Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-03-26
MANY Do HONOR
70 OLD MUSICIAN.
Tributes Of Love and Flowers
over Bier Of the Late
Prof. BeesIey.
A MILD AND GENTLE SOUL.
president smith Calls Attention to the
Recent Deaths of Numerous
Utah Veterans.

rbe vast throng which gathered yes
.,ra,v noon at the Assembly hall,amply
,.arlAed the truth of the saying, TO
,.o In hearts we leave behind Is not
20 die" The occasion that called the
,arpe congregation together was the
,,nsral Of Elder Ebenezer Beesley, ana
,he reeple present were of all ages and
~ various creeds. Many were there
aha had been personally acquainted
with the deceased in life, and who had
trovn him az man OF strlctest In
,egrity. with a kindly heart. and who
90 over a lover Of peace ana harmony.
rhrse will remember their dead friend
4 long AS memory lasts. Others In the
Congregation had not been privileged
IN knov the deceased, but had heard
and sung his soul-inspiring music, by
which their hearts had been drawn
beavenward, and they, too, VIII remenl-
bor the name and fame OF the dead
musician MS long as they open a hymn-
nj containing his songs.
The services were solmen and deeply
IMPRESSIVE and most Of the music
rendered was the production of the
laceased musician Bishop Isaac Bar
ion Of the Nineteenth ward presided,
s,d the first selection was Mount
zion. rendered by the Temple choir
Ilder Edward T. Ashton, OF the Salt
Lake stake presidency offered the OPEN
,re nrayer. "What Prize Shall BE Your
REWARD was sung by the choir.
KNEW HIM FOR THIRTY YEARS.
Elder August W. Carlson, who had
hfen "a neighbor of the deceased for
nearly thirty years, was the iirSt speak
or. He said that Mr.. Beesley was n
man of eyenncss Of temper and Of the
utmost kindness of heart. His soul
was filled with harmony, which not
only found expression In the music that
he produced, but Il was manifest On
everything that he did. His soul was
free from contention all the days of
his life
Kind Words Are Sweet Tones of the
Heart was rendered by quartet. COM
Iosed Of Mrs. Nellie Druce Pugsley. Mrs.
Emma ramsey Morris, Thomas Ash
worth and John Robinson, Mrs. Pugs-
ley singing the solo.
A WELL SPENT LIFE.
President Nephi l.. Morris was the
next speaker He said that he did not
feel that the occasion was a time of
darkness and gloom, but an opportuni-
" for contemplating the beauty of a
HE well spent. While he had not been
intimately associated with the de-
ceased. from childhoods days he
md been impressed with the divine
L.- him l,uI
told 10 the speaker that whenever eNil
Was SPOKEN against any one I'm the
presence of Elder Beesley. that the
latter would Immediately leave the
presence of those who engaged IN
SANDER not even deigning to enter In
10 controversy, \ beautiful poem,
which Elder Morris had found in
scribed upon a tombstone In Westmin-
ster Abbey, was written OF iust such
soul as that of Ebenezer Beesley.
Emerson has said, "That which is OK
oellent is permanent and the speaker
iflt that the life and labors of his de-
ceased brother would be productive OF
permanent good for they We're excel
lent,
string quartet, consisting of Prof,
Weihe and Messrs Midgley Cavahan
and Olson, rendered a selection, after
which Elder George II, Emery spoke
words Of consolation and comfort TO
The bereayed family. The memory
Of Prof. Beesley, he said, would never
die.
PRIEST, JOS. T. SMITH.
After the trio. My Rosebud" one OF
Prof Beesleys sweetest compositions,
nad been sung by Miss Lottie owen,
MISS Emily Larsen aud Mrs Emma
saunders, President Joseph r. Smith
SPOKE for some time upon the life and
EoorS of the deceased. He said that
me haud OF the reaper Death had been
Ul.A on Intn- PaihaIinec In a har,.nsI of