SABBATH OBSERVANCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 322, 5 December 1888, Page 4

SABBATH OBSER VANCE.

Knowestlhou not the r'able oi Ben Sur. Vvho kil-ed an eagle on the Sabbath day. Saying, " Al 'Alim ! (may His works endure/, But thou shalt die for being at thy play !" Allah, the Most Wise (glory to His name), His works are ever past our doubts and care. He saw the anger on Ben Sur enflame. And heard the eagle's soul uprise in prayer ; Saying, "Kind Allah, Most Merciful and Wise, 1 and my young wore wanning in Tiiy »un, And seeing Thee fiit>em with light Thy skies. We praised Thy works, Thou e\ er Holy One. ! When Ben Sur crush'd me. bleeding to the earth, "Stay," said the Holy One (lowborn be praise), "I knew thy wings would soar, ay. from thy birth. And cleave through space, unmindful thou of days ; For each day is My day. Has Man but one. And judgesj udges he My servants who have Se > en .' Go thou beyond the regions ol the sun. Praise thou My works, and find therein thy heav'n." Then called the Mighty One (who rules the, skies), "Ban Sur."' Then came the culpiul, low in> dust, " What is Thy will? Great Allah, true and wise,. T keep Thy laws, for all Thy ways are just." " Shines noL my light upon the Sabbath day .' Are My eaglets tired, or My doves at rest .' Nay ! but they bask beneath its roseate ray. And feed their young, soft coding in their nest. '_' Thus heaven smiles, and Nature weaves her spells. To spread before the children of my hand. Shall man dare stay My works and make him hells. When Love should reign, and Pleasure rule IVIy land ? Go, thou, and be more wise ; they serve Mo best Who love My works, with charity to all ; For know I not their thoughts when in their ne<?t, Their latest sigh, before My loved ones fall ? " Thou lovest Me ; so did yon soaring king; Why should'sttliou judge, who art thyself but clay? Go to, and know, not one created thing That loves My works but keeps My Sabbath day." W. R. Wills.

Eugene Hornbacker, the bantam prize lighter, adopted a novel method of training himself preparatory to meeting Charley McCarthy for the championship. He walked up and down First Avenue, New York, daily clinging fast to one end of an iron chain, at the other end of whicha big bull dog tugged and pulled unceasingly. 1 The dog was vicious and of the most radical bull type. He always seemed bent on examining everything on both sides of the street. The appearance of another dog was always the signal for a tug of war, which gave Hornbacker more practice at training, he thinks, than a two-mile run. In leading the dog from Woodside to- NewYork and back, nineteen miles, Hornbacker says he lost four pounds. When the fight came off, he had the worst of it allthrough, and after 21 rounds had been fought los.t v on a foul. He who cannot 'beat the clapper should' not pull the bell. \ F L ■A.great demand fqr," Virgin-goM" haiiv exists in Paris, and^fine, lqt of p.ev<k blonde* tresses will fetch £100. ' ' y