Were it casual, vain, or stern, this might pass for truth:
But all things are marshalled by Design, and carefully tended by Benevolence.
O man, thy Judge is righteous,—noting, remembering, and weighing;—
Want, ignorance, diversities of state, are cast into the balance of advantage:
The poisonous example of a parent asketh for allowance in the child;
Care, diseases, toils, and frailties,—all things are considered.
And again, a mysterious Omniscience knoweth the spirits that are His,
While the delicate tissues of Event are woven by the fingers of Ubiquity.
Should Providence be taken by surprise from the possible impinging of an accident,
One fortuitous grain might dislocate the banded universe: