tribulation

koettelemus Any adversity; a trying period or event.
1534, w:Thomas More|Thomas More, chapter VI, in w: A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation|A Dialoge of Comfort against Tribulacion, Made by Syr Thomas More Knyght, and Set Foorth by the Name of an Hūgariē, not before this Time Imprinted. B.L., London: In aedibus w:Richard Tottel|Richardi Totteli, published 1553, (w) http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/503798044 503798044; republished as “It Sufficeth not that a Man Have a Desire to be Comforted by God only by the Taking Away of the Tribulation”, in A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation, Made by the Right Virtuous, Wise and Learned Man, Sir Thomas More, sometime Lord Chancellor of England, which He Wrote in the Town of London, A.D. 1534, and entitled thus: A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation, made by an Hungarian in Latin, and Translated out of Latin into French, and out of French into English now Newly Set Forth with Many Places Restored and Corrected. Now Newly Set Forth, with Many Places Restored and Corrected by Conference of Sundry Copies. (English Catholic Library; 3), London: (w), 61, w:Bond Street|New Bond Street, 1847, (w) http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/499142813 499142813, https://archive.org/stream/dialogueofcomfor00moreuoftpage/n47/mode/1up page 23:

What wit have we (poor fools) to wit what will serve us, when the blessed Apostle himself in his sore tribulation, praying thrice unto God to take it away from him, was answered again by God in a manner that he was but a fool in asking that request, but that the help of God's grace in that tribulation to strengthen him was far better for him, than to take that tribulation from him?

Baltimore's tribulations were indeed sore; there was no peace for him day nor night.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. It is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.