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God and you have the and adequate reason for the existence of every event in life. God reigns.

II. The mission of calamity is also to develop and intensify human sympathy. No sooner are the tidings of these sad events and the consequent sufferings flashed across the wires than they meet with a hearty response. Men literally pour out their substance to relieve the distressed. It is said that after the great Chicago fire it was impossible for her citisens sic to read or hear of the wonderful manifestations of sympathy which came flowing in from every direction without shedding tears. >No one can think of the distressed wives & mothers of the Diamond Mine horror, or listen to their despairing moans without being intensely stirred. We would not know the blessedness of human sympathy were we in a world where so such sorrows come. We are here for purposes of training and discipline. Calamity is not "a wild and ungoverned power that has broken into the domain of Providence." It is a part of our life, a part of our discipline, a part of our progress and improvement. It may sometimes seem to us to be too costly a lesson. But He who knows all the bearings of the case knows