It is only when you have passed through the fierceness of temptation, wrestling with evil, sore beset, and victorious only through the grace of Christ, that you are ready to be a helper of others in their temptation. It is only when you have known sorrow in some form yourself, and when you have been comforted by divine grace and helped to endure, that you are fitted to be a comforter of others in their sorrow. You must learn before you can teach, and the learning costs. At no small price can we become true helpers of others in this world. Lessons which cost us nothing are worth but little. Virtue went out of Jesus to heal others; virtue must go out of us to become life and benediction to other souls.