I have often met people who had had a great belief in God, but having lost a dear one, after having vainly prayed and implored God that they might keep him, they lost their belief. I once met a most unhappy mother who had given up her belief in God after the death of her only child. It grieved me to think that a soul so religious, tender, and fine by that one great sorrow in life had given up her faith. I told her that while I sympathized with her most deeply, at the same time in giving up her faith she had brought herself a much greater loss, a loss which nothing could make up.