For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
No man was ever wise by chance.
When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.
Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.
As an overruling providence may succeed our wishes, let us rear an offspring in every respect worthy to fill the most illustrious stations of their predecessors.
The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all.
We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God's providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.
It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.