I've got lots of good men on this station. The preacher reached out a shaky hand and placed it on Cory's arm. The same one who sent a boy with a slingshot out to defeat a nine-foot giant. The one who told the prophet Hosea to marry a prostitute, and chose apostles from tax collectors and coarse fishermen. The very same, Mr. Cory, and it's not my place to ask why, but to obey.
History is replete with what seemed at the time like bad decisions.
Young, innocent Joseph was betrayed by his brothers, and God allowed him to be sold into slavery for most of his life . I'm sure you would have disagreed with it. But it put him in the right place to eventually save his entire family from certain death. We never know what effect our actions will have a generation later. Cory had no reply.