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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from God The Invisible King by H. G. Wells: he does not coddle us. He has his own ends for which he needs
us. . . .
4. GOD IS NOT PROVIDENCE
Closely related to this heresy that God is magic, is the heresy that
calls him Providence, that declares the apparent adequacy of cause
and effect to be a sham, and that all the time, incalculably, he is
pulling about the order of events for our personal advantages.
The idea of Providence was very gaily travested by Daudet in
"Tartarin in the Alps." You will remember how Tartarin's friend
assured him that all Switzerland was one great Trust, intent upon
attracting tourists and far too wise and kind to permit them to
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