The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-27

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weighed him down with these labors
and responsibilities that have been
heaped upon him. and we have come
| to a realization of this too late.
While 1 believe in the providence of
God first, yet 1 believe this. too, that
men may be crowded beyond their
strength and endurance. Men may
have responsibilities placed upon them
calculated 10 crush them down and
bring them 10 premature death.
/ l believe this, and yet I am willing
to acknowledge the hand of God in
/ this providence, and I say, thy will,
/ o Lord, be done in this as in all other
things, for he, as well as all of us, are
in his hands
| 1 rejoice in my acquaintance with
him. l am proud of my associations
with him. Although I am twenty
years his senior, yet I deferred TO his
wisdom and the strength of his mind
and the strength of his character, and
l have often drawn encouragement
and energy to myself from his example
and from his labors, and they have
! been tower of strength to me-
| I thank God that we have had
Brother Abraham Cannon; thank God
that ne was called to the ministry; /
thank God that he has always main
tanned his integrity and that he has
gone home to the father of light I'M
sullied and undefiled. He went there
with the testimony of the truth rooted
and grounded in his SOUL
l would to God that all the young
men of Zion would emulate his exam
pie and show as he has done the fruits
of industry in which he excelled all.
! God bless his kindred Bless them
that they may live as he did and fin
J ally meet him again in the eternal man
sions prepared for the faithful There
are purer hopes, purer joys and pleas
ures there than here, for in that other
sphere men will see as they are seen
and know as they are known.
The anthem when the soul is sad
and weary, seek relief in prayer was
rendered by H. S. Ensign and the choir,
and the services closed by Apostle
Brigham Young pronouncing the bene-
diction-
ON THE WAY TO THE CEMETERY.
AT the conclusion of the services in
the tabernacle, the procession formed
/ in the following order and proceeded
to the city cemetery:
Held's band.
First presidency and pail bearers.
Hearse.
Family of deceased.
Immediate relatives.
Quartette.
PatriarchS.
Presidents of Seventies quorums.
Presidents of stakes and high coun-
cilors.
Presidents of high priests quorums
Presidents of elders quorums
Presiding bishopric.
Bishops and counselors
Presidents of teachers quorumS.
Presidents of deacons' quorums
Presidents of relief, primary and i'm
provement associations and superin-
! tendents of Sunday schools.
Deseret News employees.
Juvenile Instructor employees.
Civic and other bodies and organiza-
tons
Citizens.
The procession started at 4:3O
o'clock and slowly wendell its way to
the city cemetery by way of Brigham
street. 1t was with probably two ex-
ceptions-the funerals of the late Pres
idents Young and Taylor-the longest
procession of the kind ever seen in
Salt Lake. There were nearly two hun
dred vehicles in line and a vast multi
| tude followed on foot and on the street
cars. All the way along Brigham
street, from the Templeton corner to n
street, where the cortege turned north
I to the cemetery, the street on either
side was lined with people, small and
great, young and old, all assembled to
do honor to the illuStrious dead. Slowly
the procession moved to the funereal
strains of the band and arrived at the
grave ait $50. The space around the
toomb was reserved by General R. w.
Young, who rode a black charger and
acted as marshal of the day, with sew
eral assistants, for the family and re
latives of the deceased. They gathered
around the last resting place of their
beloved while the public in thousands
stood around SympathiZing with them
in their bereavement. The caSket was
lovingly lowered into the grave by the
pail bearers, the council of the apostles;
and a quartette, composed of Miss
Lizzie Thomas Edward soprano; Miss
Ethel Pike, alto, H G.. Whitney, tenor,
and Andrew Peterson, bass under the
leadership of Professor Stephens sang
the hymn REST" In d very feeling
manner.
OBLIGATORY PRAYER.
Apostle Lyman then offered the
dedicatory prayer. In substance it
was: o Lord, we have come to pay
the last mark of respect to our brother,
Abraham Hoagland Cannon; we have
come to lay away that tabernacle
which he received from thee and
which he has kept pure. We thank
thee that we have known our brother,
Abraham Cannon, and labored with
him in thy vineyard. We thank thee
true and successful, and we thank
thaa that he has haea hOuOrad nv