THE PARSON'S PRAYER.

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 2, 26 March 1920, Page 7

THE PARSON'S PRAYER.

Ebenezer Hunk ("Bulletin").

["Shooting parties in Bathurst spen^ their Snndays in hunting fox.es for thi value of their rkins."] Dear Brethren, — Do you ever think Wliat Sunday mcans to us In clothes, hats, boots, ai j food drrnK, And fwes, in train and. 'bus? Ah, no Or you would never play And sport: upou the Sabbaih Day! Friends, you forget, as you proceei To cak,e your game-bags down, That there are clergymen in need Wherever there'f. a town, You load their homes with clamant uutj Each time you load your sporting guna.. It is, no doubt ,a gracious thing To chase the flying fox, And pb".g him deftly on the wing (Forgive the paradox !) ; But, friends — does this occur to vou.? It means we clerics perish too. You skiu your prey mid sell his hida; We, by the profiteer, Are skinned from morn till eventiue. Tliis fact is thereforr clear : If you persist in hunting, wa Insolvents one and all irmst be. So leave ^he foxes in their nolee Chase Beelzebub instead With words of scorn, like bhizing coala., No skulking quadrnped Were half so pleasing to pursue As Satan and his noisome crew.