"Don't He always send it?"
"Why no. Some sorts people bring on themselves by their own folly and perverseness; and some sorts people work on others by their own wicked self-will. God does not cause that, though He will overrule it to do what He wants done."
"Uncle Ned, do you think we shall ever have to use our ships of war again?"
"We are using them all the time. We send them to this place and that place to protect our own people, and their merchant vessels and their commerce, from interference and injury."
"No, but I mean, in fighting. Do you think we shall ever have to send them to fight again?"
"Probably."
"To fight whom?"
"That I don't know."
"Then why do you say 'probably'?"
"Because human nature remains what it was, and will no doubt do the same work in the future that it has done from the beginning."