The hand of Providence

Mount Calvary.
ILLUSTRATED.
BY ELDER J. H. WARD.
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH: Published at the Juvenile Instructor Office. 1883.

Don't throw this book down carelessly. It will do you no harm. It assumes no dictation. It may benefit you if you will read it carefully.
We have plenty of histories.
True. But most are too large to be of practical value to the sons and daughters of toil. Many are written in the interest of some party or sect, and in order to gain favor, they flatter the vanity of men.
But they tell of wonderful deeds, and thrilling adventures.
Very true. Some of them are mostly composed of recitals of legalized slaughter, and praise of tyrants who have climbed to power over the mangled bodies of their fellow-men, and whose names will not live in one grateful memory; while the real benefactors of the race, the unfolding of new and higher truths and, above all, the over-ruling hand of God are unnoticed, or, at most, barely mentioned.
Does God rule the world?