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Nature’s plan is wondrous kind
Could we understand her mind …
Fools are they who call her blind.
When his feet are torn and bleeding
Yet his spirit mounts unheeding,
All his higher powers speeding
Blazing newer paths and fine;
When the force that is divine
Leaps to challenge every failure and his ardour still is sweet
And love and hope are burning in the presence of defeat . . .
Lo, the crisis! Lo, the shout
That must call the leader out.
When the people need salvation
Doth he come to lead the nation . . .
Then doth Nature show her plan
When the world has found–a man!

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What is a man?

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When God wants to drill a man, and thrill a man, and skill a man; when God wants to mold a man to play the noblest part, when He yearns with all His heart to create so great and bold a man that all the world might be amazed, watch His methods, watch His ways.

How He ruthlessly perfects whom He royally elects. How He hammers and hurts him and with mighty blows converts him, into trial shapes of clay that only God understands, while his tortured heart is crying and he lifts beseeching hands.

How He bends but never breaks, when His good He undertakes. How He uses whom He chooses and with every purpose fuses him with mighty acts induces him to try His splendor out. God knows what He’s about.

When God wants to drill a man, and thrill a man, and skill a man, watch His methods, watch His ways.

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Origin of the Poem “When God Wants To Drill A Man”Some others think it is a Christianized form of a poem originally written by an American poet Angela Morgan (1875-1957). Angela’s poem “When Nature Wants A Man” is found in pages 92-95 of her anthology Forward, March (1918),** published by John Lane Company, New York.