We soon learn, however, that it is not in this way that comfort ordinarily comes.

It does not make the grief any less.

It does not make our hearts any less sensitive to anguish.

"Consolation implies rather an augmentation of the power of bearing than a diminution of the burden." In this case, it cannot lift off the loving father's heart the burden of disappointment and anguish which he experiences in seeing his son swept away in the currents of temptation.

No possible comfort can do this.