The Alexandria Herald

From the Connecticut Courant.

There is no virtue more acceptable to God and in practice, more conducive to human happiness, than resignation to the divine will. He who presumes to question the wisdom, the goodness, and the paternal solicitude for the felicity of man of the Supreme Being is guilty of the most presumptuous impiety, and merits the most severe punishment. That wisdom which is displayed in the economy of the vast system of creation--that goodness which every page in the volume of nature exhibits in language the most forcible and endearing ; that paternal solicitude which the scheme of redemption & pardon so gloriously illustrates, should silence every murmur when we are chastised for the most benevolent purposes and corrected that we may be more worthy of those unfading joys for which we were ultimately designed. This globe was not constructed for the eternal abode of an immortal soul. We should view all its comforts and all its perplexities as short lived and transitory. He who uses the good things of this world without abusing them : whom prosperity cannot elate; who puts a just value upon what he possesses and is favored with, into the hands of him by whom they were bestowed when the requisition is made, is an object of divine complacency, and will surely receive an abundant reward. Resignation can alleviate the distress of this life, calm its varied troubles, pour a ray of comfort to enliven the vale of tears through which our pilgrimage must be made, and cheer with consoling expectations. the gloom that lowers over the pillow of death. Who then would have the hardiness to doubt the justice of the dispensations of Providence, or arraign Omniscience at the tribunal of human presumption.