It would appear that
this pharisaical doctrine is a very delicious one, and the most
grateful of all others to the worst characters.
But the ways of heaven are altogether inscrutable, and soar as far
above and beyond the works and the comprehensions of man as
the sun, flaming in majesty, is above the tiny boy's evening
rocket. It is the controller of Nature alone that can bring light out
of darkness, and order out of confusion. Who is he that causeth
the mole, from his secret path of darkness, to throw up the gem,
the gold, and the precious ore? The same that from the mouths of
babes and sucklings can extract the perfection of praise, and who
can make the most abject of his creatures instrumental in bringing
the most hidden truths to light.
Miss Logan had never lost the thought of her late master's
prediction that Heaven would bring to light the truth concerning
the untimely death of his son. She perceived that some strange
conviction, too horrible for expression, preyed on his mind from
the moment that the fatal news reached him to the last of his
existence; and, in his last ravings, he uttered some incoherent
words about justification by faith alone and absolute and eternal
predestination having been the ruin of his house.
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