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The Higher Unity

The Rev.

Isaiah Bunter has disappeared into the interior of the Solomon Islands, and it is feared that he may have been devoured by the natives, as there has been a considerable revival of religious customs among the Polynesians.—A real paragraph from a real Paper; only the names altered.

It was Isaiah

Who sailed to the world's end,

And spread religion in a

That he did not intend.

He gave, if not the gospel-feast,

At least a ritual meal;

And in a highly painful

He was devoured with zeal.

And who are we (as Henson says)That we should close the door?

And should not

All jump at shedding Gore?

And many a man will melt in man,

Becoming one, not two,

When smacks across the startled

The Kiss of Kikuyu.

When Man is the Turk, and the Atheist,

Essene,

Erastian,

Whig,

And the Thug and the Druse and the

And the crew of the Captain's gig.

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He has be…
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