Early in Benjamin Franklin's life you can see evidence of divine providence. Once while he was on a boat and only 17 some women were talking to him and an older lady came and warned him that they were not the right sort of women to be talking to and showed why. He took her advice and when they asked him to come to talk to them more he declined. Come to find out they were thieves who were arrested after their apartment was searched and the stolen goods found. That old lady was an angel that saved him his reputation. When he got into Philadelphia where he hoped to work for a printer his good clothes were coming later and he had little money but the baker game him 3 rolls so he was walking down the street with dirty clothes and a roll under each arm and in his mouth when his future wife first saw him and thought he was a sight. It is amazing that she remembered seeing him. I think it is a possible spirit recognizing spirit moment. Divine providence seems to be the case when he had two different governors at that young age invited to associate with them one wanted to set him up with his own printing office when his father wouldn't do it on his recommendation.
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