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Show Page 300 EPILOGUE Telegrams flooded the Pratt houses from every corner of the territory. "No man in the Church was better known...his refined and intelligent countenance, silvery hair and beard, dignified manner and powerful public address, were familiar to all...He was the last of the original council of the Twelve Apostles...crossed the ocean sixteen times on missions...found time to study higher mathematics..." "Behold an Israelite without guile," said the Ogden Daily Herald. A poem was dedicated by Emily Hill Woodmansee in the Deseret News: "Not in the eyes of all the Nations, great / Nor by the world accorded much renown / Yet monarchs might be envious of His state...." The Pratt family reunion was postponed indefinitely. The choir sang, "Thou dost not weep, to weep alone." "It is impossible to give the history of that great man...reduced to a skeleton in Zion's camp, yet had the courage to overcome death," said Wilford Woodruff after reading the revelation to Orson Pratt. John Taylor was careful. "Let us try to imitate the examples of Brother Orson, wherein they were good." |
