The Washington times., 1895-06-24
GODS GLORY IN BEASTS
Powerful Plea for Dumb Animals
by Rev. F. D. Power.
HUMANE SOCIETY'S Sc RM0N
Mans Inhumanlty 10 His Humble Eel
low-Beings Strongly Denounced.
of Cruelty 10 Dogs and Birds-Na-
poleon Compared Unfavorably.

The humanitarians, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
and in fact, almost all of the friends of
dumb animals in the District, were present
yesterday morning at the Vermont Avenue
Christian Church TO hea- the Rev F d.
Power, preach ON Gods Glory in the
Beasts of the Field"
This is a subject dear TO the heart of
the able pastor and he waxed more elo-
quent than usual. The sermon was an
nounced to be for the benefit of the HUI
name Society of the city. He said in part:
Gould there be anything more cruel,
shameful or unjust than the ill-treatment
OF the noble horse or the affectionate dog,
! such as is seen in the streets of our city
every day? 1t was once feared in a Euro
pean city that an of the dogs in the vicinity
would go mad, and the dreaded hydrophobia
become broadcast among the citizens By
the enactment OF an ordinance the citizens
Were empowered TO carry large pointed
sticks with which they were 10 impale every
dog they met.
ION the banks Of the Danube a peasant
threw this weapon at a dog, but with
poor aim. and the heavy wooden spear went
into the water. The animal, true TO its
training and instinct, plunged in, brought
il back and laid ii at the mans feet.
EVEN IN OUR CENTURY.
THE inhuman monster rimmediatelyseized
it and dashed out the poor creatures
brains. This was even i'll our century.
What would the Athenians have done
with this man, when they disgraced and
imprisoned one of their magistrates who
dashed down a little bird that had sought
refuge in his bosom?
M arNn 70 QrNira al
who goes out in the fields in the morning
and hears the birds singing sweetly, the
cows muSically lowing, and a thousand
minute creatures chirping in the grass
at his feet? One day lad and his sister
while walking in the woods found a
nest of young birds, and in spite of the
girls tears and entreatieS, the boy dashed
out the brains OF the little feathered
beings on the stones Some years after
that sister sat by her brothers side crying
and praying, and every moment expect
ing the coming of the procession which
was TO lead the young man forth to the
scaffold He said TO the girl: Sister,
do you remember the time / killed those
young birds? / think from that hour God
deserted me and left me to my own in
clinauions, and if | had spared them am
certain that would not be to-day con-
denned man. Is it not true OF every man
standing in the presence Of his God that
he have mercy on all dumb animals
There was a great discussion in the six
teenth century about a certain man who was
leading a pig by a rope as TO whether the
leading or the led animal was the hog. l
do not know to what conclusion they ar
rived, but L am certain to-day that they are
animals full OF bristles which exhibit more
human traits than some men and that some
animals with breeches deserve the name of
the hog
The man, Napoleon Bonaparte, who now
fills our magazine and shares, with Trilby,
the admiration and worship OF a host of
people, commonly thought to be sane,
comes within this category. He was a vile
brutal butcher of men. One, who, as a
French historian tells us, was pompous when
he tried 10 be proud and vulgar when he
tried to be silly. Macauley in comparing
Caesar and Napoleon says that Caesar, in
one respect was pre-eminently superior to
the Corsican in that he was a perfect
gentleman.
NAPoLEoN'S EVIL CAREER.
Talleyrand laments that so great a man
as Napoleon showed such bad training and
evil bringing-up.
The great agnostic and anthropologist,
Huxley, in his dissertations upon the
Darwiuian theory admits that there is
great gulf between man and the lower ami
mails. Yet the baser forms OF fcreatiou have
sort OF consciousness, a sense OF right and
wrong. They exhibit certain sense of con-
trivance and can adopt means to an end,
while Of their love, devotion and fidelity
we have all seen samples. The elephants
in CeylOn are taught to build walls. The
horse knows enough TO turn TO the meeting
house on Sunday and to the road which
leads TO the place OF business on the other
six DAYS OF the week. When / was a
preacher in the country j had little
pony who never failed TO stop before
church, while a saloon he fairly Stunned.
The only trouble was that he did not have
a sense of discernment OF the denomina-
tions.
Many great philosophers and theologians,
even Wesley himself, have firmly believed
in the Immortality of the souls of animals.
Thousands of the feathered songsters OF
our forests are yearly slaughtered to adorn
the hats of luxurious women, while dogs,
cats and guinea-pigs are daily made to
undergo tortures in comparison With which
those of the Inquisition fall and are as
nothing. This is done by human mon
sters in the name of science. Along our
street you can see the noble beast of burden
goaded and driven to death by heartless
human beings, who deserve the name of
DEVILS If you desire to b onor and
please your Maker be kind and considerate
OF the beasts of the field, for N these
does God glory"