When Nature Wants A Man is a poem by Angela Morgan published in Forward, March (1918) by John Lane Company.
Adaptations In Spiritual Leadership (1967), John Oswald Sanders published a poem beginning with the words "When God wants to drill a man" and credited it to author anonymous. Sanders' version replaces Angela Morgan's "Nature" with "God" and her feminine pronouns with masculine ones.Domenic Marbaniang, A Chronological Summary of the Christianization of Angela Morgan’s “When Nature Wants a Man” into “When God Wants to Drill a Man," ResearchGate, Sep 2022, http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.27229.08169
Excerpt from Sanders' 1967 VersionOswald J. Sanders, Spiritual Leadership, (Moody Press, 1967). 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 shall be amazed, Watch His methods, watch His ways! How He ruthlessly perfects Whom He royally elects!
Excerpt from Morgan's 1918 VersionAngela Morgan, Forward, March, (John Lane Company, 1918), pp.92-95 When Nature wants to drill a man And thrill a man, And skill a man, When Nature wants to mould a man To play the noblest part; When she yearns with all her heart To create so great and bold a man That all the world shall praise Watch her methods, watch her ways! How she ruthlessly perfects Whom she royally elects
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