The Ways of Providence or He Does All Things Well!

Few esteem the operations of Divine Providence as having regard to anything beyond what is natural. Some even think that prosperity or adversity are sent as rewards or punishments for good or evil doing. In this there is an error. God is an eternal Being - all of His dealings towards us must, therefore, have an eternal end and what higher end can such a Being, whose very nature is love, have, than the eternal salvation of His creatures? That the whole of the Lord's providence with man is governed by such a purpose according as those conditions best subserve our eternal interests; and, moreover, that this Providence is intimate with every man, from the dawning of natural life until its close - we fully believe. And this is the doctrine of this book. Timothy Shay Arthur was a popular 19th-century American author most famous for his temperance novel Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There. He was also the author of dozens of stories for Godey's Lady's Book. Arthur did much to articulate and disseminate the values, beliefs, and habits that defined respectable life in America. Arthur was one of the most popular and widely read author of his time.