thus exhorts us: "When any event transcends our power of understanding, we ought not to conclude that it is not well done, but rather, since we recognize on the one hand the action of Divine Providence in governing the universe, so ought we in cases which exceed the limits of our comprehension, to adore His unsearchable wisdom." Wonderful truly are the ways of God, who is able to search them out?
7. What ought therefore to be your resolution? This above all else; never, in any moment of life to murmur and complain, as if God were unjust, as it His providence had ceased to watch over you. But habituate yourself, however severe may be the afflictions which overtake you, to say with patient Job: "The Lord gave, the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord."
God it is who makes the soil
Grateful to the laborer's toil;
He whom sun and stars obey
Holds the whole world in His sway;
Yet from His bright throne above
Looks upon mankind with love.
In that bounteous Lord confide,
For your wants He will provide.
"Two principles," says Father Ramiere, S.J., "form the unalterable basis of the virtue of abandonment or absolute surrender to Divine Providence.
"First Principle: Nothing is done, nothing happens, either in the material or in the moral world, which God has not foreseen from all eternity, and which He has not willed, or at least permitted.
