind it, DO we need
further evidence, my friends? Have
we not evidence before US today that
death is victorious? He has stilled for
ever that voice that was so sweet end
loving in the family circle. He has
frozen the hand-that manly hand that
never weakened BEIGE, and he has
taken from the body all that was NOR
tai, and he says Behold my victory"
Does not the dead join with Death in
saying To-day for me, tomorrow for
your"
In all circles of life death is the con-
queror of all. He is in the palace of
the king, no matter what barrier may
be erected against his entrance The
conquerorS of the world fall before him
His victory is complete. For six thous-
and years the human race have come
and gone, disappearing only through
the hand of death. Now, my brethren,
strange as it is yet the apostle asks
20, death, where is thy victory %
! What defence can we make to the
words of the Apostle St Paul? There
I is defence, and that defence consists
in this, that in the very victory which
death achieves when man dies, death
itself is conquered, for death is but the
gate that leads from this life to life
eternal. Death shortens our temporal
life, but it gives us life eternal Just
like the seed thrown into the ground.
that must die before it fructifies and
becomes a great tree, so must the hui
man race, before they put on immor-
tally, first die.
Our friend is not dead The soul is
immortal, and today l can say to you
| in the words of the Savior to the maid
In the gospel, He is not dead; he
sleepeth. The soul of the deceased went
out of this cold body with all it's affec-
/ tons, all its desires. all it's aspirations
the same as you left your homes this
afternoon and came to this little church
to attend this funeral The soul that
is immortal, while this scene is being
transacted looks down on us from
heaven and says 20. death, where is
thy victory?" because the soul is inn
mortal and can never die.
How consoling, my friends, is not re-
ligion in its teachings? Through it's
teachings the hope of blissful immor-
tally forever springs in the human
heart. Through that hope religion tells
US we are not going to separate from
our friends. There is union, and
when that union takes place there shall
De no sorrow, there shall be no parting,
and in this consoling thought which
religion brings to the human heart, she
is joined by nature itself. Nature and
religion, twin sisters, are implanted in
the human soul by God Almighty. Ma
ture says. you may call this body a
lump of clay, but we love it STILL Can
we ever forget the firm grasp of that
manly hand? Can we ever forget The
affection and the tenderness Of that