Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-20

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Still Another Step to Take.
Now we need to carry this tender mercy
a little further on. We need to remember
that the Christian Spirit of love reaches out
and takes in not every human being, but
every living creature under heaven. We
need to remember that God our Father is
the Father also Of the cattle.
God cares. He cares for all the little
birds. Jesus has reminded us how the
heavenly Father feedeth them, and how not
even sparrow falls to the ground without
his notice. If a little bird falls to the
ground because somebody has shot him, OF
thrown stone at him, Just for the pleasure
of shooting or stoning, God notices that. II
the little bird is stoned or shot in order that
he may be torn to pieces and made into
ornaments for women's bonnets God knows
that. And God cares.
God cares for all the horses. Not horse
is overburdened, or overdriven, or lily
treated, without Gods notice.
It is evident that a good many people
think that they know more about horses
than God does. God gave the horses an
arched neck, but we have improved that
with checkrein. God gave the horses
eyes to see with, but We have provided him
with binders
Instruments OF Torture for Horses.
I saw one day in London an exhibition
of the instruments of the Arab slave traders.
There were the yokes that were fastened to
the necks Of the captives, and the manacles
that went about their necks and ankles, and
the heavy chains with which they were
loaded down, and the stout whips with
which they were beaten. It would be pos
sible to arrange similar exhibition of the
implements of mans cruelty to his humble
slaves, the horses
There would be the checkrein, by which
the head is held up in constrained and
unnatural position, and the eyes are brought
away from the ground where they ought to
ing face of the sun, one of the inventions of
the devil, and the cause of constant and in
creasing and absolutely unnecessary pain.
There would be the blinders, by which the
horse, who sees out of the sides of his eyes,
is rendered incapable of properly taking
care of himself. made ready to take fright
at sounds which he cannot understand, and
has his sight impaired and learns q new
kind of pain in consequence. There would
be the sharp bit, which frets and cuts the
mouth, and puts the sensitive creature into
almost intolerable pain. There would be
the whip, with its abundant possibilities of
suffering in the hands of hasty,
or foolish, 9or ill-tempered, or ignorant
drivers.
When tho Millennium Arrivea
A Hebrew prophet promised long ago,
that in the millennium "Holiness to the
Lord should be inscribed upon the bells of
all the horses. Yes: and on all their
to the Lord on every
strap and buckle! And.nothing left in all
the harness upon which that phrase could
not consistently be set; nothing left which
would offend the sight of the righteous and
merciful God, who cares even for the
cattle.
Christian people ought to be more
these dumb creatures who can only look at
us and cannot speak, and who depend so ut
terly upon US. To be tender-hearted ought
to be one of the characteristics of the Chris
tian. To make this world better and a
happier world to live in for all men, and all
the women, and all the little children, and
all the living creatures that are in it, is the
mission of religion, in which we all ought
TO be missionaries As for the people who
are not Christians at all, they have need to
be converted. and in the meantime they
have need of love.
Cruelty in Enlightened Wilkinsburg.
It was here in Williamsburg that man
beat his two old horses with fence rails till
they were covered with blood, and then
left them to stand all night in mud hole.
1t was in the same borough that a man
chained up horse, winding the chain three
times about its body, and then beat it with
a board until it died. 1t was only the other
day that the driving of crippled steers was
stopped in our own streets. 1t was still
more recently that men had to be pre-
vented BY outside interference from saving
of the horns of their cattle, the pain OF
which operation can only be understood by
those who have had experience at the hands
Of the dentist
1t was but week ago that $500 people
gathered at Greensburg to see a Gagged wolf
vet free in the midst of wide field and torn
10 pieces by Russian wolf hounds. The
purpose of this cruelty was to test the dogs.
Wolves in some parts of this country are
mischief and a terror and must be hunted
lown and dogs must be had to help. But
while the intentions of the owners were pos
,ibly good enough the exhibition was
allure and disgrace, as they themselves
will be the first to confess. The effect of it
was to brutalize the people who saw it.
The English Idea Of Sport
It is evident that our forefathers were
Javages. The strain of that old fierce
;avagery has not even yet got outs of our
blood. Worse things than this go on in
England, and some people would like to
nave them initiated here. A score of Chris
ian gentlemen, who say their prayers to
he Father of mercies and the God OF COM
passion, and who profess to be disciples Of
he loving, tender hearted Christ, setting
pack of wild dogs after little frightened
,are and chasing on behind with fierce yells
% see tie delicate little creature torn to
pieces-what spectacle for all good and
,vil angels!
1 believe that one of the most Christian
institutions in this community is the HUI
name Society, which takes knowledge of
such crimes against nature and against God,
Ind brings the offenders to punishment.
One of the most Christian uses that any
,ody can make of money in this city is to
lelp the good work of these good friends of
he cattle, these earnest missionaries OF the
Christian spirit of love and tender mercy,
yho are not content to stand like Jonah,
to the pain even of the dumb
attle, but who care, as God cares, for every
Inimal that breathea GEORGE HODGES