God’s Providence by Rev. B. Boucher.

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 6, 1859

God’s Providence.

By Rev. B. Boucher.

I BELIEVE the Lord has always, ready provided, some kind Samaritan, journeying, as if by chance, on the very road where the wounded traveler lies, and who arrives just at the very moment when “oil and wine” are especially needed. I believe, too, that the Lord, in the workings of that providence which is over all his works, and which suffereth not a sparrow nor a hedgeling to fall to the ground unpermitted of him, whenever he has a bruised and torn one of his flock needing a tenderer hand than usual to nurture and to heal it, has that hand ready to stretch out and help—has one close at hand to supply the want—one whose own heart has been, perhaps, touched and prepared by sorrow for the especial work of sympathy with some other torn and sorrowing one of the family. We are apt to say of such apparently accidental circumstances, “How very fortunate!” but faith lifts up the curtain and sees God’s hand at work, and cries out, “It is of the Lord’s mercies!”—Rev. B. Boucher.