ever rise to Him who hath done all things well. "He maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak." (Mark vii. 37.)
March Twenty-ninth.
DIVINE PROVIDENCE.
"The very hairs of your head are all numbered."—Luke xii. 7.
THAT there is such a thing as a Divine Providence, ruling, though unseen, the affairs of this world, and thus gently regulating and guiding the helm of human destinies, so as to lead onward to a more perfect and happy life, is a truth that every enlightened Christian readily adopts as one of the objects of his faith and love; for he perceives that nothing can happen, either in the world of matter or of mind, by what is called chance or accident. No human actions, however apparently trivial and insignificant, take place accidentally, but all are within the order of an overruling Providence, since we cannot suppose the Creator to be absent from his works. This fact is taught us in the words of the Lord, "The very hairs of your head are all numbered." There would be neither heavenly nor earthly use in merely numbering the hairs of the head; but as all the Lord's words are spirit and life, being as the articulate developments of His infinite Love and Wisdom, so they regard the spiritual and eternal life of man, with all the variations of such life in eternity. The hairs of the head are here put to denote the extreme terminations, and even minute thoughts, of a man's life; while to number or count them, is, in Scriptural language, to know and
