To say this with respect to probabilities, it must be assumed that the divine nature has changed; so that he has lost his regard for the right, or his fatherly concern for his suffering children on earth; so that he has now no purpose to avenge the victims of an unjust judge, to arrest the proud career of oppression, to execute justice and judgment in the earth. It must be shown that his known interferences, by omnipotent crushing power, with nations and sovereigns whose iniquities rose to heaven, were the result. of accident or impulse rather than of essential rectitude and immutable principles. What man would dare to be so irreverent as to say this?

To affirm that the government of God over nations is unnecessary, it must be assumed that men as individuals need divine law, supervision, and aid, but, when organized into communities, they lose their dependence and responsibility; that it is of the utmost importance to have divine control over the minutest acts which bear upon the individual, but none whatever over those momentous volitions which realize or crush the dearest hopes of millions; that the moral element perishes as soon as the life of society becomes, organic, and indefinitely powerful for weal or woe; that, as individuals, our fellow-citizens are responsible to God, but as legislative, judicial, and executive officers, they are wholly unaccountable to him; that a government can have no God, no religion, no Bible, no prayers, no account to render to “the Judge of all the earth;" that the safety of the nation is wholly in the wisdom and patriotism of men, or subject to the mad ambition of demagogues, and the accidental whirl of political campaigns, with no pitying eye looking down from heaven, no hope from the interference of omnipotent justice, no retribution awaiting the blood-thirsty tyrant. He who has such ideas of God and man, of goodness and sin, might assert that there is no necessity for practical divine sovereignty over nations.

Finally, to deny the certainty of just as all-seeing and

all-pervading a control over modern as over ancient nations, one must ignore all prophecy and all history. See what subduing of kingdoms appears, what breaking-down of oppression, what turning and overturning, what arraignments of rulers, what "gnawing of tongues for pain," what outbeamings of the Sun of Righteousness, showing that the grand prophetic era hastens when "the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him." See with what unerring accuracy, as in past ages, history is literally recording the events of prophecy.

As certainly, therefore, as it is now as ever the right of God to reign; that he is now, as in ancient times, the common Father of our guilty race, the unchangeable "Judge of all the earth;" that his great and free volitions are controlled by principles of unerring righteousness; that men are, of themselves, blind and reckless in regard to the dearest interests of man, and wickedness is intensified by power, so that there is actually no hope for the down-trodden, but in God,— as sure as the verification of prophecy by inevitable history, so certainly is Jehovah to-day the Sovereign of all nations; and the American Republic is responsible to him.

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