Elijah Kellogg 
The Unseen Hand [EPUB ebook] 

A vast majority of the noblest intellects of the race have ever held to the idea that, —
“There’s a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough hew them how we will.”
By its influence they have been both consoled and strengthened under the pressures and in the exigencies of life. This principle, to a singular degree, assumes both form and development in the story of James Renfew, the Redemptioner.