“The dispensations of providence are often dark and forbidding, and they seem to frown upon us when we regard them only as issuing from the hand of ‘the unknown God.’ No wonder that the crushed heart cries out from the depths, ‘Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies?’ But how soon is seen ‘the rainbow round about the throne,’ when we view our Priest-King seated beneath its blessed arch, dispensing grace to help in every trial and in every sorrow!” — Benjamin M. Palmer, Theology of Prayer as Viewed in the Religion of Nature and in the System of Grace (1894), p. 283