THE WAY OF THE WORLD.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 282, 18 July 1888, Page 7

THE WAY OF THE WORLD.

There was a man, it was said onetime, Who went astray in his 3-011 thful piiinc. Can the brain keep cool and the heart keep quiet When the blood is a liver that's running riot? And boys will be boys, the old folks say, And a man's the better who's had his day. The sinner reformed and the preacher told Of the prodigal son who came back to the fold, And Christian people threw open the door With a warmer welcome than ever before, And a spotless woman gave him her hand, And the world strewed their pathway »vith flowers a-bloom, Crying '' God bless lady and God bless groom !" There was a maiden went astray In the golden dawn of her life's young day; She had more passion and heart than head, And she followed blindly where fond love led; And love unchecked is a dangeious guide | To wander at will by a fair girl's side. The woman repented and turned from sin, But no door opened to let her in ; The preacher prayed, that she might be j forgiven, But told her to look for morej' in Heaven. For this is the law of earth we know, That woman is scorned, while the man may go, A brave man wed -led her, after all, But the world said, frowning, u We shall not call."

A clergyman in church on a recent occasion discoveied that he had forgotten his notes. As it was too late to send for tkem, he said to his audience that this morning he should have to depend upon the Lord for what he might say, hut in the afternoon he would come better prepared. A Wellington gentleman has been visiting Rotorua, and though pi obably inured to earthquake shocks by residence at Cook's Strait, ho appears to have been thoroughly frightened by the gruesome sights of the Hot Lnke region. In some notes published by the" Post" he says • — " The Government sanatorium, which was once a dense mass oi ti-tree sovon feot high, is now a magnificent place — a regular fairy land — whilst all round just outside the fence is as nature left it. The Government have concreted all the springs, giving them most fantastic shapes — some round, some oblong, others again the shape of the 'little shamrock of lieland.' How the} 7 managed to concrete round all that hot, treacherous ground beats me. lly firm belief is that Rotorua will sink in some of these days. The ground underneath is quite hollow. I will j^ive you an instance. The telegraph people were putting up a pole, and in sinking a hole had got down BCt., when all of a sudden the spade of one of the men disappeared fioin liis ha ml and went down into the va^ty deep. He jumped out of tUe hole and said he was not going to sink any more lio'os in Rotorua, and immediately filled the place up. "When they ar" chopping wood outside the Telegraph Ofiice it -li ikes the place like an earthquake "