Excerpt from God and War
There are no accidents in this world," was the opening sentence of the eulogy spoken by Charles Sumner after the death of Abraham Lincoln. And the longer one lives the more inclined is one to introduce that sentence, "there are no accidents," into one"s religious creed.
In an oration of Edward Everett are these words:
When a great event is to be brought about in the order of Providence, the first thing which arrests the attention of the student of history in after-times is the appearance of the fitting instruments for its accomplishment. They come forward and take their places on the great stage of action. They know not themselves for what they are raised up, but there they are.
Daniel Webster expressed the same thought when saying:
God has a Providence in human affairs; and it is a part of that Providence to triumph over error, and to assign to the actors in great events their proper places.
Victor Hugo in his remarkable essay on Mirabeau concludes his analysis thus:
Who among us does not feel, amid the tumult of the tempest, amid the conflicts of all the systems and all the ambitions that raise so much smoke and dust, that under yonder veil still hiding from our eyes the providential statue hardly yet hewn, behind the cloud of theories, passions, and chimeras, crossing, jostling, and devouring one another in the fog: beyond that sound of the human word which speaks all tongues at the same time through all mouths, under that violent whirlwind of things, man and ideas called the nineteenth century - who does not feel that something great is being accomplished? And God remains calm and does his work.
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