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 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.