The Mills of God

New Zealand Tablet, 13 August 1908, Page 22

The Mills of God

' The mills of Cod grind slowly,' -says the. Catholic Times. 'but they grind for all that—and.with unerring certainty. Even the most tepid Christian must be horrified by the criminal records - of France at the. present time. The French unbelievers them- - -selves are compelled by the evidence, of fearful-facts to acknowledge that a high tide of lawlessness is sweeping over the, country and it has been decided to resort again to capital punishment. , This may do something to bring about an improvement, ■ but '.*.' will not be a thorojghly. effective cure. The root of the evil, must be attacked, arid that is the godlessness of education. It stands to reason that such a system should prove ruinous 10 the-country. Under the best conditions it is a hard task\to repress crime, for man is prone to it from his. early .years. But how can it be repressed if^the.,love of God and-the .fear, of God, the two greatest preventives, are mocked and scoffed "-at in the schools ? God will not be mocked. The results of 'tho' French education no words of ours could adequately set forth. We take up the French daily papers now with a, shudder.' The murders they chronicle are so .numerous, so.!.rold-blooded,-iso ingenious that the journals themselves become repulsive. Last Saturday were announced the sentences—four inflicting the death

penalty —on a band of twenty-seven who hav.e been terrorising the* north of France and whose crimes were so base and so atrocious that, the judge said they made one ashamed of < his species. Under - the> regime of the .atheists France is drinking the cup of humiliation, to the" .bitterest-dregs.'