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his youth, he would be so widely known and esteemed 

 both as a teacher and an author. And yet, now we see 

 that all the steps in his path, from his earliest years, tend- 

 ed to this, as though they were planned with reference 

 to it, and prosecuted with the exactest care. Well did 

 the prophet say: "O Lord, I know that the way of man 

 is not in himself. It is not in man that walketh to direct 

 his steps." Well, too, does the voice of wisdom cry: 

 " Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not to 

 thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge 

 him and he shall direct thy paths." There is a Provi- 

 dence in the affairs of men, which we must be blind not 

 to see, and sottish to refuse devoutly to acknowledge. 



2. The same Providence that conducted him in his 

 course of life, must be acknowledged in its termination 

 by death. The one of these involves the other. There 

 could be no divine hand in overruling the changes of his 

 life, that did not equally decide the last great change in 

 his death. We admire the goodness of the one. Let us 

 bow to the sovereignty of the other. " The Lord reigneth, 

 let the earth rejoice. Clouds and darkness are around 

 about him : righteousness and judgment are the habita- 

 tion of his throne." "He giveth not account of any of 

 his matters, and who will say unto him, what doest thou?" 

 It is for himself to explain the mysteries of his govern- 

 ment, and for us to wait, in submissive silence, the ap- 



