Epistle to the Saints, 30 May 1888
THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS'
MILLENIAL STAR.
"To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word
it is because there is no light in them."—ISAIAH viii, 20.
No. 28, Vol. L Monday, July 9, 1888. Price One Penny
FUNERAL SERVICES OF APOSTLE ERASTUS SNOW.
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Apostle Heber J. Grant said: I am
pleased to add my testimony regard-
ing Brother Erastus Snow. I know
of no man who has labored more
faithfully and energetically. None
were too insignificant for his notice.
He took an interest in all. There is
no man whose life is a better example
for the youth of Israel. My ideal of
an apostle was Erastus Snow. When
I was called as an apostle I prayed
that the same spirit of self-sacrifice
might inspire me. No man can say
anything but good of him. He has
been a Latter-day Saint in very deed,
and has gained an exaltation in the
celestial kingdom of God. It was in-
tended to read the last sermon he
delivered, at a young men's meeting,
April 8, 1888, but there is not time.
He then said: "The Lord keeps His
own counsels in these things, and it
is not given to us to know and under-
stand the day and the hour when the
Son of Man will come; but it is for
us always to be prepared, and to so
live that we shall be prepared for Him
when He does come. And whether
we lay down our bodies before the
coming of the Son of Man or not it
mattereth not, so that we have filled
our days with usefulness, are prepared
to come forth when the trump shall
sound and call forth the dead. I do
most heartily endorse those senti-
ments which have been expressed
concerning the dead who die in the
Lord. They do not taste of death.
It seems to me that there is no death,
but they are moving on to life—life
eternal." Brother Erastus is moving
on to life eternal, and may we follow
in his footsteps.
I am requested to read a few words
written by Apostle Moses Thatcher.
Erastus Snow is dead! How few,
even among Latter-day Saints—how
few, indeed, of his immediate associ-
ates—comprehended his worth, or
fully appreciated his generous, un-
selfish disposition.
He was great because [he was] good. An
intellectual giant, yet humble as a
child. Now, and in years to come, as
questions of magnitude affecting the
public weal arise, the void caused by
his departure will seem fathomless, as
the grief at his loss will be intense.
As the load he carried without a mur-
mur settles upon others already heavi-
