There is justice done continually, even on this stage of trial, though many pine and murmur: substantial retribution, even in this poor dislocated world of wrong, not seldom overtakes the sinner, not seldom encourages the saint.

Encourages?
yea, and punishes: blessing him with kind severity; teaching him to know himself a mere bad root, if he be not grafted on his God; proving that the laws which govern life are just, and wise, and kind; showing him that a man's own heart's desire, if fulfilled, would probably tend to nothing short of sin, sorrow, and calamity; that many seeming goods are withheld, because they are evils in disguise; and many seeming ills allowed, because they are masqueraded blessings; and demonstrating, as in this strange tale, that the unrighteous Mammon is a cruel master, a foul tempter, a pestilent destroyer of all peace, and a teeming source of both world's misery.
Listen to the sayings of the Wisest King of men: "As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation." "The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead." "He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch." "Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues without right." "The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright." "A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.".