Letter and envelope from Nellie Harrison, Pinto, Utah to Mary Etta Syphus, Panaca, Nevada

Letter and envelope (with stamp) from N. H. (Nellie Harrison), Pinto, Utah, to Mary E. Syphus, Panaca, Nevada, dated June 25, 1895.
Envelope addressed:
Miss Mary Syphus
Panacea
Lincoln Co
Nevada
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Pinto June 23, 1895
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Miss Mary Syphus,
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Panaca
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My dearest Mary.
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"The good are better made by ills
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As oders crushed are sweeter still"
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So says Rogers, and very
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true indeed. How often do
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some of
we see / the noblest and best,
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suffering in the midst of
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deep trouble, and no sooner
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one trouble past than
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another approaches, yet we are
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unable to see for what purpose
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they are brought upon us-still
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when we know there is
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an alwise Being that
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over rules all for the best -
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O'f, what comfort' even
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in grief.
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There is nothing we would
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not do for those whom we
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love, and as we love Lord
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so reverently we are enabled
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to endure the greatest of
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sorrows if it be His will -
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even the loss in this life of
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our dearest and most beloved
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whom ever they may be -
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When ever our dear ones are
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called to labor in another
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sphere, and leave all the
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loved ones to mourn his
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absence, there is nothing
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more consoling, or that
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can give more satisfaction
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than to know we were called
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by our ever indulgent
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Father, for some unseen
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reason, to pass through
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the ordeal. perhaps as a
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test and perhaps to make
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us more noble. The reason
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for which though obvious
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to us, yet, to Him it is
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neccessary.
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My dear Mary I do sympat-
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hize deeply with you all,
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and O' how I should love
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to lend some aid in
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uplifting the appalling
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cloud of grief which has
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cast its mantle oecr your
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family. But how very
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weak we mortals are.
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We may offer words
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of sympathy to the bereaved,
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but does it lessen the
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grief of those whom their
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sorrow grives us?
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There is one thing that
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we can and do do and
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that is, when night spreads
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her sable pall, we bow in
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reverence and offer in the
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evening family prayer
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a . request that a sweet,
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kind, hand of love, solace
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and comfort may emunate
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from our gracious Father
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and fall upon the bereaved
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ones as a balm for the
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vacant place caused by
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the "Angle of Death.’1
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As a world we live but
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to die, but as L.D.S. we live
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for life and life eternal.
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How grand the thought
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and how sublime the
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knowledge of such a
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fervent truth.
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We should be thankful
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indeed that we live in
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a time when we know
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that there is a future beyOri(j
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the grave: and that If
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we are true to our name
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and our God we shall be
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permitted to meet all those
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of our loved ones who have
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simply gone before us and
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choesen to perform a labor
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else where, while we are
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left to toil on and on meet-
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ing with and.subduing
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the many difficulties
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that are strewn along the
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path of life preparitory
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to that grand and glorious
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final meeting.
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Yes dear Mary every one
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of us extend deep sympathy
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to you all.
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There seems to me to have
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between our two families always existed / an unknown
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something that rendered
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a feeling of intimacy and
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intrest, and made you
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seem more like relative's
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than mere friends and
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when we heard of your dear
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brothers death it was next
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to loosing our own.
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We were unable to think or
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speak of anything else for
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a long time. As we had
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not heard the cause until
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your letter came.
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As soon as we heard that he
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was dead I sat down and
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began a letter to you, but
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ere I had completed it I had
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to leave.
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I went to St. George and passed
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examination from there home
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and over to Cedar to the Summer
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school and, have just returned
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tonight, finding your ever
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N.H.
welcome letter awaiting the
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my perusal.
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While in St. Geo. I saw Lovina
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and Geo. Whitney to whom I
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introduced my self, but only
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had two or three minutes
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in which to write.
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I would love to tell
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you everything but it is
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late and I am very tired
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as you may imagine.
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With much love and
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Sympathy I am Nellie, xxx
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Written across top of Page 1
June 25, Have
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been to a funeral
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at Hamblin to day.
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Sat up all night
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last night. Mrs
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Tessa Candfield lost
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her babe.
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Love to All.
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