The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1889-05-10
CHE Demnrrat-S Sta,


which is come to pass" The preach.
er said: But you cannot go ln,o
The Bethlehem barn and see lhat
thing without going past The cam.
els, the mules, the dogs, the oxen
The brutes OF that stable heard The
first cry of the infant Lord. Soma
of the old painters represent The
oxen and camels kneeliny thai
night before the new BORN Babe,
And we'll might they kne,s@H Have
you ever thought that Chm : came,
among other things, 10 alleviate
the sufferings 0f the brute crea.
tIon2 Was it moi appropriate thar
He should, during the first few
days and nights OF His lie on earth,
be surrounded by the dumb crea.
lures, whose moan and plant bel.
lowing for ayes been a prayer to
God for the arrrsting of their tor.
lures and the rjghting of their
wrongs? 1t did not merely hap,
pen So that Gods intelligent crea.
lures should have been that night
in close neighbOrhood. MOI a ken.
mel IN all the cent fries, not a birds
nest. not a WORKOUT horse m "A
tow path, not a herd freezing in
The poorly built COW pen, not "A
freight car in summer time bring.
ing the beeves 10 market without
water through a thousand miles of
agony, NOT a surgeons room wit.
Messing the struggles of fox, or
rabbit, or pigeon, or dog, in the
horrors of vivisectiOn, but has an
interest in the fact that Christ was
born in IA stable, surrounded by
brutes. He remembers that night,
and the prayer He heard in their
pitiful moan He will answer in the
punishment of those who maltreat
the dumb brutes. They surely
have as much right in This world az
we have. In the first chapter OF
Genesis you may see that they
were placed on the earth before
"a was-ihe fish and fowl created
The fifth day, and The qnadrupeds
The morning OF the sixth day, and
man not until The afternoon of that
day. The whale, The eagle, the lion,
and all the lesser creatures of their
kind were predecessors Of2the hui
mar family. They have The world
by right OF possession and priority.
They have also ungrudgingly paid
rent for the places they occupied.
What any army Of defense all over
The land are the faithful watch
dOgsl Aud who can tell what the
world owes n 1.-THE horse, and camel,
and OK for Transport alton? And
robin and lark have, by the canta-
las with which they have filled the
orchard and forest, more than paid
for the few grains they have picked
up for their snstenance. When
YOU abuse any creatures OfGOd You
its Creator and you insult
Christ who, though he might
have been welcomed into lite by
princes and taken his first inian-
lille slumbers amid Tyrian plush
and can0pied touches, and ripping
waters from royal aqueddcts drip
ping into basins of ivory and pearl,
chose To he born on the level with
a c5w's horn, or a cainel's honf, or
a dogs noStril, that he might be
a!lcviatOr Of animal suffering
A. we'll as the redeemer OF man.
He who was their Creator humbled
to their cOmpanlOnship for
a season, thus securing sympa-
by for them. Standing then, as |
imagine now | do, in that Bethle-
hem night whose story makes mus.
cal ages, with an infant Christ on
he n side and the speechless
creatures OF God on the other, |
Try Look out how YOU strife The
'owel in that horses side. 'Jake
If that curb bit from that bleeding
mouth. Remove that saddle from
hat raw back. Shoot not for fun
hat bird that is too small for food.
not 10 put water into the
age of that canary. Throw out
ONE crumbs to those birds caught
far north in the winters in.
.lemency. Arrest that man who
S making that one horse draw a
DAD heavy enough for three. Rush
n upon that scene where boys are
orturing a cat or transfixing but
er9y or grasshOpper. Drive not
If that old robin, tor her nest is q
Mothers CRADLE, and under her
wing there may be three OF four
'rina dOnnas of the sky in train
ng. In your families and in your
choOls teach the coming genera
more mercy than the present
.eneration has shown, and in this
marvellous Bible picture of the ma
while you point out TO them
he angel, show them also the
ameI, aud while they hear the ce-
estIal chant, let them also hear the
moan. No more did Christ
how interest in The botanical
when he SAID Consider the
lies than he showed sympathy
" the ornil biological when he Said
the fowls Of the air. aud
he quadruped world when He al
wed himself to be called in one
lace a lion and in another place q
Meanwhile, may the Christ
I The Bethlehem cattle-pen have
Iercy on the suffering stockyards
lat are preparing diseased and
.vered meat for our American
1usehold. The cattle and sheep
The folds aud stalls and upon =
lOusand hills are His"
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