Show communication written to mr and mrs mr win H gurrey pres pre brimhall of pro provo utah provo utah aprils april 3 1917 william H gurr and parody family paro wan wall utah my dear friends yours of the of march has bus been on my table and I 1 have read it time and time again I 1 have read it to rny my counse counselors coun seora ors and our hearts have lee been bleeding so 50 P profusely that I 1 could not decide upon what I 1 could say nothing has haa occurred within my experience with the school from which aich we have endured more a se sorrow than from the circumstances sur round ing the death of your son president keeler is profuse in his praise of him ile he tells us that he was one of the most gentlemanly young men within the range of his professional acquaintance this year june gurr was never looked upon as anything other than a good stu dent so far as I 1 knew I 1 looked over the matter from beginning to end traced on his record son ana loik loa ed into the treatment he had ed from his teachers to see whether bethar or not he had been neglected and in looking for a legitimate place to lodge the chief blame I 1 found it not in an individual but in 10 the social conditions of our great commonwealth the man a ho sold that boy the poison to take away his senses has an account to make the cum corn that sanctioned the licensing of the man who sold the honor liduor has an account to make persons go insane from many causes and insanity isa condition of defective reason ing paralyzed judgment and to my mind that was the condition of june when he met that terrible moral act aident now the father in heaven is a judge of intentions ile he takes into consideration the circumstances all of them he loves his children they were his before they came to earth he is tender towards them now u what hat would you do or I 1 do in this case and then in the bontemp lauon of such tenderness and solicitude and ability to judge that our father possesses what is to be expected what may we hope for fora can man be greater than his mak era ell it seems to me that in this line of thought there is a comfort and I 1 feel my dear friends that you will receive comfort by appealing to the lord ord yours is if a hard lot but what is it in compain companion ri with ith what our first parents suffered I 1 saw on the walls of an art in claca chica go the picture of the fust filet funer al adam with ith his arms about tile the shoulders of abel eve carrying his feet beet as they sorrowfully moved a long ong to the place scooped out in the ground as a receptacle for their boy wrought brought to death not by an accident as did your son but through the malice forethought and hate impelled blow of his brother now as I 1 cannot conceive that there was we anything of a malicious character con necked with the death of june I 1 must give him the benefit of my wishes and that is tiler that he was not responsible such being the ease case shall we not be able to cry out as the great master did when he said father forgive them for they know not what bat they do you will be consoled through prayer and may we join together and stand firm in saying to our hearts judge not the lord by feeble sense but trust him for ilia his grace baund a frowning provi providence dOnLe he hides a smiling face I 1 was away from home at the time of the accident and when I 1 re turned I 1 was so bo shocked and filled with grief that I 1 could think of little else for days after I 1 have been I 1 bowed bowe d gown with the tha thought of the futility of my to do anything that would mitigate milie ate your sorrows and how I 1 have longed and waited for the time to come since receiving your letter that thai I 1 might say aay something that I 1 could feel would be and the foregoing 13 the answer to my earnest prayer with wilh the most profound thy hy and devotion I 1 am your friend and brother I 1 in the th GEO CEO IL BRIMHALL |