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Some time ago, a newspaper account of an accident spoke of the escape of a certain person as “providential”. A reader wrote to the paper objecting to this mode of describing a natural occurrence. Another replied in defence of the reporter’s phraseology, whereupon there sprang up quite a breezy controversy on the nature of providence, or whether there was such a thing at all. The following...

her own darling child: her heart yearns upon him. She can scarcely conceal her motherhood. “Take this child away and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages.” Wages! Wages for doing what she would have been glad to pay any amount of money to be permitted to do! How exquisitely beautiful are all the ways of God. “And the woman took the child.” Yes, with a zeal never shown by nurse before. Why did not God allow an Egyptian nurseship to be arranged for? Because it was most important for Moses
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