And lo! He has visited us; and shown us that He
does care about the matter by taking it into His own hands with a
vengeance. He who cannot see God's hand in the cholera must be as
blind--as blind as who?--as blind as he that cannot see God's hand
when there is no cholera; as blind as he who cannot see God's hand in
every meal he eats, and every breath he draws; for that man is stone
blind--he can be no blinder. The cholera came; everyone ought to see
that it did not come by blind chance, but by the will of some wise
and righteous Person; for in the first place God gave us fair
warning. The cholera came from India at a steady pace. We knew to a
month when it would arrive here. And it came, too, by no blind
necessity, as if it was forced to take people whether it liked or
not. Just as it was in the fever here, so it was in the cholera,
"One shall be taken and another left." It took one of a street and
left another; took one person in a family and left another: it took
the rich man who fancied he was safe, as well as the poor man who did
not care whether he was safe or not. The respectable man walking
home to his comfortable house, passed by some untrapped drain, and
then poisonous gas struck him and he died.
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