The Sabbath-breaker spurns
What Wisdom did ordain:
God's rest to Satan's use he turns,--
A blessing to a bane.
Flowers above and thorns below,
Little pleasure, lasting woe,--
Such is the fate which sinners know!

O Lord, to thee we pray;
Do thou our faith increase;
Help us to walk in Wisdom's way,--
The only way of peace:
For flowers above and thorns below,
Little pleasure, lasting woe,--
Such is the fate which sinners know!








THE SAILOR'S RESOLVE.

"An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in
transgression."--PROV. xxix. 22.

The old sailor Jonas sat before the fire with his pipe in his mouth,