The Hand Of God

A gentleman connected with the custom-house at Anstruther, whose name was David Rae, who joined Prince Charles in 1745, was taken prisoner, tried, condemned, and hanged at Carlisle.

The Rev. Mr Nairn, minister of the Anstruther parish, very humanely called on the widow, and, for the pious purposes of consolation, stated that the hand of God
was evident in the dispensations.

“No, no,” said the honest woman “there was no hand in it but the hand of the devil and the Duke of Cumberland,”

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