The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-29
THE HAND OF PROVIDENCE |
SEEN IN THE, PRESENT CON-
FLICT BY MINISTERS.
The War Will Play an Important
Part In the Evolution of the Race
and the Nation-A Correspond
ent's Views.
To the Editor of The Herald:

To the Editor of The Herald:
If the procession of nations takes
place in accordance with design in obe-
dience to divine direction, if there is an
ever present fundamentally yielded
from the celestial mansions superin-
tending and giving direction to mum
dane events in the life of nations, ade-
| quate justification exists in support of
the attitude of the United States in the
present crisis with Spain, and she must
! be exonerated from responsibility for
further international complications that
must inevitably ensue.
To carry the doctrine of an over
| ruling providence to this extent we will
be compelled to recognize the presence
of the same power in shaping the des-
tiny of the Spanish monarchy. and
therefore chargeahte with the respon-
sibility for the ferocious disposition
that so distinctly marks the Spanish
type of the human race
If the pending controversy with Spain
is a necessary part of a pre-ordained
programme in the accomplishment of
Gods purposes in the earth, so then is
Spanish disagreement in the West
Indies also part of the same general,
mysterious and incomprehensible plan.
So also the destruction of the battle
ship Maine was an essential part of the
scheme, for in that unfortunate cataS-
trophe there was found abundant rea-
son to at once inaugurate the great war
for human liberty, that might other
wise have been indefinitely post
poned. [5 -
Emissaries of the divine word in the
United States have no difficulty in see
ing the hand of providence consp.cu-
ously manifested in the war between
Spain and this government. and they
fancy they detect in the past history of
the nations the providence of God in
and through it all. They see in the de-
feat of Napoleon at Waterloo a mani
festation of divine power in behalf of
the allied forces. If the Duke of We'll
lington and Butcher were instruments
of the All Mighty upon this tremen-
douS occasion in securing the ruin of |
the hitherto invincible general of the |
French, then Napoleon was also a |
mighty factor in the divine economy |
of European politics, moving in ODE |
dience to a divinely wrought scheme. |
He was the armed soldier of the French |
revolution, with its great principles of |
liberty, justice and equality, carrying
its policies to a legitimate and inevita-
BILE conclusion, infiicting an effectual
blow at the perniciouS doctrine of the
divine right of kings and blazing the
way for the republicanizing of mon
archial Europe.
They discover an Omnipotent power
manifested in behalf of the oppressed
patriots of the American revolution,
guiding and directing their councils.
and ultimately securing to them the
matchless principles of liberty and in
dependence. The.r~must also see the
same power back of English tyranny
and despotism, directed with so much
zeal and vehemence, against the Amer
can colonies, for .it must needs be
hat offenses come, but woe unto those
hat bring them: hence, British des-
0otism was as much an element in the
livine plan in the evolution of liberty