The Ways of Providence - Christadelphian Studies

346 THE WAYS OF PROVIDENCE.
flesh would have been saved. The plan which was
commenced when sacrifice was instituted at the gates of
Paradise, has been in ceaseless course of development
from that day to this. God has been at work all the time,
though the work has been slow and the means largely
natural. The miracles and wonders and signs have been
but as the lights on the steamer in the dark. There has
been no break though often there has been nothing to
see. The work that is a present work and a natural work
is not less a real work, because not obviously a divine
work. The whole work is one—in many parts—"at
sundry times and divers manners," taking different
shapes according to the exigencies of the particular
situations; and when all is complete, each part will be
seen in its true importance. The minor phases of the
work will appear but as the softer tints in the rainbow
that will arch the throne of glory.