Misfortune v. Judgment

... born like a Christian

“We never knew any man, says an old author, who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian; which reminds us of an old lady who thought every calamity that happened to herself a trial, and every one that happened to her friends a judgment.”

Independent Beacon 1:18
April 1850
p. 565

The Last Judgement (oil on panel). Jan Prevost II (1465-1529)