There is another line of pressure, and that is as identified with the house of God, the assembly. What cares, what pressures, what trials and what griefs arise in that circle so dear to us! And, as God softens and molds us by bringing us personally under affliction and pressure — or, viewing it where it hurts us more, in our loved ones or in others whom He has laid aside among us — one understands how these things prepare our spirits so that, under the impress of Christ, we may suitably handle and care for that which, in its tiny measure, we may touch, as Paul touched it in its great measure: “Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.”