Excerpt from Moral Tendencies of Our Present Pecuniary Distress: A Discourse, Delivered May 14th, 1837Whence arises this af¿iction? Doubtless it may all be traced to second causes. To do this however, is no part of our present object. To all who admit an over ruling Providence, it must be manifest with respect to this, as with respect to every other evil, that afiliction, cometh not forth of the dust, neither dath trouble spring out of the ground. God's judgment is in the earth, that the inhabitants of the world may learn righteousness. Such the prophet informs us is the design of Divine chastisements generally. When thy judg ments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.