Respect to the Dead—Consolation to the Bereaved—Instruction to the Saints—Resignation to the Will of the Almighty—Pity for the Murderers—Condemnation Awaiting Them at the Hands of a Just God—Retribution to Be Left for Him to Mete Out

Fidelity

Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 25, pp. 275-288, under one printed entry headed 'REMARKS BY PRESIDENT GEORGE Q. CANNON, APOSTLE M. THATCHER, ELDER GEORGE F. GIBBS, AND PRESIDENT JOHN TAYLOR, DELIVERED At the Funeral Services over the remains of Elder John H. Gibbs, held in the Bowery attached to the Meeting House, Paradise, Sunday Afternoon, August 24, 1884. REPORTED BY JOHN IRVINE.' This one printed entry actually contains five sequential speaking turns by four speakers -- President George Q. Cannon (opening remarks, pp. 275-280), Apostle Moses Thatcher (pp. 280-283), Elder George F. Gibbs (brother of the murdered missionary John H. Gibbs; pp. 283-284), President John Taylor (pp. 284-287), and President George Q. Cannon again, briefly (p.287-288, honoring the young men Martin Condor and J. Reilly Hudson, also killed in the same Tennessee attack) -- each introduced in the print by its own name line, not by a separate 'Discourse by...' byline. speaker/speaker_id/calling_at_time above record only the first (and principal) speaker, matching this catalog entry's packet-supplied speaker_candidate; see `speakers` above and final_review_notes below for how the multi-speaker attribution is now handled. None of the four speakers is recorded as having reviewed this text before publication.

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