Whether any comfort was given in the private answers or not, it may be that the mere stating of the questions, with a few sentences concerning each, may be helpful to others who are carrying like burdens.
One of these letters is from a Christian man whose only son has been led into sinful courses, swiftly descending to the saddest depths.

The story is too painful to be repeated in these pages.

In his sore distress, the father, a godly man, a man of strong faith and noble wisdom, cries out: "What is the comfort even of Christ and the Bible for me?
How can I roll this burden of mine upon God ?" In answer to these questions it must be remembered that there are some things which even the richest, divinest comfort cannot do.

For one thing, it cannot take away the pain of grief or sorrow.

Our first thought of comfort usually is that it shall lift off our burden.