Every Man’s Life a Plan of God.
By Dr. Bushnell
EVERY human soul has a complete and perfect plan cherished for it in the heart of God—a divine biography marked out, which it enters into life to live. This life, rightfully unfolded, will be a complete and beautiful whole; an experience led on by God, and unfolded by the secret nurture of the world; a drama cast in the mold of a perfect art, with no part wanting; a divine study for the man himself and for others; a study that shall forever unfold, in wondrous beauty, the love and faithfulness of God; great in its conception, great in the divine skill by which it is shaped; above all, great in the momentous and glorious issues it prepares. What a thought is this for every human soul to cherish! What dignity does it add to life! What support does it bring to the trial of life! What instigation does it add to send us on in everything that constitutes our excellence! We live in the divine thought. We fill a place in the great everlasting plan of God’s intelligence. We never sink below his care, never drop out of his counsel.—Dr. Bushnell.