Excerpt from Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 17: January 15, 1882 Then, again, there has been a wonderful turmoil with regard to the divine government of the earth, in which, as is frequently the case in other controversies, both parties are partly wrong and partly right, but in the main in this question the ecclesiastic, in our judgment, has the best of the argument. The believer claims God's direct control in mundane affairs; the skeptic maintains the rule of universal law, independent of a personal Deity or other controlling personage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.