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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: be a work and ordinance of God, and its hero the servant of the
Lord. For we are almost bound to call Cyrus, the founder of the
Persian Empire, by this august title for two reasons--First, because
the Hebrew Scriptures call him so; the next, because he proved
himself to be such by his actions and their consequences--at least
in the eyes of those who believe, as I do, in a far-seeing and far-
reaching Providence, by which all human history is
Bound by gold chains unto the throne of God.
His work was very different from any that need be done, or can be
done, in these our days. But while we thank God that such work is
now as unnecessary as impossible; we may thank God likewise that,
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