"I can not say I see how it bears on the argument.

You had in your possession more than you knew." "Does the length of its roots alter the kind of the plant ?" she asked.
"Do we not know in all nature and history that God likes to see things grow?
That must be the best way.

It may be the only right way.

If that ring was given to my mother against the time when the last child of her race should find herself otherwise helpless, would the fact that the provision was made so early turn the result into a mere chance meeting of necessity and subsidy?
Am I bound to call every good thing I receive a chance, except an angel come down visibly out of the blue sky and give it to me?
That would be to believe in a God who could not work His will by His own laws.

Here I am, free and hopeful--all I needed.