“It is a blessed effect, then, of sorrow which God appoints for ourselves, that it makes us take note of sorrows which others are enduring. And if it make us look to Christ’s poor with a more tender regard, with a deep and more brotherly affection than hitherto; it is, at the same time, a sign that we are growing in acquaintance and in communion with Him.” — Thomas Smyth, God Comforts To Make Us Comforters in Works, Vol. 10, p. 136