I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. (12) For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them. (13) This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:
The world is full of evidences to these truths, and the Church manifests the same. Not by might; nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord. Oh! how blessed is it to eye the hand of Jesus in the world, both of providence and of grace. Zechariah 4:6.