He quotes from the Rt. Reverend Robert Smith, first bishop of South Carolina:
“We form schemes of happiness and deceive ourselves with a weak imagination of security, without ever taking God into the question; no wonder then if our hopes prove abortive, and the conceits of our vain minds end in disappointment and sorrow. For we are inclined to attribute our prosperity to the wisdom of our own councils, and the arm of our own flesh, we become forgetful of him from whom our strength and wisdom are derived; and are then betrayed into that fatal security, which ends in shame, in misery and ruin.”
who said, ????
I just posted it for you–KSH.
1775? Perhaps we shouldn’t read too much into that.
Presumably this was made while a presbyter, 20 years before his consecration.
This quotation from Bishop Robert Smith could be cited by either side in the current unpleasantness to support its viewpoint.
Of course, those in the hardest fortifications on the two sides will find difficulty in seeing how the other side could be interpreting it.