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History is pre-eminently a revelation of God; for, nowhere, perhaps, are the wisdom and goodness of a Divine Providence so manifest as in the apt and timely investment of talents and virtues in the accomplishment of its mysterious dispensations. "Lives of great men all remind us" that there is an ever-watchful Divinity in History that moulds our destinies from good to better and thence to best; that, "or in the natal or the mortal hour," holds us safe under the protection of its wise and benignant power. In the brilliant deviation of a solitary soul from the rank corruption of its age and land; in the enthusiastic life of a patriot who saves a sinking state and resuscitates its shattered energy; in the glorious career of an awe- inspiring prophet who recalls a wandering nation to the lawful ways of God and