"GOD GIVE US MEN."

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 161, 10 July 1922, Page 4

"GOD GIVE US MEN."

"Xo cartoon of modern times has attracted so much attention as the cele. bra ted one in 'Punch' called 'Dropping the Pilot,' where Bismarck, the man of blood and iron, is seen leaving the Ship of State while the Kaiser is watching from the bulwarks the great Chancellor going down the gangway," was what the Rev. J. Lamb Harvey, of St. Andrew's, said last night when commencing his sermon on the subject of "Rod, give us men." Nothing really counted on (Jod's earth to-day but men. Men sought cut the thin veins of gold in the cold rock, while the blood in Vac blue veins of living human beings was not of that red which told of physical and healthful strength. The Prime Minister of New Zealand bad stated in London that the Dominion he represented was goinjr to i>o the dairy farm of the Empire.'and this was a very pood and worthy statement to make, ft meant that the heTds | were going to be attended to and improved, and that careful selection of animals would bo made so as to'defy all competition with our products. Then, just after the Premier had made his statement. Dr. Tmby King, who J \va« doing so much for t'ho infant life of this country, hud stated that more attention was paid the breeding of hoalthy cattle than to the breeding of healthy manhood. A snoUbery arrowing up where wraith and bluster were worshipped, while behind it all there was nothing of that brotherhood which was to usher in the new civilisation which Mr. Lloyd George said must and was now being u*l*ered in. People werp looking in vain for the fulfilment of I j this, because there was a lack of true I leadership that was recognised by the ! thinking peoples of the world. Character and uprightness was set aside because, it had not wealth behind, but there was not a sadder delusion Hero worship was a g,>od thing when it was '.lireoted in the proper way. and all of the arent heroes of history "were m«n I who owed all they riid to" the Great j Teacher, Jeeus Christ, who 'was the embodiment of all the virtues, they po~=p«>ed. and who wa = still the " jrreat j examine for the world. The world could ' I not a<Tord to drop tho OSmat Pilot who | I wanted to lead mankind in the piths' th.»v sW.:M tread to-day. Men of the i be-tp- ppirit wpm needed, for without j them we wonkl l O ok in vain for the ! =olut>mi of a'l the which con- j frort»d us in fh"«p difTimU days. God, ! give us men. should he our prayer I -" ' i