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The Lord’s providences
vary, and it is not for His people to decide when shall come
remarkable deliverances, and when they shall apparently be left
entirely to the will of their enemies without any manifestation of
Divine favor an their behalf. Sometimes, the Lord’s people who are
bound, restrained of liberty to proclaim the Truth, find, as did the
three Hebrews, that the fire burns the cords and sets them free, and
really gives them larger opportunities to testify to the glory of
our God than they could have had by any other course. It is not,
therefore, for us to predetermine what shall be the Divine
providence in respect to ourselves; we are to note the point of
right and duty and to follow it regardless of consequences, trusting
implicitly to the
Lord. |