The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-11-02
.chieved for tho kiuo Of beasts.

man regardeth the life OF his
beast" Sir Henry Lawrence's
care of the horse was beauti-
fully Christian. He says: II expect
we shall lose Conrad, though | have
taken SO much care OF him that he may
come In cool. always walk him the
last four or five miles, and, as walk
myself the first hour, il is only in tie
middle of the journey we get over the
ground" The Ettricls Shepherd, in
his matchless "Ambrosial Nights"
speaks of the maltreatmcnt Of the
horse as practical basphemy. j do
not believe in the transmigration of
souls, but can not very severely de-
nounce the idea, for, when
see men who cut and bruise
and whacI and welt and strike
and maui and outrage and Insult
the horse, that beautiful servant of
the human race, who carries our bur-
dens and pulls our plows, and turns
our threshers and our mills, and runs
for our doctors-whcn see men thus
beating and abusing and outrng-
ing that creature, 1t seems to me that
IL would only be fair that the doctrine
of transmigration of souls should prove
true, and that for their punishment
they should pass over into some poor
miserable brute and be beaten and
whaclSed and cruelty treated, and
frozen and heated and overdriven; into
an everlasting stage horse, an eternal
traveller on towpath, or tied TO
an eternal post, in an eternal winter,
smittcn with eternal epi2ootcs! Oh,
| is it not "a shame that the brute crca-
ton, which had the frst possession of
our world should be so Inaltreated by
the race that came in last-the fowl
and the fish created on the fifth day,
| the horse and the cattle created on the
morning OF the sixth day. and the hui
man race not created until the even
ing of the sixth day? 1t ought TO he
that If any man ovcrdrives q horse.
or feeds him when he is hot, or
| reckleSsly drives II nail into the
| quick of his hoof, or rowels him to see
| him prance, or so shoes him that his
fetloclls drop blood, or puts II collar on
raw neck, or unnecessary clutches
his tongue with n twisted bit, or cuts
of his hair until he has no defense
against the cold, or numerically alb
breviates the natural defense against
insectile annoyance-thats such Il man
as that himself ought to be made TO
pull and let his horse ride.
There is delusion abroad in the
world that thing must be necessarily
good and Christian if it is slow ard
dull and plodding. There are very
few good people who seem to imagine
it is humbly pious to drive spawned,
CALLED. glandered, spring-halted, blind
staggered jade. There is not SO much
virtue in Rosinante as in a Buce-
phulus. we want swifter men.
and swifter enterprises, and the
Church of God needs to get off
its jog trot Quick tcinpests,
quick lightnings, quick steams. why
not quiclS horses? In the time of war
the cavalry service does the most exc
cution, and as the battles OF the
world are probably not all past,
our Christian patriotism demands
that we be interested in eqnnal veloc-
ity. We might rs well have poorer
guns in our arsenals and clumsier
ships in our navy yards than other ma
tious, as To have under our cavalry
saddles and before our parks
of artillery slower horses. From
the battle of Granicus, where
the Persian horses drove the
Macedonian infantry into the river,
clear down to the horses on which
Philip Sheridan and Stonewall Jack
son rode into the fray, this arm of the
military service has been recognized.
Hamilcar, Hannibal, Gustavus Adolf
phus, Marshal Ney were cavalrymen.
In this arm of the service Charles
Martel, at the battle of Poitiers, beat
back the Arab invasion. The Cartha-
genian cavalry, with the loss of only
seven hundred men, overthew the Ro-
| man army with loss of seventy thou
sand. In the same way the Span
ish chivalry drove back the Moorish
hordes. The hest way to keep peace
in this country and in all countries is
to be prepared for war, aud there is no
success in such q contest unless there
DO plenty of light-footed chargers
Our Christian patriotism and our in
struction from the word of God de-
mand that first of all we kindly treat
the horse, and then after that, that
we develop his feetness and his
grandeur and his majesty and strength.
But what shall say of the effont be-
ing made in this day on large scale
to make this splendid creature of God,
this divinely honored being, an instru-
ment of atrocious evil? l make nc
indiscrimnate assault against the
turf. l believe in the turf II it can be
conducted on right principles and
with no betting. There Is nc
more harm in Offering prize
for the swiftest racer than there is
harm at an agricultural fair in offer
in q a prize to the farmer who has the
best wheat, or to the fruit-grower who
has the largest pear, or to the ma
} chinist who presents the best corn
thresher, or in a school offering q
} prize of copy Of Shakespeare to til,
J best reader, or in household giving
} lump of sugar to the best behaved
. youngster. Prizes by all means. re
wards by all means. That is the way
: God develops the race. Rewards fol
J all kinds Of well-doing. HEAVIER
itself is called prize: 1.-THE priz,
, of the high calling Of God IL
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