Special Providences. March 4.

I believe not only in "special providences," but in the whole universe as one infinite complexity of special providences.

Letters and Memories.

The grain of dust is a thought of God; God's power made it; God's wisdom gave it whatsoever properties or qualities it may possess. God's providence has put it in the place where it is now, and has ordained that it should be in that place at that moment, by a train of causes and effects which reaches back to the very creation of the universe. The grain of dust can no more go from God's presence or flee from God's Spirit than you or I can.

Town Geology. 1871.