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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 11, 14 March 1901, Page 7

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind it or no. Death is the most solemn moment of our existence ; it is then that the devil has the last battle with us. It is as if he were playing a game of chess with us and was watching the moment of death to give us checkmate. He who gets the better of him then has won the battle of life. Reason knows that man becomes dwarfed the moment he loses hold of God, and that the bond between him and God — religionceases to be religion if it discards its sovereign attributes. If it declines from doctrinal truth and becomes but literature, philosophy, or art, it can do nothing more for man.