In Memoriam: John Henry Smith

60 IMPROVEMENT ERA Man, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, France, Germany, Switzerland and Italy. On his return he labored incessantly among the stakesof Zion, organizing and instructing the Saints. In March, 1895, he was chosen president of the Constitutional Con- vention which formed the constitution under which Utah was admitted as a state to the Union, January, 1896. In 1899 he made a tour of the Southern States Mission. For several sessions he attended as a delegate the Irrigation and Trans-Mississippi Congresses; in 1900, visiting Houston, Texas, and later making a trip to Mexico. He was sustained April 6, and set apart as second counsellor in the First Presidency, April 7, 1910. In the course of his ministry he visited every stake of Zion, and many of them several times over. He died October 13, 1911. "He was beloved, beloved by all." Funeral services were held in the Salt Lake Tabernacle, October 17, 1911, and he lies buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery. On October 16, 1911, Ex-governor Alvah Adams of Colorado paid a splendid tribute to John Henry Smith and Brigham Young in the session of the Dry Farming Congress, at Colorado Springs. In Memoriam, John Henry Smith. (For the Improvement Era.) Another son hath joined the caravan, Gone by the threshold with a noiseless tread; His crown of years is settled on his head; The heaven's gain, we lose a noble man. Those eyes, that through an outer dross could see The spark of good that hidden lies within, Are closed upon a world of toil and sin, To see the light of immortality. His voice, that gripped the heart unto his own, E'en by the power of its subtle thrill, To nameless sorrowing souls is hushed and still, To awake an echo in that better home. A beacon light is gone out, in the earth; Though happily this brief span is not the end ; We know we'll meet our genial, loyal friend There in the sphere of our primeval birth. Louis W. Larson, Lewiston, Utah.