CELESTIAL BODY SNATCHERS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 73, 31 January 1879, Page 3

CELESTIAL BODY SNATCHERS.

'••■—-■■■■.'■»'' . ~. [From New Zealand Tablet.]

It Bcoms, according to Mr Varley that those Christians who a few years ago attired themselves in white awl marched in procession to a position a littlo distaiuo from tlio town of Ballavatt, nfiivming that they were to W" conveyed thence by angels straight into heaven, were but a littlo in advance of the times. They were disappointed on the occasion tie alluded to, and wcro obliged to return to their homes in the midst of a' down-pour of lain, above which the angels failed to elevate them ; but, in about twenty years more, if they live so long, they will be recompensed for (his disappointment, for they will one and all bo whipped up beyond the clouds to a ccvtaintprtjU Christians aro then ■tobesnatchoajpro aro told, and the newspapers will not bo able to tell what on earth has becomo of them. It isinci" dentally worthy of remark that the newspapwa are supposed to bo edited, composited, printed, and generally bc-deviled. by people who aro not by any means Christians, "but who are to be left behind in the nnul; marvelling over the fato of all the good folk who have been spirited away "as a thief in the night." No newspaper will bo obliged to stop its publication because of tho hcavently abduction of tho members of its staff, Journalists, Chinamen, Jews, and Freethinkers, will oecoine addlc-pated in tho ondcavous to discover what lias become of all their godly neighbours; and it is to bo hoped that they in turn will not" be re. garded as thieves in the day if they venture to appropriate to their own uses the many excellent things that those blessed Ganynicdes will have left behind.' Already wo have incur own mind several snug little properties, owned by decided Christians, that it. would be most convenient to find vacatedin this way, or in any other way for the matter of that. Butwhata pity His that this celestial body-snatching is to bo. postponed for twenty years. Only think how charmingly apropos it would ho wero it now to occur to many most excellent Christians. There, for example, arc those unhappy directors of tho City of Glasgow Bank—exemplary Christians every man Jack of them-who would give any thing just at present to ho snatched away " as a thief in the night," and such a manner of snatching would be extremely appropriate when applied to them.