President Wilford Woodruff.
spoke as follows:
In the providence of God we are
again called to pay our last respects and
to attend to the burial of another one of
the Apostles of the Lamb of God,
raised up in the last dispensation and
fulness of times. In the few remarks
which I shall make this morning I
shall not attempt to enter into the
history or life, particularly, of Coun-
selor Wells. This has already been
presented through the press, and will
be fully perhaps by those who may
follow me. It is sufficient for me
to say that Brother Wells has been
in this Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints over forty-five
years. He has been closely allied and
connected with all the Prophets and
Apostles that have been identified
with this Church during that period of
his life. He has been true and faithful
to the Church, to the Kingdom of God,
to the inhabitants of the earth, to the
Presidencies of the Church and to the
Apostles during this period of his life.
It is known to the Latter-day Saints—
many of them, at least—of the diligent
labor which he has been called to pass
through during his sojourn in the
Church and Kingdom of God.
This Church has been organized
sixty-one years the sixth of the coming
month. During that period the Lord
has raised up Prophets and Apostles,
Elders and Saints, many of whom have
laid the foundation of the Church and
Kingdom of God on the earth and have
labored therein. But time has called
them to the other side of the veil. Af-
ter finishing their work here in the
flesh, the Lord has called them home;
and when they pass to the other side of
the veil their missions are not closed;
they have a work to perform there, as
well as they have while tabernacling
in the flesh on the earth. For some
cause or reason unbeknown to me, I
have lived to attend the funerals and
follow to the grave a great share of the
Prophets and Apostles and many of
the Saints who have labored in this
Church in their day and generation.
I will express myself here to my
friends, as I have done on many occa-
sions, with regard to funerals, with
regard to death, and with regard to
going into the spirit world. I have
never felt to mourn in my spirit to fol-
low any Prophet, any Apostle, any
Saint of the living God to the grave
who has been true and faithful to God,
who has been true and faithful to His
covenants, who has received the Gospel
of Jesus Christ and the ordinances
thereof, and the holy Priesthood. Such
men and women have filled their mis-
sion here upon earth with honor, with
labor, with love, until they have been
called home. They have died in the
faith, and they will receive a crown of
glory. Those have been my feelings
in the death of President Young,
Brother Kimball, Brother Taylor, the
Twelve Apostles, and all men who have
received the Gospel of Christ and been
true and faithful in that mission. There
is an eternal reality—which the whole
world will find out—in life. There is an
eternal reality in death. There is an
eternal reality in the resurrection, and
in the future judgments, and in God's
dealing with all men in the future ac-
cording to the deeds done in the body;
and when a man or a woman who has
entered into covenant with the Lord,
who has received the Gospel and the
ordinances thereof, and been true and
faithful in his or her day and genera-
tion, has been called home into
the spirit world, where is the
man who comprehends these
principles that can mourn for
that brother or sister? Here lies be-
fore us the tabernacle of Counselor
Daniel H. Wells. His death has been
sudden to us. I did not know that he
was sick, or that he was in the city,
