sentences:  In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party -- and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose.I am almost ready to say that this is probably true -- that God wills this contest, and wills that it shall not end yet.By his mere great power, on the minds of the now contestants, He could have either saved or destroyed the Union without a human contest.