Let us consider looking again on the theme of providence ,in the life of a particular individual,his name was J C. Ryle. He was born in 1816 and died 1900,his father was a private banker.. He attended Eton college and Oxford university,he worked in his fathers business for awhile,but hoped to go into politics but that came to halt when his fathers business went bust,he lost everything. R.Davis continues the story,' He didn't know where he would live or what he was to do., he said,' if he had not been a Christian he might have found suicide inviting'.'He further said,' If my fathers affairs had prospered,and I had not been ruined,.....I should never have been a clergyman,never preached a sermon, written a tract, or a book'.He went into the ministry because it was the only living opened to him. He noted that if had he not been ruined, he likely would have gone into Parliament and' it would be impossible to say what the effect of this might have been upon my soul'.I heard this recently,'I think my Father made me for a purpose',God had a greater purpose for J. C. Ryle than being an MP.God in His providence brought him into that purpose yes it was a hard providence,
'Every joy or trial, falleth from above,
Traced upon our dial,by the Son of love.
We may trust Him fully,all for us to do,
They who trust Him wholly, find Him
wholly true.'.
Words . Frances B. Havergal.
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