The Deep Motions of Providence
"I have never seen any providence", sneers Stuart Mill. But this is nothing wonderful. I have never seen the world revolve, though I have lived upon it more than fifty years. The broad current carries the ship with it though you do not mark the track. And the providence of God encircles you, and your vessel, and your ocean too; and while you may take your own little path upon that ocean, the ocean, ship, and passenger are being made subservient to a Higher Will.
Princetoniana
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Charles Adamson Salmond. Princetoniana. Charles and a. A. Hodge: With Class and Table Talk of Hodge, the Younger, Etc. New York: Scribner & Welford, 1888.