We, having been called by the providence of God to stand at the head of the march of progress, may well ask ourselves concerning our imperial powers.

It was a great disappointment to him to do thisyet he was able to write, "It is my duty to acknowledge an overruling and directing Providence in all the very minutest things, by being in whatever state I am therewith content.

"Do what is right and trust to Providence for the rest," was his motto; and he stuck to it always.

There's a wonderful kindness in Providence to mettled folk.

In the box they also found jewels and rubies, and they congratulated themselves upon being at length blessed by Providence with wealth, and a boy at the same time.

Addison, no more than one of the escaped from that saloon of horror and sea of death, could forget the special Providence by which he was saved; and the hymn above referred to, and that other still finer, commencing "When all Thy mercies, O my God!

In these Mason placed little confidence, and would gladly have awaited the arrival of the forty men from Plymouth, who were already at Providence on their way to join him.

Never was a more grateful task appointed to a reigning dynasty by the dispensation of Providence than that which devolved upon the house of Lorraine-Hapsburg.

I adore and praise the unsearchable wisdom and boundless goodness of Almighty God for this dispensation of His providence towards me.

These natural weapons, which have been furnished them by Providence as a means of defence in their Extremity, cut through a fellow's trousers like paper.

In that hot climate it depended entirely on God's providence from week to week whether a crop could grow.

But providence at length thought fit to send them a relief by means they least expected.

An inward Chearfulness is an implicit Praise and Thanksgiving to Providence under all its Dispensations.

We may read of God's gracious providences toward this land.

And so marked is this lesson of a superintending Providence over all human action, that a wise and good man can see wars and revolutions and revolting crimes with almost philosophical complacency, knowing that out of destruction proceeds creation; that the wrath of man is always overruled; that the love of God is the brightest and clearest and most consoling thing in the universe.

I did not leave the Providence until some days after the date of my last: there were so many precautions to be taken, and so many formalities to be observedsuch references from the municipality to the district, and from the district to the Revolutionary Committee, that it is evident Robespierre's death has not banished the usual apprehension of danger from the minds of those who became responsible for acts of justice or humanity.

A British war vessel, in Narragansett Bay, in pursuit of a packet which had left Newport for Providence without permission, ran aground about seventeen miles from the latter town, and was burned by disguised Yankee citizens, indignant at the outrages which had been perpetrated by this armed schooner on American commerce.

I am a child in your hands, Arthur, and in the face of the reproaching Providence above me, I feelI feel that I am at your mercy.

He saw in his own cause that of heaven, and in the defeat of Tilly beheld the decisive interference of Providence against his enemies, and in himself the instrument of divine vengeance.

" If Providence has been thus conspicuously present in our history, we may look for some mention of this government in that Book which records the workings of Providence among mankind.

"I have been protected by the almighty intervention of Providence beyond every human probability," he wrote to his brother after the action.

If we believe in the moral government of this world by a divine and supreme Intelligence whom we call God, then it is not difficult to see in Julius Caesar, after nearly two thousand years, an instrument of Providence like Constantine, Charlemagne, Richelieu, and Napoleon himself.

And from that day things begin to mendthe weather begins to clear, the soil begins to yield againpunishment gradually ceases when it has done its work, the weight lightens, the wounds heal, the weakness strengthens, and by God's grace within them, and by God's providence outside them, they are made men of again, and saved.

Only there came across him, every now and then, a sensation that there was some special providence about it all, and that there was some mysterious connection between this adventure and the words of the apparitions who had spoken to him in the morning.