What I call God's hand,—you, perhaps,—mere chance

Of the true instinct of an old good man

Who happens to hate darkness and love light,—

In whom too was the eye that saw, not dim,

The natural force to do the thing he saw,

Nowise abated,—both by miracle,—

All this well pondered,—I demand assent

To the enunciation of my text

In face of one proof more that 'God is true

And every man a liar'—that who trusts