CEREMONIES AT THE TABERNACLE.
At 10:35, the Tabernacle being then crowded to its utmost capacity, Professor Joseph J. Daynes rendered on the organ a march composed especially for the occasion. Its rendition was the signal for reverential attention, all seeming to feel to the greatest extent the utter solemnity of the occasion.
Of the general authorities, there were present on the stand:
Counselors to the late President Wilford Woodruff, George Q. Cannon, and Joseph F. Smith.
Of the Twelve Apostles: Lorenzo Snow, Franklin D. Richards, Brigham Young, Francis M. Lyman, John Henry Smith, George Teasdale, Heber J. Grant, John W. Taylor, Mariner W. Merrill, Anthon H. Lund, Matthias F. Cowley, and Abraham O. Woodruff.
Presiding Patriarch, John Smith.
Of the First Seven Presidents of Seventies: Seymour B. Young, Christian D. Fjeldsted, B. H. Roberts, George Reynolds, and J. Golden Kimball.
The Presiding Bishopric: Wm. B. Preston, Robert T. Burton, and John R. Winder.
The Presidency of the Salt Lake Stake of Zion.
President George Q. Cannon announced the opening hymn, on page 357 of the L. D. S. Hymn book, commencing as follows: