Excerpt from The Bridgettine Order: Its Foundress History and Spirit That "Luck is a betise" is one of the many vigorous sayings attributed to Napoleon. Whatever may have prompted the flying word, it may just as well be remembered. Saul is often found among the Prophets. Indeed it is somewhat grating to Christian feeling to hear people of the Faith sometimes speak of Divine Providence. They do not seem aware of what is behind our life though they have plenty of teaching. The unabdicated right of the Creator to let His Wisdom "Make sport in the world," and the crowding invasion of ourselves and our homes by "ministering spirits" should make us understand that interweaving of events in Heathenism known as the work of the Fates, but to us as the sweet co-operation of a Father Who does the will of them that fear Him. But it is especially in Holy Religion, the rather exclusive service of God, that this intimacy and intercourse of two worlds are matters of daily praise and of an adoration often speechless. The distractions of life draw away from such things, but those whose watch is by day and night can see; for all leads up to God.

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