for those souls there is a recompense in another world ...

that suffering is the greatest mercy of God.

Verily that mercy of the Lord is far better than all the comfort of this world and the growth and development appertaining to this place of mortality.
Prayer and Natural Law Many find a difficulty in believing in the efficacy of prayer because they think that answers to prayer would involve arbitrary interference with the laws of nature.

An analogy may help to remove this difficulty.

If a magnet be held over some iron filings the latter will fly upwards and cling to it, but this involves no interference with the law of gravitation.