"When first the glorious light of truth Burst forth in this last age, How few there were with heart and soul T'obey it did engage! Yet of those few how many Have passed from earth away, And in their graves are sleeping Till the resurrection day." The fourth verse of the hymn refers to the martyrdom of the Prophets Joseph and Hyrum Smith, which, in view of the fact that these lines were being sung as a requiem over the remains of their fellow martyr, was doubly pathetic. "Our Patriarch and Prophet, too, Were massacred, they bled; To seal their testimony They were numbered with the dead. Oh, tell me, are they sleeping? Methinks I hear them say, Death's icy chains are bursting-- 'Tis the resurrection day!" Bishop Millen Atwood offered the opening prayer; after which the choir sang, "Thou dost not weep to weep alone, The broad bereavement seems to fall Unheeded and unfelt by none, He was beloved--beloved by all." Apostle Lorenzo Snow was the first speaker. He read his text from Paul's second letter to Timothy: "For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith." The speaker then said: "Paul, whose remarks I have just read in your hearing, was an apostle of the Lord, our Savior. The man whose remains now lie before us was also an apostle of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God. And as Paul made this statement in regard to himself, so also could be made a statement similar by President Taylor, whose remains lie before us this afternoon. "Paul, during his life, struggled and contended for the faith which was once delivered to the Saints--those principles which pertain to the exaltation and salvation of the human family; and he was willing to make any sacrifice and go through every scene of difficulty and trouble in order to accomplish this object, that his testimony in regard to the Son of God and those principles that he had espoused might be carried forth to the nations of the earth--to the whole human family. He suffered imprisonment; he suffered the lash of his persecutors; he suffered every indignity, and finally died a martyr to those principles he so laboriously and so effectually carried forth among the human family.