Blessed are the Merciful

"The Reverend Samuel Marsden was a magistrate at Parramatta, N.S.W., where he was known as 'the flogging parson,' because of the severity of the punishments he imposed on convict servants for breaches of the regulations, laziness, insubordination or absconding. But in New Zealand he has the reputation almost of a saint."

—"Roaming Round New Zealand", by Frank Clune, p. 23.