Almighty God's Providential Reign
“ The LORD shall reign for ever and ever .” -Exodus 15:18 [KJV] This world is not a kingdom without a throne, a throne without a sovereign, or a sovereign without a scepter; by no blind accident are the affairs of this planet governed. God is in the history of the world its past, its present, and its yet unshapen future. The statesman and the politician may not recognize this fact; but it is so, God rules the kingdom of providence. His hand is moving and controlling all events and circumstances, national and social, public and private; giving birth, and shape and tint to those phenomena in the history of nations, and to those affairs in the history of individuals, which to human perception are often enshrouded in mystery so dreadful and profound. Let this view of God's providential reign hush all murmurings at our lot, making us content with such things as we have, assured that He will never leave us nor forsake us. Let it bow our soul in...