{"id":4381,"date":"2008-02-07T13:04:12","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T17:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=4381"},"modified":"2008-02-07T13:09:41","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T17:09:41","slug":"how-to-bury-a-prophet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2008\/02\/how-to-bury-a-prophet\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Bury a Prophet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Marty Center at the University of Chicago has posted <a href=\"http:\/\/marty-center.uchicago.edu\/sightings\/archive_2008\/0207.shtml\">this interesting article by Kathleen Flake<\/a> on President Hinckley&#8217;s funeral.  Here is the money passage from the piece:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hinckley&#8217;s sons and daughters with their spouses led the casket out of the hall and between an honor guard of church authorities. Cameras followed the mourners, focusing on his five children, twenty-five grandchildren and sixty-two great-grandchildren who formed the cortege to the cemetery. There, possibly most surprisingly, the eldest son dedicated the grave without fanfare. Notwithstanding the presence of the entire church hierarchy, the son stepped forward to pronounce: &#8220;By the authority of the Melchizedek priesthood, I dedicate this grave for the remains of Gordon B. Hinckley, until such time as thou shall call him forth.&#8221; Then, church leaders were &#8220;dismissed,&#8221; as Monson put it. As the church teaches is the case in the afterlife, only the family remained. <\/p>\n<p>Families are, as Latter-day Saints like to say, forever. What they don&#8217;t say is that the church is not forever. It is only the instrument for endowing families with the right and duty to mediate the gifts of the gospel to their members, thereby sealing the willing among them as families in the life to come. This was Hinckley&#8217;s message as a prophet. As he would have it and as the best Mormon funerals do, his message was embodied and enacted by his family who blessed him in death, no less than in life. This is how the Latter-day Saints, at least, bury a prophet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Discuss.<\/p>\n<p> (ht: Marc Bohn)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marty Center at the University of Chicago has posted this interesting article by Kathleen Flake on President Hinckley&#8217;s funeral. Here is the money passage from the piece:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}