Grape-Shot Men

New Zealand Tablet, 13 August 1908, Page 9

Grape-Shot Men

'I must,' said"*the first ..(and-greatest)' Napoleon, ''jiiiake scholars that will -be men; And nobody-is a 'man without God. The man, without God I have seen at wotk in 1793J and .that man •*- you do not govorn —you put grape-shot into'hirn.' ■* - - A purely secular education (so far as • it- is-, concerned) raises up men without God. Such men may be, as a classi safe ami reputable citizens so long-as times are good, and the world goV: n well, and Christian thought and feeling and" .sentiment continues (as it does) to dominate our civilisation and fence in dangerous passions as the American engineers restrain with bank and mole ' and wall the turbulent waters of the Chngre-s in Panama, gut the^Chagres broken loose is but a paltry picture of what might happen with the wild passions of godless men raging unrestrained, ■ as the}- did in France during the grape-shot periods of 1793 anJ IS7I.