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Excerpt from Asahel Smith of Topsfield: With Some Account of the Smith Family
For my part I am so willing to trust the government of the world in the hands of the Supreme Ruler of Universal Nature, that I do not at present wish to try to wrest it out of His hands, and I have so much confidence in His abilities to teach our Senators wisdom that I do not think it worth while for me to interpose from the little stock of knowledge that He has favored me with, in the affair, either one way or the other. He has conducted us through a glorious Revolution and has brought us into the promised land of peace and lib erty; and I believe that He is about to bring all the world in the same beatitude in His own time and way; which, al though His way may appear never so inconsistant to our blind reason, yet may be perfectly consistant with His de signs. And I believe that the stone is now cut out of the mountain, without hands, spoken of by Daniel, and has smit ten the image upon his feet, by which the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver and the gold, (viz.) all the monarchical and ecclesiastical tyranny will be broken to pieces and become as the chaff of the summer thrashing ?oor; the wind shall carry them all away, and there shall be no place found for them.
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