1843 Circular Letter of the Lexington (New York) Association

[W]E SEE IN THE LIGHT OF THIS SUBJECT the infinite wisdom and everlasting goodness of our God towards the subjects of his love, and well might we learn submission to his holy and righteous will. However dark the scene may be, to remember, it is a part of the “all things that are working for our good, if we love God.” We also learn from these facts, that God who has made all things for his own glory, will not be disappointed. The same infinite wisdom that drew the wondrous plan of grace, has spoken the heavens and earth into being, in perfect conformity to that glorious pattern, and the loving hand that put all in motion in his holy providence, so perfectly governs all, that one event from the creation of the world to the end of the same, from the great and awful death of our Lord, down to the fall of a feather from a sparrow in the field, or a fall of a hair from the head of one of his children, but what is working together for the good of them that love God; and each, however small in our view, even to a particle of dust that moves in the air, forms a part of the great whole, and like a wheel in the grand machine, that it can no more fail than the whole can be overthrown.