Calvary’s Sympathies

Troubles! Grief and sorrows without number! Sorrows and pains of body and soul!  Yes, these things, regardless of their cause, spell the need of that psychological phenomenon which we call human sympathy.  And the peculiar thing about sympathy is that in spite of the character or degree of one’s affliction, we always seek to obtain it.  Perhaps it is due to the fact that we are not strong enough to bear our own grief; perhaps it may be attributed to a lack of willfulness or patience that our...