Excerpt from Sermon Delivered at the South Congregational Church in Lowell, on the Sabbath Following the Funeral of the Hon. Luther Lawrence, Who Died April 17, 1839 And there, in their impenetrable mystery, these events we must leave. The reasons of them are concealed in the secret councils of the divine will, and man never appears so presumptuous as when he tries to fathom them. They are unsearchable and past finding out. What he does we know not now, but shall know hereafter. Let not such reflections as these, however, give us any gloomy thoughts of the govern ment of our Heavenly Parent. They ought not to have this effect. To a seriously con siderate mind they will not have this effect. The government of our Heavenly Father is, even in the point now referred to, precisely like the government of an earthly Father. 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.