should have found a mournful satisfaction in
adding our testimony to that of our brethren touch-
ing the virtues, the integrity, the zeal, the whole-
heartedness of our friend and co-laborer who has
passed before us into the joys of eternity. For him
we have no cause to mourn; he has fought the
good fight, he has finished his work, he has
been found true and faithful, and is now entering
into that fairer and better world the bliss of which
the heart cannot conceive nor the natural eye see,
but the glories of which, by reason of his obedience
and devotion to God and His laws, had been
sealed upon him through sacred ordinances and
by the holy spirit of promise while he yet tab-
ernacled in mortality. May our end be like his.

The name of Erastus Snow will never
be forgotten in the history of the Church of Christ.
From early youth to his latest day he was ever
found in the unflinching performance of his duties
as a servant of the Most High. Without exaggera-
tion it can be said of him that he died with
the harness on. In every position he was called
to fill—and they were many—he exhibited those
nobler traits which dignify the character of a saint.
If we view him as a missionary of the gospel of
peace, as a legislator for the people of God, as a