He spoke of the dependence of the
creature--instanced, as it is daily, by a thousand wants and exigencies,
for which, unless by the care and under the countenance of Providence,
he could never of himself provide. He narrated the dangers of the
forest--imaging by this figure the mazes and mysteries of life--the
difficulty, nay, the almost utter impossibility, unless by His sanction,
of procuring sustenance, and of counteracting those innumerable
incidents by fell and flood, which, in a single moment, defeat the cares
of the hunter and the husbandman--setting at naught his industry,
destroying his fields and cattle, blighting his crops, and tearing up
with the wing of the hurricane even the cottage which gives shelter to
his little ones. He dwelt largely and long upon those numberless and
sudden events in the progress of life and human circumstance, over
which, as they could neither be foreseen nor combated with by man, he
had no control; and appealed for him to the Great Shepherd, who alone
could do both.
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